Never worry about who will be offended if you speak the TRUTH.

Worry about who will be misled, deceived & destroyed if you don't.

The government likes inflation. It makes their debt easier to manage and it allows them to tax fake gains (in some cases actual losses based on real purchasing power). Thieves gotta steal.

The last programming language I learned was C++ and I left shortly after so I never really used it or became proficient. I used ancient languages like Basic, Fortran, Pascal, and the original C. I also used an automated testing visual language called Labview (I think. I may be mixing that up the name with another program I used for matrices). I am so out of date it isn't even funny.

I can still talk logic and high level plans, but my programming days are over.

We use a stove as primary heat as well because the trucked in propane is so expensive. We have a wood/coal stove. We get so cold and have a good sized house. When the temperatures get really cold (-2.7 F when I went to bed last night), wood just doesn't put out enough heat nor does it last long enough. The coal puts out so much more heat and we are toasty warm. It also easily lasts through the night.

It would be nice to use just wood, but, since we are so cold, I love my coal stove.

My leg of lamb, roasted in a cast iron dutch oven with a dry rub and a white wine cream sauce is amazing, but a lot of work, so I only do it on special occassions.

I accidentally found some marinated, lamb at Walmart that is grass fed and has only ingredients I would put on my food at home. I've cooked it on a George Foreman grill in less than 10 minutes and it was fantastic. I normally don't buy any meat from Walmart, but this was some good stuff and it was so fast for a night when I get home late but want to eat something good. It would probably be even better on the grill, but the whole point was to be fast and low effort.

Mmmm. I love lamb chops. For a long time, I only ate lamb in restaurants. For some reason, cooking lamb scared me, maybe because my Mom never cooked it. Now I've cooked lamb chops, lamb roasts, and leg of lamb. Yours look fantastic.

Soup made from a whole chicken or a whole turkey carcass (like after Christmas & Thanksgiving) is the best. If it is a smoked chicken or turkey, It is even better.

I like to cook mine in a crockpot overnight, pull out the bones, and then add my spices and vegetables. All together it usually takes about 24 hours, but it is low maintenance, tasty, and healthy. When I put leftovers away in individual pyrex containers, it gels solid, so I know it has great bone broth with lots of natural gelatin. Mmm.

Yours looks great, but looking at it, I don't know how you get all of the bones out with vegetables already in the soup.

Mostly I do direct deposit of my paycheck to Strike and have it set to autobuy 75% of that deposit immediately and the other 25% I trigger buys manually when it looks like there is a little dip.

My first purchase was on Coinbase and I have also used Kraken for a larger buy (wire transfer and buy)

Kraken worked well when I wanted to wire transfer a significant amount for a big buy to get started. I like Strike for dollar cost averaging. It is so easy. Everything can be automated, kind of like having money automatically taken out of your paycheck and put in a 401k. I do try to transfer my Bitcoin into my personal wallet within a week of the autobuy, so there is never much that isn't in my private custody.

Start learning before you NEED it. Your first year with have lots of failures that are learning experiences. Also, it takes a bit of time to get your garden optimized unless you happen to live in one of the rare places with optimal soil and optimal rainfall. Also, if you live anywhere dry or with a dry season, install some kind of automated watering (It could be a basic timer/splitter with a couple of soaker hoses attached.) All it takes is a couple of days at the wrong time and your garden is dead.

The test says I have a high immune reaction to a protein in the whey. I never had any severe symptoms. Any symptoms were very minimal. I'll give up dairy for a while, but if things stay like they are, there is no way I am giving up cheese for the rest of my life unless the reaction turns deadly. I feel almost the same with butter, although the wagyu beef tallow is replacing the butter much better than I thought it would.

A good church is such a blessing.

One thing that has led us astray is Christians have lost their foundation. Genesis, especially the first 11 chapters, is the foundation for the whole Christian faith. It tells who God is, why we serve Him, where we came from, what sin is and where it came from, what the punishment for sin is, what marriage is, etc. When we write off the early chapters of Genesis for being "unscientific" (it actually is very scientific), we lose the awesome God and why we must obey God, and what sin is, and why we need a savior. Although believing in a literal Genesis is not a salvation issue, without it, we are on a shaky foundation and will fail to give a reason for the hope that is within us.

I think you are partially right and partially wrong. On the negative side, the statements about obeying government were made under the Roman Empire which was not godly nor righteous and had many similar issues to the US today. So we can't disobey all laws just because the government does evil or discourages good. On the other hand, blindly doing whatever the government tells us, especially when government laws directly contradict God's laws, is definitely not what we should do. God's laws always come first. "But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men." (Acts 5:29). We always should obey God rather than man, but God doesn't promise that we won't have negative consequences when we do so.

Unfortunately it isn't as cut and dry as we would prefer.

I just got back a blood test saying I'm having an immune reaction to dairy, ie no butter, and coconut, ie. no coconut oil. Because of this I've been using beef tallow as my go-to oil/fat including in my sweet potato casserole for Christmas. I've missed the butter much less than I thought. I've been buying a wagyu beef tallow. I may have to try rendering my own tallow.

A good, easy meal that everyone seems to love and doesn't break the bank is Salsa meat (meat can be anything, ie chicken, ground beef, ground elk, beef tips, pork cubes). Brown the meat in a frying pan with Paleo Pink seasoning. At the same time cook some riced cauliflower. Put cooked riced cauliflower in casserole dish. Put browned meat over the top. Pour a jar (or 2) of salsa over the top. (I like chipotle salsa). Cook in oven at 350 F for 30 minutes if meat and cauliflower is still warm or more like 45 minutes if you make ahead of time and it is refrigerated. Melt cheddar cheese on top (Tillamook extra sharp cheddar is best). If you are cooking for 30 minutes or less, you can add the cheese at the beginning. If you are cooking for 45 minutes, you are better off adding cheese after 20-30 minutes so it melts, but doesn't start getting crispy. Easy, peasy.

Bitcoin is harder to steal.

Me too. The big outside pockets also aren't as secure. Things are more likely to fall out.

I will admit to occasionally overstuffing my pockets and looking scarily wide and lumpy.

Taxing unrealized deb t is the pinnacle of tax tyranny. They want you to own nothing and be totally dependent on them.

What are the chances that the Supreme Court rules correctly on this? It seems obviously unconstitutional and bad, but that has never stopped the Supreme Court in previous rulings.

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Looks perfect. I notice that skirt also has big pockets. I'm a huge fan of pockets. I'll see a cute dress, but when I realize it doesn't have pockets, I know I won't wear it much.

USD is losing value.

Gold is maintaining value.

BTC is gaining value.

BTC is a better investment, but I disagree that gold is trending to zero.