Hi Jor. I'm a fellow Canadian, an electrician, and a Bitcoiner. I've been lurking on Nostr for awhile and just started posting recently, just random stuff that I'm thinking about. Check me out if you're interested.

Great perspective.

People often dismiss the centralization of the unit as unimportant, "it's just the nodes that matter." But somewhere between the 3.5% they own now and 100%, there is a line. A fuzzy line, perhaps, but a line nonetheless.

Let us hope they never cross it.

Agreed. I paid for YT Premium to avoid ads, I don't need that shite injected directly into the content.

That man knows how to please a woman, I guarantee it.

I dunno if that's the peak man, you didn't even buy CumRocket.

In the spirit of science, I have elected to conduct numerous experiments on my brain chemistry over the years.

Positive results generally came from naturally occurring substances.

"I had no idea this gif/meme is where that [movie] came from."

It was just that good of a meme.

Hell yeah.

I am, in fact, an electrician, and I can tell you that we (and the skilled trades in general) need all the smart people we can get.

A couple of decades of funnelling every smart kid into college (and telling them that the trades are just for the dummies who couldn't hack it in higher education), has left us sorely low on talent.

We are the people building your homes so they don't fall down (and wiring them such that they don't erupt in flames). You want competent people doing that.

https://strc.live/

Active during New York market hours, assuming STRC is trading above par.

The ironic thing is that the logical time to buy STRC was back in the summer when the bitcoin-fiat exchange rate was high, and yet they didn't sell much at the time.

Right now is like, the worst time to be buying STRC, when sats are stupidly cheap. And yet here we are: people piling into fiat instruments for 11.5% yield at the bottom of a bear market, or close to it.

He's exploiting a moment of deep value, right in front of their faces, with their own money. Wild.

I was careful to use the words "might have." For many people, I'm sure it was valuable regardless of recent developments. As you point out, learning begets more learning, and you never know where you might end up.

For others, they may have spent fortune (possibly borrowed) on a university degree, expecting a lucrative career on the other end that never panned out.

To your point, I'll never regret the three months I spent learning Fortran, even if it's likely I will never use it in any practical application. It opened my mind to the logic of programming, and that's been incredibly valuable in a difficult to quantify way.

Is it the "learn to code moment" 10 years ago, when they had to face up to their own technical inadequacies?

Or is it the one right now where it turns out to have been a significant opportunity cost that might have been better spent learning something else?

Both tough pills to swallow.