If for some reason you were to find yourself in a knife fight, would you rather have a tanto knife or a bowie knife?

Any knife connoisseurs here?

Serious question though.

In addition to DnD, MTG, and video games, Jordan also set me on a course to liking anime.

He showed me Trigun on DVD. That all sounds like ancient tech today. Prior to then, my association with anime was kid stuff, like Pokémon. But Jordan showed me Trigun, which heavily influenced me. I then watched Cowboy Bebop, which influenced me even more.

The exponential nature of our influences is hard to pin down, but for me it is easy. The mathletes kids didn’t shape my culture for shit. The military-academy-like martial arts people shaped my culture more. But Jordan, the random trailer park agent of chaos, that single chad, shaped my culture the most.

FYI my Alice @OpenTimestamps calendar is out of money in its on-chain wallet; I still have funds in its Lightning wallet.

Since fees are ludicrously high right now I'm not going to refill it. If someone really wants it to work, they can send on-chain funds to it: alice.btc.calendar.opentimestamps.org

My Bob calendar still has 118,000 sats in its on-chain wallet, which should be enough for a few more days, and the calendars run by @BullBitcoin_ and @RCasatta have funds too, so timestamps are still being made. Just not quite as often.

You don't need abs when you got family.

The 30-year Treasury auction today went terribly. Huge price tail; basically a half-failed bond auction. There hasn’t been an auction that bad in many years. Some people chalked it up to a cyberattack on China’s largest bank, which interfered with their ability to do Treasury transactions, while others contested that this was the main issue and instead argued it was a lack of demand for duration. Treasury market liquidity is really weak.

And then like an hour later Jerome Powell was interrupted in an IMF talk by eco-protestors, and he dropped the f-bomb on a hot mic.

Fun stuff.