Dang.

Doesn't it seems like there was a specific time, after which Trump was insanely pro Israel? And before that, no so much? Or am I not remembering correctly?

In my imagination, some spooks sat Trump down, and showed him all the dirt they have on him. And after that, he was all theirs.

Here's my 2 sats - Alzheimers (the most common of the dementias) is actually a relatively new disease. It was named after Alois Alzheimer, who described the first case he found.

And when was that first case? In 1906! In other words, a NEW DISEASE.

Based on a lot of what I've read, it's a result of increasing consumption of sugar. Nowadays, they're starting to call it Diabetes, type 3.

Take a look at my recent post: Alzheimers is a NEW disease - here's how to avoid it

Avoid sugar like the plague. With that, you'll probably avoid Alzheimers as well.

I might have to try that, not putting the foil on until a little later. It would add another step to my currently very streamlined process, but having a little crust makes it a fancier.

My understanding of euthanasia is that it's someone ELSE deciding if you should live or die.

I don't have a problem with "self-deliverance".

There's also books out there.

Is it perhaps the case that in the US, we have (still, a bit more than other places) more freedom of speech? Substack, etc?

Interest and adoption definitely seems higher here.

I was at an event last week and talked to lots of people. There definitely a lot of younger people that feel very pessimistic about ever owning a home, and many also don't want to have kids without a home.

Speaking of the race to the bottom - now on some airlines, you pay extra not just for checked luggage, but even for carry-on. (Spirit airlines).

I'm taking a flight soon, and to get the cheapest fare, I'll need to stick to whatever can fit under the seat in front of me.

Actually I'm kind of relishing the challenge. I'm a minimalist at heart, and like the challenge of ultra-light travel.

Yes! This pisses me off to no end. They keep you congregated in the shopping areas, instead of telling you where the gate is, so you could go relax and get some work or reading done.

This reminds me of a conversation I had a long time ago with a Ugandan friend. She said that all of the HIV charities that she knew about in Uganda were designed more to solicit funds from overseas, than to help HIV victims.

Seems like some of bitcoin education efforts are similar.

Did you try ppq.ai? It's also pay with lighting, per query.

So do you mean all collectibles are doomed to become valueless?

Or do you meant that people should just figure out which collectibles are a matter of taste?

I love the makerspace idea. But in my area, there's a publicly funded makerspace (it's part of a university), that would probably make a private version hard to sell.

For all these ideas - I think you'd need to be in a large city. It seems like those are the only ones where bitcoin businesses exist - like in Berlin, New York. There's got to be enough people who are into bitcoin to make it work.

Based on what happened with my aunt and uncle, I'm down on collectibles.

They collected antiques - among others, antique oriental rugs. After they died, the rugs couldn't be sold for anywhere near what they had expected. The market had changed, the rugs were no longer popular among collectors. This is over the course of 30 years or so.

Interesting aside - in Europe, eggs for sale in the grocery store are not refrigerated. You can look around a long time to find eggs, because they just shelve them anywhere.

In the US, they're always refrigerated. So always in the refrigerated section in the back, usually.

Since realizing that eggs don't REALLY need to be refrigerated, I've started keeping my extras in the pantry. Haven't had an egg go bad in many years.

I went to Laos, decades ago. Wow, was that an interesting trip. The official exchange rate was a fraction of the black market rate, so after asking around I went to the market. At the gold shop, they also traded for USD.

It wasn't even a hush hush thing, it seemed pretty open.

I remember that they weren't thrilled with my 20 dollar bills. They wanted 50 or 100 dollar bills. And they HAD to be nice and clean.