My small effort to post something on Nostr that's NOT Bitcoin related!
A project I've been working on lately is the Mach One electric skateboard by Radium Performance. We are three independent, self funded owner operators that all eskate ourselves.
We've turned the humble toy e-skateboard into something more akin to a motorbike. It can be smooth and gentle – or hair raising – take your pick.
Our first production run is now under way. We expect delivery of 100 Mach Ones by the end of this year.
The one pictured is a prototype with custom graphics. For details and pricing of the production model, see here:
https://radium-performance.com/pages/2024-mach-one-electric-skateboard
Thanks for looking!
#grownostr #electric #skateboard #longboard #esk8 #machone #genuine #real #fast #pev #vehicles #startup #business #melbourne #design #australian
Looks like a dream to ride.
Love this heavy track from Parkway Drive’s 2018 album, Reverence. A good commentary on the slippery slope we are on towards totalitarianism.
Absolute Power
Parkway Drive
Oh
Your heart, your home, your voice, it's got a price tag
Sign in blood, bury your rights in a body bag
They're feeding fear through the fault lines
You heard it here first, they got your freedoms on the front line
Primetime, the noose at our throats
Our liberties hands run with blood of the scapegoats
So tell me, how can we demonize
When we can't see life through another's eyes?
Pay 'em off and play 'em off
Fear rolls like a reaper through the streets of the lost
Pay 'em off and play 'em off
But in the eyes of the storm
The truth drops like a bomb
The truth drops like a bomb
The battle is on
Hands in chains for a fist full of dollars
Who do we blame for the holes in our knowledge?
The past you know has been written by the victor
So I ask you now, who is it writing your future?
The butcher, the liar, the thief, or the killer?
Your freedom died quiet in the halls of power
Starved for peace, we'll eat war until it kills us
Six feet deep with a belly full of bullets, oh
Pay 'em off and play 'em off
Fear rolls like a reaper through the streets of the lost
Pay 'em off and play 'em off
But in the eyes of the storm
The truth drops like a bomb
The truth drops like a bomb
The battle is on, oh
The hate runs deep, but our hopes cut deeper
Now we walk through the valley in the shadow of the reaper
Money talks, and it's speaking in tongues
They put a price on our soul like they had already won
Now open wide, I see their jaws locked tight
Silent in the moment like prey in the floodlights
The signal is static, baptised in fire
Now we see how they talk with a mouth full of barbed wire
Absolute power
Absolute power
Absolute power
Absolute power corrupts absolutely
Absolute power
Absolute power
Absolute power
Absolute power corrupts
The truth drops like a bomb
The truth drops like a bomb
The battle is on
The truth drops like a-
Absolute power corrupts absolutely, huh
Definitely noticing an uptick in the past 2 weeks.
Yeah let’s play into the hands of the WEF and encourage them to crack down on beef farming. WTF. Dumb.
Just got my whitetail pack together and fixing to create the usual gear pile in the middle of the floor for quick loadups for a few camp weekends. Most of the real action won’t be till late October here. These bush bucks don’t move much during the day till the rut.
Yes for sure. Tried that once and it also didn’t upset my stomach as bad.
This fits nicely with my psychedelic experience last night.
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Ok. Revelations from last night. So like a noob, I had 3 grams and still hadn’t felt anything an hour and a half later. I thought maybe these mushrooms were bunk. So I had another 2 grams, making it the single biggest dose I’ve ever had. Went to sleep at about midnight after a nice night hanging out by the fire.
So at about 3 I woke up to go to the bathroom. Two words: tripping balls. I was aware from previous experiences that the slight feeling of anxiety was expected, so I didn’t let it get to me. But the visuals. Holy shit.
I am convinced that some of the origins of Man’s awareness of a higher power may have been discovered accidentally through chance ingestion of psilocybes. I wasn’t trying to guide the experience at all, but not only were there incredibly complex, colourful and moving patterns moving across my field of view, but they were consistently morphing into two repeating forms. One was a male figure sitting in the lotus position with his hands in a position of prayer. The other was a figure of a woman facing me, with arms outstretched and the thumb and middle finger touching, with the index finger and pinky slightly pointed. Both of them were covered with the patterns and colors, so it’s not like they were photographed. And both were emanating a calmness and sense of peace.
One interesting thing was the presence of fractal geometry. All of the patterns, regardless of how deep I looked into them, were infinitely scaled. And the colors were truly 256 million with a slight chrome finish.
Aside from the visuals that I knew to expect, my main purpose in doing this experiment was to see if there would be any revelations about my self or this world we are living in. The main things I felt as my ego dissolved, the nausea came, and the slight sense of anxiety persisted, was that:
1) we are all a tiny piece of the same consciousness
2) I have made big mistakes in my life and am far from perfect, but my motivations are not self serving or meant to make me appear to the world like something I am not.
I don’t know what to say other than this, other than pros and cons:
Pros:
- Cool visuals and seeing random figures of seemingly spiritual beings, that were emanating a sense of good will toward me.
- Stripping my ego away for a short time and allowing a real analysis of my motivations in how I deal with people.
Cons:
- anxiety
- inability to sleep
- runny nose
- watering eyes
- itchiness (all over)
- upset stomach
- lack of control of the duration of the experience ie having to ride it out, for better or worse.
Would do again? Not likely. I’ve experienced this a few times now, and I just don’t think there’s anything more there to learn. Maybe DMT or acid would be something to try, but I’m not sure I need to see anything otherworldly for now. I need to figure out how to make this one better. 🤘🏽 
Ok. Revelations from last night. So like a noob, I had 3 grams and still hadn’t felt anything an hour and a half later. I thought maybe these mushrooms were bunk. So I had another 2 grams, making it the single biggest dose I’ve ever had. Went to sleep at about midnight after a nice night hanging out by the fire.
So at about 3 I woke up to go to the bathroom. Two words: tripping balls. I was aware from previous experiences that the slight feeling of anxiety was expected, so I didn’t let it get to me. But the visuals. Holy shit. I really believe that some of the origins of Man’s awareness of a higher power may have been discovered accidentally through chance ingestion of psilocybes. I wasn’t trying to guide the experience at all, but not only were there incredibly complex, colourful and moving patterns moving across my field of view, but they were consistently morphing into two repeating forms. One was a male figure sitting in the lotus position with his hands in a position of prayer. The other was a figure of a woman facing me, with arms outstretched and the thumb and middle finger touching, with the index finger and pinky slightly pointed. Both of them were covered with the patterns and colors, so it’s not like they were photographed. And both were emanating a calmness and sense of peace.
One interesting thing was the presence of fractal geometry. All of the patterns, regardless of how deep I looked into them, were infinitely scaled. And the colors were truly 256 million with a slight chrome finish.
Aside from the visuals that I knew to expect, my main purpose in doing this experiment was to see if there would be any revelations about my self or this world we are living in. The main things I felt as my ego dissolved, the nausea came, and the slight sense of anxiety persisted, was that:
1) we are all a tiny piece of the same consciousness
2) I have made big mistakes in my life and am far from perfect, but my motivations are not self serving or meant to make me appear to the world like something I am not.
I don’t know what to say other than this, other than pros and cons:
Pros:
- Cool visuals and seeing random figures of seemingly spiritual beings, that were emanating a sense of good will toward me.
- Stripping my ego away for a short time and allowing a real analysis of my motivations in how I deal with people.
Cons:
- anxiety
- inability to sleep
- runny nose
- watering eyes
- itchiness (all over)
- upset stomach
- lack of control of the duration of the experience ie having to ride it out, for better or worse.
Would do again? Not likely. I’ve experienced this a few times now, and I just don’t think there’s anything more there to learn. Maybe DMT or acid would be something to try, but I’m not sure I need to see anything otherworldly for now. I need to figure out how to make this one better. 🤘🏽
As promised, great quotes from Murray Rothbard:
“If a man has the right to self-ownership, to the control of his life, then in the real world he must also have the right to sustain his life.”
“The essential activities of the State necessarily constitute criminal aggression and depredation of the just rights of private property of its subjects (including self-ownership).”
“The State is an inherently illegitimate institution of organized aggression, of organized and regularized crime against the persons and properties of its subjects… a profoundly antisocial institution which lives parasitically off of the productive activities of private citizens.”
“We must, therefore, emphasize that ‘we’ are not the government; the government is not ‘us.’ The government does not in any accurate sense ‘represent’ the majority of the people.”
“The State is a coercive criminal organization that subsists by a regularized large-scale system of taxation-theft.”