1 WEEK UNTIL THE CAPS LOCK WILL RISE AGAIN @ODELL

Wildcard play: Social security is going to get bailed into treasuries

Looking for the Nostr opinion on this: Assumption: Public transport is not profitable, it’s a service paid for by our tax dollars. We collect fare money by the users of the service so they pay a higher portion of the costs as they use it. Given we all pay the bill in some way whether we use it or not, we all have a vested interest in the service. The more people that use it, the trains, buses etc required, more routes to cover and more time slots. The net effect of increased public transport usage is less cars on the road, less wear on infrastructure etc less cost to the tax payers on net. Public transport produces a net saving for the tax payers greater than the cost of providing it. Given this, reducing the cost of fares to 0 benefits everyone. Why not go a step further and PAY people to take public transport. Give them their carrot, $1 a fare. My vested interest in this is I HAVE to drive my car full of tools around between jobs. So if you don’t HAVE to transport anything but yourself, maybe stay off the road and get in a bus lol.

Went offline for a week in this tiny home, skinny dipping in the billabong and catching up on books 🤙

I’m looking at commodity price charts (mostly construction materials) and they’ve stayed flat or gone down minimally over the last few months of volatility. Does the real economy just not give a fuck about tariffs? Is all the noise just finance people adjusting their PE ratios and selling off stocks? Is it too soon to see the flow-on effects? Howard Lutnick said the “easiest way to find a fraudster is to stop payments and listen”. Is this actually just Wall Street?

Might as well just buy whatever @MartyBent talks about at this point. GameStop to be the next Bitcoin Treasury company, LFG.

The US Government will buy MSTR outright to fill it’s 1million BTC quota.

I 100% think the Tesla “terrorism” is an insurance job being orchestrated by Tesla / Elon. Utilising the bad press environment to get old stock off the books.

A repeating theme in history is those that don’t adopt new technologies for moral or protectionist reasons, lose to those that do.

Solar power is just nuclear power with less steps involved

Speculation: Strike will be bought by Strategy to launch Strategy’s Bitcoin banking services direct to pre-existing customers.

It’s never wrong to be kind.

How does Nostr feel about mortgage sizes relative to income? Gotta live somewhere

https://fountain.fm/episode/cjQCPtRpPsl4FX6r8ATe One thing that stood out to me in this episode was (paraphrasing) “there’s only room for a few people to be highly successful in one field, but plenty of room for people to claim affinity to that field on social media”. It’s easier to simply associate yourself with something cool or indicative of success than it is to actually be good at something and let your work talk for itself. In recent months I’ve reduced my posting of rollerblading content down to almost 0 and I’ve focused on my actual job, fixing dental equipment. In this time I’ve been promoted, abused by customers over the phone for problems with their equipment then thanked profusely for fixing it, made more money and worked harder than I’ve ever worked before. In my field of work, there is no social media hype to be seen. The moment you post something bragging of your successes, you will be cut down by a customer with another broken piece of equipment. The success you have to show over those who can’t hang in the industry, is by staying in business. Those who can’t cut it, go under. Your only signal of success is a website to your business that has never been taken down, and a slogan that says “over 15 years in business”. The sales reps of dental equipment change brands every few years as they burn all their contacts, and the great service engineers have resumes with 20+ years with one company and a phone that rings all day. As I approach 12 years with company I work for, with a phone that rings all day, I’m hoping that on I’m way to being considered a great service engineer. Rollerblading is shifting back to being the social hobby it began as, and out of being a second job. Focus, focus. #grind #work

Understood the technical side of bitcoin in 2013, didn’t buy any for another 7 years. /shrug

Running Umbrel. #umbrel #selfhosted #privacy.