Ever notice that nobody raves about llama socks?

Farming was never about "paying". It is about feeding.

Give your head a shake.

Top 40 isn't just oldies music.

Still, we can do much better. Go Bitcoin go.

Hey! Don't knock alpaca socks.

Without alpaca sox what would Proudhon use as an avatar?

Sox rox.

The only reason I didn't give your post more merit was that I don't agree with using the military against civilians (including criminals). That is what police are for. Military force should only be used to keep the police (also including criminals) in line.

Other than that, I fully agree. Fuck that left-wing/right-wing bullshit.

Can't they see they're being played like bagpipes, blown and squeezed until an awful noise is created?

This false dichotomy, right-wing versus left-wing, was created precisely to divide and conquer.

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Saving is not the problem, debt is. Other than that, I agree.

Turn on (open your mind), tune in (see what's really happening), drop out (stop participating in the bullshit).

Timothy Leary knew. Smartest brain of the 20th century.

I can't believe that some people actually keep Bitcoin on cellular telephones. 

I also keep a backup of every private key I create to try to protect someone from themselves. Better to trust me than some random internet site or app.

Wallets are for losers.

No kidding.

I recently thought about my collection of BTC buttons, tie pins, etc., and wondered if Id ever wear one again. I used to wear a BTC baseball cap everywhere I went, including on stage. That was before we started worrying about $5 wrenches.

At one time I wore a t-shirt I had made with "BTCeer Fund" and a QR code on the front. If I did that now people would probably scan it thinking it was a link to a website.

Not all my Bitcoin evangelism was wasted though. One non-wealthy friend acquired almost 3 whole bitcoins for less than $1k CAD total a decade or so ago, and is still steadfastly holding 2 whole coins for his old age. Out of the remaining less than a coin, he has already done several renovations on his home including a new roof, taken several vacations, and enjoyed other lifestyle benefits. Another acquired 11 whole coins when he was already in his 70s and somehow managed to just barely spend or give them all away by the time he passed away a few years ago. They were the exceptions though. Most merely ignored Bitcoin while some ridiculed me for wasting my money on what they saw as an obvious scam.

A hustle will always be better than being told what to do.

Convert it to Bitcoin.


Congratulations and welcome to the free world.

I've been job-free since 1976. It's one of the best decisions I've made in my life. Thank you Timothy Leary. Turn on, tune in, drop out.

I'm not sure if I posted this here before or not but if I did, my apologies.

I see life being in 15 year segments:

The first 15 years, you're a child.
15-30 years, you're an adolescent.
30-45 years, a young adult.
45-60 years, early prime.
60-75 years, late prime.
75-90 years, senior.
90-105 years, elderly.
After 105 years, borrowed time.

Waiting for adulthood to get inherited money is probably a good idea.

Not all adolescents cluelessly seek self gratification and peer approval. Unfortunately most do.

I had friends in grade school who spent their childhood earning and saving. My one classmate bought the local pharmacy while he was in high school with money he saved from his paper route, fish&chip deliveries, and other hustles. He had to hire a licensed pharmacist as an employee. By the time he was in his 20s he owned several other stores.

Likewise I know 45-year-olds still living with  their parents... pathetic. I don't mean adults supporting elderly parents. I mean immature losers still sucking on the parental tit. Sigh.

P.S. I'm a senior.

The trouble with bequeathing money to people in their 20s is that far too often it gets wasted on things like cars, clothing, restaurant meals, etc.

It's much better to wait until they're 40 when they're entering the prime of their lives and are more likely to use the money wisely. Most people are grown up by the time they reach their 40s. By then they've probably learned the value of work and thriftiness.

I wasn't talking about the book. I was commenting  on the concept of spending (or donating) all your wealth yourself instead of leaving something for your heirs to spend or donate.

Inter-generational wealth is a good thing. A good will is important.

Dying with zero is pretty pathetic and greedy.

Perhaps you should think about others who could use your excess wealth.

I can accept the fact that leaving it to immature young family members could be a waste but maybe you can think of more responsible recipients who could put it to good use.

Enjoy the benefits of your success while you're alive but don't assume you'll be able to time your lifespan to use up your wealth. You might live longer than you think. Keeping enough for a good future is essential. That means leaving some behind.

Think about what you want to happen to what's left behind.

And all fathers.

Way cool. We have a lot of overlaps.

The biggest problem with building crystal radios from scratch was the transducer. Then the rocket radio became available in the late 1950s:



It was cheap enough that any kid could afford one. That solved the transducer problem as that tiny piezoelectric earpiece was sensitive enough to be used with an otherwise completely homemade radio. We found that by playing around with pencil leads and old razor blades we could create makeshift diode detectors, similar to the traditional cat's whiskers and galena crystals used in early crystal sets. We would wind wire on old toilet paper tubes and made sliders out of old tin cans to serve as tuners. You could use almost any large enough metal object as an antenna. sometimes even a good ground would work. The metal finger stop on a telephone dial made a great antenna.

That rocket radio was a real wonder. It used a germanium diode as a detector, and had a tiny button capacitor with a little ferrite-core tuning coil. Sliding the rocket's nose cone in and out moved the ferrite core in and out of the coil, making a surprisingly good tuner. The little alligator clip attached to whatever you used as an antenna. I used to use my metal bed frame to grab signals from some of the stronger stations. I would feign sleeping until long after my bedtime listening to exotic programming like the "Back to the Bible Broadcast" on WWVA from Wheeling, West Virginia, my first exposure to southern hillbilly culture. That little rocket could pull in stations from as far away as Chicago and Nashville and even once from Los Angeles during sunspot season.

Later as a teenager I used my father's Harmon Kardon vacuum tube hi-fi tuner to fill my log book with stations from as far away as Europe. Those small town stations you mentioned were particularly satisfying to add to my list.

Thanks for rekindling old memories.

Excellent upgrade. Nice to see the most recent bids and asks being marked as such. I'm surprised he's still neglecting to include the most recent actual traded price.

Seeing the ATH is nice but I think the actual current price is more important.
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@Paashaas:

Sorry to hear about your loss. It can be a shock but it's an eventuality. I found my 3-days-deceased father on the floor after returning from a long weekend over half a century ago to a house full of flies and a horrible stench.

With time the pain will subside. Nature prepares us for losing our parents during our lifetimes. The real tragedy is when a parent loses a child. Nature doesn't prepare us to be predeceased by our children. It's a pain that lasts a lifetime.

Almost a clean sweep.

Let's see what tomorrow brings.