fun fact: fungal decomposition (mostly woody plant matter) is one of the largest sources of carbon emissions, emitting ~85 gigatons of carbon to the atmosphere every year In 2018, the combustion of fossil fuels by humans emitted around 10 gigatons gm

There is a Chinese term that roughly means ‘revenge bedtime procrastination’: when people who don’t have much control over their daytime life refuse to sleep early in order to regain some sense of freedom during late night hours. —Lu-Hai Liang

based on my conversational experience, most people don't know how much carbon dioxide makes up earth's atmosphere. if pressed to guess they wildly overestimate the correct answer is 0.04%

2021 was fun. me: it's not transitory, it's only going to get worse "oh so you know more about this than professional economists??" me: what i'm saying is they're lying to you "sounds a little cOnSpIrAcY theory to me dude idk" me: ok

economics is the study of human choices under scarcity strategy is about making choices under uncertainty both are ultimately about choosing tradeoffs

banks aren't just sitting there with big vaults holding your money for you they write loans out of thin air and charge interest, many of which don't get paid back. they also take your money + printed money and buy government debt for even more interest trust at your own risk

in 2015 Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to double life imprisonment plus 40 years without the possibility of parole for running a website

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“Franklin D. Roosevelt - «We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.» He could have been talking about today, for today we have the same monopolies: speculation, reckless banking, and war profiteering. But today governments are a little less boisterous about their role as an appendage to organize money and mobs.” —Max Keiser, 2015

working hard and having a positive attitude is the new punk rock

just got a beef delivery from my local rancher and the delivery guy talked with me for like 30 minutes about bitcoin and philosophy and spirituality and war and work and values 🤝

there is a cohort of smart-sounding people out there who say that because chat-gpt is so good at coding now people shouldn't bother learning to code

SOUAGMI some of us are gonna make it

being underestimated is a strength, and a gift your opponents dismiss your chances and think themselves more deserving based on what they don't know or can't see. i have a thing for underdogs because rooting for them is also rooting against hubris

you, an intellectual: "I don't lift weights, that's for jocks. I just run and run and run because cardio and calories." me: i want to be strong enough to carry my wife and kids in an emergency

make peace with the fact that some of your current activities which are legal and sensible and prudent will eventually be outlawed by the government and you will be deemed a criminal what you do then will be part of what defines you as a person

pv fam 🤙🌅 happy bitcoin whitepaper day

vegetable oils and tv dinners grew popular in the 1950’s high fructose corn syrup first started shipping in the late 60’s canola oil was released in 1976 the bread-/starch-/carb-/rice-heavy USDA food pyramid debuted in 1992 "what's with all the obesity these days?? we may never know. it's a deep mystery that requires state of the art drugs that can be yours today for the low low price of—"

reading through history both ancient and modern, i'm struck not by how far we've come but how little we've changed

i love how there was just a quiet agreement at some point that okay fine yes we're all gonna go back to using plastic straws it was one of my favorites of the misguided corporate virtue signaling attempts in recent years. i'm glad it's behind us. for now

proof of cabin