“Almost wherever you are in the twenty-first century developed world, the most expensive purchase you will ever make in your life is not your home, as many believe, but your government. For a typical British middle-class professional over the course of his or her life, the bill totals £3.6 million ($5 million) - far more than the typical house. You will spend 20 years of your life or more in obligatory service to the state. On a time basis, the state owns as much of your labour as the feudal lord did that of the medieval serf, who gave half his working week to farm the land of his lord in exchange for his protection.”
- Dominic Frisby, Daylight Robbery
Garden flowers in nostr purple. This was the last week for spring crocuses before the daffodils took over, and they put on quite a show. Most blooms are way late this year as 2023 has started out (and continues to be) so cold.
MicroStrategy Acquires Additional 1,045 BTC and Now Holds 140,000 BTC: https://www.microstrategy.com/en/investor-relations/financial-documents/microstrategy-acquires-additional-1045-btc-and-now-holds-140000-btc_4-5-2023
Love that Saylor has the same round number compulsion I do.
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I had been under the impression that we (the 70s/80s kids) were the analog-to-digital generation, the ones who dealt with the big tech leap.
The more I get immersed in AI the more it feels like our transition will be nothing compared to what our kids are going to witness.
Rolls-Royce SMR Limited's 470 MWe small modular reactor (SMR) design successfully completes first phase of the UK's Generic Design Assessment (GDA) process.
https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/UK-assessment-of-Rolls-Royce-SMR-design-progresses
If the universe is indeed constructed atop vibrating strings it’s no wonder music is so elemental to our existence.
Odd to think that if you gain or lose weight, “you” constitute a greater or lesser percentage of the universe.
My bank is trying to get me to invest in private credit for a 9% return. Seems safe.
Fifteen bucks for a little punnet of blueberries. We need a Mandibles progress bar more than a CPI print.
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What is that widget, pray tell? Looks awesome. Related to the Jade wallet? My Googling skills have failed me.
Homemade pancakes with a bunch of flour and egg on the floor thanks to a three year old assistant. The best!
Has anyone seen a spy balloon recently?
15% refundable tax credit for Clean Electricity introduced that can be applied to all nuclear power installations, large or small. Things you don’t expect to see with Enviro activists still in Canadian ministerial posts. I’ll take it!
Thanks for that link, was not aware such a directory existed and was about to start compiling one! Seems pretty current.
This, then, is no surprise. Absolutely enormous growth potential in private schooling over the next decade.
Sounds like the American version of Canada’s recent C-11. Oh, they’re laying the groundwork thoroughly.
The speed with which this bullshit is accelerating, books will become subscriptions and accept annual revision (indeed, “unprompted update” behaviour has already been observed on Kindle).
Buy physical.
What really turns it from novelty to “Huh, really?” is explaining how there are multiple cafes and restaurants they actually *know* in this town that accept Lightning for *actual stuff*.
This is even before any talk of 21 million or hard money - itself an increasingly easy sell in this economic clown show we find ourselves in.