So most of us are half way (or less) down the Bitcoin rabbit hole. Here’s a pic of another rabbit hole I occasionally fall into.
What about you? What’s a subject you find yourself coming back to learn more about just when you thought you were becoming knowledgable?
Thanks to Bitcoiners copying the gold bug "sound money" narrative, I've fallen into the rabbit hole of trying to find out what exactly went on prior to 1971, basically: how did the gold standard fail.
Because it did fail. But what really happened. What were the triggers in practice. And how can we detect such scenarios in a digital world?
It goes very slow because I'm digging up memoirs from politicians in the 60s. Some are awesome because they had great correspondence on the topic. Others have been a waste of my time. But maybe, just maybe, can it help. Because thinking that there will be a bitcoin standard (which I personally don't think likely) and then there will be that forever, would probably be wishful thinking.
This is worthwhile research. Suggest you compile some of what you find here and the sources.
Yeah I'm not nearly at a stage where there is any conclusive evidence though. So I'll work on the repo
I'd be very interested in reading something about this, even if just a list of things you read.
Its scattered right now but I'll compile something.
Hey, I am imterested in hearing as well. Could you let me know, too!!
Maybe I should make a repo so that we can crowdresearch 🤔
I fell hard down the arctic exploration rabbit hole. At first it was just the adventure stories, people surviving in insane circumstances, but then a love of the ice and the way it makes our natural world so alien, and then finally admiration of the freedom comes with the arctic regions: no one is there to tell you what to do.
Ever seen James Carpenter’s “The Thing?” It’s one of my favorites movies.
You know Keith David was the Thing at the end, right?
(It took me like 20 years to figure this out so now I always talk about it when I see the movie mentioned)
How do you know? I thought the point of the ending is that by that point, either of them might be it.
🧠 Because they'd agreed to not to share drinks for fear of contamination. Kurt Russell offers Keith David whiskey, and Keith should've rejected it as possibly contaminated. Instead he just drinks it because the Thing doesn't know about the agreement.
That's why Kurt smiles (it gave itself away) and the Thing's theme song starts playing immediately. Then it goes to black...
🤯
The thing is awesome. Excellent movie!
Love how the sequel went right into the original 👌
There’s a sequel?!?! And it’s good?!
Yes, they did an exceptional job of combining The Thing (2011) running time: 1:43:00 min into The Thing (1982) running time: 1:49:00 min. The Thing is actually a 3:32:00 min movie.
For me it was because when you watch them back to back they flow so well.
I didn't know that 2011 thing was not a remake. Definitely gonna check it out.
Went to go see it when it came out.
I was blown away because I thought we were getting a remake and when it basically rolls right into the Thing (1982) at the end, I was stunned and realized it was a prequel.
Sometimes going blind into a movie is the best way to watch them.
Nice, I’m going to have to check this out.
If you haven't seen this I believe you'll like it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjq7Gl_hhPY
Made me want to know more of those stories.
Is there a particular book you’d recommend, by the way?
Thanks!
These days I try to stay away from non-work related rabbit holes, but here's some that I enjoyed over the years:
What made you give up the pursuit of astrophysics?
My plan was math+astrophysics, and while that lasted, I would tell people I was going to be carpenter upon graduation.
I didn't know why I was doing it exactly. Then my girlfriend broke up with me and I stopped going to school and became a grocery clerk before going back to school four years later (for premed lol).
You may dig some of those Hopewell books in my original post here. They are a serious math and astronomy mystery rabbit hole.
You would have been west coast when doing this? Whats that scene like there?
California. I was never in a scene. Musicians are lucky in that their art is more social than most.
Also my stint was short. I only did ~4 significant tags: two water towers, one billboard, the exterior of an abandoned warehouse. Oil painting didn't last more than a year. I only produced three complete paintings.
tbh most of my rabbit holes are me exploring the entryway pretty thoroughly more than anything.
When you say make your own telescope, does that include figuring out how to make lenses? That sounds really cool but extremely ambitious.
I was going to make everything except for the lenses and mirrors. Making lenses and mirrors would probably require a lab of some kind.
When I first became a father, I became super interested in making my money grow. Such that I embarked on a journey to read every book on financial wellness out there and summarise its essence in ten words or less
I love this! Have you done this with any other subjects?
Actually no! I just never thought about extrapolating this haha.
But thanks for the validation. You motivated me to do the same for another subject next year (which is coming soon!). I will probably settle on Japanese fiction because my wife is from the Land of the Rising Sun
you are so clever and neat
neat like nifty, not neat like tidy
https://i.postimg.cc/G2WJDLx5/darth-nfc-holes.png
that is most certainly not a picture of a rabbit hole.
also could you name this topic? are you reading about ancient civilizations in the continental US?
For quite some time, I’ve had an interest in the Hopewell specifically. They were hunter gatherers that travelled in small communities, and there’s no sign they ever developed a centralized leadership structure. Despite what I’m about to write, they were incredibly egalitarian: no kings, no wars, no castes, no ritual sacrifice.
Yet they would join together and create massive earthworks that were perfect geometric shapes with interesting proportional relationships to other massive geometric shapes. But these earthworks also have precise astronomical alignments (I’m planning to visit one to watch the sunset Monday). Many ancient societies built solar alignments into their architecture, but the Hopewell (remember these guys have no kings, agriculture, or cities) would build dozens of precise alignments into these huge earthworks that track the phases of the moon as well.
While the Mississippians continued a lot of these traditions, they had huge cities, kings, agriculture, and were pretty violent, much more ideal for accomplishing feats of engineering, mathematics, and astronomy. One of the theories about the decline of the Hopewell I find most convincing is the introduction of new technologies. The bow and arrow made its way south from Canada and human-bred corn made its way north from Mexico around the same time they stop doing Hopewell culture type things. It makes me think of smart phones and social media.
I’ve been visiting a lot of the remaining sites for decades, but a bunch of them just became a UNESCO world heritage site and I’m curious what’s going to come of it. The rabbit hole goes quite deep, but there are still so many mysteries. One of the biggest for me is what the sites were actually used for. Most scholars just say “religion” generically. Most conspiracy theorists say aliens. I like to think, and there’s precedent for this, that they were just for recreation. It’s kind of a silly analogy, but I find myself walking through amusement parks or malls and just imagining future scholars talking about them as sacred ceremonial sites.
oh you'll be seeing the winter solstice? that's wild. will you take photos, or is it a holy place?
and this reminds of something that Graham Hancock touched on in his Netflix show
Here's a pic from the group that maintains the grounds' website of the winter solstice sunrise. This is what I hope to see on Monday. The coolest alignments at this particular site (Fort Ancient) though are these really cool stone-covered mini-mounds that look down parallel walls to the summer solstice sun rise and another to the sunset.
It's funny you ask whether or not I'll be allowed to take pics (I don't know) and bring up Graham Hancock's show as well. I believe one of the most controversial parts of that show is when they don't let him in to see Serpent Mound. That's the world's largest effigy mound, which has a massive amount of solar and lunar alignments. I grew up taking field trips from Dayton to Serpent Mound all the time, back when it wasn't controversial and people just viewed it as really cool.
It's always been ultra-mysterious though. To this day, we don't know if it was built by the Adena[1] (older than Hopewell), the Hopewell (my bet), or the Fort Ancient[2] (contemporary to Mississippian, but less cosmopolitan). It sits on top of this hill in a meteor impact crater, near a handful of Adena and Fort Ancient burial mounds. I don't remember why Graham Hancock was interested in it, but I think the coolest thing is the missing coil! Some ancient people at some point in time realized that one of the lunar alignments of one of the serpent's coils was off and just deleted it. They rebuilt that part of the mound without the coil. I just love the idea of some ridiculously smart group of hunter gatherers coming to a site their ancestors brilliantly built. They look at the complex lunar alignments, the artistic prowess, and the logistical flex (since they're doing this carrying baskets full of dirt with no central leader or slaves or other cheat codes) of their forefathers, and say, "hold my beer. They messed up this one part."
That was a bit of a tangent, so to answer your question, I don't know. There are often times a handful of Miami and Shawnee descendants at these things, and if they're offended by people taking pictures, I won't.
It would be super cool if it turn out the Adena built this because it would show they had all the astronomical knowledge that the Hopewell did. ↩
This people group was named for the site that I plan to visit Monday, which was actually built by the Hopewell. All the names are arbitrary as we have no clue what they called themselves. ↩
If you do not read this "rabbit hole" entirely, all the rest are meaningless.
https://livingintheprivate.blogspot.com
the toxicity of seed oils got me hard
I’ve been curious about this. Any resources you recommend?
Ive spent the last 2 weeks learning everything I can about building a drift car, don't ask me why this bug bit me, but I am too deep in now
Awesome! What do you mean by “build” in this context? Like the whole thing?!
I’ve been digging down my own rabbit holes too — one of the biggest for me has been figuring out how to live completely off-grid, without depending much on any central entity. It’s not just a lifestyle choice but a mindset of reclaiming freedom — thinking about self-sufficiency in energy, food, shelter and even economy, and what that really looks like in practice. It’s been a journey of learning, experimenting, and trying to explore systems that don’t tether anyone to centralized control or authority.
Nice! Do you know about RevHodl? He’s a bitcoiner that also runs an awesome permaculture homestead and incorporates permaculture concepts into his bitcoin mining.
Aliens and UFOs
Oh wow. Edgy. I’ve never heard anybody tell it from his side. Is it convincing?
I was already convinced as it's all pretty obvious stuff in hindsight... That's what lead me to it, receipts and color to confirm my bias.
GPU mining was definitely my rabbit hole, but it's still fun to tinker with.
Nice!
Vipassana-"hole". It is quite something to explore your mind scientifically and without the need for any intellectualisation or rationalisation through books and thoughts. Once you grasp the Vipassana-method, it becomes invaluable to express. Give it a try for 10 days and see for yourself. Those ten days may be the the best ten days of your life. Dhamma.org you can find courses close to you. I have also written about it in my blog kokkomaki.com.
i have a series-in-progress in my bio, deocculting parasitology in an entertaining manner;
everything is intricately connected; the other ones are:
More rabbit hole inspiration (always fun question!)
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Nothing nefarious was going on with pizzagate.
A few people on 4chan were in on a joke and many gullible sheeple (like yourself) fell for it.
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lmfao
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