My teenage son has managed to save 1M sats. He said to me that he doesn't think that's enough.
I told him he's right.
But it's a good start for a kid who doesn't have his drivers license. I didn't say that part to him, though. Kids are given everything. Chairs? The chair he sits on is mine. I'd sell it if he wasn't sitting on it. Food? Mine. Bed? Mine. Grades? Nah homie... We pay for extra tutoring. So when he works (which he does) he better be saving that money in the hardest asset because everything else he's bloody given.
Why did I just see a video of Millenials "not being able to party like they used to?" Oh, shit, they're between 30-45 years old now! Damn they old. Oh, wait... What's that make me? Oh, yeah... Kids grown and no longer giving a fuck. *Cracks another beer*
Just spent a New Years Day party with other GenXers in Canada... And realized I am most certainly not "a part of their culture". My job is international. It has been for nearly 25 years. I've lived on two continents, in four cities, and away from ma8n stream culture being that my job takes me between two countries all week every week. My culture is global. My culture is outside the fishbowl. It was such witnessing 9/11 from the other side of the world. It is again not getting a "Canadian" tax payer funded media endlessly feeding me "elbows up" media nor Fox News Trump fanboyism. My culture is global. My culture is classical. It bases itself in philosophy and multiple interpretations. And here, on Nostr, it trusts very little. But, man, to be thrown into a cauldron of fish stuck in a fishbowl... My tongue is sore from all the biting.
I'm bullish on more tourists becoming self custodial Maniacs and ditching the system as a whole. May Blackrock please end the year with less corn than they had (a stretch, I know).
My 2026 resolution is to truly embody DILLIGAF. To so completely commit to the opt out. To generate income from direct, out of system, payment... "They" would call it fraud but I would call it freedom, is my aim. And since I have roots that run deep dicking off to some jungle, or beach, or ignorance ain't gonna be the reality. It's gonna have to be silent, stealthy, civil disobedience with a smile.
Happy New Year, Y'all!
I've been exploring all the various grifting grants the Canadian Federal govt offers... I don't know why I haven't done this before. I mean, "War Dogs" (based on a true story) teaches a whole lot.
Has Pierre Poilievre been listening to nostr:nprofile1qqsyw2lflynya6sj2net9a7d9ksvxxw6unlye4jf7ppya9prfh9vl9cpzamhxue69uhhxetpwf3kstnwdaejuar0v3shjtc80pavh? Takes the first question and flips it to "we should be asking 'what is government?'"... Man, did Canada shit the bed not having this guy in as PM.
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(Unless you know how to unredact it like in Amethyst. Oops. Shouldn't have leaked that. Maybe I'm just part of the swamp.)
Whatever AI you used... They really bitched the name on the floppies. (I doubt you prompted such a... regrettable typo)
Sure, understood... And I've read their treatises. BUT when we've had real world examples of deflation (such as the Coinage Act) we've seen deflation be absolutely devastating to industries that are cyclical/seasonal in nature (specifically farmers).
Now, I fully accept that technology has evolved farming, with industrial scaling and higher yields, but many still rely on loans at the start of the season. So let's consider a major construction project like housing project or hotel. Or an expansion of a business? Short of selling equity (and thus control) in your project you simply won't raise money to proceed.
I mean, it's all theoretical with what technology advances we churn out as the last deflationary cycle experienced on a grand scale was so early in the Industrial Revolution... But I fear that we'd be headed towards a landbaron class and mere serfs who work for them. We'd be trading one set of masters today for different ones tomorrow. As we had in even as late as the 18th century. For as smart and as advanced as we like to think we are (as humans) we're really only 100 years into this current "egalitarian" epoch. Heck, the Russian Revolution was a mere 100 years ago, the French Revolution 236 years ago, and the US Constitution (the greatest freedom document written) is just about to celebrate 250 years of this grand experiment. Those landbarons/serf systems (and, yes, you could claim that "democratic" govts and banks have just replaced them in name only) existed since the 3rd century, so about 1600 years.
I guess I just propose that perhaps a deflationary world would return us to the haves and have it's, the landbarons and serfs, as a global system...
*Apologies for going on a tear there*
One of my most popular posts here was when I simply reminded people that our politicians are retarded.
This was when Trump was surging in the polls last year. I talked about why both him and Biden were retarded, not just Biden. This was at a time when many people needed hope that one side might be smart, that maybe Trump wasn’t retarded as his literally senile competitor was. As if they forgot the 2027-2021 run.
Now, here in December 2025, with a repeated failure to release the full Epstein files, and he himself implicated in many of them, and MAGA turning against him, are you surprised?
Everyone knew he was a bad person. People just argued for why a bad person was needed, or why his bad values wouldn’t interfere with his policies.
But yeah, bad people rule things badly.
Nothing stops this train.
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I look forward to seeing what comes out and the obvious results of such illuminations. I won't hold my breath.
But with an exchange of value for what? And if deflation is the result (as was the case before the Coinage Act of 1873) it's gonna get real interesting. I guess Gold/Silver/other could be what's loaned and exchanged but, again, in a deflationary cycle who wants to loan out? I've never been able to wrap my head around that.
I've often wondered... If/when hyperbitcoinization and fiat dies occurs then what do all these "don't sell, borrow against" types borrow?
"Dip" can have multiple meanings. I like dips. I like them a lot. I'm all in favour of it dipping so low that the paper fucks fuck right off. Because I'll be getting moar. Not all of us heeded the lessons available and, yes, we do get it at the price (time/energy/efforts) we deserve.
"Catalyst" is a cringe word in Canada. So is "hinge". If you don't know why, ask Jeff.
No more Penn? Or got them to pay you in ₿?
So much success relies on stars aligning, or what many call "timing". The pioneers had the right ideas but we're missing key components or had key components deprecated with no alternatives. Sega had Internet game subscriptions in 1994 before any other system... And I wonder how many of us knew that.