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Bitcoin Samurai
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雷庵・Japan, Bitcoin, Freedom, Calisthenics, Guitar, Beer, Photography, Art & Design

Hello brother

I am double trouble, Aries and year of the goat. 🐐🐐

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

When I was a kid, I was interested in aerospace engineering.

My half-brother (who is 30 years older than me and was therefore old enough to be an uncle and had that kind of relationship to me) spent his career as an engineer and then an executive at a major aerospace defense contractor.

He was the most accomplished person of my family and was raising a happy family, he always kind of represented a role model of who I wanted to be. Hard-working, successful, well-off, and with good priorities around building a happy family.

As I studied math and science in high school and engineering in college, I assumed that would probably go work for the same company as him one day (which two of his three kids do now). As a teenager, I could tell you how many aircraft carrier groups the US had, roughly how many B-2 bombers the US had, how much they cost, the technical pros and cons of various fighter jets, comparative missile arsenals among global powers, etc.

But when it came time to graduate and go into engineering (during the Iraq War which I opposed), I couldn’t do it. It’s not that I am opposed to advancing aerospace or making weapons for sovereign defense per se, but rather that I didn’t agree with how the US military structurally uses its weapons globally.

I began focusing on industrial automation instead, and then ended up in civil aerospace engineering (with a focus on electrical engineering). That area captured some of what I liked about the field of aerospace engineering, but was focused on making aircraft safer and more efficient, rather than more deadly. I spent a decade there in a rewarding career, and followed a similar career path as my half-brother, meaning that I went from engineer to senior engineer to management and finance for the engineering facility, and so forth. But for peace rather than for war.

I eventually left the work due to my financial research business growing and overshadowing my engineering work in terms of scale. I had always done financial research work part time as my passion, but at some point it took off and that made it uneconomical to work in engineering/management anymore.

After several years of focusing on financial research, I got into bitcoin venture investing in part to help fund engineers and assist them in building things, which was basically what I was doing in my prior role in aerospace and is something I am still strongly drawn to.

Anyway, I thought of this as escalations flared in the Middle East this weekend. It’s amazing how small decisions or pivot points can affect where we end up in life.

I had a religious friend who worked for Raytheon as a mechanical engineer and had a similar conversation him. As a christian how can you work for a company whose product is creating so much harm? Later in life he lost his top secret clearance and job because he married a Russian. I think now he understands better the nature of the military industrial complex.

Replying to Avatar Cyph3rp9nk

nostr:npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm I understand that you are a CIA employee, I can't find any other reasonable explanation, you are not a dumb guy.

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It is about holding the individual accountable rather than stereotyping and generalizing an entire group. American use to be good at this but has greatly fallen from grace.

Now "all" Americans eat burritos, pizza and hotdogs, "all" Japanese eat sushi and "all" Iranians are terrorists. Biden is lucky he doesn't need to go through Congress to fight tErRoRisTs!

This is a repost picture, I want something new! Also I like your style best in this photo compared to your other photos (with the exception of your back photos, they are exquisite).

Agreed, but it sounds like you are phrasing it in negative context.

My take is that man has more mental capacity to see into the future than an animal and therefore he has to make opportunity cost choices with the currency being time and self. This is why we value the "expectation" more than the present situation, it is the return on investment from our choices. The ultimate goal isn't about being happy but about growth and developing the self.

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. - John Ruskin

If I post, nostr will shadow ban my account.

If I don't post, the government will arrest me for being a terrorist, torture me and then send me to re-education camp.

Hard decisions...

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Can we deport Sam Bankman-Fried to Vietnam?

I thought bitcoin was going to the moon and then I realized it was only the Japanese yen getting weaker.

Because... 1 BTC = 1 BTC!

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Adventure over. Looking forward to the next one https://v.nostr.build/roZx3.mp4 nostr:note1c6fnxrnl8qnn9a5se5a7pxqcnu9q572rqzw60dejp7ewg5c3kn6q60z7ww

Looks wonderful, how many steps to find the treasure? Was it just a treasure map or were there multiple challenges before they got to the treasure box?

Priorities...

1) family (values)

2) bitcoin (security)

3) art (expression)

Replying to Avatar Anti Spasti

Damn, he is going to be itchy all over tomorrow!