Newest crazy-as-shit idea... (sort of previewed this earlier, but I like it more and more all the time) Matter is information encoded to persist in an energy field. And yes, every noun and adjective in that sentence probably need to be (re)defined, because of how incomplete our current understanding is.

The more I listen to Terrence Howard, the more I want to agree with him, based on all I have come to understand about the nature of "reality" and the most ancient cosmology I could find (Vedic). It is interesting (in his conversation with Eric Weinstein) that some things Terrence is saying have only recently been accepted by "science", and while many other things Terrence claims may yet become accepted, but are considered patently false today. I've become pretty convinced that we have currently got it all wrong. Space, matter, energy, forces, dimensions, really all of it. I'm not claiming to have all the answers, but I will likely spend the rest of my life searching for them. I'm not saying Terrence is right or wrong, but he's probably further down the path to understanding than I am.

A little scary, but trying to move back to being paid in bitcoin. It's going to take a little work, but I have the budget flexibility to do it right now, and I don't want to miss out on the volatility over the next couple years. This could also be the only way I get to my next stacking goal anytime soon. #BitcoinStandard

I would assume @River has to play by the same rules. @jack mallers #asknostr View quoted note →

What is Strike currently required to report on to the gov cabal? Obviously, they report all buy/sell transactions of Bitcoin. What I am interested in are reports of transfers (on-chain, lightning, and $USD), and the current thresholds for reporting a transaction of each. There's been plenty of legislation mentioned over the past several years, and I want to know the current rules of the game.

So I have this helium miner (basically a RockPi with a LoRa antenna, I think) and even when I bought it, I figured I would eventually repurpose it into a Bitcoin node or something. Anyone have any creative ideas for repurposing it? I don't even know what to do with a LoRa antenna. I can get more details on exactly what antennas are connected, I think one is WiFi, one in LoRa.

When I bought 25 lbs of roasts, I had no intention of keeping it as roasts. Instead, sharpened up my butcher knife, and sectioned and butterflied them into steak-sized portions. Then repackaged, and into the freezer, keeping a few lbs out for the next few days. Inevitably, there are some scraps left over. And I don't trim additional fat, so the scraps are mostly muscle. The first round of scraps went to my dog. The second round? Just became a treat for me. Nothing wrong with a little fresh raw beef occasionally. I don't regularly eat raw, but no issues if it is fresh and a relatively small amount. Our portions were between 1-2 oz each. I actually really enjoy the fact that most anything I eat, I can share with my dog. I haven't gotten him off the kibble yet, but I plan on it. Just need a big grinder to process the chicken. #carnivore #raw #pets

Went to the store for my weekly shopping early because it's hot out. They had London broil value packs for $3.99/lb (limit 4 packs), and chuck roast $5.39/lb. Ground beef also on sale $3.99/lb. Ended up buying 29.5 lbs of beef, total cost $133.50, average price per lb is $4.49. Even if I eat 2 lbs/day, which is a little more than average, I'm eating for $9/day. That is at least 2 weeks worth of meat, probably closer to 3 weeks, because I probably average closer to 1.5 lbs per day. How many Americans eat for less than $10/day? $15? #carnivore is not expensive, quite the opposite.

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Today my company decided to lay off 14% of its global workforce. The cuts went from VP level all the way down to the workers. I think the math works out to about 2200 families lost their primary income today. I was among the 86% that still have a job to go to. I expected this, and was prepared either way - but I have also been making moves over the past 2-3 years that would increase my chances of being chosen to stay. I expect there will be a lot of opportunities that arise over the next few months of reorganization. I'm also ready to take advantage of those. Don't be complacent. Fiat mining doesn't reward complacency. (In good news, my old nemesis, the boss of my former boss, got the axe. So did her boss. No fucks given here)

Today my 17yo stepson was put on Ozempic and metformin. This is after he failed to lose weight (I think he's roughly 300lbs, about 5'9', has been obese his whole life). His A1C was 5.8, so not horrible, but on the cutoff for T2D. He spent much of the last few months eating rice and chicken breasts, but also plenty of McDonalds. His mom (my wife) is trusting the dr's diet advice (lots of vegetables, limit red meat in favor of lean meats, low fat and fake sugar options), basically LFHC. There's glimmers of hope, they did cut back a little on UHP foods, but there's still a ton of crap (I won't call it food) in the house, and my wife won't give up pasta. He's in for a tough road. None of what they are trying will fix him, and they won't listen to me (basic response is, well, he's not you). They still trust the dr and the drugs will get them somewhere. I've told him (out of earshot of my wife) that when everyrhin you are trying fails, there is still hope, and I will be there to talk him through anything he wants to do about his diet. I've also asked him to at least watch some youtube on carnivore and keto, just to start his own research. He ends up using doordash at least several days of the week, because my wife, although a decent cook, is only up to cooking a dinner a few nights a week. Nobody wants my steaks, so my services are not requested. Apparently chewing meat hurts his teeth (which are in pretty poor shape, granted). All this is hard to watch, probably my deepest struggle with respect to diet. They may eventually come around to proper diet, but I'm thinking that may be years of struggle in the future, if ever. I'm working a lot more directly with my biological son, but can only do so much as I share custody with my ex. The best I can do is the best I can do to be an example. Results over time won't lie. In other news, getting close to being able to schedule my CAC score CT. I want to do that test at least three times, with at least a year between each test. I'm prepared for a bad first result, because that will be my starting point. As long as I stay the same or improve on future tests, I'll be validated. 60 more pounds to go (before I retest my lipid particle count and phenotype). Excited to start putting some muscle back on, though. I've resisted so far, as I want my focus elsewhere first. The cholesterol pattern B issue is more important than strong looking legs. GN. #carnivore #diet PS - started my bupropion protocol today to get back off the ciggies.

Is there a "home mining" solution that could be powered by a 30W solar panel? Obviously I don't expect it to hash much, bust just curious. I happen to have a 30W panel that I don't plan on using often.

If you want to dig deep into statins, cholesterol, heart disease, and related topics, this has been a very comprehensive article. This SubStack writer is worth checking out as well, overall.

The Great Cholesterol Scam and The Dangers of Statins

Exploring the Actual Causes and Treatments of Heart Disease

#health #carnivore #seedoil #statin #cholesterol

To continue a little further down the path of history of religions, the important question to ask is why? Religions are sustained (if not created) for a desired effect on a population. We can call this social engineering. They may be instituted to bring people together for economic reasons, for instance to serve a populace in agriculture or development/building projects. They may be adopted to generate wealth for the powerful. They may be used to incite people to violence on behalf of the state, or to divide people so as to distract them from the actions of the state. Religions are statist, make no mistake. This is not the same as saying beliefs are statist, but when those beliefs are manipulated by the state, for the benefit of the state, then we are once again dealing with statism. This is why I find it contradictory and hilarious that religions such as Christianity and Islam have such a strong following among bitcoin "sovereigns". The very nature and intent of those religions is statist. Whatever happened to don't trust, verify? Good luck out there, but all I see is a divergence that cannot be resolved without abandoning either bitcoin or religion.

I don't think I've found my people yet. I post random shit on here that's going through my skullbucket, all of which I'm more than happy to discuss, pull apart, reimagine, grind on for a bit, whatever. And this echo chamber is just crickets. If I say bitcoin or something, maybe I get a like or two. Maybe I'm not good at engaging discussion. Maybe I'm too cerebral, or posit my ideas too forcefully or something. I'm fine with it being me, but I'd want to work on that and be more conversational. Maybe it's because I'm not a dev, and couldn't care less about zaps. Or maybe I just haven't found my people. No worries, I'll keep following those who post content I find interesting, liking posts, and writing down my mental blather. At least this is a good place to diary thoughts, even if I am just leaving notes for myself. GN. Tick tock next note.

Watching Ben Wehrman pod with Dr. Morales (thank you both by the way), and the Dr just put something together that I hadn't considered before. I'd heard about statins and dementia, but he mentioned a "transitory" dementia. Before I sought professional help for some mental health issues I may or may not have been facing, I went through a pretty dark time - this was fall, like October/November a few years ago. I got caught up in thinking that brain chemicals (including those affected by what we ingest) were having so much of an effect on my mind that I was having trouble trusting in my own decisions. This is something of an existential crisis, but really concerning for myself, as I value myself as a problem solver and decision maker. Calling that ability into question really threw me for a loop. I was also questioning whether or not I might be somewhat sociopathic, or at least have some kind of disaffective disorder, as I was experiencing what I believed was a lack of emotion and feeling. That was one factor in reaching out to a mental health professional to discuss my overall mental health. It was far from the only factor, but it was one place we started digging at. By the time I actually was able to start meeting with the counselor, most of that mental mistrust had cleared, though. I have since changed my perspective a lot on all of this, but even 6 months later, before really starting the process of evaluating my mental health, a lot of that had eased up. What had changed? I think that was around the time I quit taking my statin medication that I had been on for several years. I'd have to go back and check the dates on this to see if it really lines up as tightly as I am remembering, but I had never put the two occurrences together. I may have inadvertently healed myself! The miracle of the human body and mind, finding the offending toxin (statin) and eliminating it (by engendering a mistrust in any ingested chemicals) without even telling me that's what it did. I did have a great experience with counseling though; read a lot of books on various psychology subjects, found the importance of self-esteem (I had always assumed I had low self-esteem), and really discovered the importance of tuning into emotion, because of how much influence emotion has in every decision, and action we take, or even any memory we have. Contrary to a lack of emotion, I found I was just suppressing emotion behind a facade of logic and cognition. The emotion was definitely there, and putting it in a leading role in my life has given me incredible levels of peace and contentment. Did the statin cause my existential crisis, in some kind of dementia fog? Fuck if I know, but I wouldn't be surprised. I wasn't wrong about the brain chemicals, just had to learn the right way to control them - through diet and not poisoning myself.

Had some thoughts about the history of religions last night. Strap in, I guess - but I'll try not to make this long. What I was observing was that the values of religions that have lasted over long periods of time seem to have a lot to do with the socio-political climate in which they were initially instituted. Consider China. Dynastic rule for long periods of time. Not a huge amount of conquest or invasion. Typically a very collectivist population. What religions thrived there? Ones that helped further pacify the people, emphasis on group meditation and little or no materialism. Not much emphasis on the greatness or goodness or paternality of a god, don't really view the higher power as a savior. Then look at the Mediterranean region. Lots of wars, conquests, plenty of imperialism and conquests. Jewish tribes were beaten up by just about everyone that stopped by. Jewish religion reflects this by emphasizing a paternal god who will fight for them. Materialism is celebrated, as long as it is done for the temple. Victim mentality is literally bred in as original sin. I think Judaism is something of an offshoot of earlier Indus Valley religions (shares common roots with modern Hinduism) but was greatly changed and adapted to suit the cycle of conquering/conquered that defined the Jews. During one of the relatively stable periods, the semi-nomadic Essenes find a leader who takes on the existing corruption of the Jewish temple state, and this leader becomes the symbol of a new religion - which appeals to Romans for many reasons, and soon becomes institutionalized as Christianity. Christianity is more geared to making individualists (as opposed to collectivists) more servile, while through its message of spreading the "good news" also supports conquest and war. The people already believe they are flawed, which makes them easy to enslave, if they are not already slaves. Any materialism is still only focused on the Church, which becomes the State. As Rome itself falls, the Church carries on throughout Europe and central Asia, splitting off and adapting where needed. Then you have the Islamic story, which diverges early, in a war-torn and hotly contested area of the globe that had seen both wealth and poverty. It takes on similar characteristics to Christianity, but replaces a lot of the servile victim mentality with anger and aggression. War begets war, after all. In both Islam and Christianity there is a lot of focus on afterlife, salvation, a god that will kick ass and take names if it suits him - and it is definitely a him, for these cultures. Christianity gets a major change with Martin Luther, as it splits into Protestantism and Catholicism. Again, someone fed up with corruption takes on the institution and makes a big change. The new Protestantism is even more individualist, has a renewed interest in conquest, and mates up nicely with the age of exploration and empiricism that is underway. Luther doesn't become a mythical figure like Christ, although operationally was likely very similar. Then there is Hinduism - which also arose the Indus valley, but the leaders (Brahmas) soon took whatever ancient wisdom they had and made themselves untouchable by implementing castes and shrouding everything in superstition. Translations, retranslations, published notes, poems, and everything else done to the original Vedic lore created a solid mess, where almost anything could be justified by the religious leaders. However, once entrenched, they have been very good at staying in control, and Hindu values support that well. Once you release yourself from belief in dogma (any dogma), it becomes much easier to see the paths through history that various belief systems have taken, and why they might have been instituted as they were. Believe whatever gets you to sleep at night, but the human story is much longer than most religions can account for, punctuated by cycles of violence, conquest, peace, building, high society, etc., and I believe these cycles have a lot to do with the beliefs borne out of them. (above is extremely generalized, presented without appropriate nuance, and may be offensive to some. I could research and write chapters if not books on each region or belief system, and you probably wouldn't be any less offended.)

Gn nostr. But really, I'm having a though that I really want to note down. Important enough I'm ignoring my directive to not use my phone while in bed. I'm really hung up on this trinary math/computing thing. Been on that for a few nights, finally noted it here this morning I think. The general idea is that nature/reality isn't binary. More often, it is trinary instead. Energy moves in waves, not in ons and offs. A wave has a top and a bottom, but it also has the curvature between top and bottom. Even direct current electricity has an intermediate state between on and off; I think I learned that 25 years ago when looking at how computer memory is stored. So how hard would it be to build a computer running natively on trinary code? That was where tonight started. Then I moved on - why can't we build computers that are powered natively on AC instead of DC electricity? It seems we waste a lot of energy converting AC to DC in desktops and servers. It seems to me that binary computing is well suited to DC, as DC exists as on/off states. Trinary computing might be better suited to AC, which alternates (that's the A) which implies some kind of alternating wave form. Then this really started to spiral - if we are building to trinary, based on electricity wave forms, why limit this to electricity? Why not be able to "power" a computer with any energy wave form, like light, radiant energy, etc. This completely removes the need for AC power, or DC battery cells, I think. So, how to encode data in a waveform? We have to be able to manipulate the waveform. That is how radio is encoded, either through frequency modulation or amplitude modulation. Next, how to store waveform data? Now I'm getting almost ancient aliens on this, thinking that is what crystal skulls are supposed to be. Sheesh. I think it is all possible, and way more efficient. Like orders of magnitude more efficient. Matter is stabilized waveform energy, so matter itself could be a likely store of waveform encoded data. Some matter is probably better for this than other matter, maybe that is why the skulls are crystal. Does field energy work as well? Especially if the field undulates predictably? Could magnetic field (for example) be used to store data and/or power a computer build to natively use waveform energy? Ok, those are most of tonight's thoughts. One important last one... Why hasn't this been done already? I can't be the first one to think of these things, and likely someone more knowledgeable about electricity, waves, math, radiant energy, etc has to have tried this already. Yet here we are with DC powered, binary computing. Not sure what I'm missing.

Becoming more and more convinced that our digital tech could be much improved by moving from binary to trinary systems, accounting for on, off, and the state in between those poles in energy waveforms. Many if not most examples from nature support 3 states, not two. This could be a huge leap forward in tech, and science in general, while bringing ourselves closer to nature instead of furthering the current divergence from nature.

People are talking about politicians and bitcoins and blowjobs and things. Meanwhile I'm contemplating the shape and composition of space while synthesizing Vedic cosmology with more recent Vedantic wisdom and having an inner debate on the validity of the big bang theory. While stacking and eating steaks. We might not be the same. But dammit we're all on this ride together.