No, this is like looking back on giving all your money to Bernie Madoff and realizing, “Oh shit, I got scammed!”
If you still believe everything was on the level, and “we did all we could,” I don’t think anyone could convince you at this point.
This would be so whether I were alive or not. But feel free to wear your mask and inject yourself as instructed. I won’t stop you!
The dip is like the covid measures: fake.
Get calls from unknown numbers every day. I must have a lot of “followers”.
Broke my one-day fast today by cleaning out the fridge. Boiled some eggs that had been there a couple weeks, chopped up some plums that had been there a week along with watermelon and a peach, put the baked potato from two nights ago into the bone broth my wife had made yesterday. Few slices of chorizo from the fancy cheese shop that had hidden itself in the back of the fridge.
Wound up with a gourmet meal for free while assuaging the dread of having food I needed to eat before it spoiled. Even convinced my 13-YO to eat a hard-boiled egg. (She’s working out now to get in shape, and I told her you get 2x your mileage from that if you eat steak and eggs.)
If you want to be rich, learn how to transform raw materials into resources. Using all the food in your fridge is a version of that.
167,000 (and that will be an expensive zap)
Waiting on a friend outside the metro stop. Dude is a conspiracy theorist just like me.
Yes, but most people don’t realize the extent to which those bonds undergird the entire economy.
Someone might think he has 5M in assets (bonds) gets his income, pays his bills, enters into contracts. If that money is not real, then he defaults, the guy building his house doesn’t get paid, the company leasing the car to the guy building his house doesn’t get paid, etc. Then multiply that by millions.
Only reason to sell right now is to prevent your family’s *imminent* starvation. Lesser excuses will not age well on your conscience.
Hooked on these hard sudukos. You have to find the weakness and beat on it until it cracks, yields a clue. Then the clue becomes another weakness to exploit until it yields another clue. Eventually the entire thing breaks open.
It’s like cracking a code.
Would offer sats to anyone who can do this one, but too easy to use AI to cheat these days, so no reward. Usually they take me a a few hours (cumulatively) coming back to them over 1-3 days.
Sometimes I spend the time, don’t realize I made an error until it’s too late.
The dip is fake.
Something going on with nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg support? They used to be really responsive to emails and now crickets for two days.
MSTR obviously has all the counterparty risk of publicly traded stocks, but ridiculous to call it a Ponzi as I’m seeing of late.
A ponzi requires new money to pay off existing holders, and it seems similar because he’s taking the new proceeds in part to pay his dividends. But he COULD easily, trivially pay all his dividends if he sold a tiny portion of his assets. He would just VASTLY prefer not to deplete his balance sheet and incur capital gains, so he will always use new funds if he has a choice.
I don’t know how it ends, there are all kinds of unknowns from custody questions, to regulatory to 6102 scenarios, but per Warren Buffett, in the short term the market is a voting machine, and in the long term it’s a weighing machine. And he’s stockpiling the heaviest asset in human history in unparalleled amounts.
I had this problem too with very large numbers. Kept making errors, and once it “corrected”, I couldn’t be sure it was really right since it might still be making errors that just weren’t obvious to me. But for concepts with known explanations, think it’s pretty useful.
One thing I don't understand about gender dysphoria is why it always goes in one direction. Like if you’re male, and your body doesn’t meet your self-conception, why must it always be that you need to be female? Why couldn’t a man be like, “Damn, I’m just way too male for this body, I need a second penis, maybe an extra set of testicles, some mega-doses of roids?” Show up for the surgery, like LFG.
ha - was actually in Switzerland yesterday, where the sauna was, but point taken. Got my ass destroyed in Padel today after winning the tournament last week with Boris Becker (German ringer).
I agree with this to an extent, but the problem you come up against is that children ARE influenced by the world and the wisdom you have gained about it is not something that can be told. It must be learned. And often the way a sovereign person learns is by making errors. If you endeavor too much to preemptively correct for errors, you will either foment rebellion or have a person who does the “correct” thing out of fear and is lost.
What you ultimately want is to raise a girl who can sense-make for herself, no matter what idiocy society is pushing, can course-correct for herself and choose the right path for herself.
This requires a firm hand sometimes but also non-attachment and patience other times. It is a hard needle to thread in the age of social media (my 13 YO does not have a phone but some of her friends do.) We are the strictest parents at the school, simultaneously too strict and not strict enough.
I can see clearly so many possible pitfalls, yet in the end we have no choice but to set an example and trust them. If we have raised them to be too weak they will have a lot of unnecessary suffering. But if they are strong, they will figure it out. To some extent it is out of your hands. I truly only want what is best for her, whether that is as a wife with four kids in her 20s or finding a meaningful vocation before settling down later. I truly believe almost everyone will live a far more fulfilling life by having children, and society lies by suggesting otherwise. But lshe must find her own way.
Which is it: government bad, don’t want them to have any or government bad, they’re not buying any?
It is difficult to let go of those assumptions. But it’s also difficult to make space for God if you have a bunch of religious or spiritual assumptions too.
It seems some envision Christ as the door guy at the heaven club. You needed to have the secret password or the accumulated status via demonstrated fealty to gain admission. I reject this formulation. It is not a serious theology.
The kingdom of heaven must necessarily lie within.
I am not a Christian but I am pretty sure the real Christ wouldn’t want you to follow Him to receive a reward (heaven) or to avoid a punishment (hell). The heaven must be in the following and the hell must be in the rejection itself. Otherwise, Christianity would just be another game.
I say this only because I respect Christianity as a genuine path to God. I am not a Christian because I don’t think it is the ONLY path. But I believe there are real Christians who are following a real path, even if they are a small minority of those who claim to be such.
If you think LA is bad, wait until you discover Switzerland!
I still like MSTR but thinking about its flaws made me realize all stocks have them.
Posting into the void — notes for future essays for when I get back.
The moment you get fed up with the infinite chop and stop giving a shit is the moment it will run.
What do you really own when you own a stock other than the ability to sell it to someone else?
You don’t own a percentage of its treasury or earnings commensurate with your shares. You own assets in the event of bankruptcy but are junior to debt holders and creditors, i.e., probably SOL in that case.
Was thinking about MSTR, but really applies to all stocks.
Many on the left believe some groups are victims and therefore entitled to lower standards and special treatment. Many on the right believe some groups are incorrigible and deserve discrimination en masse. Both are advocating for tyranny, despite their myriad mental gymnastics. Whenever you lose sight of the individual, you have capitulated.
This is why the reactive racism of the right in response to the victimhood Olympics of the left are but two sides of the same coin.