chrisoco

what, me worry? stack sats, stay humble, repeat. also obsessed with Tesla and UAP/NHI.

[Majorian / BIP-110 @MajorianBTC]

BIP-110 is apparently going to crash and burn so hard, and with such certainty, that the spam apologists have to discuss BIP-110 every minute of every single day.

[Tomer Strolight @TomerStrolight]

Fix this @apple

[ODELL @ODELLXYZ]

good morning, stay humble and stack sats 🫡

[chrisoco @chrisoco]

@btctams09 @WSJ bet it dont smell like irish spring

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Yesterday I told you about Starfall, and how bringing orbital material to Earth is critical to the post-terrestrial economy.

Today, I'm going to talk about the Valar reactor.

In the future, we build things in space because space has infinity free power. Build a solar panel once and milk it forever.

Elon Musk is trying to sell you solar panels on Earth so he can develop them for space. Solar panels are awesome in space.

But they suck on Earth.

What's awesome on Earth is fissionable material. These special rocks just radiate free power. And I don't mean a little bit of free power. I mean a huge amount.

Like, you may think your modern automobile is pretty cool because it gets 30 miles to the gallon of gasoline. But a gallon of gasoline weighs 6 pounds.

If you could run your car on HALEU nuclear fuel instead, then those same six pounds would drive you 11.3 million miles.

You know, just in case you wanted to drive to the Apollo landing site and back.

23 times.

But that's only 17 years of continuous driving, so you should probably put that six pounds of fuel in your Tesla instead. That way you could drive to Mars. In 69 years.

At the end of your journey, you would have a bunch of highly dangerous radioactive waste, of course... six whole pounds of it.

You would have to dispose of it by taking extreme precautions, such as handling it with gloves. And burying it one meter deep. In a coffee can.

Do I have your attention yet?

Now, the spicy rocks are really great because they're super spicy, but the traditional way of using them involves building a great big power plant that weighs about hundreds of thousands of tons, has to be built on a full square mile of wherever you want your power to be, and, for legal reasons, needs to be covered in the thick layer of federal bureaucrats to make sure things cost more, take longer, and generally suck.

So that's where this dude, @isaiah_p_taylor, comes in.

And he says "Wait a minute... if the spicy rocks are so goddamned spicy... why do we need a whole bunch of them in a huge containment vessel surrounded by acres of power plant?"

That's old thinking. Based on our preconceived notions of what a power plant is, which we got from burning coal and oil and other stuff that can't bring you to Mars with one coffee can.

Why not build a little tiny power plant? Like, a power plant the size of a train car? A power plant that you can load onto a train car, or a the back of a semi-rig, take it wherever you need it, and just set it down right there?

Each one holds a wee bit more than that 6 pound coffee can. Like, maybe 90 of those. That'll get your Tesla to Neptune, if you have 4000 years to spare.

Of course, that's not San Onofre. It won't power New York City by itself.

But that's what the word "modular" means. Bring as many as you need. Need one? Bring one. Need ten, bring ten.

If you actually do need to power New York City, bring 2000.

And 2000 isn't an unrealistic number. Because that's also what the word "modular" means.

Standardized.

Interchangeable.

Perfect the process with one, and then churn them out systematically. At scale.

No individualized custom site design. No years of construction. No environmental impact study committees. No thick layer of bureaucrats.

One design. One set of safety standards and protocols. One approval process. Then you crank them out forever.

The concept is already proven. How do you think the Navy gets from San Diego to the Strait of Hormuz? Immigrant galley slaves? Sailcloth?

And that's exactly where you get your workforce of modular plant operators... Navy vets who were running submarine reactors when they were twenty-two years old.

Except you can put these on a construction site because they're not a big box of weapons-grade plutonium. They're a barrel of low-grade fuel you have to handle with... gloves.

In the Robert Heinlein future, you run your factories in space with solar panels, because don't even get me started on how much power the sun gets from six pounds of hydrogen.

But on Earth, you run your air conditioner like this.

[Vad3r @vad3rt3sla]

I feel most safe on the road when FSD is driving.

[Vad3r @vad3rt3sla]

Gone is the excuse of not using FSD because it isn’t “good enough.”

There is no reason to not use FSD 90-100% of the time.

It has saved me multiple times from hitting deer that I never saw.

Cameras do not get tired, humans do.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just proved that ownership in America is a legal fiction.

Musk: “You get taxed on what you earn, you get taxed on what you buy, and you get taxed on what you own.”

Think about what property tax actually means.

You worked for decades. Paid it off in full. The deed is in your name.

Stop paying the government its annual fee. Watch them take it and sell it to someone who will.

You never owned that house. You were leasing it from an entity you never signed a contract with.

Income tax tells the same truth in softer packaging.

The government does not take a portion of your earnings. They decide how much of your own labor you are permitted to keep.

That is not semantics. It is a confession of who the system believes your time belongs to first.

Sales tax buries itself in the receipt. Two people exchange value voluntarily. A third party who contributed nothing takes a cut simply for allowing it to happen.

Now stack all three.

Taxed when you create. Taxed when you spend. Taxed when you hold. Taxed again when you die and try to pass it to your children.

At no point in that cycle does the system recognize your output as yours.

Because money is not an abstraction. It is crystallized human lifespan.

Every dollar taxed is an hour you already lived, already bled for, already gone.

The state is not managing an economy. It is claiming dominion over time you will never get back.

And spending it on systems you never asked for and actively oppose.

The institution extracting all of it faces zero obligation to perform. A contractor who delivers nothing gets fired. A bureaucracy that burns through trillions gets a budget increase the next fiscal year.

SpaceX pays taxes to the agencies that obstruct its launches. Tesla funds the regulators drafting rules to shield its competitors.

The builders are not subsidizing government. They are financing their own friction.

The tax code is 74,000 pages long. Not because the economy demands it. Because the extraction had to be buried in enough complexity that you would stop asking who it was designed to protect.

The past belonged to the people who taxed the world.

The future belongs to the people who build it.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

Self-driving cars are going to be rapidly adopted as parents realize their children are safest without a human behind the wheel.

[Red Wave @RedWaveOR]

Once again Portland’s Multnomah County is screwing families over with higher housing points for BIPOC + LGBTQ + ESL checkboxes than a mom and her 6 year old who’s been homeless over a year.

That mom probably gets looked over and it should be a problem right away, right? Common sense would say “this is a problem, fix it!”

Doesn’t help families at all — straight screws real Oregonians. Tents everywhere and things like this make it worse!

Equal protection shouldn’t be optional.

Glad @AAGDhillon and DOJ Civil Rights are investigating and ready to sue.

End these blatantly discriminatory failed experiments already!

#Oregon #MultnomahCounty #Drazan

[Christian Keil @pronounced_kyle]

I'm ready to RUN THROUGH A BRICK WALL after reading this.

"America faces a crossroads. We can either trod a road of cultural decay or hike our way back to the peak of global innovation.

Join me on the latter path."

[chrisoco @chrisoco]

@BTC_for_Freedom this becomes more and more obvious as you try to survive on a fixed income, unfortunately it’s a lesson many learn late in life

[Bitcoin for Freedom @BTC_for_Freedom]

Inflation isn’t prices going up. It’s your life’s work being quietly voted out of existence by people you never elected and will never meet.

[Lawrence M. Krauss @LKrauss1]

Am converted. Just drove from south San Francisco through Oregon without touching my steering wheel. Tesla full self drive is both magical and life changing, relaxing and maybe even life saving! Thank you @elonmusk for the technology!

[chrisoco @chrisoco]

@sachenverlierer immaculate vibes and truth

[sachenverlierer @sachenverlierer]

Sonntagmorgen ist die friedlichste Form gegenseitiger Vermeidung.

Ich sitze im Schlafanzug auf der Terrasse, eine Tasse Kaffee in der Hand, eine Zigarette in der anderen. Die Welt ist noch weich und unentschlossen.
Sie liegt drinnen im Bett und hat sich vernünftigerweise gegen die Menschheit entschieden. Selbst im Schlaf ist sie elegant.

Der Nachbar gießt seine Blumen.

Er gießt sie mit einer Hingabe, als wären sie seine eigentlichen Kinder. Vielleicht sind sie das auch. In unserem Alter überrascht einen nichts mehr.

Ich tue so, als würde ich ihn nicht bemerken. Das ist ein gesellschaftlicher Vertrag unter Männern, die zufällig nebeneinander wohnen. Man respektiert die Existenz des anderen, indem man sie ignoriert.

Leider muss ich husten.

Ein brutaler, verräterischer Husten. Der Körper ist ein Denunziant. Er meldet mich sofort beim Nachbarn an.

Jetzt muss ich grüßen.

Man kann nicht husten und anschließend schweigend in den Himmel starren. Das wäre unhöflich oder psychopathisch. Die Grenze ist fließend.

Also hebe ich kurz die Hand.

Nicht zu hoch. Nicht zu freundlich. Nicht zu energisch.

Ein Gruß, der sagt: Ich erkenne deine Anwesenheit an, aber bitte missverstehe das nicht als Beginn einer Beziehung.

Er nickt zurück.

Auch er beherrscht diese Kunst.

Zwei Männer auf ihren Terrassen, die sich gegenseitig versichern, dass sie keinerlei Interesse aneinander haben.

Es ist vermutlich eine der stabilsten Formen von Freundschaft, die das Erwachsenenleben hervorbringen kann.

Dann gießt er weiter seine Blumen.

Ich rauche weiter meine Zigarette.

Und wir beide hoffen inständig, dass keiner von uns plötzlich auf die Idee kommt zu sagen:

"Na, alles gut?"

Denn auf eine so große Frage ist ein Sonntagmorgen einfach nicht vorbereitet.

Guten Morgen. Ihr ...

[Mr. Anderson @Truecrypto]

A bad chapter does not mean you have a bad life.

It just means you are in a hard part of the story.

Keep going.

Some pages hurt to live through.

They are still not the ending.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The chickadee calling in your yard right now may be telling you something specific, if you know how to listen.

Black-capped chickadees use two distinct alarm signals. A soft, high-pitched "seet" indicates a predator flying overhead. The louder, familiar "chick-a-dee-dee-dee" is their alarm, used when a predator is perched or stationary, and it contains encoded information that researchers at the University of Montana decoded in a 2005 paper in Science.

The number of "dee" notes at the end of the call corresponds to the threat level of the predator, and the relationship is counterintuitive. More "dees" doesn't mean a bigger predator. It means a more dangerous one, which for a chickadee is usually a smaller, more maneuverable one.

Think of this way: a great horned owl is enormous but slow and unlikely to catch an agile small bird. A northern pygmy owl, barely larger than a sparrow, is quick enough to actually succeed.

The pygmy owl gets more "dees." In the research recordings, a pygmy owl could generate up to 23 "dee" notes. A great horned owl might get two.

The flock uses this information. When the recordings were played back through speakers, the chickadees' mobbing response, the dive-bombing and harassment behavior they use to drive off predators, scaled with the number of "dees" in the alarm. More "dees," more aggressive response.

And it's not just chickadees listening. A 2007 study in PNAS documented that red-breasted nuthatches eavesdrop on chickadee alarm calls and respond appropriately to the encoded threat level, adjusting their own behavior based on information they haven't gathered themselves.

Every "dee" is a data point if you know what to listen for.

[TAMAR'A @btctams09]

I see you.
Hugs today.

🧡 for Dads today.
~ t

[Vad3r @vad3rt3sla]

FSD is better than any legacy auto feature.