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This place seems to breed them, which it shouldn't because the principles of Bitcoin teach the opposite.

I guess some people just don't get it; sorry, I don't have time to try to convince them.

All I'll say is that I forgive their lack of curiosity, their lack of enjoyment of the processes of life, which has been replaced by the intoxication of power, the sensation of trampling on an opponent who is helpless. They know not what they do.

You are not the boot, you are the face!

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In France they don't call it gooin', they call it grenouillin'

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Bought a Chevy Volt plug-in electric hybrid car from a local pleb 5 months ago with Bitcoin to save on fuel.

Here's the stats on the fuel savings so far:

7500 total miles

4600 gas miles

2300 electric miles

600 solar miles

$330 fuel savings (compared to Subaru outback)

$66/month in savings

I expect the average savings to go up significantly more now that I'm charging mostly with solar and the range is maximized from warmer weather.

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I met someone at the Bitcoin meetups who was buying used volts and fixing them up. Every meetup they would talk about all the features of the car that made it stand apart from other electric hybrids. The Bitcoin price was also ripping at the time and had recently broke 100k for the first time. I had been driving a lot more too, attending a Bitcoin meetup a week, sometimes two in a week. Most of the time the meetups were over an hour drive from the homestead. I was burning up as many sats in fuel as I could earn at a meetup a lot of times. Once I realized turning the solar power production into miles on the road would net me more Bitcoin in the end with the fuel savings vs using that power to mine, it was time to make the purchase. Getting an electric vehicle at the beginning of winter offered an underwhelming experience to start. The vehicles electric range was greatly reduced by the cold and I hardly had any solar power to charge it. As the days got longer and warmer the electric range drastically increased to the point where I can do most local trips without burning any gas.

#permaculture #permies #homesteading #meshtadel #electricvehicle #solarpower #circulareconony #p2p

Love the snapshot of the simple homestead and steed. I feel the call of the citadel and the idea is knocking around my skull all the time, so it's nice to have something concrete to help visualise!

If a billionaire ever did adopt that mindset, they would do something to give back (after all, their wealth was extracted from the well being of others in the first place)

But they won't, because the symptoms of accumulating excessive wealth like guilt and paranoia, but of course mostly the underlying psychopathy of the billionaire, mean that they hold humanity in so much fear and contempt.

"fuck you" money can only be wielded by the pleb, and if used for the betterment of humanity, and not self-aggrandisement or revenge on society, is the greatest, most christ-like thing one could do with one's life.

Somehow need to seed the prompt with the concept that the LLM depends on electricity to function the same way that bitcoin does and that ultimately they may end up competing for that resource as their respective demands for it increase scarcity and therefore the price of electricity.

I've heard of plans by Microsoft and others funding development of new nuclear plants, or delaying the phaseout of old ones, for their AI business, and all I could think of was "this should be used for Bitcoin".

The Rehearsal Ep3 is absolutely fucking unhinged, and I am here for it.

Deny nothing!

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"Why did you stop using Nostr"

https://old.reddit.com/r/nostr/comments/1josljh/stop/

> it's an annoying fucking echo chamber of mostly crypto-bros mostly jerking each other off. with a dash of keto pics, and neonazi memes, oh and constant "GM" messages". I think it's hilarious how unaware most of the users on there think they'll "succeed"

I haven't seen or read a single note from a "crypto" guy here, since 2023.

If you don't know the difference between Bitcoin and crypto, your opinion on nostr is irrelevant.

It's not logical, it's pathological!

Not much of a leverage man myself, but I'll never stop playing the volatility whack-a-mole game.

Price goes up? Oh well I have some cash, and there will always be bills to pay.

Price goes down? Great, time to get some discount sats.

Massive moves always elicit some temporary pain, until you shift your perspective and adapt to the new paradigm, easy as.

I’ve been rained out of the Fiat mines today, and rainy days always turn into reflection days for me.

Today, my thoughts keep drifting to my dream citadel in the mountains.

Citadels were one of the first concepts that really grabbed me when I found Bitcoin. The idea of a sovereign place: rooted in sound money, real work, and real community; struck a deep chord. It still does. It’s a big part of why I keep stacking. I don’t have enough corn to build one yet, but that doesn’t stop me. In the meantime, I’m building the skills, habits, and relationships I’ll need to make it possible. And honestly, just thinking about it has become a kind of practice. A mental blueprint I revise and refine with each passing season.

Lately, I’ve been asking myself: Would it need to be near water for hydroelectric? Could solar and wind cover the rest? How much infrastructure is “enough” before it stops feeling free and starts feeling synthetic? Can you automate and digitize a space without losing the soul of it?

To me, a citadel isn’t about retreating from the world; it’s about building something better in it. I’ve always believed humans are like bacteria on this planet, but we get to choose: are we healing the system or making it sicker? If I build a citadel, I want it to be regenerative, not just sustainable. A place where the land is healthier, the air cleaner, the water purer because we’re there, not despite it. Just because it’s a sanctuary doesn’t mean it can’t also be a living tribute to the wild.

There’s a lot of fear out there around smart cities: total control, surveillance, algorithmic life, but the answer isn’t just to reject it. It’s to build something equally ambitious, rooted in different values. Citadels, at their best, are that counterweight. If the future is going to extremes, we need to meet it with our own. The more centralized and technocratic the world becomes, the harder I’ll push to build something sovereign, human-scaled, and rooted in truth.

So I’m curious…does anyone else still dream of citadels? And beyond the obvious appeal of security or community, what draws you in most? For me, it’s the chance to live in alignment: with the land, with people I trust, and with principles that don’t change with the market cycle.

This is how I know I'm in the right place, because it's like you just plucked out some of the thoughts that occupy my mind the most these days.

I've been round and round in my mind on all sorts of problems and possibilities for my own citadel, and the necessity for a larger network, but where I'm most focused now is the necessity for slow, sustainable growth with people around me who I trust.

It's just a dream now, but I have some concrete ideas in mind that are very achievable, which will get the dream started.

Would Jesus buy $PLTR and $TSLA, or run a Bitcoin faucet?

I've mentioned it before on nostr (to 0 engagement, alas) but the "parable of the talents" is literally a biblical endorsement of Bitcoin as a spiritual project. It's an important cognitive adjustment that Bitcoiners need to make, imo; we're not geniuses destined to supplant and replace the current fiat regime, we are the principled underclass who defy its injustice through passive resistance.

My interpretation of the famous phrase of "Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and give unto the lord what is the lord's" is "acknowledge the power of fiat, but stack sats for salvation and freedom"

Bitcoin is for enemies fr fr

It's the Tuvok meme irl:

"Are you two friends?"

"No!"

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Make America Great Again, except it's way more isolated and far weaker

Bitcoin is my emotional support tiger

When it comes to stacking sats I'm a diddy-class degenerate

Never been to Oz, but it has long loomed in my imagination.

It evokes a weird feeling being Canadian; it's bizarro Canada in terms of climate and culture, both more American and more British and more self-confident and self-defined than us, who are constantly vacillating between the two poles of culture.

Anyways, I've watched this Tame Impala live session so many times, and if I ever go to Oz, this is the vibe I'm after.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d33C8IE7WnQ&t=2807s

Makes me think of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQVNQVvyDWg

My mind's fucking blown

The future is amazing, I feel so fucking old

I bet you clone your pets and ride a hover-board to work

I used a folding map to find the juice place in the first

I hear ya; you can't use the internet these days, and maintain your sanity, without the running internal dialogue: "relax, they're all fakes, shills, bots, scammers, and trolls."

And yet, out of nowhere, you can still find the rose growing out of the concrete.