I swear i tried selling 0.1 BTC just before the dip because of resons (SOMA) when i saw it struggling to move upwards, but i was on the road, then put my daughter to sleep and the next thing i saw was the big red one on my notebook
So no +0.01 BTC for me   (this time).
I was hating life for a short moment, i admit it.
#HODL

Let's resume:

1. vaccines work, but not good at stopping the pandemic.
MSM's "vaccines are the way out of this pandemic" bubble just popped by Omicron.

2. vaccines can't be distributed as needed, worldwide.
Guarantee for globally spreading variants, forever.

3. Almost all people dying or needing ICU treatment are old or not healthy.

4. Masks and distancing is about as effective as vaccination, if done RIGHT.

5. Most Long Covid patients have virus rna in their urine.

6. Nobody knows what will happen to the immune system about many subsequent jabs, some months apart.

All of which leads to:

Protect the weak and sick, use vaccines for the endangered and likely endangered folks, leave the rest alone and make politics invest in their (our) healthcare system(s).


It's just that if you take part in a new game, you want to learn the rules to work out how to win, right? What the world tries to do is changing the game with global, unidimensional measures. China can't lock down the virus forever.
Ask you sane mind: How likely is this to actually work out?

OT: Aside of Covid, China isn't appearing as often in the news since quite some time, makes me feel a bit uncomfortable.

Don't worry, it will change.

AFAIK it was mislead politics to blame.
But yes, in the recent discussion, big pharma plays a role in trying to discredit naturally produced/processed marihuana as drugs, while they are lobbying for "much safer" synthetic cannabinoids, for which they own patents on the production process or resulting products.
I personally don't care too much. I consume, almost daily, at night, in the form of vapor, sweets or dissolved in alcoholic beverages (gin), it didn't do any harm to me (afaik), i don't even experience any withdrawal like sensations since i consume it in pure forms, without tobacco. Smoked with tobacco it was getting me somewhat addicted, while i was decreasingly enjoying it over the years, because i was always a bit over-sensitive to many psychoactive substances. It's like what i imagine heroin to feel like. Had consumed opium through friends a few times when i was younger, which also felt to me much like smoking fat joints or big bhongs, just much more boring (for lack of a better term).
It's a spiritual drug, imho, less suited for the fun-generation. It should be looked at without bias, then it turns out to be a really nice substance.

Glad to see the bulls at work again 
Imho, there is a confirmed bulltrend after breaking $46k.
We're on our way, baby 

I admit, noice would have been the better edit 

FTFY  

Maybe because chinese miners sold a lot of BTC at the top(s), to pay relocation operations.
Now they're getting their reserves back at a discount?
Mining datacenter relocation for free  

No worries, i don't feel offended at all and it takes a lot to make me feel as such 
I also know a handful of cases with preconditions regarding blood/heart who had no problems whatsoever after getting their shots.
Just my personal decision not to take a jab, also because of my chronic fatigue history, which is already known to likely get one into a relapse after vaccination.
If i'd suffer a relapse after Covid (Long Covid, then), i can be sure to have done the best i could to avoid getting infected. If i'd get chronic fatigue again from a shot, i'd feel more stupid than smart, in my particular case. I got close to Covid infections a few times now, but the intentional masks, distancing precautions and regular use of carrageen nasal spray seemingly did work well. Not sure if i can escape from Omicron as efficiently, but YOLO...

By the time, i know more than ten cases of heart conditions of vaccinated people in the range of 40-70 years of age.
Last case yesterday, the uncle of my wife, no preconditions.
Stay away from me with that shit!
The vaccine mandate can suck my dick, if it ever passes the constitutional court's judgements.
The government will have to pay back all the fines i will have paid until that day.

Hitting somebody with a tennis ball is possibly a way of saying "hello" amongst tennis players in the balkan region  
As for awkward ministers of health... In a german speaking country, the MOH is a smoker and recently was caught on video, taking off his mask for coughing into his bare hand while attending a governmental conference. I wish postings regarding the matter would stay in the Covid-WO-thread.


Still, "modern way of life" turns out to be more deadly than a coronavirus pandemic...
If governments were as actively about changing that, Covid fatality scores would be lower, too.
One gotta see the whole picture, as far as possible.

I'm on a kind of posting vacation, only backreading WO most of the time, a lot of RL activity lately.
Hope it's passing by quickly and i can soon again just lie on the couch and have fun and talks for hours with y'all  
#HODL

Bitcoin: Looks like make-or-break at these levels, according to order books. Curious how it will play out, looks more like a possible bottom to me.

Only thin people age well.
Nothing wrong with that. Also, your metabolism slows down lot after 80 years, so you don't each as much.

Maybe even a vagenis?  
Consider the coldness, but things wouldn't shrink THAT MUCH, i agree  

John Carmack would love that MOOD tweak for sure!


Must be the oldest guy in the middle, because the quality of the photography is almost too good for even the early 1940s.


Serious planking (more than three sets, every second day) really gives good results soon, without strain on your tendons and joints.
I'd reccomend to finetune your push-ups by doing the elevated version (take 1000 pages of book for each hand/fist) as riser, so you can go down deeper before you push up, which keeps the "hunchback" side effect of regular push-ups away. Don't expect to be able to do as many as regular pushups, the elevated ones are harder.
If you are over 40, do them slow.
If you want a good result on abs, do as follows:

lying on a mat, back down, cross your legs at the ankles, lift them up so your legs are balanced over your thighs, pointed to the side with the knees, just like you would sit on your ass and pull your knees towards the sides of your belly. keep your quadriceps muscles relaxed.
First, the lower ab routine: pull up the crossed legs towards your chest, until you feel tension in the back of the neck. Arms lying sideways of the body, palms down. Relax the abs, let the crossed legs sink towards the ground a bit, repeat as often as you can without pain.
Upper abs procedure: Lift the arms a bit, slightly over the level of your hips. Now the crossed legs stay static, knees floating over your hips, pointing to the sides. Raise your head a bit and lock it in, with the chin slightly pulled towards your chest (to prevent neck strain). Then pull up your upper body, let it sink down and repeat. If you got used to it, you can lay your arms back ("hands-in-the-air" like, but lying on the floor) and do it this way, which puts more load on the ab muscles.
Do nice, slow pulls. No ripping or fast movements.
This is the only body weight exercise you can do to train abs without strenghtening your spinal erector, which gives you a hollow back over time.
Your lower pelvis should tilt forwards over time, which supports straight back posture and saves you from many typical backpain problems when you're older.

It took three weeks to go from $40k to $65k, after half of china dropped out of the market.
Imho this is doable, but the series of pullbacks is already lasting for two months now, which just don't show the same dynamics compared to September (-$10k in 23 days).
To me it looks like we're already out of cycles quite a bit, so a delayed 2022 bullrun to or over $100k would be in the cards as well. I don't expect anything but not to fall much under $30k, but you know King Daddy, doing what nobody was expecting him to do...

@Bob: Year of the crab? Waddayamean?

Check again

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Our house was blacked out for seventeen hours after yesterday's wet, heavy mediterranean snow sent a few trees against the power lines at night, interrupted my WO session  
Glad that we decided to build the house with better insulation, so we only were 1° of room temperature down today, and tonight will be a pretty cold night.
At noon we boiled sausages and eggs for the kids, using a small survival hobo oven which even works using semi-dry pieces of branches. No more than two eggs or wieners at once, but it worked pretty well.

Patience and focus.
This is what i have learned on WO.

I always remember the price of my first Sats in situations like today. Helps if you were in BTC before 2018.

Yes, i also see $42k as kind of given, but not so early. It should be a long, bearish grind down, i expect a month or two. By then it's still a healthy correction, despite we had $69k recently. I'm fueling up to set buys at these levels, since $44k was checked by today. As always, HODLing in i-dont-care-mode 

Had to buy via broker at $44.100 (converted & rounded) because no more fiat at exchange.
Now it's back to sit tight & assess- mode again  

EDIT: /me Playing the (nanostrategy) Saylor game