My wife walked by the federal courthouse today and sent me this picture. She told me to zoom in.

Studio shots and titties. 🙃

Messing around with colours and edits.

Pick ur fave?

#nsfw #tittytuesday #art #photography #portrait #onyx #vixen #model

Software development isn't as hard as you think. It's much harder.

right? It's like being mostly deaf at a Bach symphony.

I would give an appendage, probably, to have a better facility with the original Hebrew and Greek texts of Scripture. Have tried to self-teach, but I need a teacher. And time.

Ignorance is **not** bliss.

nosjak polo #merch

Thought experiment.

Option # 1

Let’s say you have 10 bitcoin and we hit 2 million in the next few years.

You’re tempted so you sell it for 20 million dollars.

After taxes you’re be left with 16MM.

Which you use to comfortably generate 1.2MM a year in the tradfi markets.

So you take the money and retire.

Bitcoin crashes 60% back to 800k.

For a few years you feel like a genius. You enjoy your new rich person lifestyle.

You even buy back a few bitcoin. 2 to be exact. 20% of what you used to have.

Then bitcoin rises over the next decade to be worth 50 million per coin.

You’re worth 120 million now. And you decide to sell a little over half a coin and upgrade your lifestyle again to be able to generate an additional 2 million a year.

You’re now on paper worth 120 million, you generate 3.2 million a year (266k a month) and you’ve been largely stress free for the last decade.

Your kids will inherit roughly 1.62 bitcoin from you upon your death.

You have some level of regret about not hodling through, but you’ve been largely stress free and the mental health benefit was worth it in your mind.

Vs.

Option # 2

You have the same 10 bitcoin but you Hodl them.

Your stress levels are persistently higher.

You also decide to retire when Bitcoin hits 2 mil, but you decide to do so in bitcoin terms.

Your plan is to sell a little bitcoin as needed in order to fund your lifestyle.

This is roughly 1-3 million sats a month. Depending on bitcoin price.

Over the course of 10 years you end up selling or spending 2.4 bitcoin and are still left worth 7.6btc when bitcoin reaches 50 million.

Your net worth is 380 million.

You’ve reduced your lifestyle in bitcoin terms down to a million sats a month. (500k) or 6 million per year. You’re 46, Assuming you live until you’re 90 you will pass down 2.32 bitcoin to your kids.

You have no regrets about the way you played it, but your stress was consistently higher and there were a few scary months along the way.

Which option do you choose?

1 or 2?

somewhat but even then it is niche. I had a conversation with a US Jazz Singer last summer by accident in a café. we laughed about a poetry reading of haiku. it's just silly. 🤣

even teaching poetry is difficult. it's not 5 7 5, it's not iambic pentameter , it's not rhyming. it is a presentation of Mind and is only possible to be understood Mind to Mind outside of words and ideas. Anyone can write a 3liner. a haiku is not a 3 liner, it must turn around a point or unexpected turn.

it’s rare you get to the top of a multipitch trad route in a remote area and find another group climbers.

should you find yourself in these circumstances, it is mandatory to take a cheesy photo.

2019, north cascades, wa

This is a good thought experiment and/or a a question to hold and let it rattle around.

I am thinking that I will have to publish a book to make any fiat$ or BTC. There's just no way to monetize poetry without paywalling it. Poetry and Zen commentary is already niche enough that a paywall makes it unworkable.

Another idea is to teach/offer a course.

Collating #ideas please leave constructive replies or requests.

#plebchain #poetry #zen #artstr

One way to keep up with what is happening is to watch the news. But governments control their populations this way, so while you will hear about many things, you will not hear about others, and you will be given politically-correct programming.

Ground news tries to show you which news sources are left and right, and fill in your blind spots.

Alternative news gives you stories you don't see elsewhere: greyzone, revolver, people on substack, youtube and rumble videos, etc.

But people lie and exaggerate for many reasons. They may say something is true because they wish it was so ("Ukraine is winning" or "Russia is stronger now"). They may express certainty for multiple propositions, when in reality they are far less certain about one of them.

You could have a show where people are required to not just express their views, but also give a confidence level. But they still would lie and exaggerate.

You could make them put money on the table. Then they will be less prone to lying and exaggeration.

Betting markets do this already. What is true, what confidence level do you have, and also people must put skin in the game. But they are more about events that have not transpired yet. But hell... those are even more interesting than what already happened.

It would be awesome if there were betting markets about past events, including recent newsworthy ones. If that existed I would read that to get my news. The obvious problem here is adjudicating and settling the bets. Maybe the winner is whatever the majority believes 3 years hence. People who bet COVID came from a lab would be paid out already. People who bet against Russiagate too.

Cheap sats alert just saying 😘

I for one just stacked a whopping $7 worth 😎