This is the kind of stupid that reflects just how badly the money is broken.

A single pineapple in a cardboard box.

“Resistance is Futile”

~The Nostr~

I appreciate that finished electronics are now tariff-exempt as it ensures no one would ever dare dream of trying to build electronics in the US, and luckily they don’t have to!

don't think

because thinking men cannot be ruled.

don't be happy

because happy men cannot be ruled.

don't recognize nor strive to achieve greatness

because great men cannot be ruled.

Its over bro...but not for my wine!

Do your thing! No shame.

Honestly, like were trying to decouple bitcoin from crypto, I'm trying to decouple shitty wine from low intervention wine from a health perspective.

The difference in how you feel afterwards is pretty insane.

gm nostr

Yes, there is a wine ingredient called Mega Purple

And it's more common than you’d think.

Once you know how to spot it, you’ll taste it everywhere.

And you’ll never look at cheap red wine the same way again. 🧵🍷

Mega Purple is a thick, sweet, inky extract made from a grape called Rubired.

Just a small dose adds deep color, smooth texture, and a candied finish to otherwise forgettable wine.

It’s grape-derived—but that doesn’t mean it’s good.

It started as a way to rescue weak vintages. But now it’s everywhere.

If you’re drinking wine from a box, or paying under $15 a bottle, especially for jammy reds—there’s a good chance Mega Purple is in the mix.

Think of it as a type of pancake style makeup for wine.

You won’t find it on the label. Wine doesn’t have to list ingredients.

But there are signs:

- Over-the-top purple color

- Sticky sweetness

- Flavors like grape jelly, vanilla extract, and artificial chocolate

Mega Purple is often used to mask poor fruit—like overcropped vines, underripe grapes, or wine rushed through fermentation.

And if it’s in there, it probably came with friends:

Velcorin, powdered tannins, added sugar, oak flavoring, enzymes, coloring agents.

At that point, it’s more of a science experiment than wine.

Wine made with better grapes and fewer tricks costs more.

That wine tells a story. Real terroir, real flavors, real art.

But more importantly, Low Intervention wine will probably leave you feeling a hell of a lot better the day after drinking it.

What's that worth?

Most people have no idea what’s actually in their wine.

I’ll be posting more about how to find bottles worth drinking and how to see past the veil the industry hides behind.

If this helped you, it'd help me if you liked or reNOSTed the first post or followed along!

Cheers!

Hyperbitcoinization happens not when buyers say “I want to pay in bitcoin” but when sellers say “sorry, I don’t want your fiat”

I made a mistake during my Bitcoin lecture last week in the university of Bologna. One I’m not going to repeat. I assumed something. And I shouldn’t have.

Since I was talking about my job, I told the students that a big part of it is debunking myths around Bitcoin...

You know, the usual stuff: Bitcoin is a Ponzi, it’s going to zero, it’s killing the planet. I built like 15 slides for this. I was ready to fight. Ready to debunk every single one of them, one by one.

So I asked them: “What’s something negative you’ve heard about Bitcoin?”

Silence. No one raised their hand. No one mentioned pollution. No one said anything about volatility or scams. These were 22 years old, curious, open-minded, and genuinely there to learn. They didn’t have myths to unlearn.

So there I was, spending the next 20 minutes talking about gas flaring, carbon-negative mining, and all the reasons Bitcoin is not what “they” say it is. But “they,” in this case, didn’t even exist. The only person bringing up those narratives was me.

And that’s when it hit me. All these years in the Bitcoin scene have trained my brain to always be on the defensive. To expect resistance. To anticipate criticism. And that mindset slowly killed a part of the joy I used to feel when I first learned about Bitcoin.

Back then, no one had told me it was bad. I just found it exciting, revolutionary, empowering. My brain wasn’t busy filtering negative takes it was busy being amazed.

That beginner’s energy, that childish awe, that sense of discovering something precious, it’s something I want to reconnect with. I don’t want to be the person who walks into a room full of open minds and immediately starts talking about the bad things people say.

I want to talk about freedom from banks and government, creativity, women empowerment, potential. I’m not saying I’ll stop responding to critics when necessary. But I want to stop assuming that everyone is a critic.

There are way more people out there who are just curious, interested, open to learning, than there are loud contrarians I’ll never change the mind of anyway.

From now on, I want to speak to the curious ones. Not the ghosts in my head.

Just untangled a slinky, AMA

The way we live our lives is more important than how long we live.

#Life

As we adopt sound money the stock market will experience a slow continuous crash. It’s bloated and subsidized. It never made sense for the middle/lower class retirements & savings to be put at risk by massive corporations and financial institutions.

Sound money will make the stock market unimportant in the average person’s life.

#Bitcoin will give us clarity on what is actually valuable.

people who are aggressively anti-Trump dont really bother me.

that is their thing, and that is not only fine, its constitutionally protected.

what absolutely fascinates me about the Trump phenomena, is the criminality.

not the criminality on the part of the government, although that is a wake up call, but the levels of criminality average people seem willing to support and engage in. And specifically the levels of ever escalating wild conspiracy thinking required to engage in the criminality. This is the thing that fascinates me the most. That for many, they would rather abandon reason, and their own integrity, than confront being wrong. He cant just be a politician that they dont like and didnt vote for so they need to work harder to win an election, he needs to be on par with Hitler and Stalin, and an End of the World threat to justify the increasing insanity they need to embrace to not have to face that what they originally believed was wrong, and they have been lied to. And along the way, they start embracing policies and institutions they previously spoke against, in order to destroy the object of their insane hatred. Its trully the strangest thing Ive ever seen in my life.

So you dont like the guy. Fine. I thought the dude was the devil in 2015. But after seeing how hard the State was lying to destroy him, and how completely full of crap the establishment media showed themselves to be, I had to re-evaluate my original assesment. The radical lack of willingness to re-evaluate, and need to embrace ever increasing conspiracies to avoid being wrong is the wildest thing ive seen. It motivates me to watch for it in myself.