'wildest 3' would probably be the second water tower that I climbed to graffiti

'wildest 4' would be the first billboard I climbed to graffiti a green apple over a banker's face (by my pocked memory, it was an IMF/world banker, but that hardly makes sense)

From age 19-21, I lived in a motel behind a mexican restaurant. One day after my shift as grocery clerk, my best friend, a bagger at the same grocery store, and I bought a couple 40's of Mickey's. We got sloshed.

His mom called and asked him to pickup baby formula for his one-year-old daughter. He said he couldn't drive, and I didn't have a car or valid license¹, but I told him I could drive his ancient Volvo stationwagon² if he wanted.

After successfully dropping off the baby formula, we stopped at a light turning left onto the main road of our rural California farming town (population of 30k). The light turned green and I turned, neglecting an oncoming truck that slammed on its brakes and made contact with our front right bumper. I panicked, kept driving, and the truck pursued.

I turned off the main road, speeding down farm lined country roads all way back to my motel room, the truck pursuing us all the way. We parked, hopped out of the car, and ran into my motel room. We kept the lights off, hoping they'd lose interest, considering leaving through the bathroom window to make a run for it.

Then the cops showed up. I didn't want to come out. Then the cops started knocking. I still didn't want to come out. My friend pleaded, "it's my car, they know it's my car, I can't lose my license." He went out, hands in the air, and I followed. He told them everything. I confirmed his story, yelled "how convenient!" to the hit-and-run victim for some fucking reason, and was arrested.

After my photoshoot, I was taken to a lights-out cell with two guys sleeping in it. One of them looked up from his pillow, "first time?" I ate the leftovers of one of their dinners, drank a thimble of water from a broken fountain, and sat against a wall waiting to get let out.

They let me out the next morning and I walked home.

A friend's mom did a lot of entertaining and had a large wet bar. I was freshly fourteen and thought it'd be fun to show up drunk to school. I took 12 shots of Jose Cuervo before boarding our usual city bus to school. I puked twice on the way - once in the middle of the ride, and once just as we stopped at school, all over the rear stairs. ah, that's better.

My friend walked, and I stumbled, to our usual in-between-bells hangout spot where I showed off my drunkenness to our other friends.

The bell rang but I was feeling too sick to go, so I sat near a bush, waiting for the nausea to clear. A hall monitor woke me from my "nap" inside the bush, torso concealed, feet and legs sticking out.

I couldn't walk so they put me in wheelchair and took me into the principle's office. I lied and told them I had food poisoning. I puked in the middle of the principle's office. They called an ambulance.

The ER debated pumping my stomach but just gave me an IV IIRC. I wouldn't have a hangover to show for it.

Vitiver or ginger for base maybe and lemon or bergamot for top.

We will allow you all to perpetually edit too eventually. I promise.

Perfume making the way I do isn't much of a skill. You mix fragrances with a carrier (oil or alcohol) and that's it. I don't like complex scents and complex scents are where most of the skill would factor in.

i also would like to not hide the individual scents, so I'm going to try to stick to three scents total.

They are drawn to it, I agree. Other than private chats and niche forums that collapse at scale, there's just nowhere to seek refuge from it right now.

hmmmm thinking about making another natural (essential oil) perfume. i definitely want rosemary in it, which is a green scent family, middle note in most cases, so I need to find base and top notes. i suspect i'll go with something citrus or in the fruity scent family for the top note which makes the base note the biggest mystery.

Thinking about the tragedy of the commons a lot, then finding even the digital commons’ that I liked getting increasingly tragic or authoritarian to manage the tragedies.

I also think follow-based social media flourishes because it solves the tragedy of the commons; we can't share free (not like free beer) and open space on the internet, so we'll have you follow many false idols instead. I think regardless of the algorithm, who is in control, the content or the format, follow-based social media is bad for human wellbeing. It elevates the most narcissistic and attention-seeking members of our species, and forces anyone seeking community online to become more narcissistic and attention-seeking to find community online.

Everyone is concerned with the other cancers of internet: algorithms and censorship. Yet they ignore this far more terminal one because the people who benefit from it the most, the people we follow the most, the internet's false idols, will never help us question it. Follow-based social media is like the fiat money of social media - the cause of most of the social media's problems, yet we're distracted by symptoms.

I think something like SN, the way it solves problems, is the future of the internet.

Data like this is so frustrating

It sounds like just the right amount of science fiction to be possible

I uploaded this just now like an image.

The same way you do images

Wooo congrats!!!

This is cool. I knew they were using microwaves but figured they weren't using shorter wavelengths for good reason. It sounds like physical interference is the main reason. If you can make them cheap enough and have redundancies that might not matter. Or if you can put them on some kind of autonomous drone, always seeking line of sight, it might not matter.

~HealthAndFitness got a big boost

Very short video:

Medium length video:

More resources (mostly text, and a bit deeper than I might direct someone to who is asking what is bitcoin): #1197737

If you're starting at absolute zero: https://hellobitco.in/#videos

If you like picking and choosing articles, I'd recommend SNI's crash course: https://nakamotoinstitute.org/crash-course/

If you're willing to read a book, this is my favorite: https://www.lynalden.com/broken-money/

If you're at least technically curious, the white paper is also a good starting point: https://stacker.news/bitcoin.pdf

An animated video covering Broken Money at a high level: