with imminent domain pushing people out of their houses for data centers, awful stonks like spacex forced into people's 401ks, subscription cars and subscription everything else, cryptos/stablecoins centralizing fast, the US has become completely against private property. it's interesting how this didn't arrive in a socialist framing by the people, but a top down outright theft via the Epstein class, helped along by crooked politics/legal system/child abuse in exchange for NHI goodies (speculation). the only thing you can really own in the US is bitcoin but is that enough to build an entire life for you and your family?

5: NOBODY RETIRES IN AMERICA (alt title: SATA = SATAN?) #nodesy #vlog

amazing to me how unattractive nfts are to people, there is a huge collector's economy in the US, and they couldn't even take a sizable slice of that-- not only basement collections and art from established artists and even with disney/marvel licensed products on platforms like veve. people really hate crypto lol people would rather use ebay to buy a graded pokeman and wait on shipping

core cpi is 4%, if you add food and energy, you're looking at something like 8 or 9%, that's if you believe the government's numbers. so you get something like STRC or SATA to retire, collect 12%, you should actually only be living off the extra 3% in yield because the rest is eaten by inflation... this is a worse situation than the "5% drawdown" Dave Ramsey rule for retirement. you'd need 1.6M in STRC to generate a $50k retirement salary, which is not enough to live these days and only getting worse. so even using what the world considers an "insanely high return", "risky financial engineering", people don't have a truly viable tradfi option for keeping their wealth. when are people going to say fuck this and just start buying bitcoin?

Veve listings are pretty sparse, I imagine because everyone gave up on them, but an interesting thing happened. Since now it’s just the nft collector degens left, there are more listings in omi tokens instead of just “gems” which is veve’s version of usdc. As a collector, it’s just so much easier to think in terms of dollar gems, this idea of a payment token is so incredibly unattractive functionally, yet it underpins so many shitcoin L1s. Just let me pay in tether or bitcoin, gets way too annoying otherwise.

In hindsight comics on veve should’ve aimed for several hundred issuance total. It’s hard to keep the floor of any 10k collection buoyant, just imagine if the initial drops of 60k will ever feel scarce (marvel 1 commons are only $20 on secondary rn). At least they made the ultra and secret rare cover variants <1000 (generally), which is where I’m focusing on now.

Considering buying a camper living on the beach why not

It’s weird having been a kid raised on the comics, tv and movies of the 80s and 90s, the first time audiences were taught that authority figures can be crooked and law breaking vigilantes can be justified and yet the reality of how bad it actually is makes those stories appear severely understated

4. STEM CAREERS ARE JUST BUSY WORK #nodesy #vlog

3: MODERN SCIENCE SUCKS #nodesy #vlog

why is uploading video so hard what in the world

2: ANALOGIES ARE A SCAM #nodesy #vlog

1: SOMEHOW IT ALL WORKS OUT #nodesy #vlog

alright we're going to do this the old fashioned way

finding it hard to make the vlog jump to rumble or something that requires an email... man.

nostr build upload failing on my 8 min vlog... man

Unknown artist #graffiti #art

We really are living the sci-fi trope of surveilled, sedated citizens in the techno cities and the free people living wild in the outskirts, normies & nostriches

my digital art/collectible focus is on items with the highest degree of decentralization and permanence (counterparty/ordinals) and the polar opposite (veve) lmao