Being the editor of some fitness influencer must be rough. U roll up at work like: "Aight, time for the 10 billionth speed ramp of sb doing lateral raises"

Imagine holding government bonds instead of stacking Sats like a normal civilised human being.

My most viral #Nostr note so far 😱 flipping 85 Sats! Thanks yall. Now, I just gotta wait 1000 years and I can buy 85 Lambos.

I've been working as an engineer in a midsized orthopedics company in Germany since about 5 years. In Germany our health care system is deeply intertwined with government institutions. As far as I can see, this has at least one significant disadvantage .. and that's the enormous amount of capital misalocation / wealth destruction, due to incentive misalignment. Exemplary, my company has obtained several government funded product devlopment projects along the years. These projects usually involve several institutions (private companies and universities) coming together to apply for the fund promising to deliver a certain amount of work. From what I've seen so far .. these projects 'never' produce an actual product and enormous amounts of tax payer money are wasted in the process. In my small 4 person 'research and development department' about 30 - 50% of working hours are allocated to constructing excel files about which work was done by whom in a plausible way. Hereby, these tables are heavily .. 'optimized' .. to appease the bureaucrats that will check them for inconsistencies. I believe this to be the case everywhere and not just in my company. It appears that the business of 'securing-government-funding' results in an enormous destruction of wealth. Not out of malice but due to misaligned incentives. The company is mostly concerned about securing as much funding as possible, while getting away with the least amount of work possible. I've seen how more expensive & less suitable machines were chosen over more suitable ones, simply to meet some spending target to qualify for the fund. It also results in the creation of stuff that politicians think people want, instead of stuff that people actually want, as the company's focus is shifted from serving the customer to seducing bureaucrats.

Basically all cultures and societies along human history eventually figured out that gold was the best form of money available. And they did so without knowing from each other. The chance for humans not figuring out that #bitcoin is by far the best form of money we've seen so far seems so ridiculously low.

I hit the gym every 4 out of 5 days. About 1:45 h of 'heavy' weight training each time. Two 15 min bicycle rides plus cooking everyday and u basically got the time commitment of a part time job .. and I dislike it 50 % of the time .. but it's gotta be done.

When dumbbell bench pressing, lifting the weights into position ought NOT to be counted as a rep. It's the iron foreplay where u prove worthiness of the weight.

Sitting here studying a patent thinking about how to make sure my potential product doesn't violate it .. and I'm becoming increasingly convinced that a system which allows for claiming intellectual property of quite generic 'inventions' is a net negative. #orthotics #3dprinting

Soft shell cosmetic cover for a lower leg prosthesis. The cover is printed from TPU, which makes it flexible and durable.

When Weltuntergang? 🥺👉👈

Destroyed the glass print bed of the Ender 5 Plus .. PETG on glass held a little too well

There is so much stuff happening in #Bitcoin.. how can one listen to sth like the wbd podcast with Tony Giorgio and not be impressed by what's being developed around the world

Direct commodity investments (buying physical copper, lithium etc.) for the long term appears kinda stupid, right? I mean, you're basically betting against human ingenuity to produce more of them once their prices rise .. seems like an awful bet.

Everyday people going about their work is MUCH MORE the bedrock of the economy than price stability.

Learned a whole lot about #Bitcoin from the one and only @Mathias 🖖

My first time using a #bitcoin lightning ATM. Very noice project

#bitcoin meets Hansesail in Rostock at the beautiful baltic sea

My gosh humans do amazing stuff, if you just let them be.

Just sent 0.0044 #bitcoin (130$) to my Nigerian freelance designer's selfcustody wallet for a bunch of digital designs he uploaded to my shared OneDrive folder. I'll use them to create print on demand Etsy products that are mainly sold in the US .. electricity, the internet, bitcoin & now #nostr .. IT'S ALL SO FREAKIN GLORIOUS

I think the Overton window is shifted most by people that operate at its borders but within them.