I've been away, but still kicking. Sometimes a break from the craziness is needed to regain one's equilibrium 😎

Fighting corruption the way it is being done right now in the US government is like having a river of gasoline feeding a fire and the fireman are pointing their hoses at one burning agency at a time. Sure, you're gonna find stuff, and lots of it--but the problem will remain raging out of control. That river of gasoline is the Fed-printed dollars that allow unrestrained deficit spending. The normal feedback mechanism of literally running out of money forces normal organizations to prioritize and eliminate waste and fraud. Without this, it's just one big party on a runaway train that can only end in hyperinflation and tears. Fix the money, fix the world, as they say.

I'm old enough to remember a time when all you had to do was turn off the TV to quiet the screeching of politics and outrage. Now it has seeped into every little nook and cranny of daily life. That cabin in the woods has never looked more enticing.

Politicians, by their very nature, cannot create any value; they can only take what some have created and give it to others. And in this way they pit man against man, all hoping to pick the pocket of those who have more than them, forgetting the hordes of people who are trying to pick theirs. The only winning move is not to play.

GM ☕ Live long enough for your childhood memories to feel like they happened to someone else. Then realize, they did.

Touched grass. Feeling better. Recommended.

I'll say it again for anyone still listening: Bitcoin does not need politicians to succeed, it just needs them to get out of the fucking way. Carry on.

Looking to politicians for solutions is like shopping for perfume in a cesspool.

Pro tip: rooting for the political gang that promises you the most "number go up" is not a strategy for lessening their power over you, any more than voting for the prison warden will open the gates of freedom. Bitcoin, and now Nostr, are both technologies for recapturing your sovereignty and making politicians, whatever their craven power fantasies might be, irrelevant.

GM ☕ What if the "strategic bitcoin reserve" being fantasized about...is the one we had at home all along?

A surfer does not control the wave, only his board. The wave controls nothing, its destiny fixed to crash at the shore. Be the surfer, not the wave.

GM ☕ Air still going in and out and blood still going round and round...life is good.

Did nostr.live go away? This was a nice backup service to download/upload event data to relays. Just tried visiting it after a couple of months and it throws a really sketchy cert error (then fails HSTS).

Politicians: Because every complex ecosystem has its parasites.

Has anyone checked in on Peter Schiff lately?