I have a residents pass 😂

I’m on a ferry

My wife found a post online that said there was a beautiful waterfall nearby, just a short 20-minute walk, it said. Easy trail, lovely views. So we packed up the kids, grabbed our towels, swimsuits, snacks, water bottles, and set out expecting a leisurely hike.

It was not a leisurely hike.

The “easy walk” turned out to be a steep climb up the side of a mountain, boulder to boulder in places, until we reached the top of the waterfall. This was real terrain. No easy paths. Just sharp rock, loose soil, and 100-foot drops. And we were doing it with three children: our 11-year-old and two five-year-old twins.

But here is the part that impressed me most:

Not one complaint.

Not from the eleven-year-old. Not from the twins. They climbed. They pushed. They scrambled. They dangled their legs over cliffs with the confidence of mountain goats. And they did it all in the heat, with no whining, no hesitation, and no quitting.

Of course, my wife and I were carrying the gear, extra clothes, food, water, swim stuff, plus giving a hand every time the twins needed a boost over a high ledge or a slippery rock. Sometimes I had to climb ahead, reach down, and haul them up one by one. My wife did the same. It was a real climb. Exhausting. But beautiful.

When we reached the summit, we were rewarded with a cold, clear pool at the base of the waterfall. We laid down a mat, rested, swam, laughed, and soaked in the view. Worth every drop of sweat.

Along the way, I noticed something that stuck with me:

Alex, one of the twins, is a straight-line thinker.

He wanted the most direct path, shortest route possible, regardless of what obstacle was in the way. Straight over boulders, under branches, through the middle, faster.

Henry, his brother, was the strategist.

“I’ll go here… then there… and from there, I can step across to that rock.” He mapped every move as if solving a puzzle, placing each foot with care.

Same age. Same trail. Two completely different minds at work.

And my oldest boy? I told him, “I can’t hold your hand. You have to manage your own safety. Stay focused. Watch where you step. Be careful.” And he did. He carried a big bag full of towels and gear, and never once lost his focus.

That is the real lesson of the day.

Children need real risk. Real terrain. Real adventure.

They need to face uncertainty, danger, exhaustion, not recklessly, but with trust, instruction, and just enough safety net. Because this is how they learn to manage risk, read the environment, take responsibility, and overcome their own limits.

We can protect our children from everything.

Or we can teach them how to navigate life.

This was one of those days where you do the harder thing, and everyone walks away stronger.

And I would do it again in a heartbeat.

Quick story from daily dad life..

My 6 year old son just came to me with his Christmas list for the year. He's asking for:

1. A cobalt blue glass water bottle (my wife and I each have one and we don't let him drink out of ours lol)

2. Needle and thread to learn to sew

3. Piano lessons

4. A stuffed animal that he's had his eye on at the local feed store

5. Wrist watch to know the time and day

6. A gold coin (he settled for a shiny brass version when I told him he probably couldn't play with it and keep it in his treasure chest)

I asked his younger brother what he wanted for Christmas and his list was much shorter.. just Bitcoin!

We've never directly talked to him about #Bitcoin but he's probably heard my wife and I talking about it, and our attempts to orangepill anyone who steps foot in our house 😆

They hear it all folks, so be mindful of what you speak about.

Just wish I knew to ask for gold or bitcoin when I was a young lad (obvs bitcoin didn't exist then, but my boomer parents still think its a scam so wouldn't have mattered)

#dadstr #parenting

⚡️🇳🇱 NEW - Dutch Regulator Pressures X, Facebook, TikTok to Enforce EU Censorship Rules Ahead of October Election

⚡️🇳🇱 NEW - Dutch Regulator Pressures X, Facebook, TikTok to Enforce EU Censorship Rules Ahead of October Election

If the war in Ukraine ends (I'm not so sure about that), what will be the next war in which Peter Todd will take sides and, from his sofa while eating Doritos, call for the annihilation of innocent civilians?

I am only certain of one thing: I would obviously choose the CIA's side.

JUST IN - Macron says he had a meeting this morning with Trump, Zelensky, and European partners, warns that "It will also be crucial to draw all the lessons from the past 30 years, particularly Russia’s well-established tendency to fail to honor its own commitments."

What does it even mean "take me seriously"? Let me occupy you or we'll nuke you? Stop spreading nazi propaganda.

Funny is, that your note does just not relate to mine. The rest is some disconnected facts.

You seem to not understand, that anything of importance needs to align with true facts. But not every true fact is of importance.

When Lavrov says "We have an argument, we have a clear understandable position" and he's barking the same shit in the UN every week for the past 3.5 years...

Yes, he's full of shitty propaganda. Let him burn in hell with Putin!

When you think Russian officials speak anithing without a clear goal to form a narrative, this is only naive.

Yeah why do they always land in a corn field outside of Buttfuck, Arkansas instead of, say, the campus at MIT?

Every supposedly credible person who speaks of UFOs only has second hand evidence. They never say “yeah I’ve seen it”.

Food for thought.

I pay attention to the natural element of the footage.

No arms, no rockets, just flowers.

⚡️👀 NEW - FDA approves breakthrough eye drops that fix near vision without glasses

The FDA has approved VIZZ, revolutionary eye drops for presbyopia without glasses. The innovative active ingredient aceclidine creates a “pinhole effect” by gently constricting the pupil and improving near vision for ten hours. Unlike previous treatments, it does not affect the focusing muscles, thereby avoiding side effects such as blurred distance vision.

The approval is based on three Phase II studies with over 30,000 treatment days without serious side effects. VIZZ will be available at the end of 2025 and could become the new standard for the more than 128 million Americans affected. "This pupil-selective technology marks a significant breakthrough in the non-invasive treatment of age-related vision problems."

I don't know if/how we're going to survive four more years of Labour and Starmer. Whatever comes thereafter will surely not be better. We're going down...

A friend of mine is doing a deep dive into vaccine safety studies and I'm getting kind of obsessed. Wow. There really are almost no placebo-controlled studies on childhood shots.

Thanks, just gave him a follow

GO FUCK YOURSELF. #Bitcoin

Flipping #compost again. Any thoughts on these pictures? #homesteading

One year ago today, bitcoin was sitting at $58.700.

😂 A different kind of "make war unaffordable".

FWIW, I'm keeping an eye on Zaporizhzhia these days.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump has instructed the Pentagon to develop military options for targeting several Latin American drug cartels that were designated as foreign terrorist organizations earlier this year, a senior U.S. official told the *Wall Street Journal*.

The proposals under consideration reportedly center on special forces missions, intelligence sharing, and precision strikes, with any operations to be carried out in coordination with Mexico and other partners in Central and South America.

According to sources familiar with the matter, Trump urged Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum during an April phone call to permit greater U.S. military involvement in combating Mexico’s drug cartels. U.S. and Mexican officials are now finalizing an agreement that would include intelligence cooperation and joint enforcement actions. Sheinbaum, who says she expects the deal to be signed soon, has stressed that “respecting our territory” is a non-negotiable condition in working with the United States.

Houston, we have a Meshtastic network.

I’m in the countryside so I’m not seeing any other nodes, but I’ll do a drive around later this week.

I don't get why people buy stuff as soon as they have some money. Isn't it enough to know you "could" buy it if you needed it? No point dragging around extra baggage.

🤡🤡🤡

Imagine being legally allowed to kill someone.

Oh wait, you don't have to imagine, it's called war, we train people to do that.

Bitcoin leads to low time preference and high agency.

GM

⚡️👀 NEW - A Bitcoin whale transfers 3,962 Bitcoin to a new wallet after more than 14 years of inactivity.

This represents a movement of over $468 million in BTC.

Honestly, it's way too hard to be pseudonymous and too easy to get doxxed. I suspect that had a large part to do with why Satoshi disappeared so early.