Great recap of lessons learned over 100 episodes.
More baked spaghetti squash laid up. One more session to go. The more food I grow and preserve the more I understand why people remain on the teat of big farm and big food. Itās time consuming and quite boring work, but Iād rather learn these skills now rather than in a pinch. Tomorrow, itās pressure canning potatoes. At least I have hours of awesome podcast and audio book content to listen to while Iām at it. Todayās thanks for that goes to The nostr:npub1ltz38gwwmmg740r5qlqjn96gth5thv5wmhkwlgqks9lu3485q7jsy6k4fh Podcast. Boosts incoming.
https://fountain.fm/show/Q66mRn47Puyf5qIlhkgj
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Winning. And sparing your brain from advertising.
It makes me laugh when people post ājust donāt pay taxesā when itās all usually done at source and your ability to earn those wages in the future without garnishment is based on whether your tax account is current.
Itās interesting that even small businesses are essentially the āhouse slavesā that are enabling the at source taxation of those of us out in the field. Itās the price of membership in the business ownersā club, and the privileges it affords.
If a business owner wants to remain solvent, banked, and out of the courts or a jail cell, they must agree to become collection agents for the state.
Itās time to think of every possible way we can, even partially, fund our existences without taxed-at-source employment income and the fiat currency that enables it.
Itās interesting that Nick Shirleyās exposure of government fraud has likely had a broader impact on peoplesā trust in government and their awareness of the ills of fiat money printing and theft through taxation than a couple years worth of sound money advocacy on the part of the entire Bitcoin movement. There might be a lesson here.
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ā”š¬š§ NEW - Apparently, the UK government is advertising military jobs on Xbox. https://blossom.primal.net/36a6201f12a45bdd16d15e1aec6ea01d41603708ece287d9cb2eef9091888a25.mp4 
I miss that walk. But the last time I was near that very spot was 1989. My best friend who was always being a jackass in one way or another hopped down over the sea wall and grabbed a 6ā long piece of bull kelp while I was still talking away, not noticing he had bounced down there. All of a sudden I hear this whoosh and feel a blinding pain across the back of both of my legs. He thought itād be funny to rile me up and use it as a whip on me. Heās likely still in under that row of trees lol.
2026. Year of the new denominator.
Happy New Year Nostr šš½ā”ļø
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This is one pretty rough concept recording I did in 2004 with direct line input from an overdriven Peavey practice amp into the single line input on the sound card on my Pentium 2 PC. The chorus parts are very repetitive and skippable, but I liked the way the solo that starts at 1:59 worked out. I used free click track and drum-on-keyboard software. Free mixdown software. The only hitch was that all three guitar parts had to be played in a single take from the beginning of the song to the end, playing in sync by ear in real time. I couldnāt splice anything with the software I was using so I had to do it all long hand including the small drum fills. Took quite a few takes. I wish I had some more source audio of the solo.
I donāt know about the states but the real bite is the daily interest on balances owing. Adds up quick.
"When Bitcoin's price goes up or down, you're still winning!"
https://blossom.primal.net/5550e4a0555dfd2fc9d9d8d59e229aa432144b346f40306728495ba0bc578cd2.mp4
Brilliant point. Iāve definitely been doing a different kind of winning for a while. This year Iāll try the other one.
Just donāt do it in the company of any Newfies theyāll keep you up talking till 2:30am Jan 1. Smashing beers and smoking Afghani hash.
I think Iāve blown past Dunbarās number on my feed. Too many cool people on here. #grownostr
And thatās just the opening salvo
To be honest, it's one of those things I'd like to play with, but it's very low on my to do list right now. My wife and I are expecting our 4th child in March, we're working to transition our house into a homestead, I'm writing and illustrating kids books and working full time in telecom. It will probably be a few years before the time and money line up to make musical endeavors more feasible.
But since we're on the topic of music and metal, this is an album I did vocals on almost a decade ago. I wrote a good bit of the music for the songs "Fury" and "Inner War" as well as the majority of the lyrics on the album https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaf42reShFFvIf8jfHy_B1LuvL7tWKfGV&si=DGMCCphCdp3pe7bf
Badass.
This is one really rough concept recording I did in 2004 with direct line input from an overdriven Peavey practice amp into the single line input on the sound card on my Pentium 2 PC. The chorus parts are very repetitive and skippable, but I liked the way the solo that starts at 1:59 worked out. I used free click track and drum-on-keyboard software. Free mixdown software. The only hitch was that all three guitar parts had to be played in a single take from the beginning of the song to the end, playing in sync by ear in real time. I couldnāt splice anything with the software I was using so I had to do it all long hand including the small drum fills. Took quite a few takes. I wish I had some more source audio of the solo.
https://suno.com/s/LJYkq99uUAVR9PUI the first minute is fairly close to the source material. It filled in the rest of the song. I think the free version only allows a 1 minute upload and the original full song is over 5 minutes.
Thatās awesome man. Love the solo. On some of the choruses I instantly felt like running downstairs and loading up DOOM II. Totally my vibe from those days