FiddleHodlHomestead

Hi Nostr friends! I haven't been on for a while but it's nice to be back. My husband and I just planted two dozen chestnut trees to build our silvopasture (pasture with trees). They will eventually provide shade for grazing animals, help stabilize our steep hills, provide fodder for people and pigs (and probably squirrels and bears!). Also chestnut trees are gorgeous 🤩

This morning's sunrise. Sometimes I think that the most important thing I can do is expand my capacity to appreciate beauty

GM, Nostr!

#asknostr Most of us have seen the video of the Biden's chair of economic advisors stumbling painfully over the question of why we need to borrow money if we can print money. If you haven't seen it, it's worth a look - absolutely hilarious. (Link below but I don't know how to clean it of trackers.) I think the answer is that the Treasury that needs to write the checks, and it's the Fed Reserve (and banks) - not branches of the federal govt - that actually print the money. Right? So there's this ridiculous dance of the Treasury trying to sell bonds, and if not enough people/country/funds are interested, the Fed prints money to buy them. Is that about right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fj0zRmEWYc

My husband and I watched Fargo a while ago. The last season was fun, but the programming was quite something: the bad guy - violent, corrupt, power-hungry, domestic abuser - was also: libertarian, rancher, sheriff, 2A advocate, prepper, Christian, anti-institutional. He believed in local over federal authority, freedom, the Constitution, self sovereignty and he railed against the tyranny of the state. This is probably more powerful as an indoctrination tool than a thousand stupid news articles. There's good substack about this from Gato Malo today. That cancelled show looks like a doozy. https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/cat-corner-morality-playlists

🤯 I just listened to most of the White House press conference on autism and was happily surprised. Trump rambled and said a bunch of nonsense (along with some good things) but from the others there were a few gems, including encouraging parents to allow a fever rather than "treating" it. Also from Bhattacharya a calm statement about the complexity of autism and how it's unlikely that there's one singular cause, that it's multi-factorial. Bhattacharya, RFK, and Makary were all on the wrong side of the covid regime. I wonder if there's any camaraderie from those years.