Congratulations! It's such an amazing sign of healthy soil. We love seeing them and these numbers are booming on last year's. It feels like we are in an upward swing with soil health now.

If you don't ask, it won't happen. Don't lose the ability to talk to people.

When our solar contractor built our system, I asked if he could install a power point in the shed that turned on when the batteries hit 95% and off again at 60%. He was intrigued and said no worries and just made it happen.

Then I educated him on bitcoin mining and made some comparisons between how much you can mine vs how much you can make with a feed-in tariff back to the grid (fuck all).

Then I asked if I could pay some of the bill in home raised, grass fed beef. He was very receptive and gave his contractors a beefy Xmas bonus.

His work was extremely professional, he now has a better understand of bitcoin, his workers' families got fed real food for Xmas, the tax man saw less, we're now completely off-grid, we're mining bitcoin again using limitless energy from the sun and it's all automated.

#homesteading

#mining

#solar

I agree… but also it’s cute you think you’ll have a choice 😝

The storytelling makes all the difference. The masses are under a series of spells which should make it obvious for the remnants that reality can be fucked with big time. Imagination is the key and it works both ways.

Here’s a fun stat for a Sunday.

If you bought the top of $69k in April 2021 and held for 4.75 years, bitcoin’s CAGR has been 5.88%.

Anyway, here’s a pic of a mini dinosaur at a nearby restaurant.

Wishing you pyramids and a happy new year! May you wisely transmute your imagination into reality. As above, so below; as within, so without. All you need is aligned Imagination, Inner dialogue and Action.

We have quite the collection of shared resources where I live, among them is a moving scaffolding that you can build up with just 2 people. We don't date go beyond 2 stories / ~8 meters though

Bitcoin consensus rules are almost perfect. I think it was an error to permit bitcoins to be spent if public keys were exposed in the blockchain, but I can see why it is slightly hard to enforce this computationally…

I predict someday we will see a new consensus rule that says you can’t leave pubkeys exposed for long and remain spendable…bitcoin isn’t for dead people.

From basically “0 talent for handywork” to this at 8m height.

Proud of myself, again. Scaffolding was torn down as well. Snow and frost my come now.

Props to my neighbor for showing me the ropes.

Hidden Pivot door and slat wall paneling.

Once we add the slat panel on the left side it will be virtually invisible.

Wood Species: Rift White Oak

#workinprogress #custom #millwork #pivotdoor #riftwhiteoak

I wonder what percentage of people have never seen the real night sky, and only know the washed out imitation you see living in cities?

#asknostr

I love elderflowers!

Have a very happy new year Brisket!

I could care less about "arresting the Somali's"

Go after the people who let this happen

Anything less is lip service

Physical fitness is political. It’s part of the stack. Sound money, free speech, physical capability, independent thinking. All of it together makes you harder to capture.

So here’s the thing about banking apps. (This is bullshit btw)

About a year ago, I started down a quest to remove google, yt, fb & microsoft etc from my phone.

A de-googled phone is becoming incompatible with several of my banking and credit card apps so keep deleting the offended apps.

So far so good…

Just the other day, my iPad pro 9 (which is maybe 4yo…) will not run the Chase app with iOS 16.7 and I cant update past 16.7.

My solution keeps just being, “I guess Ill stop using that app”

Its no skin off my ass to use a different bank card. Fuck them.

🧡👊🏻🍻

physical bitcoin should have a significant premium compared to paper bitcoin

I’ve seen something similar form on leaves too. Even more bizarre looking. Have always called it hoarfrost.

Needle ice. Water from the soil is drawn upward when it reaches the cold air, it freezes instantly, adding to the growing ice column. More water continues to rise from below, freezing layer by layer and pushing the structure upward like this.

2 days left in 2025…

What 2025 goals are you working on completing during the final hours of this year?

Gladwell can be so insightful. We used to talk about chapter 8 from Outliers at the learning center where I taught math and critical thinking. For example, we noticed that addition problems involving 7 tended to be a problem for students whose dominant learning sense was auditory. The auditory learners doing 7+5 would often give an answer of 13. Because they encoded information best via their ears, the fact that se-ven has two syllables created a “bubble” of uncertainty around 7 in their minds. If they spoke Mandarin where all of the single digit numbers are 1 syllable each, that issue would not have existed.

We used to joke that those people were a jack of all trades & master of none.

Carol Dwek wrote a book on Mindset about 20 years ago & I found it useful at the time. She proposed that people tended to have either a growth mindset or a fixed mindset. Later many corporations picked it up & pushed out a rather crude summary of it but few actually read the book. They basically inferred that a growth mindset was good & that people with a fixed mindset needed corporate reprogramming. Cringe

Essentially the growth mindset people believed that they could do anything with some effort & persistence. Fixed mindset people believed that they could either do something or they couldn't. The fixed mindset people typically had that belief because they were naturally good or bad at almost anything they attempted. It says a lot about the power of your belief IMO. It also neglects the fact that some people just don't have the capacity to perform certain tasks no matter how hard or long they work at it. I've seen many such cases.

I shifted my mindset as a result of reading the book but I also knew that I don't really want to do everything & I don't want to do anything forever. I started applying a cost benefit calculation to the things I threw myself into. Yes I could do it, but is it worth the effort required to master & how quickly would that skill be depreciated? I cut short my career in software development after 6 months even though I had the degree. The juice just wasn't worth the squeeze, it wasn't for me.

You should always play to your strengths but also be aware of your weaknesses.