Mega tree.

I am envious of so much backup power! You'll be alright for sure 😃

I don't think the lady at the car insurance office understood how wrong her industry is. Wrong as in broken and predatory.

I started driving 45 years ago and played the game with insurance, start high go low over time..

I had full insurance in Spain for 9 years. 4 years ago I sold my car and been walking ever since. But now I need a van.

I asked for a quote, information. She required my driving license. When she asked about the vehicle I showed her an option online. She required the registration number.

I was literally dumbstruck. Wtf. It's not my vehicle. I want info not a signed up policy. She would not continue without it.

After all that the cheapest quote for basic insurance was €700.

The justification was that I did not have an active car insurance policy therefore there was no claims to reference, back to the start. I couldn't speak, it was like a sucker punch. 41 of the last 45 years playing the game just wiped away. What?

2 years with no claims and it will start to go down, she said, completely oblivious to what 700€ actually means in a country where 1000 a month is OK money for the majority. I asked why it wouldn't be cheaper next year and she dropped the next bombshell.

Cost of living rises will put the lower price back up to €700. Just like that, broad grinned acceptance that inflation will make sure I never benefit from driving safe.

This is the matrix, the fricking crazy world where I'm the rude person asking her to justify the racket.

Summer veg is all nice and dandy but basic survival food is perennial winter food, nuts and fruit.

At 8000 calories per litre, I just stashed about 1 million calories of extra virgen olive oil, 5kgs olivas muertas - that's about 600kgs of pressed olives and 20kgs of almonds.

Chickens need imported feed to lay at full speed but if it ever got ugly, they can get by on forage and keep us in eggs.

Meat is obviously another source of food :) but, here's an unpopular observation - if it's in the deep freeze, that doesn't count as secure food.

For a bit of food in reserve, think of food sources that require no tech to store.

Hope it never comes to be vital.

#selfsufficient #olives #Spain #homesteading

How many hens you got?

It always surprises me when people say chickens stop laying in the winter. I wonder, what on earth are they doing to them? :) Unless they are as old as the hills, as you are confirming, good ones keep the eggs coming, maybe not flat out, but definitely not nothing.

One advantage of BTC/ lightning that may be lost on non users - there is no fear of phonecalls or unexplained refusal of perfectly innocuous payments to other countries.

My first use case of BTC was buying a hardware wallet from an eastern European country. I spoke three times to the UK bank security team and each time they couldn't see any technical reason why the payments couldn't go through. I don't think they were playing dumb, but someone on a higher pay grade than them probably knew why they failed to go through.

Set up a lightning wallet...

With quick start follower lists, please show the Goats from a wide range of # categories, not just bitcoin OGs. Otherwise the onboarding process is just an efficient way to put off most normies. As anyone who has tried orange pilling knows, most people don't respond well to having bitcoin in their face. Get them in with great UX and privacy and all the rest of Nostr goodness,, then we can quietly educate them on the most important hashtag here. Cheers

Thoroughly enjoying the freedom of looking for movies on IMDb.com copying the TT part of the URL and pasting it on the end of vidsrc.net/embed/ thanks nostr:nprofile1qqs0fk6jwz7ejxchh6s7d5p473w7uwffr8pfga9m4sgrgtfz836wp5qpr9mhxue69uhhq7tjv9kkjepwve5kzar2v9nzucm0d5q3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuegpzfmhxue69uhhwmm59e6hg7r09ehkuegx4hcjd

I see that someone is trying to ruin Nostr by posting random words from burner npubs.

Presumably there is a technically smart alternative to " block each one manually"

Arguably the only thing that can change the desolate direction of travel of mankind is a new fiñancial system.

Review the incentives from the top down. Family, yes or no? Education or indoctrination? For sustainable profit or for Maximum profit whatever the cost?

Health, entertainment, food production, transport options...

the decision making on that little lot seems at its bottom line driven by the financial consequences.

The financial system is inflationary, precarious by design, predatory by design. With investment for instance, we are all thrown in the ring despite being deliberately de educated from childhood about money and the system. The few best players win all at a game that is to deceive, to string along.

We are a social, cooperative animal at the core. We should be deciding on our present and future options based on best incentives for all, not, how do 99.9% of us protect ourselves against a group literally out to get us without us realising, or if you do wake up, wheres the static target to aim at, address, challenge, negotiate with. There isn't one.

They have all the cards etc 2. Numbers and bitcoin. And unlike the few, we don't have to hurt a fly to rebalance the game. Just wake up and make a decision.

Hard money for a better life. Easy money, a shit life and arguably end of life for everyone including the few.

Happy 2025 ommmmm :)

Construction, comedy, guitar and drums, that's me algo-ed by YouTube. No mention of trees, fresh air, chickens, biodiversity. No money in those.

If that's what you see, cool.

I see a freaky sea creature like a squid rabbit thing.

#artstr I cleaned and buffed up this olive root. Interesting, or a bit too freaky to hang by the front door? I'm going to leave it up for a while to see if it grows on me. If so I'll wax it up to bring out the colours and replace the polypropylene string!

A very simple message to send out to the world. If you want to be successful, be humble enough to emulate a successful humble person.

nurses, shepherds and basket Weavers spring to mind...

If everything was shiny nothing would shine.

Are you raising an alarm about the potential fate of Nostr ville?

Bitcoin is for everyone, not just for early adopter bitcoiners.

# Naturestr is magic. If this were painted, I would probably question the use of colour.

change the option from "like" to "reaction".

The Amethyst like options are quite expressive. I'm leaning to the idea that whilst likes are framed as dopamine hits, in reality, it's pretty weird to say something to a person or address a gathering and receive absolutely zero recognizable reaction.

Always the focus of " likes are bad" seems to be the idea that seeking approval is the be all and end all of posting, and that's dopamine seeking, therefore likes are less than optimal.

But not all chat is about seeking approval. Often we chat to try work through ideas. If you say something completely off base to a friend irl, you pick up on it by a deathly silence or strange look. Those signals help you think on what you just said. The crickets when you see zero visible reaction to a social media post is kind of inhuman and a disincentive. Especially with Nostr relays and the ever present thought, Is anyone even seeing this post?"

Posting takes time, effort and is an expression of where you are at. A nod of the head, a blank look, a wtf are you on stare....it all helps guide a discussion.

Mint.