I'm not sure if supporting the labor conditions in China is right either but this is bananas.

I was a fabrication manager at a shop that made DOT handrail for sidewalks along highways. The amount of paperwork involved in each bolt was complete nonsense. For a company to be in compliance they need to staff someone full-time to track the paperwork. Table That's one job. Although it's one job in the office instead of a job in the shop actually producing stuff. Adding red tape to something as benign as a handrail will not make us competitive. That should be obvious.

https://reason.com/2024/10/04/federal-buy-american-rules-cost-over-100000-per-job-created/

Daily Reflections for October 5

Yesterday’s Baggage

For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.

--Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, p. 88

I have more than enough to handle today, without dragging along yesterday’s baggage too. I must balance today’s books, if I am to have a chance tomorrow. So I ask myself if I have erred and how I can avoid repeating that particular behavior. Did I hurt anyone, did I help anyone, and why? Some of today is bound to spill over into tomorrow, but most of it need not if I make an honest daily inventory.

--From the book Daily Reflections. Copyright © 1990 by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. All rights reserved.

We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

—2 Corinthians 10:5

My NOSTR stack:

🫀Amethyst for mobile.

🫀 & for My outbox

🫀 NOSTR relay on umbrel for backup

🫀 for zaps

🫀 account for Media hosting

🫀 GitHub pages for nip-05 & lightning address redirect

🫀 A granite tablet with my seed words chiseled in it for backup

What do you recommend adding?

#nostr #thenostr #asknostr #grownostr

Yes

Here we go.

I was in JROTC in high school. Didn't realize how messed up that was until I had children. Blood soaked monsters.

Yeah got all my tools. Family is safe which is all that really matters.

Boosting this note might help...

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I lost all my tools from hurricane Helene. The crown Jewel of my business was this bobcat that was completely underwater. Had to sell most of my stack to get another (much cheaper Chinese) welder.

100% of this zapraiser goes towards tools. Anything helps. Especially boosts & shares🫀

Bolt12:

₿closedwasabi77@phoenixwallet.me

Time chain:

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#zapraiser #hurricane #zaps #zapathon #asknostr #help

Here is a meme for attention:

This just reminded me that I got sober in October.... 2015 I'll be picking up a "cheap red chip" soon.

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Here in Florida you can only burn yard waste/rubbish etc. I have four feet of water in my garage so it was a bit more than that...