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Agreed. Another one is Eric Clapton’s I shot the Sheriff. Not that the Bob Marley version isn’t good, but Clapton improved it.

I wasn't commenting on anything else by them, there is nothing wrong with musicians only having 1 or a couple good pieces. I do like a few of their songs, but yes, this is their best. There aren't a lot of remakes of excellent classic songs that improve on the original (Hendrix "All Along The Watchtower" is another one I can think of), but this is one them in my opinion.

I was buying every week in 2023 and I haven't bought any in more than a month, so slightly more than my usual buy, but yeah small purchases relative to what I already have.

Added to BTC, MSTR, & SMLR.

The green anti-nuclear movement has stolen our future and set humanity back by half a century and we are about to start paying the price. Of course this will be blamed on capitalism, greed, big business , not enough government funding for windmills & solar panels, and just about anything other than the green-left and their anti-progress propaganda, fear tactics, and activism over the last 50 years.

That quote is taken out of context. He references “mining” immediately before that. This is how the corporate leftist media operates.

This. In my opinion this video is the best version of this song by any artist (even far better than Disturbed's studio version).

I can’t speak for the random internet people commenting on his post, but I’ve read “Soft War” and am certain that Lowery doesn’t think that any blockchain is the equivalent of Bitcoin. He is talking about Bitcoin and only Bitcoin.

In his 1st term he created the Space Force, in his 2nd term he may create a Hash Force.

It certainly is. NH is beautiful. Lakes & mountains! Just a couple a pictures I snapped with my phone in the last year.

I lived south of Boston and worked North of Boston. I would get up at 4:30am, leave my house about 5am and get to work about 6:10am (not too bad). Unfortunately in the afternoon I'd leave work about 3:30-4pm and not get home until 5:30-6pm (sometimes later). It was brutal and took a lot of time away from my family. And like you said, I was too tired to do anything during the week other than work and commute. In 2011 I changed jobs which would have added another 25 miles to my commute further north so I decided to move to NH so that I would have a 20min commute. That was life changing. Of course when COVID hit I worked from home which was even better. Then in 2022 I got my company to transfer me to the NH office and now I work from home 3 days per week and have a 10min commute the other 2 days. AND I no longer pay MA state income taxes, so life is good.

I'm in my early 50s and there isn't a lot I regret. One regret is not taking better care of my health when I was younger. I became obese in my mid-20s and didn't really change that until I was almost 40. Two, was having a long commute early on. For the 1st 15 years of my career I was on the road about 3 hrs per day getting to and from the office. I should have moved closer to my work. Those are the main regrets, basically the fist 15 years after graduating college I got fat and drove too much. Other than that I wouldn't change much even if I could. I'm happy I got married young (because I found the right woman) and had kids young. I love my family and my career. I'm happy I got into investing early, but was still young enough in 2000 when the tech crash happened that I didn't lose all that much. I of course have investing regrets that I try not to think about. I bought Netflix very early on at a split adjusted price of under $2 and sold after a triple. Also in 2011 I was reading the Bitcoin Talk message boards and wanted to buy some right around when it first hit $1. I looked into it and decided it was too much trouble and a little sketchy to wire money to some Japanese company called Mt Gox. I decided to look into mining it instead, but I was busy, so I put it off. I never ended up mining it and didn't end up buying any until a few years later when it was 200 times more expensive. And even then I didn't buy as much as I could/should have.

Thanks. It worked out better than I imagined, and quicker.

Not by choice, but my payout from the acquisition of Shockwave Medical (SWAV) by JNJ just hit my account today. I bought a small amount in Feb/2020 for $42.60 and received $335.00 today.

Semler Scientific Announces Bitcoin Treasury Strategy https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/semler-scientific-announces-bitcoin-treasury-strategy-302156715.html "Semler Scientific announced that it has purchased 581 bitcoins for an aggregate amount of $40 million, inclusive of fees and expenses... "After studying various alternatives, we decided that holding bitcoin would be the best use of our excess cash," said Mr. Semler." Press release from the company: https://ir.semlerscientific.com/static-files/caa023b3-4bc8-4b56-a475-a112cbae9355

Exactly. Even in a perfect world where the fed hits its inflation target of 2% every year in perpetuity, holding USD is an awful way to store wealth for the long term. And we don’t live in that perfect world. It forces people to invest in risky assets such as stocks or bonds just to have a chance of preserving their wealth. Yes you could buy government debt, t-bills, etc, but long term those aren’t as safe as people think they are. Certainly not 0 risk the way most people treat them. There is a black swan blow up risk there that most people and institutions don’t take into account.

And the drop in USD by far greater than 75%, more like 98%, is a permanent one that it will never recover from. In fact it is still dropping further year by year and no one expects it to ever stop dropping.

I read somewhere that there are now more females graduating from college than males. I wonder if this will be more common in the future. If the wife makes more being a medical specialist or something then the husband will stay home with the kids.

Absolutely. I just couldn't have done it. I think the same thing whenever I see a male elementary school teacher. How on earth do you spend the day in a room with 30 kids?

It's like 3 out of 30. 10% has got to be an anomaly. My wife and I talk about how weird it is all the time. 2 of the wives are Doctors and 1 is a lawyer. In 2 of the cases the wives are far more masculine than the men. If I had to physically fight either the husband or the wife, I'd fight the husband no question.

I agree with everything you said. There are always exceptions though. On my street (ave. house value ~$900K-$1.2M) there are 3 families with only 1 income where the man stays home with the kids and the wife works and supports the family.

There is likely a lot of that, especially in marriages where there is only 1 income. But most families have 2 incomes. Two people with 2 incomes pooling their resources is likely much better than 1 person with 1 income trying to go it alone.

Absolutely, but it takes work to make sure your time and/or money goes to the right place though. It's like when you try to sell something on FB or Craigslist and get these sob stories about why you should just give the item away to someone. If you actually believed these stories you would give the item away, but you know that they are likely just scammers looking for something for nothing. The welfare/charity space is full of people looking to get something for nothing. Both the recipients and the organizations claiming to help them. My great-aunt was a nun who went on charity missions to Haiti and we used to donate money to buy food and shoes for her missions. This was the most bang for our charity buck for many years. We knew the money was going to the people actually in need. Unfortunately she doesn't do this anymore (she's in her 90's now).

Bitcoin. It's easier on your rectum.