I can see why you look like a string bean when not flexing though. Very much a sleeper build in terms of your bone frame. You got those long limbs that let your muscle blend in until you flex.

It’s the jacket then. It covers the shoulders and lets me assume that they are skinnier than they are. Nice sleeper build you got.

I didn’t mean any insults. I was actually trying to imply that you don’t give yourself enough credit. I’m sorry if that didn’t come out so clearly.

I’m not sure what a hip shift is, but squatting 315 (especially for what looks like a skinnier guy) with ANY physical issues is nothing to scoff at.

What’s your PR deadlift right now? From “3 plates” (assuming 45lbs), I’m assuming that means 315lbs.

Just Call Me Dad

No trips to Europe

I have enough adventures with my kids

They get into more things

Than me or my siblings ever did

Wouldn’t trade it for nothing

All this DINK gloating’s really a fad

IMO, it’s a cope

But do what floats your boat

Personally, I prefer being dad

Go out to Vegas

Spend half my mortgage on your crazy vacay

I can see the comments

On Instagram, I can read what they say

Wouldn’t trade it for nothing

A life on insta is truly sad

When they’re out of the house

I can travel somehow

But for now, just call me dad

https://blossom.primal.net/faa61bfc77225633c2b24a6c9dead915214d62ca1a322a8c5fe36140c1fd85e8.mov

I want to thank the outpouring of help regarding my monetization questions and have now received my first zaps. With that being said, I am now unloading content onto this platform now that the monetization mechanism is proven. Thank you all and I will be putting a lot more onto here. My content multiple interests between literature, politics, philosophy, history, family, homesteading, linguistics, poetry, anthropology, music, and martial arts. I hope that brings in some diverse interest.

Another amendment fix to save the USA (not that I expect any of these to ever happen, but at least it puts a potential path in the public zeitgeist for someone to pick up).

The Government Auxiliary Amendment

- Preamble

The dawn of the Information Age has brought many benefits to the American People, but also many grave concerns. Chief amongst these concerns is the increasingly government-like activity that massive Corporations like Meta, Google, and Amazon have exhibited. This, however, is not a surprise to anyone who has seen the internal communications between these companies and the federal government. This shows the concern with this corporate power: a corporate/government collusion apparatus. This apparatus is the sum of a system where the government gets the benefit of plausible deniability and to use the plausible deniability granted to circumvent limitations placed on it by the Constitution. In exchange, the corporations get to pick and choose candidates in order to receive favorable legislation in the form of bailouts, tax loopholes, or lop-sided law enforcement. In so doing this, the participating Corporations become a part of the government bureaucracy, with the ruling elite becoming increasingly indebted to these Corporations for their seats in power through election manipulation and the like.

- Amendment Text

Any Company, Business, Charitable Organization, or other Organization that has ever partaken in any of the following provisions will forever be considered a “government Auxillary” and, as such, be considered an arm of the government of the United States of America. This status thereby allows civil, criminal, and consitutional penalties to be levied against the Company or Organization the same way and for the same reasons as those penalties may be levied upon a person elected, appointed, or employed by the US Government or against a branch or agency thereof.

Activities that count a company or organization as a government auxiliary include the following:

1. Gathering, disseminating, tracking, or corroborating any information at the behest of any government agency or individual without being presented a warrant for such information. The exception to this rule is if the information being gathered is evidence of a known crime which the Company or Organization is looking to bring to court as a plaintiff.

2. Banning, blocking, denying access, or actively sabotaging a user’s ability to use and/or derive revenue from their service at the behest of any government branch, agency, or individual without having been presented a valid court order for said action.

3. Accepting any stimulus, bail-out, or any other form of payment or benefit from the US Government that is not directly a payment for goods or services rendered to the government (such as arms manufacturers accepting money for providing weapons to the US Department of Defense).

4. Lobbying for any law, provision, or agency directive that, by design, grants measurable benefit to one business or organization over another due to type (eg: solar energy vs petroleum) or by size (eg: a bill that would create compliance costs that would disproportionately harm smaller businesses over larger ones).

A company or organization classified as a “government auxiliary” under this provision will be subject to the following:

1. All government regulations and provisions, penalties for misconduct and constitutional violations, privacy protections of individuals’ personal information, and similar statutes will apply to the company or organization for as long as it remains a government auxiliary. US Persons may bring violations against them by a government auxiliary by the same process by which they may file similar suits against government entities in violation of the same regulations or statutes.

2. Admonishment by the Supreme Court of the United States of America. If a government auxiliary is admonished by the Supreme Court for gross violations of the Constitution or citizens’ constitutional rights, that company or organization can be forcibly dissolved and its assets sold at public auction.

One of many fixes that the USA needs if it is to survive.

The Sunset Amendment

- Preamble

For far too long, our Congress has passed far too many laws, with far too many of these laws being direct infringements upon the rights of each American citizen. These laws are too numerous and too long. And the volume of American federal law poses many problems.

1. Redundancy and excessive complexity: There are laws against assault, and then laws against “hate crimes”, which include assault. There may be one law for a specific crime, but then the penalties were amended in 3 subsequent laws. Circumstances like this make it near impossible for a regular American to perform the due diligence required to understand the laws that he may be subject to and must obey. If every single American must understand hundreds of years of often contradictory laws that often reference each other, then it is unreasonable to expect Americans to understand that law, let alone abide by it.

2. Undermining our Legal process and confidence therein: With such an impossibly long list of laws that are considered “in effect”, it becomes inevitable that some laws become forgotten and cease to be enforced. These laws cease being culturally, legally, or politically relevant, yet remain legal in all official contexts. This creates multiple corollary issues:

A. This produces a lack of confidence in the American citizen that the older laws that SHOULD be enforced ARE being enforced. It causes a reasonable American to wonder if there is a bias or political malintent associated with the informal decision of which older laws should continue to be enforced.

B. This also produces proverbial “landmines” where a political or legal actor can maliciously discover a forgotten and long irrelevant law begin to selectively enforce it for one’s own individual or political purposes. A bad actor, in this context, could work to resume the enforcement of a previously unenforced and forgotten law against enemies that could not have been reasonably expected to know that they were violating a law at all.

C. Resistance to correction of errors: “Nothing is more permanent than a temporary government program”. Entire departments, bureaucratic institutions, and other government systems and policies continue to last well beyond the necessity of their initial intent. These systems exist both as a burden on the American taxpayer—requiring him to continue to fund organizations that have long since outlived their utility for him—and as a reminder that rights, once lost, will continue to be infringed even when the folly of the law that infringed on those rights has become evident. One needs to look no further than laws against the private ownership of alcohol distillation equipment, which were created as a part of the federal prohibition on alcohol which has since been overturned for almost 100 years, to see that laws cannot be written to last indefinitely if we are to retain our Republic indefinitely.

It is for the above reasons that we, the American people, present this Amendment to the Constitution to our Congress, to pass it on our behalf, to save this Republic.

- Amendment Text

No law passed by Congress, as per Article 1 of the Constitution shall remain in effect for a period of 15 years or longer. Each law, when it has reached the 14th year since it has passed, shall be brought before each chamber and be reviewed on the grounds of its necessity, intent, and results. Between the 14th and 15th year, that law may then be amended, expanded upon, or removed from the body of American law. For a law to remain in effect past its 15th year, Congress must vote on and pass the law anew as per Article 1, sections 1 and 7.

The body of laws currently in place when this Amendment is passed, will be divided into three groups by the Senate by the first Monday in December after its passage. The first group of laws shall require review by Congress as per the first paragraph of this Amendment within 6 years of its passage and will cease to be law if not passed anew by the 7th year. The second group shall require review by Congress within 13 years after the passage of this Amendment and will cease to be Law if not passed anew by the 14th year. The third group will require review by Congress within 20 years of the passage of this Amendment and will cease to be Law if not passed anew by the 21st year.

- Rebuttal of Criticisms

- “This is what we need term limits for”

1. Laws, not politicians: The issue is not politicians, it is laws. For sure, there are plenty of bought-out and corrupt politicians. But a good politician can work for his or her entire career and still be unable to overturn a bad law from well before his or her time.

2. Forever campaigns: the time a politician needs the most money and is at most risk is when they are first running for office. Setting term limits (especially short ones) will create a vulnerability to compromise in our elections by allowing powerful interests even more opportunities to buy elections that would have otherwise not have been available to purchase. It will also create a PAC industry that professionally produces new politicians beholden to them.

3. Lame-Duck Radicalism: the primary motivation for politicians to do well by their constituents is to gain re-election. Term limits remove this potential entirely and, thereby, remove consequences for pushing unfavorable radical policy at the end of their final terms. This is even worse when such radical actions might help secure some sort of quid-pro-quo deal with a private entity for the lame-duck politician to move into after their term is complete. And then, once the radical bill is passed, it is near permanent, like almost all other government institutions, even though the politician themself had a term limit.

Good for the Heart

(In honor of my wife. Guess what the metaphor is in the comments).

you just take something natural

Melt it down to its crucial parts

Layer it on me when I’m wondering what I’m here for

Make something good for the heart

Show me what I never knew I needed

Reveal the truth that hides in the dark

Strengthen my skin and bones, and most importantly my soul,

Make something good for my heart

Making our house into a home

Making a family of our own

Never thought when we met at that park

We’d be making something so good for the heart

Barely recognize the man I used to be

I’m stronger and wiser too

Guess all it takes and some melting and spooning

Till I become something new

Guess you extended my shelf life

Bottled me up into a jar

Without all the clarifying you’ve done to my spirit baby

Don’t know if I would have come this far

Making our house into a home

Making a family of our own

Never thought when we met at that park

We’d be making something so good for the heart

https://blossom.primal.net/19c4e7b4e9b11fa9aa03b49b311b2b9ffc9508141c18265bfdcc17a8bc7b5f28.mov

Got it to work.

The greatest harmonica solo ever played

https://blossom.primal.net/d113de2c47c6f0491b118ff019a0b6182e589bdf71aabebd714e2064775c4bc2.mp4

It’s not loading. I do work outside. I’m not sure why these posts are loading more easily than the DM though.

At one point, my son is actually boxing with me. Listen for the extra cymbals.

Yes, I do. I write whole compositions. I also sent you a DM.

I THINK I set up my new primal wallet properly. If anyone wants to be my first successful zap, I’d love the chance to test that fact. If so, I am going to be posting a LOT more here.

I think I just set one up now, if you want to try again

Thank you. I already got one person saying “I tried to send you a zap, but it didn’t work”. I know it’s because I haven’t set anything up, so there is nowhere for the zap to go.

You can happily send me some tracks. I might need to set up a new account since I lost my key for this one since I didn’t know what I was doing when I set it up. Then I can set up wallets and whatever.

I don’t have a wallet set up. That’s probably why. But, no, I’m not in a band currently. I’d like to change that tbh.

The problem is the suburban Utopianist insistence on “taming” grass. It ruins bee and insect populations, lowers overall biodiversity, and is merely a symbol to flaunt affluence.

“Look, I’m so disconnected from real work and real struggle that I can spend 4 hours cutting grass each week or pay someone else to do it for me.”

Get goats or sheep or rabbits. Let them mow for you. Get chickens to eat the bugs too.

I’d eliminate capital gains period. Doesn’t matter what currency you’re using: you still already earned it and the government doesn’t get to charge your income when you do and THEN also later ask for yearly taxes.

But “diversity is our strength”…

🤦‍♂️

I see Nostur is just the same as X in that regard

Obviously, you use other cryptos. But this also sounds like a person who is unaware that Bitcoin, like all other cryptos, can be subdivided into fractions of a coin. I’d just trade for 1/82nd of a coin or whatever.