Started to unfollow devs and bitcoin ppl. Curating my feed a bit, and nostr works for me, so does bitcoin. Nothing personal, and I figure anything really significant they have to say will still show up in my feed because one of the lesser non-elites will reply or repost anyway, and that is how my client builds my feed. Kind of like using a social graph as an effective filter, and curating based on the choices of others rather than by personality or influence. That said, I also avoid following compulsive re-posters, and have done so for a while.

I don't believe for a second that any of the big accounts give two fucks what I am thinking or spewing on here anyway, as it almost never involves them. And if they do, they are free to follow me. I don't block or report people, as far as I recall. I don't know if my client even has the ability to block, and also don't care.

Paint 'em black (if they're white), put a sheet of reflective metal behind 'em. Should work fine. I wouldn't use it for drinking water though.

What I have eaten? -0-, and could easily eat all but a couple of them again if I wanted to. What I will not eat again unless in some emergent state of starvation? 44. Those just aren't what I consider food anymore, although they may contain calories.

Thoughts stemming from earlier idea that matter is information persisting in energy...

Also read an article in Vox about panpsychism.

I think these work well together, but let's not worry about whether or not electrons have consciousness.

My concept could consider consciousness as an expression of energy, similar to how I might consider light or magnetism. I think my concept of energy may be more similar to earlier concepts of ether, and much broader than current sciences based on materialism would allow for.

I'm really seeing "energy" as the primary construct of "reality", rather than matter. Matter is an expression of energy, as would be light, consciousness, emotion, and anything else observable by humans. Energy can be expressed as waves, or more completely, a field of waves, permeating the observable universe. Objects (like planets, or a chair) are still just information stored, but still can have all other expressions of energy present as they are a part of it, rather than separate from it or acted on by it.

GN.

Follow if you wish.

Newest crazy-as-shit idea... (sort of previewed this earlier, but I like it more and more all the time)

Matter is information encoded to persist in an energy field.

And yes, every noun and adjective in that sentence probably need to be (re)defined, because of how incomplete our current understanding is.

The more I listen to Terrence Howard, the more I want to agree with him, based on all I have come to understand about the nature of "reality" and the most ancient cosmology I could find (Vedic).

It is interesting (in his conversation with Eric Weinstein) that some things Terrence is saying have only recently been accepted by "science", and while many other things Terrence claims may yet become accepted, but are considered patently false today.

I've become pretty convinced that we have currently got it all wrong. Space, matter, energy, forces, dimensions, really all of it. I'm not claiming to have all the answers, but I will likely spend the rest of my life searching for them. I'm not saying Terrence is right or wrong, but he's probably further down the path to understanding than I am.

I admit to being a sheet nerd, multi-platform, and I currently use Zoho and Excel daily. With slicers, pivots, PowerQuery, interpreted csv data, and PowerBI reporting. I don't do VB though.

But you do you.

A little scary, but trying to move back to being paid in bitcoin.

It's going to take a little work, but I have the budget flexibility to do it right now, and I don't want to miss out on the volatility over the next couple years. This could also be the only way I get to my next stacking goal anytime soon.

#BitcoinStandard

I would assume nostr:npub1xkere5pd94672h8w8r77uf4ustcazhfujkqgqzcykrdzakm4zl4qeud0en has to play by the same rules.

nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle

#asknostr

nostr:nevent1qqs2reamyncrxwcrdlfkgv4u56l70m9fpkfpk65pey4fwk704g7j7ggzyptvch90rhwnzgv9jy8fhsrnrd992xty2w6rl7j329xu82lltvlvzqcyqqqqqqgedhz8v

What is Strike currently required to report on to the gov cabal? Obviously, they report all buy/sell transactions of Bitcoin.

What I am interested in are reports of transfers (on-chain, lightning, and $USD), and the current thresholds for reporting a transaction of each.

There's been plenty of legislation mentioned over the past several years, and I want to know the current rules of the game.

So I have this helium miner (basically a RockPi with a LoRa antenna, I think) and even when I bought it, I figured I would eventually repurpose it into a Bitcoin node or something.

Anyone have any creative ideas for repurposing it? I don't even know what to do with a LoRa antenna. I can get more details on exactly what antennas are connected, I think one is WiFi, one in LoRa.

When I bought 25 lbs of roasts, I had no intention of keeping it as roasts. Instead, sharpened up my butcher knife, and sectioned and butterflied them into steak-sized portions. Then repackaged, and into the freezer, keeping a few lbs out for the next few days.

Inevitably, there are some scraps left over. And I don't trim additional fat, so the scraps are mostly muscle. The first round of scraps went to my dog. The second round? Just became a treat for me. Nothing wrong with a little fresh raw beef occasionally. I don't regularly eat raw, but no issues if it is fresh and a relatively small amount. Our portions were between 1-2 oz each.

I actually really enjoy the fact that most anything I eat, I can share with my dog. I haven't gotten him off the kibble yet, but I plan on it. Just need a big grinder to process the chicken.

#carnivore #raw #pets

Went to the store for my weekly shopping early because it's hot out. They had London broil value packs for $3.99/lb (limit 4 packs), and chuck roast $5.39/lb. Ground beef also on sale $3.99/lb. Ended up buying 29.5 lbs of beef, total cost $133.50, average price per lb is $4.49. Even if I eat 2 lbs/day, which is a little more than average, I'm eating for $9/day. That is at least 2 weeks worth of meat, probably closer to 3 weeks, because I probably average closer to 1.5 lbs per day.

How many Americans eat for less than $10/day? $15? #carnivore is not expensive, quite the opposite.

So you attach a picture of a clam shell, rocks, and some sauce? None of that looks like fish to me. To your points, tastes better - that's subjective, but I like the whole variety of meat flavors, including many fish. Looks better? Again, subjective, and culturally biased. Way healthier? Debatable. Very dependent on the fish. Most (not all) fish aren't fatty enough for human nutritional needs. Also somewhat dependent on the diet of the fish, for both flavor and nutrition.

My primary diet is beef-based, but will eat salmon and dungeness crab whenever the opportunity presents itself. It is rare that I go more than a month without having one or the other. (Crab is lean, but lots of melted butter helps.)

Depends if you also have assets to cover the debts. Most don't, or have no idea how to use those assets to manage their debts. It matters if the assets are appreciating or depreciating, and the risk of losing the asset. For instance, cars make horrible assets. The rates and terms of the debts also matter. Generally, credit cards are high interest revolving debt, which is far inferior and much more uncomfortable to manage than fixed-rate low interest loans. Finally, cash (flow) is king. If you have the cash flow (for most, income) to manage the debt payments with no impact on your day-to-day life, and your cash flows are stable and relatively low risk, there is little to worry about month to month.

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Today my company decided to lay off 14% of its global workforce. The cuts went from VP level all the way down to the workers. I think the math works out to about 2200 families lost their primary income today.

I was among the 86% that still have a job to go to. I expected this, and was prepared either way - but I have also been making moves over the past 2-3 years that would increase my chances of being chosen to stay.

I expect there will be a lot of opportunities that arise over the next few months of reorganization. I'm also ready to take advantage of those.

Don't be complacent. Fiat mining doesn't reward complacency.

(In good news, my old nemesis, the boss of my former boss, got the axe. So did her boss. No fucks given here)

Today my 17yo stepson was put on Ozempic and metformin. This is after he failed to lose weight (I think he's roughly 300lbs, about 5'9', has been obese his whole life). His A1C was 5.8, so not horrible, but on the cutoff for T2D. He spent much of the last few months eating rice and chicken breasts, but also plenty of McDonalds. His mom (my wife) is trusting the dr's diet advice (lots of vegetables, limit red meat in favor of lean meats, low fat and fake sugar options), basically LFHC. There's glimmers of hope, they did cut back a little on UHP foods, but there's still a ton of crap (I won't call it food) in the house, and my wife won't give up pasta.

He's in for a tough road. None of what they are trying will fix him, and they won't listen to me (basic response is, well, he's not you). They still trust the dr and the drugs will get them somewhere. I've told him (out of earshot of my wife) that when everyrhin you are trying fails, there is still hope, and I will be there to talk him through anything he wants to do about his diet. I've also asked him to at least watch some youtube on carnivore and keto, just to start his own research.

He ends up using doordash at least several days of the week, because my wife, although a decent cook, is only up to cooking a dinner a few nights a week. Nobody wants my steaks, so my services are not requested. Apparently chewing meat hurts his teeth (which are in pretty poor shape, granted).

All this is hard to watch, probably my deepest struggle with respect to diet. They may eventually come around to proper diet, but I'm thinking that may be years of struggle in the future, if ever.

I'm working a lot more directly with my biological son, but can only do so much as I share custody with my ex.

The best I can do is the best I can do to be an example. Results over time won't lie.

In other news, getting close to being able to schedule my CAC score CT. I want to do that test at least three times, with at least a year between each test. I'm prepared for a bad first result, because that will be my starting point. As long as I stay the same or improve on future tests, I'll be validated.

60 more pounds to go (before I retest my lipid particle count and phenotype). Excited to start putting some muscle back on, though. I've resisted so far, as I want my focus elsewhere first. The cholesterol pattern B issue is more important than strong looking legs.

GN.

#carnivore #diet

PS - started my bupropion protocol today to get back off the ciggies.

Is there a "home mining" solution that could be powered by a 30W solar panel? Obviously I don't expect it to hash much, bust just curious. I happen to have a 30W panel that I don't plan on using often.