The og trailer park boys on HBO was gold. Netflix stuff was kinda funny. Not like the original and after Mr. Lachey died, they made some spin offs but none of them can recapture that original gold.

I've met Ricky and Bubbles at the LCBO when they released their beer. I have a signed can sitting on my wall 😅

I had the same thought when reading that book, although I rather enjoyed the rest. But during the Money chapter, I was thinking, "nah, I like Szabo's theory way better".

I used astral.ninja but I just quickly checked snort and it seems better. Sometimes astral seems slow.

This is an important read and glad it’s on Nostr. I have a lot of of respect for you, Jack. Despite how bad people attacked you, you always said let them speak. And while your decision was heavily controlled, you took full responsibility. You thought ahead when protocol was out of question on mainstream and pushed it through. And your focus has always been about the people. I hope you write more

Do you ever provide links?

I’m in that section of the book now. He clearly needs to read the Bitcoin Standard.

What’s the worst book you still finished anyways?

Mine was “Homo Deus”, still finished but scammed.

Can't make this stuff up.

I went to Twitter today and wasted quite a bit of time. Came away angry and baffled with the insanity of fiat world.

Back on Nostr with a sigh of relief. How are my people?

Agree. I find nothing sexually stimulating about feet, but apparently there is a brain biology basis for it. The somatosensory cortex which gives your nether regions the tinglies is near the area of the brain that controls feet and toes. For people with that fetish, they have some signals crossed.

Anyway, good night.

Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.