I resolved the situation by just not screwing it down for now, until I get the right screw. The M.2 drive is just kind of floating in there, connected on one side. Didn’t want to close the case without at least partially completing my mission. Happily playing Baldur’s Gate 3 now that I have the storage for it. View quoted note →

Based on the comments here, Nostr is absolutely lit when it comes to meditation. View quoted note →

I built my PC like 8 years ago or something, and kept all the boxes for the spare parts for like 7 years and never needed them, so eventually during spring cleaning I just chucked them out. I was like “this big box of boxes does not spark joy.” And then… that’s when I finally need a spare part. Today I go to install a second M.2 drive and realize I have no spare motherboard screws on hand.

I'm basically a cold plunge maxi now.

In Cairo, they built a ton of elevated roadways throughout the city over the past 5-6 years to relieve traffic congestion, which was (and still is) among the worst in the world. And they often put shops under those bridges. Cafes, fast food joints, etc. I think in most countries this would not be allowed due to safety codes, but I dunno. I just don’t really see it elsewhere. This one is a little carnival under a bridge. Rides for kids.

Anyone here do meditation? What kind?

I saw a car with the license plate number “1” today.

On one hand, any given presidential term seems short to me. Only 4 years. But then I realize that bitcoin is only four presidential terms old. Each president was in power for a full quarter of its life.

After nearly a year of not checking any of my website analytics, I might take a moment to actually reinstall some of them since they broke down a while ago. What I learned was, I’m not locked in with my analytics. My analytics are locked in with me. I’m not even sure when they stopped functioning, since I didn’t care. I literally don’t know how many people came to my website in the past six months other than “a lot”. I do know the number of paying members and my overall research revenue, but not the number of visitors to public pages as I used to. So now that I don’t give a shit about my analytics anymore, I figure I might as well take the time to reinstall them and see what they are. Feels like a line from Fight Club. Only once we lose something do we begin to care for it. In my randomness I randomly decided that it would be nice to know the number of readers per post again, after having spent a long time of not caring or measuring by accident and apathy. View quoted note →

One of my to-do lists is to fix Google Analytics on my website since it broke down a few months ago while I was traveling. Normally this is a crisis but I was too apathetic to care. I posted the best articles I could write and didn’t care for analytics. Naturally I should get this back and setup, but I found it interesting that 1) I didn’t check the numbers for 6+ months anyway and 2) it broke and I didn’t care for my website in 3+ months, before ultimately now I was like “okay let’s get analytics back, holy shit.”

I’ve met Peter Schiff in person a few times. He is super chill, friendly, usually sun-tanned on vacation with chad vibes, etc. He’s trolling us. He might be our industry’s most prolific troll, but ultimately he is just that: consciously trolling us. His only argument is that bitcoin has no “intrinsic value” while meanwhile I’m active in two continents and am thankful that my multi-signature money isn’t attached to either one of them like gold would be. He has no answer for this. Bitcoin is the best at what gold can’t do: be globally accessible. He’s famous from two decades ago, is rich and happy, and wants to sell gold. He is closed to Bitcoin intellectually but is happy to engage with bitcoiners that give him marketing. He’s a Puerto Rico chad. That’s who bitcoiners debate against; someone who is going for marketing and is happy for the engagement.

Most websites have Google Analytics installed to help track their details. I used to do this. It expired on my website some years ago, so I fixed it. It then expired again. Always updating their tech. I was too busy to give a fuck that second time, so I still haven’t fixed it. My followers don’t care about Google anymore. And we’re not based on advertisers. I don’t track numbers on my website anymore. I just post based on vibes. I write what I want to and I observe the feedback on any medium that people provide it. And now there’s Nostr. So I go on vibes. Not numbers.

Deepfakes are going to be so lit once this reaches the next step of realism. Going to have to assume all content is fake unless it is signed by a reputable source. View quoted note →

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Checks out. View quoted note →

The other day I spoke on India's version of CNBC at like 11pm my time.