My mind is pretty much cabbage at this point and I can’t start or finish anything these days be it article, book, movie, or tv show, once upon a time I would watch anything and everything!

Anyway, Andor is the best thing I have seen in a very long time. A very long time. Excellent show, excellent content all around. I consider it a ‘classic British production’, the kind they don’t make any more. As the third episode wrapped up I early remember thinking ‘hold on, is this show amazing?! This is so good’. It had been so long since I’d enjoyed something so much, and then the next 6 episodes are just incredible. It has literally ruined everything else for me. Waiting one more week before starting on season 2…

thank you! permissionless?! is A16Z a strain of weed?! but seriously I might look into that to understand quite how they are defining permisionless in this instance.

As far as blockchain in 2025 goes there are only two stories, Bitcoin and USDT. I’m suprised at how interesting I find the topic, but in many ways it’s a proxy for ‘what is the future of the US’.

A recent episode of Tom Luongo’s podcast featuring Caitlin Long was quite interesting and towards the end they discuss Tether. Some interesting comments from both of them particularly Caitlin. And Toms Eurocentric conspiracy theory is pretty interesting.

What is the gist of the medium piece you posted? My three year old would not let me read it.

yes I believe you have it right wrt tether soaking up a lot of UST demand. Tether is a beast, if you have Fountain FM app you might enjoy the recent Gold Goats 'n Guns interview with Caitlin Long, well maybe not that's pretty subjective, but in any case towards the end they discuss Tether is a business entity and its pretty interesting.

Try out the aqua wallet too, it is btc and usdt exclusively iirc.

That you for the quick and comprehensive reply! Based on what I know I believe I like Braiins, I just tried to get a bit axe but it did not work out. I will get one of these instead, it is meant to be. I will be able to give some of the proceeds to my favourite charity, the Fred Hollows foundation 👍

Is this an alternative to a Bitaxe?

I swear by my HIIT workouts which I do at home once or twice a week. All one needs is enough space for a yoga mat and two dumbbells which dont need to be very heavy. They are available on YouTube.

Otherwise the only other thing I can recommend is sticking to real food, this part is more lifestyle change than ‘going on a diet’. With that said I find the HIIT workouts to do most of the heavy lifting here and you can eat pretty much anything you want. Lastly beer is very good for you, certainly a lot better than Coke, as I learned on a recently 30 day no alcohol stint.

I saw this a few hours ago, and caught some comments you made here on SN on a nostr thread last week. I am not in a position to comment but what I wanted to clarify was your position on whether the flaws you point out can be addressed in future development cycles, or if you feel nostr is fundamentally flawed?

I keep thinking I have listened to these guys but I think im getting mixed up with Sleep Token, who I also think I have listened but I’m not sure. I don’t think I’ve listened to either.

Anyway yes that can be quite the heartbreaking experience to go through, and the longer a band exists and puts out new material the greater the chance becomes that the next time they tour you won’t get to hear that one song you really, really want to hear, in fact they will play everything else including the popular singles that probably aren’t nearly as good as the song you want to hear is.

From what I can see they only have singles and EPs at this stage and they are due to release their first album, which I might have to check out as this sort of thing is typically my jam, so perhaps given their smallish catalog of songs it may be that they simply don’t rehearse or perform the one song you want to hear to live audiences, in which case you may never hear it. I hope this made you feel better.

same general problems that the average young urban Canuck is dealing with.

I can but I have no stamina in it, i don't think I could get through more than 5. One thing I am proud of is that after 40 years on earth I can still do a pull up, and then continue to wriggle/pull myself all the way up and over the bar, and then climb up and stand on the bar. It's not exactly a smooth motion and it leaves horrible bruising around my rib cage because again, no conditioning there, but it's cool to still be able to pull it off. I'd love to be able to do muscle ups one day but I don't even know where to begin.

Speaking for myself I'd be so happy. It would be like that Simpsons depiction of a world without lawyers. When I was a child I watched as a commercial break would appear on TV during whatever show we were watching, with the volume significantly higher than the audio level of the show, my father would leap for the remote control in order to mute the ads throughout their break. He would then go on to vocalise his utter disdain for ads, which is something I took from him. It wouldnt' be so bad if they weren't a) so loud and a) so shit, so uninspired.

These days I live a relatively ad-free existence, I don't have a TV, I don't have ads in my youtube (thank you Brave on iOS and ublock origin on desktop), and I pay for Spotify premium which is the only other place they can really get me. I still hate ads though. And I still see them, though these days it is as news articles, from the Daily Telegraph right through to the Economist.

Anyway, this is a good opportunity to plug my favorite documentary of all time, 'The Century of Self' which is all about the birth of the advertising industry. Too much content to consume all at once, but fascinating stuff that is well worth the time to take in, and sadly still extremely relevant: hhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04

This is depressing, why are we doing this. I scored 100%, or 0 points rather. Wasn’t sure about 9 but no, yes that happened at some point somewhere, I remember the hassle of finding enough double D batteries. Blockbuster never came to my home country (too small) but I lived in another part of the world and they opened there, fairly sure my first blockbuster rental was braveheart. Now that’s a fun memory test, all the video stores I ever rented from. It’s a pretty long list!

Sad news. I have been watching Val Kilmer my whole life starting with Top Secret. Seen him in so many things over the years including willow, the doors, tombstone, Batman, heat, island of dr Moreau which I saw so many times for some stupid reason, and the saint and then almost nothing else until just recently when I watched kiss kiss bang bang, many years too late. If you haven’t seen kkbb, and i hadn’t because I didn’t like the title, I’d recommend prioritising watch it and the nice guys. And top gun of course. What a legend.

I’ve been listening to a lot of Bitcoin and Bitcoin adjaescent podcasts to the point where most of my questions have been answered, namely for the history and corruption of finance the answer is “this was all probably inevitable to some degree but we have Bitcoin now so 🤙 “ and on the topic of price I’ve come to agree that it’s the liquidity stupid, so if the Fed QE’s number go up and and if the Fed QT’s then number dont go up, so 🤙”. No further questions your honour.

The only thing I want to listen to now is technical stuff around mining and new developments and stuff, but these are few and far between so if anyone has any recommendations then please shout them out!

Do I know anyone who has used it? Yes, she’s my wife! She is also available for 4 easy payments. Comes with budget-destroying karate-chop action.

I also have a friend who historically has been bad with money and has also used it. In this case both of these people are over 40, however my understanding is that most people who use it are younger, 18-35 or so, looks like there is some research out there on this which an AI can unearth easily enough.

For my part I do not love them, they may be helpful for some people but as a symptom I do not like how warmly they have been embraced.

a lot of people got caught up in that moment. that was a brilliant example of the entertainment experiences video games can provide to the senses, the total effect being far more than the sum of its parts. some games by intention or accident become classic experiences, Red Dead Redemption was one such example. What a game, genuinely felt like a Sergio Leone simulator, I loved it. That whole generation was totally epic, only lasted 6-8 years but goddamn the quality that came out of it.

thank you for laying all that out, great breakdown. this also helps provide context to your other posts! chur chur

Some of your post are succinct to the point of being ambiguous, that is not the case with this post, this post is excellent.

I have two questions here; assuming that the Keynesian monetary model managed to not become corrupted, how is it supposed to operate in the real world? Govts and banks expand the money supply with great discipline, adding to the supply as genuine value is 'created'?

Second question is pretty open ended, are you able to expand on your comment about Libertarians following the same narrative as the bankers?

in case anyone else is curious (and still reading) and like me cannot relate to this lunacy, one data point I came across is that Evangelical Christians who (apparently) make up 25% of US adults are likely to believe in the Rapture. I am pleased and not suprised to hear that this idea is waning in popularity.