Decided to make a crazy quick day trip to Muscat to cover as many highlights as we can with only 8 hours on the ground. Boarding now, WY604, DXB-MCT. #napontheplane #newairline #newcountry

Let's be clear. Beef bacon is not bacon. Chicken sausage is not sausage. Turkey ham is not ham. #gopigorgohome

What is inflation? What causes it? What can we do about it?

What Is Inflation, What Causes It, and What Can We Do About It? – Tim Totten blog

I swear I am NOT playing for the min cash. Yes, years ago, I played that way. Today, I had below-average card distribution, and a table of nearly all pros most of the day. I think I played very well. There was one hand where I regret that I didn't play the turn for a big check raise. I did find some cool spots that I would have missed not long ago. Thirty away from the bubble, I had a slightly above-average stack. A top pro with more than $24 M in winnings hit a lucky three-outer to take a big chunk of my stack. Otherwise, I would have been cruising with a big stack. Then I lost two more standard pots, and found myself with 6 BB two players away from the money. After the bubble, I got it all in three ways with the best hand, but it didn't hold. Really annoying and disappointing result again, but happy with my play. On to the next one tomorrow... #WSOP #WSOP2025 #54-PLO8max

Another great ASRI stockholder and Board of Directors meeting! This is such a well-run company, bringing out-sized benefit to the entire aviation industry. I'm proud to play a small role.

I couldn't resist. Starting today, Steak n Shake accepts #bitcoin payments. Seems they have a little bug on their receipt (although I've seen others that are correct). But the actual payment process is smooth and easy.

Boarded now, DL2763, ATL-DAY. Road to #Dayton #Hamvention. #sleepontheplane

Boarded now, DL1763, SJU-ATL. Road to #Dayton #Hamvention. #sleepontheplane

The #Poker Tournament You Never Wanted: #Government Edition 😂 Ever wondered what your weekend poker game would look like if the government ran it? Buckle up: The "evil winners" actually LOSE: • 3rd place: Pay TWICE the entry fee • 2nd place: Pay THREE times the entry fee • 1st place: Pay FOUR times the entry fee (congrats on your "success"!) Meanwhile, everyone else (the "participant-winners") gets: ✅ Full refund of their entry fee ✅ Free mortgage/car payment All courtesy of the government (by way of the "evil winners"). You say the math doesn't add up? No problem! Just print more money! 🖨️💸 Who needs skill and meritocracy when you can have redistribution? #EconomicHumor #GovernmentLogic #ThoughtExperiment

One of my favorite AI use cases today: Dear AI, see my e-mail response below where I just speak the honest truth in a brash, straightforward, American style, not holding back on expressing my complete exasperation and frustration at the incoherent, indefensible position the other party has taken. Now rewrite this in a professional style that still expresses my frustration with the complete stupidity of their position, but does so in an excessively polite way that does not offend typical Filipino sensitivities. The results are pretty impressive! 😄 Maybe I should try this with social media too?

Awesome quote from Blake Eastman: "If people could step into curiosity over judgment, they'd have an infinitely better life." https://www.youtube.com/embed/A7hHFTHn56s?start=2530

For some reason, the human psyche seems to nearly always progress from "#Bitcoin makes no sense" to either "it can't possibly work" or "it's a scam" to "I missed the boat and I need to find the 'next Bitcoin' now" before finally realizing the truth. Bitcoin does work brilliantly. Fiat money is the actual scam. Bitcoin is the only acceptable solution to supplant fiat. And with a deflationary supply, it's never too late.

Prediction: we're going to find out (eventually) that Fort Knox does not have *nearly* the gold it claims to have. People will start to question what the Federal Reserve Bank actually does, and what value a Federal Reserve Note actually has. The US Federal Government uses the opportunity to kill the so-called Federal Reserve Bank and take back direct control of monetary policy for the US Dollar. After all that, the dollar still fails. The only question in my mind is "when?" I think there is a 25% chance it happens this year. 95% in twenty years. Happy to hear why I'm wrong.

Audit Fort Knox. Audit the Fed. Audit the IRS. Establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and simply publish the UTXOs so we can all audit it. OK, maybe you'd better establish the SBR first.

Far too many people today just assume that charity is a proper function of government. It is not. Even worse, they then double down from that false assumption to conclude that theft perpetrated by government (primarily against someone else, of course) is therefore justifiable. It is not.

Been away from Nostr for a few months. Can't even think of a good excuse. Did I miss anything? 🤣

After a long and detailed analysis of the situation, I've changed my mind and decided that hard money was just a 5000-year fad. This current 52-year experiment where money is whatever the money printers tell us it is, well that is clearly the solution that best benefits all of society. The faster money can be counterfei...I mean, printed and handed out to the rich people with the coziest connections to government, the more government can be expanded, the more the lower and middle classes become increasingly dependent on government for everything, and the more true wealth and power gets transferred to the richest folks at the top. I mean we can all get behind this strategy for a better society, right? I know the President told us in 1971 that the closure of the gold window was just a temporary measure, but I say it's time we put an end to the fear that hard money might some day again be declared the law of the land. Why should we continue to let that fear hang over us? Let's just go ahead and declare this fiat money experiment a complete success, and make it permanent! While we're at it, we should probably reinstate Executive Order 6102 from 1933 and seize everyone's gold once again. And more importantly, outlaw all the math behind the open source protocol known as #Bitcoin. And we should probably put limits on private holdings of all other assets like real estate, rare art, and baseball cards. If any escape hatch is left open, some folks who don't share our utopian vision of limiting class mobility might try to use those escape hatches. We can't have that. (Of course, all the best tightly regulated investments that can only be held by rich people should be fine as long as we maintain high enough standards to keep ordinary folks out.) So in this spirit of a more perfect society, where everyone just stays in the social class they are born into, I have decided not to wait for the official new Executive Order, but rather go ahead and pre-comply by burning all my Bitcoin. If you care about ensuring that governments everywhere have unlimited ability to expand into every aspect of our lives, and if you support the vision of putting a hard cap on upward social mobility, so the non-rich just stay in their place, I hope you will join me. #fiatforabetterworld

Shareholders have fully approved the DWAC-TMTG merger deal! Huge CONGRATULATIONS and THANK YOU to Eric Swider for all the hard work, especially over the last year. Can't wait to celebrate with you!

Boarded now, DL1859, JFK-SJU. Last leg of a very long day. #sleepontheplane

I should post here more often. 😁 Good morning from Metro Manila!