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Ben Justman🍷
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Owner/Winemaker at Peony Lane Wine Low Sulfite wine from the highest elevation vineyards in 🇺🇸 Governor's Cup Award Winner 2022, 2023, 2024 Host of @SoakQuest - Make Bitcoin Fun Again
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BenJustman 4 months ago
I'm starting to think this whole immigration thing might be my fault. image
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BenJustman 4 months ago
I used to advertise that my wine was naturally fermented. I've stopped. I had never added yeast, but I learned that most "natural fermentations" aren't what they claim to be, including mine. Yeast lives on everything. It's everywhere. So if you want a true natural fermentation, you'd have to work with fruit grown on your own land in a space where no fermentation has ever happened before. I thought that as long as I didn't add yeast, it was a natural fermentation. Turns out the yeast my dad pitched once, back in 2007, is probably still the dominant strain. I haven't tested it, but that was enough for me to stop calling my wines "natural." Natural fermentation doesn't make wine healthier, but yeast drives flavor. The fewer outside inputs you have, the more the wine speaks for its place. Many wineries add a heavy dose of sulfur at harvest to kill off natural yeast so they can start clean with a commercial strain. They want total control. I don't do that. My grapes come in, start fermenting with whatever yeast lives in the vineyard, and finish with whatever's taken up residence here over time. It's wine minutia. In the end, only two things matter: Does it taste good? How do you feel the next day? I think you'll like the taste of my wine and by skipping the massive sulfur dose, you're one step closer to feeling great tomorrow.
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BenJustman 4 months ago
My earliest memory of a world event is 9/11. The 2008 financial crisis hit my freshman year of high school, and the U.S. has been at war for most of my life. When you're born on a sinking ship, extremes start to make sense. In my early twenties, I voted for the "Democratic Socialists." They got me. I grew up watching the Bush and Cheney years, so Republicans weren't an option. The other side kept promising free stuff to us young people who felt like we did everything right and were still screwed. We were raised to believe success came from good grades and pleasing authority. We learned how to win inside a hierarchy, so when the system started collapsing, our instinct was to keep playing by its rules. At first I thought Bitcoin was radical. Now I realize it's the only sensible middle path. Knowing this makes it frustrating to watch everyone fight over left and right while the real solution already exists. I'm holed up in a small farming town that grows its own food. The world feels far away here. I fixed the money for myself, but there's no satiating the beast. These politics will come for everyone eventually. What is there to do, but get more people on Bitcoin?
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BenJustman 4 months ago
Just one more leverage flush I swear bro This one is gonna do it bro image
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BenJustman 4 months ago
If you don't feel the need to adjust your default zap size then the value of Bitcoin hasnt changed.
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BenJustman 4 months ago
Chill guys, this is actually an extremely bullish dump image
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BenJustman 4 months ago
Everything you hate about Capitalism isn't capitalism and everything you love about Socialism is impossible. image