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Saddle on up to a stool and spill the beans about your day, fire away with them questions, or let loose and give us the lowdown on your wild and woolly life. We're all ears, so don't hold back!

We're open round the clock, so mosey on in whenever you please!

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Wrote this for my students and thought I would just post it here. Have a great week stacking!

We like our school motto, “Never give up”. It inspires us to stay strong.

Yesterday, we had Reading Tuesday. Our English teacher read to us a story about beginnings.

When he saw the word ‘flowers’, he shared Hiroshima’s bombing with us. He told us that red canna flowers bloomed after the bombing. It represents the “never-give-up” spirit.

We were delighted to learn something new. From now on, when we need to persevere, we will think of the canna flower.

https://m.stacker.news/11508

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129 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 9 Jan 2024

Whoops, I just spent too much time on https://artsandculture.google.com/

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I don't why it's so hard to find great, non-biblical (sorry God) art with a Where's Waldo composition. Did only the Flemish do this well?

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nothing major ever happens in bitcoin land without being stupid and hilarious

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Ok. Now what? Lol

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The @SECGov twitter account was compromised, and an unauthorized tweet was posted. The SEC has not approved the listing and trading of spot bitcoin exchange-traded products.
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Holy fk I take 20 mins to type out my SN post and the SEC gets SIM SWAPPED IN THE MEANTIME??

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Careful what you read on the internet. The best source of information about the SEC is the SEC.

https://nitter.cz/SECGov/status/1714020932509982771#m

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I literally cannot stop laughing ahahaha

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Who would do such a thing?

I’m not saying you were responsible but it would be a way to get out of your press ups tomorrow… your behaviour appals me. Poor Gary.

Oh well. I still got my sandwich…

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Join the fun. Win some sats!
#382512

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Is the rewards pie chart always > 75% donations? That's amazing.

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the more interesting part is why it's almost like 100k sats donations each day 👀

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Who is tipping my old posts from 6 months ago 1000 sats?

Is this some sort of counter offensive @ekzyis?

It was a great post. I do admit.

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I haven’t received zaps that large on my old content, but every so often I do get random old content zapped. I find it very interesting to try to figure out who might be doing it

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Yes I have had that happen occasionally as well.

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Kilo-sat tips sounds more like @elvismercury, as does rummaging through old posts.

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I just assumed @ekzyis as some sort of preemptive strike against my attempt to raise an army and foil his zap to zero campaign.

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I guess we will never know who it was

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For some reason that sounds like an admission.

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Innocent until proven guilty

considers to delete comment

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Did you get my cease and desist order?

https://m.stacker.news/11522

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waits for lawyer to arrive

/cc @siggy47

btw, is that WoS?

Howdy!

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ETH-BTC ratio continues to get slaughtered. :)

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Very nice.

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I said a few days ago that I want a table and chair for myself. Don't tell me you're fine with just a counter.

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Were cowboys but we are civilized. Need a table and chair. At least so you have something to topple over and throw when the bar fight begins.

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why not just sit at the floor? with a nice carpet, so cozy!

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😂

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Day 22 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 744 sats on 8Jan2024!
Running total: 17,658 sats!

Yesterday's comment

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wooohoooo, everything adds up!

music of today, with oud

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Snow day in Wisconsin. Kids are home with me!

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Awesome. These are the best days. I love playing in the snow with the kiddos. We have snow today too in Ontario but not a lot yet. More to come down throughout the day.

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https://m.stacker.news/11433

Join us January 27th for a hands-on workshop with Moritz Kaminski. Moritz Kaminski will discuss how to get community contributions and build open-source based business models.

See you there: https://www.meetup.com/pleb-lab/events/298108151/

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GM Cowboys! ⚡☕🧡

STACK SATS AND BE HUMBLE

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Good morning gang!! Tuesday is here and with full force, lots of things to do and so little time, got to reorganize my time to get things done, but it's all good, its good to have a challenge here and there. Let's show this week who's in charge, just wanted to thank you for being and for taking your time to read my posts, truly appreciate it. I wish you a phenomenal Tuesday and may it be filled with profit and success. You're awesome and show your world what you're made of, I believe in you and what you do is important and matters. Be well and stay frosty my good friend!!

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Day 269 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.

...and 69 push-ups. (30 - 20 - 19)

__@_'-'

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ATH before halving

Day 50 of horseposting everyday

Horse Stance: 2 minutes x 2 set

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https://m.stacker.news/11420

max push-ups:30

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Awesome! 69…. Hehe

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Ladies and gentlemen. We got it! 🫡

Nice. 👉😏👉

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Level up, 69 :)

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a decade from now, we will have more buttcoiners than bitcoiners

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(nice)

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https://m.stacker.news/11394

Remember who you are, and dream who you want to be.

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Ever get a really bad song stuck in your head that you don't even like? It keeps playing over and over up there? Or is it just me?

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Ugh, and not even listening to hours of other songs would get rid of it.

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All the time. My brain is like a walking jukebox. Put 20p in it play/hum/sing/say a few lines of an earworm and that's me off on it all day.

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glad to know im not the only one

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You know, I think you should have a bad song contest on the music territory. I can't imagine what form it would take, but it might be fun.

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i'm curious to work out how that would look, in a fun but not shitty way. music is very subjective and people have their opinions on things, some groups get quite militant about what is and isn't good. i'm not sure i'd want to encourage or even invite the opportunity for people to be toxic about something someone else had submitted.

eg. i submit a track and say this is crap and heres why, but turns out it's your favourite song. i wouldn't want to begin offending people because i'm effectively saying their opinion is "wrong" or "shit" or they "don't know what they're talking about". or it could be interpreted in that way, light hearted banter is difficult to do via a text based forum, tone doesn't come across effectively and i don't want to be inviting that kind of negative discussion to the space. but there is a difference between having a joke and being negative or potentially hurtful.

however having said that, i do think we could have a light hearted bounty post. post the worst song competition? light hearted and the highest zapped submission takes the bounty? that way it's not really about discussing peoples views on the track, it's just kinda not taking it seriously. it will certainly require some careful thought about how to do without getting peoples backs up.

what would we call it? "Shit Song Saturday?" 🤣

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Sounds like a plan!

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What song? Check out ~music might help get a new song on your mind.

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if you got a song in mind instead why not drop it in the daily discussion thread over in ~Music ? i'm sure it'd sit well in that thread ;)

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You young guys have probably never even heard of the guy. Its not that I hate him. He just annoyed me for some reason. He was a goofy bastard. He was incredibly uncool in the midst of the drugged out hippie music we loved. I felt bad when he crashed his plane and died though.
https://youtu.be/SneCkM0bJq0?si=Br34_6I-ZYYNQicM

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Rocky Mountain High took on. Whole new meaning when he crashed into one

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Sure did :)

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John Denver you mean the guy who did country roads....and... And... And... Yeah country roads...

I'm sure he did other stuff, but I sure couldn't name anything other than country roads on the spot off top of my head.

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That's the guy, and that's his best known song. I went to a baseball World Series Game in Baltimore in 1979. During the 7th inning stretch he came out on top of the Orioles dugout to sing Thank God I'm a Country Boy, a really bad song.

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Couldn't name a single track of his other than country roads. But also. It's not a genre I'm hugely familiar with.

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Don't go changing. You're better off.

Snail check? Price check required?

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A very very special day for the snail.

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I just equaled my personal record, 19 days keeping my cowboy hat on, Yeeeehaaaw! 🤠⚡

Never could read no road-map
Now I don't know what the weather might do
Hear that witch wind whine
See that dog star shine
I got a feelin' there's no time to lose

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Fun hack of today

@ekzyis failed to deliver his promise on decoding the rankings, so I'm taking the burden onto myself 👀

I always wanted to understand how the top posts/comment ranking works, and here is my findings: basically each stacker has one vote, but the real interesting part about this vote is each with a different weight, I guess it has something to do with the trust score; and I've noticed this for a while, e.g. 2 high trusted stackers > 8 good trusted stackers, but then 10 good trusted stackers > 2 high trusted stackers, it's like the combination of the power, dancing with each other, so cool.

Another hack I've learnt is you can guess your own trust by seeing the rank of the comments that you've zapped, and ofc guessing others' trust.

would you to learn more hacks? I'm writing a more detailed article on the art of stacking, with many unshared analyzes and insights, zap if you want to read it; Or shall I sell it? so "secrets remain secrets".

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Also, I still haven't understood why sometimes we get rewards for top posts/comments and other times it's for zaping early. cc @ekzyis

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because it's being experimented atm, either rewarding the top posts/comments or those who zapped top posts/comments early.

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do you know the criteria for being one way or another?

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it's actually random ( you can kinda of guess it tho - 50% chance 😂 ) but the honest way to do it is keep creating + zapping = stacking.

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@ekzyis failed to deliver his promise on decoding the rankings, so I'm taking the burden onto myself 👀

https://media1.tenor.com/m/_g1W6jVhbPsAAAAC/foreseen-everything-talking.gif

Perhaps a 1hr time limited post @nemo -style deletes for your secret stacker sauce recipe..?

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let me think 🤓 but def need to limit the visibility:)

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Interesting! 👀

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and many more interesting details to be explored!

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123 sats \ 1 reply \ @Lux 9 Jan 2024

I had lots of free time last month to thinker. Not so much theese days. Was never meant to be daily anyways. And constantly reevaluating my knowledge, there are plenty scammers, grifters, controlled op in the space.
If you didn't see it, I recomend:
Trick, by Marcus – Servant King
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVneoSSCp6Y

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just teasing you, def no pressure for daily post!

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Just so you know, he doesn't like being called a hero (even if the shoe fits).

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100 sats \ 5 replies \ @ek 9 Jan 2024

I change my mind about things all the time

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embrace the change!

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Too late. You'll have to look for that validation somewhere else.

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272 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 9 Jan 2024

Guess my previous reply about the topic of heroes did have a lasting impression.

And even though I know we're mostly just having fun here — I think you're like me: you also like to just have some fun occasionally — I wanted to discuss this topic a bit more seriously. So I created a post for it now :)

That blog post explains it a lot better than I can with my current time and writing skill constraints.

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zap to hero is def more fun than zero 😂

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Maybe it's zap to hero and then back with zap to zero?

An endless cycle.

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madness, 4/5 tops posts are from @ekzyis

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Are you not using dark mode? What a psycho!

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no, it hurts my eyes 😂

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there was a time shift in my time zone

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is @ekzyis is nomad now?

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i was always in my own time zone :)

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me too, like the kids - I think this is our natural state, but as we grow up, many people "adapted" to the outside time zone. 😂

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forgot where I heard this but...for every hour of writing, 10 hours for editing!

i take that as more of a mental model than taking it painfully literally

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"pain" indeed, with lots of thinking - thinking takes so much brain power, but then you feel so great after it's good to go into the wild!

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Knowing what to include and what to cut is definitely a supertalent.

I often fail to remember that not everything that comes out our brains is articulate or relevant. 80/20 rule still applies.

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yes, I usually focus on the cutting and making things easier to understand.

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