I was trying to buy some plane tickets online yesterday. I fly about once a month for work. Same card, same airline. For the first time in two years the transaction did not go through. No tickets were purchased. After a half an hour on the phone with the airline and bank each, MY bank is sitting on $900 of MY money for three days. I time my airfare purchases very carefully to ensure the lowest price. This delay is going to cost me more money.

I was so mad when I got off the phone with the bank I smash bought some bitcoin without looking at the price.

I read this in his voice.

Entertainment is necessary for a healthy human mind. A month or two into a grid down situation and people will be scrambling for a good fiction book to read.

Smart idea. I’ve got a few hundred daffodils I want to put in around my fruit trees this year and this will save me some time.

How do you plant 1000 tulips in a day? Surely you aren’t using a round hand planter and crawling around on your hands and knees.

Remember me, when the executive order comes down and we are forced to give our bitcoin to the government, I will not. If I go silent, I’m in prison. If I say I gave up my bitcoin or encourage others too, that is code for me saying I was tortured. I will burn my bitcoin before I give it up or pay taxes on it.

Then you haven’t heard how California charges homeowners with solar panels for the electricity they generate themselves. lol

I enjoy most of your notes, but this one makes me sad. We are all damaged in some way, this note shows some of your damage. Please, go outside today, let your bare feet touch the earth, clear your mind of these negative, aggressive thoughts and find joy, love or appreciation for something in your life.

Yes, I am. What did you do today to take one step closer to self sovereignty?

What other form of money does not have a fixed supply?

There is only one singer of this song that truly deserves our admiration.

https://youtu.be/7kGPhpvqtOc?si=zFRMIwoSkV3769FL

I can attest to the quality. I had some last year and it makes a dang fine cup of coffee. I’ll be buying more this year. Thanks for the reminder Nicole. Nice video too.

Coco coir is a nutrient-less growing medium with good moisture retention that is favored by high end pot growers due to the fact that they can control exactly what nutrients the plants receive. Pots and growing medium are discarded at each harvest due to the buildup of salts from chemical fertilizers and to help keep a clean environment as a method of disease control.

The first thing I would suggest is asking what nutrients or fertilizer your grower is using. If they say Foxfarm, General Hydroponics, Advanced Nutrients or any other name brand you can be assured that everything is soaked in petroleum-chemicals. If you are trying to stay natural that would be a deal breaker for you.

If however, the grower is using a natural system such as aquaponics, compost tea, etc. or you don’t care you are still limited.

As you said, coco is slow to break down, its main uses for the average gardener are seed starting, a soil amendment for moisture retention and as a soil amendment to improve texture. As a mulch, I’m afraid you would end up with poor results.

If I found myself in the same situation I would make biochar with it. That stuff is black gold in the garden and if you do enough volume, maybe even a profitable side gig for you. Coco biochar is used in many industries and several scholarly papers have been written about it.

Well, since Coinbase started re-hypothecating (fractionally reserving), the market makers are practicing strategic trading (ETFs are all rebalancing on the same day creating an artificially low price) and the derivatives market is over leveraged (dumb asses), Bitcoin has entered the realm of a manipulated commodity. Now is when the real war is happening. Average people need to buy Bitcoin NOW! HODLers need to scramble for every Satoshi and keep control in the hands of the people who made Bitcoin what it is before the fat cats who control fiat take it away from us by owning a majority.

GM and happy 10/22 day! For those of you who are unfamiliar, the popular Ruger 10/22 rifle has been in production for 60 years. This handy little rifle has been instrumental is helping millions learn how to shoot safely.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruger_10/22

Wow Dan, it feels like I was just seeing springtime pictures of your gardens. “The hours are long, but the years go by quickly.” I hope you had a great growing season.

Congratulations, whether this is your 1st time or your 1000th time doing this, harvesting one’s own meat is something most people will never do. You are part of the true 1% of super-achievers.

IMHO, bourbon generally pairs well with most tobaccos. I would choose the Blantons.

Yeah, was on a plane that got held up once because a tray table wouldn’t stay locked in place. Took them half an hour duct tape it and leave the seat empty.

Meshtastic is probably the easiest and simplest way to have unlicensed, secure communication over relatively long distances. You use a smart phone to send text messages via a network of small inexpensive routers. You can buy a premade router for about $100. The best of the of solar powered routers is a few hundred dollars at most. Range is only limited by the network. There are some public networks. However, one Noster user posted recently that he bought 200 routers. That would give him a linear range of probably close to 1000 miles or hundreds of square miles.

Next would be GMRS Radio. These are the 22 channel “family talk” radios that are probably more in line with what you’re thinking about. Do not believe the manufacturer label. These are low power, line of sight radios. You’re going to get somewhere between half a mile to 2 miles reliably. If you’re standing on the tallest hill around and climb the tallest tree on that hill you could possibly get 5 to 7 miles. There are a few public relays for these frequencies. Technically, you are supposed to get a license to use these radios, but tens of thousands of people use them every day, and the government has never prosecuted a single person. That being said, the license requires no education or testing, you just have to put your name on a list.

Third option, learn ham radio. There is a provision in the FCC rules that removes the need for a license during an emergency situation. Anyone can pick up any radio and call for help if they’re in an emergency. You can get a dual band 2 m/70 cm 5 W handheld radio and program your local repeaters into it. Direct line of slight range can be up to 50 miles. However, a lot of repeaters are networked. For example, I live in East Tennessee and was talking to somebody in Arizona the other day.