This is quite a week for me! Two friends of mine, husband and wife, have handed me incomplete puzzles.
Wife shared with me some wonderful homemade sourdough. With it, she offered the knowledge that sourdough is a living thing: it grows and you have to feed it and care for it. Y In the middle of this, she rattled off the perplexing statement, "There will always be discard." With the discard, she makes bread, pancakes, and other tasty pastries.
Since sourdough keeps growing and there will always be discard, I am confonted with an image of a globulous mass of unbaked goodness that continues to multiply and feed. How's that for using 7 loaves to feed a multitude?
Husband a few days later urges me to get on stacker, which has now left me with questions about sats (first misread as "stats", which painted a picture of internet clout). He's doing his best to describe how it works, but I cannot help but feel that, like sourdough, there's a self-generating quality to bitcoin and sats that I both can't articulate yet and deeply crave limitations around. Am I wrong about this?
Tldr: I struggle to understand both sourdough and sats. My ignorance mostly fuels a paranoia that their raw potential and rate of growth make them like The Blob (1958,1988). Maybe I should posting this on ~movies instead. Oh, and my friends are to blame.
Glad you're here and enjoy the journey. Best sourdough I ever ate was at a breakfast place called The Pantry in downtown Los Angeles. Historic restaurant that's been open since before the depression.
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You have a wife and a husband?
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This unique comparison brought a smile to my face. Also @Undisciplined and @ekzyis will tell you that their sats stash here behave like sourdough - they keep multiplying haha
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Only because we tend to them and manage the discard well.
What a great analogy for SN sats!
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Somehow I’m reminded of honey. How great honey never goes bad - one of nature’s gifts
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Ah, but honey doesn't grow does it?
Does it? I'm not a biologist.
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Fun fact: a person who studies honey is an "apiologist."
Also like honey, twinkies never go bad - one of men's abominable gifts. To my great, great sadness, I don't know what you call someone who studies twinkies.
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lol. This is the first time I heard of twinkies. Deep fried twinkies sound yummy 🤤
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No, it doesn’t. Just my ENFP mind drawing random connections haha
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @go 23 Jan
Sourdough discard makes great chocolate chip cookies.
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