One of my new favorite things to do when I get spam texts of people pretending they know me is to tell them they owe me bitcoin and send them a lightening address.
Underrated: 28 Days later, Thirteen Lives, Locke, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, In Bruge
Hell Yeah Plunger! Do you also drive it nicely on top of the maintenance? I've had friends that go through cars far faster than I do and then I drive with them and they're flooring it after every stop and ramming the breaks when coming up to a stop sign but that's just theyre standard way of driving, like giving the vehicle high blood pressure.
You must live in a place where rust isn't eating the body and frame. In PA I see a lot of F150's but really especially rams with bodies looking like zombies with their flesh falling off.
I'm pretty much happy with everything about this vehicle except the ambient noise level in an older car like this is far louder than in newer vehicles. As my hearing continues to deteriorate it actually makes noises more irritating, and car conversations with my Wife require raised voices.
admittedly haven't looked very hard and I live in PA so I'd need a medical card to snoop in the dispensary.
You ever come across Grape Ape. Trimmed at a farm one season where they grew it. Smoked it exclusively all trim season. Love it, never seen it since. I managed farms for 4 years after that trim season and no one ever grew it but all the growers talked about how great it was. I haven't smoked in years but I'd smoke Grape Ape
I've been building stuff off and on for various purposes for a little while now. My brother is in the "discovery phase" of tearing his bathroom down to the studs and joists and finding out how many structural members have been butchered and impaired by previous owners.
I recently joked with him. "if you want to make things stronger just do triangles, if you don't think it's strong enough do more triangles"
The picture is the framing members of the 20ftx8.5ftx13ft tiny cabin I pulled from California to PA. I didn't use any engineered plans or anything for this, I used triangles.
that's being glib I watched tons of videos of people building tiny houses, and hark! They all used triangles too.
also just for good measure more triangles in other applications.
LOL! very very relatable! From 14 to 20 yrs old my brother and I worked for two different wealthy retired guys with big properties. We did property maintenance and expansion more gardens more landscaping, more!! Our stay at home Mom did the same to our property, she made it her full time job.
My brother and I are both like....ah no, no I'm not doing that shit with my time.
As I drive around in this very solid but rough in appearance 18 yr old car I sometimes think. "I should get a new car".
I can certainly afford one. But just because I can doesn't mean I should. It works, it does whatiask it to. It has 238,580 miles on it and all I've ever done are oil,breaks,and tires.
I think it's societal pressures that make me feel I should get a "nicer" car.
So thinking of it that way makes me think of the Christopher Walken meme.
One of my favorite Lincoln quotes is a comment he wrote to a friend. I can't remember the context or the full sentence it was the way he framed anger that was important. He said something along the lines of
"I have let myself indulge in anger for long enough."
Anger is very often an unproductive and indeed a destructive indulgence.
That captures it very well. It wouldn't be as troublesome if we didn't feel it would be beneficial to others. At one point in my teens I got really into following the NBA. But I wasn't sitting there thinking "Oh man! if only they knew how many points Allen Iverson put up last night! Their lives would be better!"
There are so many touch points that keep Bitcoin to the forefront of my mind. I would like others to appreciate and understand the benefits.
But sometimes I'm just sitting there with thoughts completely uncoupled from the conversation that everyone else is having.
Is it because you bring up Bitcoin or are you observing everyone talking with 25% to 65% of your brain wanting to bring up Bitcoin?
And saying Bitcoin is just short hand for everything it leads you to reassess in life.
In my previous post I talked about nailing 2x4's together as a finished floor system.
This is already a thing and it's called nail laminated timber. Or NLT. It is in a category of construction materials called mass timber. IE giant masses of timber as structural components. It is most commonly found it commercial buildings. I'm somewhat familiar with it but more so hear about cross laminated timber. Basically making gigantic sheets of plywood by laminating 3 layers of 2x6's into 4.5 inch thick panels.
Anyway cool stuff. NLT floors are starting to be used as concrete slab replacements in some installations. Concrete is a C02 emissions monster wood sequesters it so cool stuff there.
Also a 2x4 NLT floor can span 12 ft. Very cool.
As another person with weak taste I noticed things taste the best when I've had a good, energetic, productive day and am hungry. If what I'm eating is healthy and full of sustenance it will taste better the hungrier and happier I am.
Life hack food tastes better when you're hungry and content with life.
The wood under my foot is on is standard construction grade 2x4's turned onto their edges and packed together. I think it would look good as a finished floor. I've only seen this done once before on a youtube video tour of a passive house for a very small section of floor for a loft.
However if used in new construction as a finished floor system this would cost about $4.50 a sqft. Comparatively, cheap (and shitty) laminate flooring from Home Depot (accounting for subfloor and underlayment) would cost about $3.50 a sqft.
If this floor system was used on the second floor I think it would look good as an exposed ceiling. It would negate the cost of drywall on the ceiling of the first floor. The material and labor cost to install drywall is between $2.00 to $4.00 a sqft in my area. so $1.50 lest expensive, but maybe comparable in labor costs to install.
My only qualms with this system is sound attenuation between floors.
Thoughts?
this.
a home has utility, it can generate income via renting rooms if need be. or utility through allowing friends or family in a bad spot to live with you. it frequently comes with additional property. even if small much can be done with even an 1/8th of an acre.
it also stores value, and protects you against land lords kicking you out via higher rent or replacing broken appliances with far lesser ect.