I think people that want to know are well informed. But most just choose to ignore. Once I learned about industrial farming I stopped buying my meat from retailers, started raising my own and buying from small local ranchers. Industrial farms like the one pictured here force animals to live in overcrowded conditions where they are fed a diet of unhealthy foods that fatten quickly. Conditions are so bad that the animals have to be injected with hormones, steroids and antibiotics just to survive the process. This whole process also significantly pollutes the environment.

Pasture raised animals live a happier and healthier life. My animals free range and eat natural foods they forage for themselves.

Don’t buy meat from a store. Buy from a local farmer where you can see how it was raised and ask what it was fed.

Also, buying locally introduces the concept of a circular economy. This keeps the money in the hands of people that earned it instead of forfeiting, a fee to a bank every time you swipe a card.

I don’t know who you are now? I just follow you because I like a lot of your notes.

As someone who has been in thousands of peoples bathrooms, for work, in California, I never hesitated to explain to them that the pink slime bacteria on their shower, walls was from operation sea spray.

Me too

That’s probably the best explanation I’ve received! So miners receive the transaction fees from the mempool included in the block it solves? That’s a secondary way miners earn bitcoin on top of the block subsidy? And some mining pools are refusing to include OFAC wallet addresses in their mempool when solving blocks?

I’m totally ignorant here. If one pool doesn’t validate a transaction but 51% of the network does… doesn’t that invalidate the pool’s transactions for that block? Is bitcoin validation transaction by transaction or block by block? Or hash by hash? I understand bitcoin’s economic functions well but the programmatic mechanism still escapes me.

I’m sorry, I’m seeing OFAC a lot on NOSTR this evening. Can you please explain it to me what’s going on and why it matters? As is common nowadays Google didn’t give me a straight answer.

And bitcoin is PUMPING!

Thanks for asking about this Lyn. For the last several years I’ve been doing “strongman” work. Strongman combines power lifting with cardio in a way that’s not damaging to joints like CrossFit.

Since moving to my homestead 11 months ago I’ve incorporated strongman movements into my daily chores. I don’t bend over at the waist, I squat. I carry logs like an atlas stone or sandbag. Chopping wood as “Russian twist” etc.

I’m 50 years old and haven’t had a single injury due to work related movements this year. Strongman is designed to be ergonomically healthy for the extreme athlete which translates into healthy movement for the aging body.

I haven’t built large scale one yet but I have studied gassifacation extensively for several years, running model engines off of 5 gallon steel buckets and plan on building a large scale one in the next 12 months. The main problem with gassifacation is the tar buildup. The tar resulting from the gasification process requires more frequent cleaning, and maintenance of components, such as the carburetor and changing of the engine oil. The “drizzler” method somewhat removes the tar problem, preheating the fuel elements,

running through the upper portion of the combustion chamber before actually igniting them. However, the effort involved in the required maintenance lowers your return on investment to a point where it is unfeasible.

All that being said, solar/battery systems are a much more cost-effective way to mine bitcoin. Even in northern climates. Especially if you have the skills to install your own system. Trust me, if you have the skills to build a gasification system, you have more than enough skills to do some basic wiring. I recommend contacting Shawn at hackmyhomestead.com.

Shawn designed my solar system and recommended suppliers that saved me approximately 70% compared to a commercially installed system.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not giving up on gasification as a way to mine free bitcoin! However, the research and development hasn’t happened yet. Gasification is in the hands of a few techie nerds like me who understand that burning wood is a carbon neutral, renewable resource for generating electricity. Although solar is ultimately a polluting technology, it’s backed by big business and government so that makes it cheaper for us to run today.

#gassifacation #solar #hackmyhomestead #shawnmills

#permies

Milei won and bitcoin is pumping! I threw an extra hundred on top of my hourly DCA to celebrate.

He was definitely a terrible president. Number two? I don’t know. I think there’s about a dozen of them that tie for first :-) At least Carter changed some of his attitudes later in life. It doesn’t make up for his horrible presidency, but he did recognize a couple decades ago that America was no longer a functioning democracy because of all the money in Congress, he is a devout Christian who taught Sunday school, and he actually showed up and swung a hammer for Habitat for Humanity instead of just fronting for a charity. He was a sack of shit for the first 75 years of his life, but he seemed to end up a decent human being.

I didn’t say they were slaves. Just refuse to build a temple to a god who was not their own.?

And the Jews should have refused to build the pyramids. What’s your point?

Let’s have some fun. I’ll start with this…

My wife made cranberry jalapeño jelly. I never would have thought to put those two flavors together but it is off the hook good.

I had way to many jalapeños this year. I made jalapeño everything, pickled, three kinds of jelly, fermented, you name it. But I never thought about hot sauce. Thanks for the idea, sounds delicious!

An important question is would you/I/someone else be willing to spend time in prison or endure torture before we gave up access to our bitcoin? I agree with you and Lyn, “it’s coming” and I think it’s wise of y’all to start this discussion.

Pungent Stench https://youtu.be/DBnl4TdOG4s