Decisions, decisions for dinner tonight 🤣😂

#foodstr

Eso de bird watching is el propio fuck you hobbie.

A few cuts from the skunk but he’s

Ok 💜

#catstr #rightnow

And it’s a new day)

Monday is the day off 💚⚡️

And imagine: she is (the #cat) purring right now.. what a wonderful #morning

08:12 Odesa, Ukraine

Gm good people. Does anyone know any esoteric or folk remedies for a cold?

Why male presidents? 🤮

I think real mass adoption will not happen. Not in the next 10 years. Sure it should be OUR goal to orangepill, educate and onboard people but here comes my thought about this.

I think here will be the pareto principle 80/20 rule effective. The 80% will probably buy the BTC ETF's insead of real BTC as the most are frighten to don't get their invested money in fiat back. The 20% will be us and those who are onboarded until ETF is approved.

They will just start to realize that they have been lied when the fiat money system fails and their money is gone. The BlackRock shareholders will be surely be informed previously and take their money out before all the ETF maxi normies will do. So they have no more money left to buy real BTC. And BR will still hold the real BTC and is only fiat bankrupt.

So, what kind of choice will reamain for those who have than nothing anymore? CBDC. "You will own nothing and be happy". I think this game will played out exacly like i predict now. Sad to say but no, there will be no mass adoption in my opinion.

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You're absolutely right, it is ridiculous and wasteful, designed to pander to some people's profits and to other people's lazy, fearful ignorance. It also makes our society far more brittle, as the supply of certified electricians is inelastic but the demand for them very unpredictable.

So about typical for our government, at all levels.

But having once worked as a crisis counsellor, no way Jose do I want to be vulnerable to jackbooted petty autocrats stealing my stuff or jail me like what some of my clients went through. Or friends in their younger years. I have a middle-class accent, a decent grounding in law, and a lawyer's number in my phone, but a time may come when that's not enough. So if I can plan a way to jump, dive or roll through a legal loophole without it costing me too much, I do it.

I sent excited traffic-stop cops home with sad faces three times during COVID lockdown, because my paperwork was in order. Essential Worker, KMA!

(But if I lived out in the sticks like my sister and BIL, I'd care a whole lot less. I'm in Melbourne).

Offgrid Solar - distributed DC microgrid

So I was writing this as a reply to The_Beave in his offgrid thread, but realised it should probably be its own thing.

Here, I can literally go to jail for working on anything over 40v without doing a long apprenticeship first (or paying someone who has, to pretend they did the work). It almost never happens - unless someone doesn't like your politics, or a scapegoat is needed.

So while SWIM may or may not have wired up 415v 3-phase industrial machinery perfectly safely at work (where if work gets raided he can adopt a blank look and claim he doesn't know how that came to be :-p), he's not going to do that where he sleeps.

Government-subsidised solar systems here are exclusively the grid-tied kind. Grid goes down, they go down. And fairly overpriced because of the expense and bother of maintaining certification to qualify for those subsidies.

So I've started experimenting with essentially the opposite architecture to The_Beave's - building a multiple-source, multiple-load DC microgrid. The idea is to keep it legal but offload some usage to solar, both to save $$$ and to have a backup for when our grid starts failing harder. And it will keep working even if some components fail (always right at the worst possible time).

What I've done so far that works:

Sources:

- 24v 250W nominal solar panel x 4

- 24v 5A AC-to-DC power supply

Infrastructure:

- 10A and 20A twin-core DC cabling

- Rail-mounted DC circuit breakers for each source (safety first!)

- portable capacitor bank ( 6 x 4.7 uF) with three automotive sockets for inputs and outputs (this allows electric motors to spin up without the voltage sagging to zero).

- multi-socket junction boxes with internal shared busses, designed to take cables with automotive plugs. I mod the plugs with 20A ceramic fuses.

Loads:

- many DeWalt power tools, the older style with minimum electronics, modded with automotive sockets where the batteries once slotted in.

- evaporative airconditioner, all original electronics removed, 24v nominal electric gear motor now driving the fan and a 24v peristaltic pump moving the water.

- seat heaters, resistive, automotive kind

- Fans, 24v nominal, computer kind but larger

- 19v 5A step-down transformer: charges laptops and 20v nominal battery packs if the cases are opened.

- camping 12v stuff - kettle, ministove, air pumps

- automotive USB chargers, many of these, working well.

- 12v dc-to-dc power supply, runs led lighting in my shed.

Things planned:

- huge old 24v camping fridge (going to need a bigger capacitor bank!)

- little 2kg mains-voltage washing machine I purchased to convert. Going in my under-construction offgrid container cabin.

- little 24v truck air conditioner, also for cabin.

- DC ATX power supply for a desktop computer. Looks underpowered and under-filtered, previous one blew up. Going to mod it with stepped-down input and possibly a secondary 12v supply.

A friend is adamant I should have converted all the automotive plugs and sockets to Andersons.

Your thoughts?

#diy #solar #offgrid #prepping

my laptop battery is inflated and very fucked up, it is starting to giving problems... It all happened because of Venezuela electricity cuts, shitty

As a European, I don’t have access to Swan.

But if I did, I’d stop using the service ASAP. Just like I did with Relai when they banned me for using CoinJoins.

Fuck this dystopian shit, fuck all the “banking and custodian partners”, fuck any flavor of Bitcoin-only that’s synonymous with compliant (and ultimately anti-Bitcoin).

Tomorrow is Monday and you're going back to work.

If I know it, they do as well.

Or cash kills babies. Airborne SIDS from cash & coins. Iran, China & Russia are contaminating our cash with airborne SIDS.

Use cash you’re a baby killer.

That would work too.

Dam I got really drunk last night, feels bad right now man. I rarely drink