Diesel prices were $3.099/gal and gas was $2.259/gal in Ohio today. Lowest prices I've seen since the 'demic ended. And this is winter, end of holidays, when energy demands are up! Lower fuel prices means profits for a struggling trucking industry. Could not have come at a better time. View quoted note →

Why is Terence not on NOSTR? Or is he? I just saw this on X and looked for him here and saw only one person had posted it. Seriously, practically sums up the key developments covered in the 500 page Genesis Book in 11 mins. View quoted note →

Jeff's gone guru and has left the cave entirely. Love how he immediately flipped the first question as an interview into a conversation. It was a trip and treat to listen to the whole thing but now I'm left wanting a Booth v Saylor discussion knowing such discourse would never be made public. https://fountain.fm/episode/dJ7ZquoosBLcmhamuBAv View quoted note →

People wondering "geez how are the markets gonna react to the Venezuela situation when they open Monday?" I just reply "Bitcoin is up... So pretty good, I'd say"

On this, the 17th birthday, one has to wonder just how much we all got played by Blackrock and the selected powers that be. We're only in the second inning of THEIR game. Yeah, yeah, btc is for enemies, too. But we better up our teachings of pre-coiner/no-coiners for self custody. Just need another first world nation (the ones that have enough disposable income individuals) to get scared enough to open their minds. You better believe that the "institutions" have arrived to front run that and capture their disposable income ahead of time.

So we watched that silly stupid distraction gameshow on a Netflix "What's in the Box". Why am I telling you this? Because the Grand prize turned out to be $300k of Bitcoin. Really. And the response was almost too funny. Still, it's a signpost to see it more mainstream.

My teenage son has managed to save 1M sats. He said to me that he doesn't think that's enough. I told him he's right. But it's a good start for a kid who doesn't have his drivers license. I didn't say that part to him, though. Kids are given everything. Chairs? The chair he sits on is mine. I'd sell it if he wasn't sitting on it. Food? Mine. Bed? Mine. Grades? Nah homie... We pay for extra tutoring. So when he works (which he does) he better be saving that money in the hardest asset because everything else he's bloody given.

Why did I just see a video of Millenials "not being able to party like they used to?" Oh, shit, they're between 30-45 years old now! Damn they old. Oh, wait... What's that make me? Oh, yeah... Kids grown and no longer giving a fuck. *Cracks another beer*

Just spent a New Years Day party with other GenXers in Canada... And realized I am most certainly not "a part of their culture". My job is international. It has been for nearly 25 years. I've lived on two continents, in four cities, and away from ma8n stream culture being that my job takes me between two countries all week every week. My culture is global. My culture is outside the fishbowl. It was such witnessing 9/11 from the other side of the world. It is again not getting a "Canadian" tax payer funded media endlessly feeding me "elbows up" media nor Fox News Trump fanboyism. My culture is global. My culture is classical. It bases itself in philosophy and multiple interpretations. And here, on Nostr, it trusts very little. But, man, to be thrown into a cauldron of fish stuck in a fishbowl... My tongue is sore from all the biting.

I'm bullish on more tourists becoming self custodial Maniacs and ditching the system as a whole. May Blackrock please end the year with less corn than they had (a stretch, I know). View quoted note →

My 2026 resolution is to truly embody DILLIGAF. To so completely commit to the opt out. To generate income from direct, out of system, payment... "They" would call it fraud but I would call it freedom, is my aim. And since I have roots that run deep dicking off to some jungle, or beach, or ignorance ain't gonna be the reality. It's gonna have to be silent, stealthy, civil disobedience with a smile. Happy New Year, Y'all!

I've been exploring all the various grifting grants the Canadian Federal govt offers... I don't know why I haven't done this before. I mean, "War Dogs" (based on a true story) teaches a whole lot.

Has Pierre Poilievre been listening to @NICO⚡️? Takes the first question and flips it to "we should be asking 'what is government?'"... Man, did Canada shit the bed not having this guy in as PM.

"Dip" can have multiple meanings. I like dips. I like them a lot. I'm all in favour of it dipping so low that the paper fucks fuck right off. Because I'll be getting moar. Not all of us heeded the lessons available and, yes, we do get it at the price (time/energy/efforts) we deserve.

So much success relies on stars aligning, or what many call "timing". The pioneers had the right ideas but we're missing key components or had key components deprecated with no alternatives. Sega had Internet game subscriptions in 1994 before any other system... And I wonder how many of us knew that.

Tom

Massive two-year project recovers 144 previously undumped Sega Genesis game ROMs from the mid-1990s — lost Garfield and Flintstones games among the notable finds

Sega Channel games were among the first digitally distributed titles in the US.

We've come a long way in a short time. Anytime you don't believe that just go into an old building and marvel how we didn't electrocute ourselves.