Looking for the Nostr opinion on this:

Assumption: Public transport is not profitable, it’s a service paid for by our tax dollars.

We collect fare money by the users of the service so they pay a higher portion of the costs as they use it.

Given we all pay the bill in some way whether we use it or not, we all have a vested interest in the service. The more people that use it, the trains, buses etc required, more routes to cover and more time slots.

The net effect of increased public transport usage is less cars on the road, less wear on infrastructure etc less cost to the tax payers on net. Public transport produces a net saving for the tax payers greater than the cost of providing it.

Given this, reducing the cost of fares to 0 benefits everyone. Why not go a step further and PAY people to take public transport. Give them their carrot, $1 a fare.

My vested interest in this is I HAVE to drive my car full of tools around between jobs. So if you don’t HAVE to transport anything but yourself, maybe stay off the road and get in a bus lol.

Went offline for a week in this tiny home, skinny dipping in the billabong and catching up on books 🤙

I’m looking at commodity price charts (mostly construction materials) and they’ve stayed flat or gone down minimally over the last few months of volatility.

Does the real economy just not give a fuck about tariffs? Is all the noise just finance people adjusting their PE ratios and selling off stocks? Is it too soon to see the flow-on effects?

Howard Lutnick said the “easiest way to find a fraudster is to stop payments and listen”. Is this actually just Wall Street?

How to make a half-decent coffee from instant coffee, maybe your camping or in some off-grid AirBnB with no fancy coffee machines.

Before adding the boiling water put the coffee grounds in your cup first and mix with a splash of milk. This will stop any burning of the coffee grounds.

Also add a pinch of salt to bring a little more flavour out.

Then boiling water, milk, generously stir.

It’s no Melbourne Magic but it’ll get the job done.

Did you read their financial results? EPS beat $0.07 up to $0.30 per share, income up from $6.7 mill to $131mil.

They’ve downsized, right-sighted the operational business and got themselves well capitalised. Now they’re making moves, M&A page on their investor news website.

Seems like there’s some adults running the show, not saying it’s going to the moon but my shares don’t owe me anything and at this point I have no interest in selling.

I’m loving seeing the forced moment of thought this has created in GME holders.

Might as well just buy whatever nostr:nprofile1qqsywt6ypu57lxtwj2scdwxnyrl3sry9typcstje65x7rw9a2e5nq8sprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctvqyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnnw3hkuetj9e3k7mg4tuge3 talks about at this point.

GameStop to be the next Bitcoin Treasury company, LFG.

I’ll bet my whole current primal wallet on it - 20 sats

The US Government will buy MSTR outright to fill it’s 1million BTC quota.

I 100% think the Tesla “terrorism” is an insurance job being orchestrated by Tesla / Elon. Utilising the bad press environment to get old stock off the books.

A repeating theme in history is those that don’t adopt new technologies for moral or protectionist reasons, lose to those that do.

MSSP (Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast), best comedy podcast.

Solar power is just nuclear power with less steps involved

If cap gains tax is removed like what’s being thrown around lately, does this just open the door wide open to bitcoin adoption? Or how about instead of a cap gains tax, just a 1% in kind fee on all bitcoin transactions paid to the federal government? 100 sat purchase, 1 sat to the gov, no tax owed (excluding applicable sales taxes)

Michael Saylor has talked about offering bitcoin backed lending, as has Jack Mallers.

Strategy have no retail customers, Strike has a large amount of global retail customers already.

Strategy is aiming for bitcoin yield, Strike is a sats-flowing profitable business.

Strike likely already has lots of licensing allowing them to offer these services, Strategy has the capital to fund the services.

Speculation: Strike will be bought by Strategy to launch Strategy’s Bitcoin banking services direct to pre-existing customers.

It’s never wrong to be kind.

Miele all the way baby

Great rip, you guys vibed so well

It’s really the last sentence for me, I can’t live inside a cold wallet. The arguments for bitcoin are the same for property investment - spending fiat to buy hard assets.

My question I guess is more how do people approach mortgage sizing as a percentage of their income? 20%? 30% 50%? Get the biggest mortgage possible, pay the bare minimum and let inflation do the work?