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What other rabbit holes have you fallen into?
3295 sats \ 58 comments \ @jasonb 13 Dec BooksAndArticles
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?
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202 sats \ 6 replies \ @optimism 13 Dec
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.
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150 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scoresby 13 Dec
I'd be very interested in reading something about this, even if just a list of things you read.
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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 13 Dec
Its scattered right now but I'll compile something.
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150 sats \ 1 reply \ @ville 14 Dec
Hey, I am imterested in hearing as well. Could you let me know, too!!
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152 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 14 Dec
Maybe I should make a repo so that we can crowdresearch 🤔
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150 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aeneas 14 Dec
This is worthwhile research. Suggest you compile some of what you find here and the sources.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 14 Dec
Yeah I'm not nearly at a stage where there is any conclusive evidence though. So I'll work on the repo
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152 sats \ 7 replies \ @k00b 13 Dec
These days I try to stay away from non-work related rabbit holes, but here's some that I enjoyed over the years:
  • Biohacking-ish things from 2015-2020 - saunas, routines, supplements, ketosis, fasting, blood tests. That's one thing I can see myself coming back to.
  • I dipped a toe in the pickup artist scene around the same time. Mating psychology is a lot of fun to learn about.
  • Right out of high school I got really into telescope design, intending to study astrophysics and unable to afford a decent telescope, so I started planning to make my own.
  • Graffiti and oil painting. Although that wasn't much of a rabbit hole. I just did it.
  • Anarchism and political philosophy not long after.
  • Fashion and interior decorating for a time.
  • I've grown weed a few times over the years and really enjoyed messing with soil composition, genetics, environment.
  • Fermentation.
  • Smoking meat.
  • Hamburgers.
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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 13 Dec
What made you give up the pursuit of astrophysics?
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152 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 13 Dec
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).
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 13 Dec
You may dig some of those Hopewell books in my original post here. They are a serious math and astronomy mystery rabbit hole.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @jasonb OP 13 Dec
Graffiti and oil painting
You would have been west coast when doing this? Whats that scene like there?
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 13 Dec
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.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @jasonb OP 13 Dec
When you say make your own telescope, does that include figuring out how to make lenses? That sounds really cool but extremely ambitious.
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 13 Dec
I was going to make everything except for the lenses and mirrors. Making lenses and mirrors would probably require a lab of some kind.
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171 sats \ 16 replies \ @Scoresby 13 Dec
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.
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121 sats \ 11 replies \ @jasonb OP 13 Dec
Ever seen James Carpenter’s “The Thing?” It’s one of my favorites movies.
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152 sats \ 3 replies \ @Aeneas 14 Dec
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)
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @jasonb OP 14 Dec
How do you know? I thought the point of the ending is that by that point, either of them might be it.
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152 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aeneas 14 Dec
🧠 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...
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 21h
🤯
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69 sats \ 6 replies \ @Scoresby 13 Dec
The thing is awesome. Excellent movie!
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50 sats \ 5 replies \ @Car 13 Dec
Love how the sequel went right into the original 👌
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25 sats \ 4 replies \ @jasonb OP 13 Dec
There’s a sequel?!?! And it’s good?!
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152 sats \ 3 replies \ @Car 14 Dec
There’s a sequel?!?!
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.
And it’s good?!
For me it was because when you watch them back to back they flow so well.
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61 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 14 Dec
I didn't know that 2011 thing was not a remake. Definitely gonna check it out.
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Car 14 Dec
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.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 14 Dec
Nice, I’m going to have to check this out.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @jasonb OP 13 Dec
Is there a particular book you’d recommend, by the way?
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 13 Dec
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 13 Dec
Thanks!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @purpurato 13 Dec
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.
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150 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 13 Dec
https://i.postimg.cc/G2WJDLx5/darth-nfc-holes.png
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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @cryotosensei 14 Dec
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
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48 sats \ 1 reply \ @jasonb OP 14 Dec
I love this! Have you done this with any other subjects?
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 21h
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
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @martinbarilik 14 Dec
the toxicity of seed oils got me hard
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 14 Dec
I’ve been curious about this. Any resources you recommend?
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheBTCManual 14 Dec
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
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 14 Dec
Awesome! What do you mean by “build” in this context? Like the whole thing?!
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @hasherstacker 14 Dec
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.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 14 Dec
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.
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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 13 Dec
If you do not read this "rabbit hole" entirely, all the rest are meaningless.
https://livingintheprivate.blogspot.com
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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @justin_shocknet 13 Dec
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17 sats \ 1 reply \ @jasonb OP 13 Dec
Oh wow. Edgy. I’ve never heard anybody tell it from his side. Is it convincing?
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 13 Dec
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.
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @028559d218 14 Dec
Aliens and UFOs
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @winteryeti 13 Dec
GPU mining was definitely my rabbit hole, but it's still fun to tinker with.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 13 Dec
Nice!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 14 Dec
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ville 14 Dec
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.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SHA256man 13 Dec
i have a series-in-progress in my bio, deocculting parasitology in an entertaining manner;
everything is intricately connected; the other ones are:
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @digitalbase 13 Dec
More rabbit hole inspiration (always fun question!)
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70 sats \ 4 replies \ @SimpleStacker 13 Dec
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @zuspotirko 14 Dec
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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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 14 Dec
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @zuspotirko 14 Dec
lmfao
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 14 Dec
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