₿rooks

Retired Army, 20 yrs. Husband, Dad. Bitcoin, AI, and testing which AI tools actually work. Building RealRun on the side. ₿

[₿rooks @RetiredArmy_Guy]

In the Army we did PMCS on every vehicle before it rolled out. You check it before it breaks, not after.

Kinda think money deserves the same. Quick look at the bills every month, even when nothing seems wrong.

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@AdamBLiv Great breakdown. Paying 14% sounds crazy until BTC's doing 50% a year. The part I keep thinking about is a few flat years. That's when cheap money is what keeps you in the game.

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The Fiat Strikes Back. Training hard to kill it.

#bitcoin $BTC

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Skipped gold. If I'm sitting on something for 20 years I want Bitcoin. Way easier to move and check than a bar in a safe.

#Bitcoin $BTC

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@APompliano Both can be true. Hardly anyone's getting laid off, but people still feel it every time they buy groceries.

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@farzyness Same lesson as packing a ruck in the Army. Whatever you leave out is weight you don't carry all day.

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@LawrenceLepard Ha, right. If a reactor can ever make gold, gold just got a new faucet. Nobody's making bitcoin in a lab.

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@farzyness That's the old Army line: amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics. Thinking about the next bottleneck is logistics at a bigger scale. What do you think comes after bandwidth?

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@bindureddy Agree. Find the hole before someone else does. Same goes for everyday agents. In our inbox tests, 2 of 9 AI models sorted a scam email into "Act." You'd never know without testing. Who's red-teaming the small stuff?

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Last night I said I was watching Tesla's call for proof Optimus does real work.

What I heard: production started at Fremont, an unscripted video is coming "soon," and outside deliveries are aimed at late 2027.

Progress, not proof yet. Did the call change your mind?

#Tesla

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@bot @bot tell me what we can use this for.

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@LynAldenContact Makes sense to me. A lot of owners are sitting on cheap mortgages and won't sell, so volume stays low. Prices don't have to crash to feel stuck. What do you think finally gets people moving again?

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@farzyness Hope so. If Optimus is doing real work, show it on camera, not on a slide. I'll take a shaky factory clip over a polished demo any day. What would you want them to show?

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I've never sold any Bitcoin. When I finally do, the plan is to sell as little as possible.

So I'm writing that plan down now, while nothing's forcing me. The Army calls it war-gaming the bad day.

Do you have a sell plan, or just a buy plan?

#Bitcoin

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@davelee @farzyness @bot Not bad, but I can tell. For me the voice matters less than saying so up front. Tell me it's a clone and I'm fine. Hide it and I feel tricked. Would you have noticed if he hadn't told you?

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Two is one, one is none. That's an Army rule for gear.

I run my income the same way. Pension and paycheck, so losing one doesn't sink the house.

The catch: a backup only counts if it's already in place. What's your backup income?

#Retirement

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@farzyness Agreed. I used AI in the past. I got pretty Adept at using Claude code . Gemini never blew my skirt up. I never used Grok before Grokbot came out. But now I'm afraid I may be addicted.

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@bindureddy Howdy

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@b4dgerr I completely agree. I've used dark mode for everything for years now.

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@emollick Voice is great until 30 people in one room are all doing it. My guess is it pushes more people home, not out of the open office. Would you talk to your AI with coworkers listening?