When I was a kid, I was interested in aerospace engineering.

My half-brother (who is 30 years older than me and was therefore old enough to be an uncle and had that kind of relationship to me) spent his career as an engineer and then an executive at a major aerospace defense contractor.

He was the most accomplished person of my family and was raising a happy family, he always kind of represented a role model of who I wanted to be. Hard-working, successful, well-off, and with good priorities around building a happy family.

As I studied math and science in high school and engineering in college, I assumed that would probably go work for the same company as him one day (which two of his three kids do now). As a teenager, I could tell you how many aircraft carrier groups the US had, roughly how many B-2 bombers the US had, how much they cost, the technical pros and cons of various fighter jets, comparative missile arsenals among global powers, etc.

But when it came time to graduate and go into engineering (during the Iraq War which I opposed), I couldn’t do it. It’s not that I am opposed to advancing aerospace or making weapons for sovereign defense per se, but rather that I didn’t agree with how the US military structurally uses its weapons globally.

I began focusing on industrial automation instead, and then ended up in civil aerospace engineering (with a focus on electrical engineering). That area captured some of what I liked about the field of aerospace engineering, but was focused on making aircraft safer and more efficient, rather than more deadly. I spent a decade there in a rewarding career, and followed a similar career path as my half-brother, meaning that I went from engineer to senior engineer to management and finance for the engineering facility, and so forth. But for peace rather than for war.

I eventually left the work due to my financial research business growing and overshadowing my engineering work in terms of scale. I had always done financial research work part time as my passion, but at some point it took off and that made it uneconomical to work in engineering/management anymore.

After several years of focusing on financial research, I got into bitcoin venture investing in part to help fund engineers and assist them in building things, which was basically what I was doing in my prior role in aerospace and is something I am still strongly drawn to.

Anyway, I thought of this as escalations flared in the Middle East this weekend. It’s amazing how small decisions or pivot points can affect where we end up in life.

This is a real tweet.

What if we all just stop paying taxes until the government starts respecting the constitution?

Besides, the government doesn’t need our tax dollars anyway; they just print whatever money they need out of thin air.

The complex math equation miners do:

Is this the right number?

Is this the right number?

Is this the right number?

Is this the right number?

Is this the right number?

Is this the right number?

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Cut out everything but grass-fed (if you can afford it) meat and clean spring water to start. Celtic sea salt or mountain salt to taste. Find a farmer/rancher and fill your freezer will save you money and will likely be better quality. If you’re coming from keto or paleo your system should be pretty clean, but you might still get keto flu or detox rashes (symmetric rashes on your body). I don’t do chicken or pork because mostly hard to find real pastured animals, but I have them from time to time. Goat, lamb and other ruminants are my go to behind easy-to-find beef. Chicken necks are pretty tasty fried in tallow. SLOWLY add organ meats (if you can find liver, heart, spleen, kidney, oxtail etc palatable and from a good source) - freeze liver and cube (partially thawed is easier to cut) and pop em like vitamins raw. Liver buzz is a real thing. You can overdo fat soluble vitamins, and I’ve gone on stretches of just muscle meat and water, but I feel better with about 1oz of liver CUMULATIVE per week. Milk fed pork is pretty clean and I like to cook with rendered lard. Beef heart fat and kidney fat taste fantastic if the animal was healthy and not grain fed. Tallow is great to have around. Tongue is great, but very weird to break down. Don’t shy away from fatty, gristley cuts; ground is usually a good bang for your buck and has the connective tissue you want for collagen. I go fattiest grind if I can find grass fed and don’t drain any fat off, but often times it’s pretty lean. Don’t be surprised when you don’t poo for 3-4 days. Learn how to make real bone broth with long simmer times and you will save money (I add some carrots and an onion, but just for flavor). If you find yourself craving more food, you probably just need more fat (I aim for about 1kg of meat per lb body weight). I often add a knob of unsalted butter and a pinch of salt to a bowl of lean ground beef, but I can tolerate dairy. Kerrigold is grass fed butter you can find most places. It might take a couple days for your colon to produce enough bile to breakdown any additional fat you add. Eggs are OK, but I’m not a fan of most storebought grain-fed yellow yolks (they should be #Bitcoin orange and have a deep flavor). I stay away from grain/soy fed meat, eggs, dairy for omega 3-6 imbalance and rarely any fish or shellfish. Grain finished is probably OK, but I have come to like the flavor of only grass fed meat. My skin stays really clear and my sweat doesn’t stink (sometimes smells sweet depending on what animals I’m consuming). I don’t snack anymore and can consume a large amount of meat in one sitting without any GI discomfort.

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You shouldn't be, considering this was proposed and voted on before he took office.