Hello I'm new here. Is there a way to create a new sub-stacker news group? I want to talk about some things that don't belong in any of the main groups.
On today's menu: Pita bread (at my store the burger buns have seed oils, but not pita!) ripped in half beef burgers, beef patty fried in butter, a slice of pepper jack, a slice of pickle, mustard, ketchup, greens.
Yesterdays masticating masterpiece: Macaroni and chees with fried beef cubes
Good morning gang, it's Thursday, aka Little Friday, weekend is almost here so time to step it up, let's show this Thursday what we can do, remember that you're awesome and important, you absolutely matter, we'll relax on the weekend so let's do this gang!! As always, be well and stay frosty my friend!!
Peter McCormack kills the general audience bitcoin podcasting game for the same reasons Rogan does: he doesn’t need to put himself on the same level as his guests and he’s willing to be and sound stupid in the pursuit of helping his audience learn more from his guests. He’s also not interrogating his guests or jockeying for the moral high ground. He’s trying to harmonize with them and have good time.
I was listening to his recent pod with Lyn Alden this morning.
I was thinking to myself "why is this so pleasant to listen to in spite of Peter getting quite a bit of hate?"
When people attempt to grade podcasters, they make the mistake of placing the host in a vacuum and comparing them to other hosts in a vacuum. It's like judging the evolutionary fitness of a grizzly bear in outer space.
Do people send hate Pete's way? News to me. It must be the angry droves on Twitter that don't actually listen to his content. I think he does a great job and manages to hit a very wide variety of topics.
That's a good way of putting it. It's at the interface between the people, what they become together.
I have my gripes w/ Peter (e.g., the 30 minutes preamble blathering on some of his episodes drives me crazy; as does his penchant to interrupt, esp with stupid jokes) but I think in a decade, if the btc experiment is successful the way many of us hope it will be, Peter will be considered one of the giants who made it happen. Not just bc of the pod, but the soccer team, the pub, the wider cultural propagation that doesn't look like religion.
I think it makes sense for these to be 1 day events but it's great the post stays at the top of the page for anyone who wasn't around yesterday.
Next time we do one. I think it would be best to announce it a bit earlier, set a specific day and times it will run and then promote the heck out of it on Twitter and Nostr in the days leading up to it. I was able to get a few folks on twitter to click the link and zap some sats (guest zap feature addition was very timely) but didn't have much luck on Nostr. I don't have a prominent Nostr account so I think that was a missed opportunity. Nostriches love them some zapping.
Binance US has no liquidity because they are winding down operations due to all the US legal issues. Not sure why it occurred but for a few seconds Bitcoin spiked to 100k on the US exchange a couple months ago. There was only a million dollars of volume left on the entire exchange. Not sure who paid that price and why maybe they had some USD left on there and just converted to BTC at any price to get it off the exchange before it got shut down and their funds were frozen.
Sounds about right. I wouldn't want to have my funds frozen on an exchange if I can get it out even if I have to pay a premium on the price of Bitcoin. Price will eventually reach those levels. Its just a matter of when.
As we approach the end of the week,, I hope we all inch our way to our goals. If you don't have goals, pick a few! it makes a big difference on your behavior. Don't let others pick goals for you, though. That's a path of emotional self-destruction.
Did this ever happen to you? If something is on my mind, I would sleep really light that night, and my brain would be in problem-solving mode, so sometimes I would wake up with solutions for that problem.
Subconscious memory sorting maybe. As you go through the cycles of sleep your brain sorts short term into longer term memory by discarding irrelevant or extraneous memories (ie you remember where you parked the car but not necessarily the cars parked around it).
So perhaps part of that sorting around a problem, breaking from the extraneous detail to the heart of issue, in a state of relaxation allows for the solution perhaps?
Interesting side note; lack of sleep in the evening and you will forget where your car keys are in the morning as there is no filtering done and your brain is full of extraneous detail.