Listening to this story from Darryl Cooper was both eye-opening and an entertaining story. It made me realize that government and corporations importing cheap labor to undercut the existing population has been happening in the United States since at least the 1920s. It’s not new. https://fountain.fm/episode/TMCKynqA08xa5TIbtBBv

Spending a lot of time working on my house lately and not as much time on social media. Finished my front walkway with brick. Working on my mini front porch and finished raking the limestone screenings for my back patio. Also got a new fridge today! Infinite projects.

I’m starting to see a ramp-up of integration of sketchy crypto services and financial instruments that used to be pretty isolated to the crypto-space, get integrated into the mainstream financial sector. For example, E*Trade is advertising crypto on their homepage, and Zac Prince and Pompliano are back from their BlockFi disaster with a similar offering via GalaxyOne. Still sketchy, but somehow they’re backed by FDIC now. 8% yield on stablecoins never has and never could go wrong, right? (Micro)Strategy is no exception. Having been around town a for a little bit now and seeing the cycles of grift and corruption, I have started to theorize about what’s happening and what’s to come. Obviously, there’s grift brewing - Trump and his cronies are leaning into the scams and grift in the crypto-space, so I expect that to proliferate while he’s in office. But I have a working theory that this integration of sketchy crypto into traditional, FDIC-backed finance is a purposeful, planned demolition of parts of legacy finance before the Hegelian “solution” sweeps as CBDCs. People like Epstein manipulated markets just like this and profited on the swings.

I remember hearing Ray Dalio talking about how he’s shifting investments toward China and people including myself didn’t really understand it. But the more I see and learn about China, the more it seems actually alright and pretty cool. The government, just like the one we have in the US, is a different story, but the people and things they do seem pretty cool.

Finally finished my first deodorant stick from @AU9913 (Ink Blot Farms) and it lasted me at least 8 months! Did the job, good ingredients, and accepted bitcoin. If you get back into making it, I have some feedback id be happy to share. The sticker and logo are awesome. Going to try out some deodorant from @SoapMiner now. So far, so good!

I remember Anthony Pompliano doing something that made me trust him less, but I can’t remember what exactly it was. Was it the usual shitcoinery? Or did he lie or mislead about something? If anyone knows or remembers, please remind me.

Seeking peace instead of riches was such a nice mindset shift for me. I like surrounding myself with people who are of the same mindset.

Been really busy livin life lately. Ups and downs but grateful for all of it. Also restocked on a lot of soap from @SoapMiner haha 🤙

When you’re in a hurry, take the long way.

It’s a good time to send a fat zap to anyone affected by the COLDCARD hack.

Been diving into @Jack Spirko ‘s podcast lately and found high signal. Enjoying this episode a lot and I’m only 36 minutes in. https://fountain.fm/episode/BrfzUi6T5CKqhSelTUgV

Just had a thought: political parties are competing to have as many people as possible to associate with them. They will say anything and everything, lie and deceive, in order to get as many people to say “they represent me”. The trick is most obvious to the demographics that the State cares least about.

Watching Akira was pivotal for me because it showed me that when a society becomes overly advanced and top heavy, it begins to yearn for its own demise. This realization has helped me understand a lot of the destructive forces we see around us today.

Coinkite Mythos moment? Could’ve been much worse. We’ll be alright.

Finished my 36 hour fast just after the peak of the full moon this morning. Can’t say I know everything about fasting during a full moon, but I’ve heard it’s good for multiple reasons and it was a great fast.

New term I made up: scrolliosis You get it when you scroll on your phone too long and get sucked in and end up with bad posture.