testing a mention thing @vinney...axkl

breakfast of champions. at 1pm

Diet has always been an individualist/collectivist battlefront in the context of the "modern" State. This is why big opposing dietary strategies TEND to correspond to political ideology.

If I'm going to pay a retarded $400 extra fee to register my electric vehicle, I'm at least complaining about it over email to state reps: Rhode Island takes no less than three bites at me for choosing electricity over gasoline. On my electric bill, roughly 10% of what I pay - the gross earnings tax, the RES and REG charges, energy efficiency, LIHEAP, the transition charge - exists only because the state legislated itself into the rate structure (somewhere in the ballpark of $30-50/month, so: $360-$600/year). Then my income, sales, and property taxes already fund roads through the general fund, on top of the gas tax that's supposedly dedicated to them - road funding has been cross-subsidized from general revenue for over a decade. Then the state adds a $200/year EV registration fee to recoup the gas tax I'm not paying, which is a fee that runs ~33% higher than what the average gas car contributes in fuel tax, layered on top of a registration fee I was already paying. Even conservatively, between the EV registration fee and the state-imposed surcharges on the electricity I use to charge, I'm paying north of $300/year. More than double what the average gas car contributes in fuel tax Where it gets really mind-bending: the same state offers DRIVE EV rebates and has codified EV adoption targets under the Act on Climate. So the state is charging me to offset the behavior they're also paying me to adopt - on each end of the energy-transport stack - while collecting from me through at least four separate channels for a road system that, if it were honestly priced, could be funded by tolls (if the goal is truly "pay by actual use", of which I'm very much in support!)

spot the Eric Weinstien! View quoted note →

lol. 6 moths so far View quoted note →

I have an #askNostr for #bookstr recommendations. bit of a preamble necessary because the recommedee is idiosyncratic. I was talking to a bitcoin-naive friend about the high-quality handmade goods and healthy food in the circular economy and bitcoiners' commitment to craftsmanship and low-time-preference products. I pointed to my @Leathermint belt and @SoapMiner 's results on my skin. i mentioned @Great Ghee , the (non-nostr) guys i get my beef and chicken from, and @Oshi (推し) and @Bitcoin Beans . She's an apparel designer and a horticulturalist/farmer with an academic background in philosophy and her whole business (and life) stance is about slow, deliberate quality. when she heard there's a population of people who value something so highly that they are unwilling to trade it **except** for truly quality goods and healthy foods, the whole thing snapped into place for her. her request to me, and the thing i'm asking you to help with: she asked me to give her a stack of books on this topic, and i know she'll read them. i don't want to give her the standard "how bitcoin works" or economics books. i'm trying to find books or writing that will appeal to her directly and hit on the point that a lowering of time preference and deflationary money in the bitcoin economy naturally incentivizes skilled craftspeople, artists and farmers and discerning consumers. i'm starting with

Brandon Quittem

Bitcoin is The Mycelium of Money - Brandon Quittem

Foreward This is the entire bitcoin+fungi series combined into a single article. I have more unpublished material, should I turn this into a book? ...

because it's perfectly in her biology/philosophy wheelhouse. so, nostr and #bookstr , what books or articles would you recommend to her? best case scenario: we orange pill her and the circular economy adds another extremely talented artisan.