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My dad got me taken by Canadian border patrol when I was 5 because they thought he was smuggling chocolate into the country. My parents, my siblings and I, were passing through Canada to reach Alaska. At the border, the patrol were asking dad typical questions for someone entering. Any firearms? No. Fireworks? No. Chocolate? My dad just yells out CHOCOLATE?! REALLY?! Well… maybe we got some chocolate cake left in the fridge but CHOCOLATE?!. Patrol surrounded our camper and had dogs sniff around the car. They found the cake, several bars of chocolate, and unmarked beef. We all got out of the camper and patrol picked me up and walked off with me. They started questioning me separate from my family in a room. I remember the ceiling was white and the bottom half of the walls was brown. They asked me who the people in the car were. I told them it was my family. That my dad was the one driving. Patrol asked if they had kidnapped me and to not be afraid they would take me back to my real family. I told them again that he was my dad and that was my family. During this they are questioning my family in a different room asking for ID for my older siblings. My sister had a school id and my brother pulled out a picture of goofy. Patrol got annoyed and realized they weren’t getting far with us. We were all just a dumb family wasting their time. They took all our chocolate and meat in the camper then let us go. They insisted that my dad wasn’t my dad. About 23 years later, I do a dna test and find out patrol was in fact, correct.

Jon Ossoff sounding more and more like a Democrat nominee in waiting…

言語は生モノだなぁ……と再認識する瞬間😇 --- Daijoubun’t = Not okay

Steve Jobs’ son, Reed Jobs, talking about building for the long-term

In 2023, after news of the $4 billion fine, Gulf, our partner in Thailand, asked: “do you need help with cash liquidity?” We didn’t, but I appreciated the gesture. Today: “know you can cover, but we are here if needed.” Strong partners show in tough times. 🙏

Гравитационная электростанция в Китае. Башня собирает избыток мощности соседних ветряков - и поднимает с их помощью 35 тонные бетонные блоки на высоту почти в 150 метров. А когда требуется электричество - блоки опускаются и крутят генераторы. Сообщается что одного "заряда" хватает на 12000 домов на 24 часа. Гравитационная накопительная система EVx работает по принципу подъёма и опускания бетонных блоков для накопления и высвобождения потенциальной энергии и позволяет накапливать 100 МВт*ч энергии, которую она может выдавать с мощностью в 25 МВт. Построенная в провинции Цзянсу, она стала первой в мире коммерческой гравитационной системой хранения энергии, не считая насосных гидроаккумулирующих систем, которые обеспечивают большую часть всех накопителей энергии в мире, сообщает Energy Vault. Гравитационные накопители были предложены рядом компаний в качестве способа хранения солнечной и ветровой энергии, вырабатываемой в периоды низкого спроса. Например, в солнечный день энергия, вырабатываемая солнечной электростанцией, может накапливаться в виде потенциальной энергии путём поднятия бетонных блоков. Вечером блоки можно опускать, приводя в действие динамо-машины, которые подают электроэнергию в нужный момент.

A brutal year for Bitcoin is just getting started. Give me three minutes to explain why you should dump it now. Outflows from ETFs are signal and will continue. We will test the 57k low again in the next 12 months. Why? Because there are far too many dynamic places to put your money that are creating MUCH more value. Why put your resources into a dead network that offers nothing beyond a store of value? What's the point of place the BTC be if Bitcoin's Ponzi-scheme nature has gone away!?! The viral nature of bitcoin was it's power... if you didn't own you were MOCKED! Now? Completely reasonable, heck, SMARTER, to ignore bitcoin and place other bets! No one is trying to convince people to buy Bitcoin anymore... the memes and NFTs are gone. No one is saying $ BTC can change the world, because it won't — and BECAUSE AI HAS! Just sell and shift from Bitcoin to Super Intelligence because one provides little to no value, and the other provides unlimited upside for humanity. This should be obvious to everyone right now. Bitcoin will never break its all-time high again.

wow, the management section of Anthropic S1 has to be a first in the history of Corporate America

To those who seek to create positive change in Cuba - now is the time. The disappointment of failed promises, corruption, and the privileged lives of only a few; seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discrete partnership with the CIA.

bitchat 🇫🇷

Many of my favourite digital essays are now dead links. The internet made writing so easy to preserve that no one bothers to. I scour archives like a drunken medieval monk, looking for a blog post from 2009 written by a guy named "TroutFish Samzdat".