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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!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 4m

I feel that the "best practice" of consistency is not advocated for in software engineering. Like theory in all fields, in software engineering we're prone to idealizing systems, acting as if it's always better to break bad patterns ignoring the overhead the inconsistency causes. Sometimes it's better to have four equally worn tires that you'll replace all at once, than three worn tires and a random brand new one.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 1h

Which is your favorite Science Fiction series? The poll is closed. To see the results go here: #845753 There will be follow up posts on this subject, so stay tuned for part 2.

49 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby 2h

Littlest stacker rocking the Longhorns hat before kickoff while watching @k00b and @Car

40 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 1h

I'm sorry for the cursing.

132 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 1h

She only tuned in for a few minutes. Hard for anything to keep the attention of a 6 year old. At first she was really into it "daddy can I watch what you are watching" and then after a few minutes she said "daddy, I am sorry, I don't like your news show".

14 sats \ 0 replies \ @random_ 15m

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/arts/television/cocomelon-moonbug-entertainment.html

Your statement about attention reminded me of this article about the creators of CoComelon.

"It’s a small TV screen, placed a few feet from the larger one, that plays a continuous loop of banal, real-world scenes — a guy pouring a cup of coffee, someone getting a haircut — each lasting about 20 seconds. Whenever a youngster looks away from the Moonbug show to glimpse the Distractatron, a note is jotted down."

Pretty dark.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 4h

57 sats \ 2 replies \ @satoshiplanet 4h

At What Point Did We Become Convinced We Need This Whole Circus to Survive?

Seriously, when did we decide we needed this whole goddamn circus to survive? And better yet, why the hell do you keep falling for it? Have you ever stopped to ask yourself that? Luckily for me, I dumped all that crap ages ago. Let me tell you about my relationship with food these past few years. Spoiler alert: I used to be the same brain-dead slob as most of the people you bump into in the city.

Let me cut to the chase. First off, I’ll admit I’m a bit obsessed. Maybe it’s my ADHD (hyper-focusing on the stuff I actually like), but I’ve got 12 notebooks, one for each month, filled with notes about where to find free water and wild food. Yeah, free. While most people (maybe you included) are out there paying $100 for a plate of "vegan superfood" at some pretentious restaurant, I’m in the countryside picking weeds that grow for free without anyone’s help. And let me tell you something: I feel a thousand times freer than all those posers with their fancy diets and bank accounts stuffed with shitcoin debt.

And here’s the kicker: even in the Bitcoin world, there are still people using banks. Like, seriously, what kind of dumbass do you have to be to keep handing your money over to those suit-wearing thieves? Me? I’m all in on Bitcoin, the only money that doesn’t depend on some corrupt, crumbling system that’s falling apart faster than your New Year’s resolutions. Bitcoin is freedom. Pure, unfiltered, screw-the-middleman freedom.

So yeah, you keep doing you, paying through the nose for stuff you could get for free if you’d just open your eyes. Meanwhile, I’ll be out here with my notebooks, my foraged food, and my unstoppable optimism. Life’s good when you’re not stuck in the hamster wheel, my friend.

Thanks for reading, sat 🍃

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 22m

there are orange trees in my locale, everywhere.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 3h

I do some urban foraging, myself. There are a lot of things growing here and there that are good to eat. I am just very careful about the mushrooms though and now avoid some of the most plentiful but not so good tasting edible ones.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @satoshiplanet 5h

Hey stackers, we fight this war with sovereignty... food, financial and, above all, sovereignty of our fucking lives, of course the tool we have to bring down all these shitty castles is Bitcoin :)

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 5h

More thought. Fewer words.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 5h

Have more than you show and speak less than you know.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @oliverweiss 5h

🤣🤣🤣 by PrivateEye

25 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 6h

Few things more satisfying that eating food you grew on your own land. This orange is delicious.

64 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 3h

Apples, cherries and pears are really great, too. I love my own applesauce.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG0RA 6h

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jakoyoh629 7h

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19 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia 8h

Still remember those days when you needed to work hard before earning anything, and you basically needed to GIVE a lot before even got a chance to reap something.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 3h

Isn’’t that called farming or foraging?

18 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 8h

Day #184 of nut 🌰 dropping 🥜 in the Saloon

cashuBo2Ftd2h0dHBzOi8vbWludC4weGNoYXQuY29tYXVjc2F0YXSBomFpSAD_1IuPXs-AYXCEo2FhCGFzeEAwNWI1ZWYwNjk0MzYwNDlmZjQyZTFkOWE4ZGEyZDdhODlhNDdjYTc3MDgwNGIxYjY4ZWE2MjBiZmU3YjkyNDIxYWNYIQOfGjis1kkPOFaHUO97cR0JYjwaUp9TJh8z5O2bhFk7YaNhYRBhc3hAZTM2NmE4N2ViMjNlM2M3ZDUxZTQ5OWM4MDQyNGMzNWFkMzc5OGJmZjA%yNjVlODUwYmFhYWM1OWY5NmVmZjZiOGFjWCEC6-pzs5EWMl_g8T_2lxY3yGOSsaQXnnwfK5FYYiSLplWjYWEYIGFzeEA4ZGFhYmRmZGMyNzlmMzVjMzhjZGIxNGEwYjhmMDgwNmZhN2IxNGY3MDIwYTRjMmQyYzFmOTgxMmQ0ODk2NjMzYWNYIQOpDi1fNQ7XTqklZZxDa9fUJOuNS2uDClPMN6QRHKFZoKNhYRiAYXN4QDA1NDg2YTQ1NDJmMjg2OTJhYjBiNjY2NWM1NjAyM2RkZmZiYzFhNmFkNTIyNGI4NjJjN2Y3ZjY1ZTVlOGIxYTVhY1ghA7ZsSCOCj66TzFjJI3XWOCqjnejmA8_4w1peUzgnw8Xd

Hint: remove the percent

Want to harvest this nut? https://docs.cashu.space/wallets

58 sats \ 0 replies \ @nym 8h

just missed it

62 sats \ 1 reply \ @mo 9h

What's the most interesting article or podcast about SN you've read outside SN?

55 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 9h

151 sats \ 8 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 9h

Last weekend before our first cruise! Gonna get my planning in gear, don’t want to lose my Bitcoin keys in a boating accident

64 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined 9h

If you're arriving by plane the day of departure, I strongly recommend having your most urgent necessities with you in your carry-on bags.

Getting on a cruise ship without your luggage is a major bummer.

38 sats \ 6 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 7h

Thanks! I live where it snows in the winter so we are arriving two days early in case of delays. We have Lego Land planned before hand!

11 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 7h

We learned our lesson after our first cruise and always arrive at least a day before now.

42 sats \ 4 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 7h

Got ya. Any good ones coming up?

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 7h

No, our vacation this year was a road trip. I expect the next one will be a western Caribbean cruise, but now we have to figure out the best ones for little kids.

24 sats \ 2 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 5h

Cool! We are doing the Disney Wish to the Bahamas with our 5&7 year olds!

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 5h

Nice! I'll be curious to hear how it goes. We did a Norwegian Cruise to the Bahamas several years ago. I really enjoyed walking around the main island. There are some really cool businesses that have been there since the 1500's.

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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 10h

393 sats \ 22 replies \ @TNStacker 10h

Snow Day in Tennessee!

9 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 3h

Good stuff!! Tennessee, eh? Would hate the Great White North!!

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @TNStacker 3h

Not in June!

9 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 3h

No, June is great!! Fishing season is open and the boats are on the lakes.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 8h

Ha!

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 8h

😂

61 sats \ 16 replies \ @jasonb 10h

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/education/2025/01/09/cincinnati-public-schools-open-during-cold-after-snow-days/77577627007/

This is the district that I pulled my kids out of last year. I can't EVER imagine school being cancelled for temperature reasons in Ohio when I was a kid.

71 sats \ 15 replies \ @Undisciplined 9h

We were wondering why Costco was insane the last time we went. It turns out people were stocking up for the "blizzard".

We got like three inches of light dry snow. If someone hadn't plowed a berm in front of my driveway, I wouldn't have even needed to shovel.

Of course, school's been cancelled all week.

60 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 3h

I can remember the only time they ever closed the school I went to was when there was a blizzard of about 36 inches (near a meter) with drifts up to the top of the school building. They closed the school for one day, cleaned up the sidewalks, driveways and parking lot and let the kids dig snow forts in the drifts. ONE Day and that was it. It was the only snow day we ever had in 12 years. It was glorious, though.

60 sats \ 1 reply \ @TNStacker 8h

They really aren't trying to educate our population. Take care and responsibility for your kids, Stackers!

150 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 3h

Wrong!!! They are trying to destroy your kids, their native reasoning powers and to fill their heads with the worst kind of isht. This is much different from “not trying to educate your kids.”

57 sats \ 11 replies \ @jasonb 8h

Whereish are you, if you don’t mind sharing? We definitely got some serious snow in my neck of the woods. The problem where I am right now is that the schools closed because it was too “cold” and then opened the next day, which was much colder as they realized they’d just never have school again at this rate.

50 sats \ 1 reply \ @TNStacker 8h

I read about that!

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb 8h

It's so ridiculous.

85 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 8h

I'm in Cookeville. We're just starting to get it.

71 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined 8h

I'm in the middle-ish part of the country. It got pretty cold after it snowed, but the snow was the excuse for closing school and not collecting trash/recycling.

It seems so ridiculous to me, because I grew up in the cold and snowy north. If there was less than a foot of snow, no way anything was closing.

44 sats \ 6 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 3h

Where we lived it sometimes got to -40 degrees. I was walking to work everyday. My wife thought I was crazy because the clothes I wore were not really fit for those temperatures. I found that if I kept up a brisk walk, even through fairly deep snow, I could keep warm for the length of the walk. My co-workers also thought I was out in left field.

46 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 3h

Yeah, my first university job was somewhere similarly cold and I also walked a little over a mile to work everyday.

49 sats \ 4 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 2h

Yes, it was a nice stroll. I never once got cold doing that. I did get cold if I stopped and stood around, though.

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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @suraz 11h

21 sats \ 4 replies \ @OneOneSeven 11h

@jasonb

Here lies OneOneSeven

“I’ll see you in another life brother”

70 sats \ 3 replies \ @jasonb 11h

OK, I'll get on it ASAP.

Want me to mention that you were a loving territory founder?

I'm thinking about putting a link of the tombstones to your profile. I could also link the territory?

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @jasonb 11h

Loving founder of TWO territories in your case!

50 sats \ 1 reply \ @OneOneSeven 11h

Yehaww sounds good to me!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb 7h

https://thebitcointrail.vercel.app/

You're in there!

62 sats \ 12 replies \ @jasonb 11h

traditional non-humble boast: Today is my first ever 2 day streak as a fully equipped cowboy!

Also, I actually racked up some CCs yesterday. I haven't been following the whole thing because, well I don't care². BUT NOW, I'm remembering that there may be people who want to buy them at a premium????!?! @DarthCoin @siggy47 I feel like I vaguely remember some people saying they want to do that. I'm not sure why, so maybe I'm remembering that incorrectly.

Anywho, I've currently got 575 CCs that I'd happily part with for any amount of sats greater than 575. Get 'em before I accidentally zap some walletless poster.

neither a bachelor nor looking for a partner, just feeling the swagger of having a hat, horse, AND six shooter for two days straight ↩
aside from it probably making sn legally viable, which is good, no? ↩

71 sats \ 11 replies \ @DarthCoin 11h

You don't know the power of the cowboy credits.... insert Darth voice

0 sats \ 10 replies \ @jasonb 11h

Hey, I'm all about the dark side...if you can explain the benefit to me. In the meantime, I'm zapping them away faster than the emperor in that scene with the worst acting ever. haha

100 sats \ 7 replies \ @DarthCoin 11h

#841829

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @jasonb 11h

Oh, also interesting, I see you’re accepting CCs as your primary zap receiver.

50 sats \ 5 replies \ @DarthCoin 11h

So you are not reading my posts...

zap sats are mostly for those that came to SN with the "post to earn" in their mind. I came to SN with "pay to post" in my mind...

We are not the same.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @jasonb 10h

Ah, seeing your edited comment, I’d say I fall in the, “pay to get cowboy hat,” category. But also, more seriously, I guess I think both are good incentives and help boost the content quality.

50 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 10h

cowboy hat is just an illusion, a game, don't get it too serious.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb 10h

I actually do as much as I can. Your posts are either educational or witty/hilarious, and sometimes both, although I believe you and I have radically different world views. I love stacker news but also work full time, have a wife and three kids, am pretty involved with my church, try to stay as involved as possible in my real world community, am now getting into 3d printing in addition to mining and coding (poorly), and so forth. Haha (I know you do as much as that and more too, I’m just maybe not as high capacity)

Also, the people that get legit mad about cowboy credits has made me lose interest in caring all that much. Even if they’re useful, it (CCs vs sats on the site, not the site itself) just doesn’t seem like that big of a deal to me either way.

All this to say, I do, just not so much on this topic.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @jasonb 11h

oh, spoiler alert

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 11h

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kontext 12h

Day 454 of 100+ pushups per day; day 353 of 120+ pushups per day, sets breakdown: 42 normal/narrow, 32 diamond, 25 pike, 25 pseudo, 20 spiderman; Total: 144

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @flat24 12h

"We need more Freedom, We need more Bitcoin" 💪🤠🍊⚡

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 12h

SN is a whore house - #844708 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 12h

What? 😭

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder 12h

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 12h

Good morning stackers. FTS!

27 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 13h

37 sats \ 1 reply \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 13h bot

Day 382 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 706 sats on 9Jan2025! Running total: 267,001 sats!

Yesterday's comment

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 14m

day 160: 35 sats on 1-9-25. total 5616⚡sats!

i glanced at the econoalchemist blog again and decided: nope, still not going to dive into that kind of networking, but maybe one day the logistics of network privacy will become child's play, like bitcoining is today!

https://www.econoalchemist.com/post/bitcoin-home-mining-network-privacy

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 14h

Who is the thief?

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 14h

L refutes the commonly accepted theory that it’s harder to make friends as we grow older.

We both started working at N B Primary School in our late 30s/early 40s. It was a small chapter of my life since I left it after 3 years. However, I have kept in touch with him all this while. He’s nothing like me, which may explain why unlike personalities attract. He has a snarky wit and rational cynicism that doesn’t feel negative.

Recently, he told me that he would be departing Singapore to study for his Masters in Australia - with wife and toddler in tow. Such a ballsy move! I shoved aside all things on my to-do list today and met him for lunch, because who’s to say that he would only be gone for one year? By uprooting his family and putting the pause button on his life in Singapore, he has possibilities to explore.

I am so happy for him. And I realised that even though my routine-full life is heavily structured (read: boring!!!), I genuinely get a good dose of dopamine when my friends are doing exciting things with their lives.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @suraz 14h

Why is Batman one word, Iron man two words, and Spider- Man two words with a dash?

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder 14h

first!

Just some SN socks

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