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I am, by my nature and history, a leftist wef soyboy. I generally feel a strong affinity with such types.

However I’m also analytical enough to understand the benefit of the Bronze Age mentality, and that choosing weakness is choosing irrelevance.

That’s all I have to say about that for now.

Instead of "It is what it is". 
Consider "So it goes".

aesthetic

The fullest expression of my Roman Statue PFP/Which Way Western Man facet

If you come across some advice on the internet, consider that it might be the advice you are looking for, but not necessarily the advice you need.

If you come across some advice on the internet, consider that it might be the advice you are looking for, but not necessarily the advice you need.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/03/24/should-you-reverse-any-advice-you-hear/

Pragmatism (Security) at OP Labs.
Prev: ConsenSys & Coinbase.

Attribs: Friendly, curious, introverted, mid-witted.
Chans: /eth-security /maurelian /stoicism




I went clay shooting yesterday and I forgot how much I enjoyed it.

Something tells me @maurelian.eth does it and would be down.

Memes

Ha, that's awesome. 
Somewhat related, I discovered this track labelled as a weezer song, which turned out to be a sugar ray song, which sounds like a weezer song, which is what they were going for. 
took me a while to unravel that thread.



The only good sugar ray song is the one that sounds like a weezer song

That's awesome. In the last year or so I started tackling some of these things. For me Pennebaker journalling has been really powerful: https://warpcast.com/maurelian.eth/0x5986a038

But that's just one way. I think that however you go about articulating, instead of pushing it down, can really remove the hold these things have on you.

For 'lesser' shames, I have this document in my notes app:

Weird dream last night. 

I was coaching XC skiing, and North Korea kept dropping propaganda pamphlets on us. The wet paper gummed up our skiis.

WTF?

I feel like a little bit of an outsider in all the worlds I move through. 

This is certainly beneficial in some ways, but it can also be taxing to rarely feel fully at ease.

Seems like everytime I open the X app I end up watching a video of someone dying.

I don’t need that. Deleted.

https://youtu.be/LbZXAY6XLSs?si=fPKzxJ0Xs_nMZ3jb

So excited about the rewilding projects in Europe: horses, aurochs, bison, lynx… maybe even lions one day. 

It could be seen as degrowth aligned, but I see it as accepting our responsibility to manage the environment more thoughtfully and intentionally. 

Build where we need to build, wilderness where we need to be wild.

Engineering

The Orbital O2 generates about 2 Mega Watts which is about 2-3 MW is what a wind turbine generates. A 2MW solar farm is about 10 acres ish. 

2MW wind turbine is about ~$8000 per kW, solar is about ~$1000 per kilowatt and falling, wind offshore/onshore is about 2000-5000 per kW depending on the installation

Alternating current from alternating currents!

I know, right. I have total apathy towards all of this. Or maybe the better way to say is I hate everyone involved. The techies unwilling to even try to persuade anyone why this is good and just doing what they want, the crunchies reflexively hating on all tech and human intervention. Everyone sucks. 

And to your point: We have been messing with Earth since the year only had 3 digits. There is no natural!!! 

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02761-3

We need to let go of striving for what is or is not natural. But what does targets does that leave us with for stewarding the land?

Beautiful, healthy, diverse, thriving might each be a good starting point.

Bison in the UK!

https://youtube.com/shorts/oqt5wn2KPJ8?si=0Y-fAEBkfWDC6qxZ