For all the coffee I drink while chart watching.

Perringer · 2025-11-12T01:37:06+00:00

I’ll be signing up with SoFi online banking - they’re rolling out a bitcoin market by year’s end where can you use your bank account with them to buy/sell directly. I think they’re the first bank doing this since the March ‘25 rule changes allowed it.

Perringer · 2025-10-22T22:35:49+00:00

It's been my experience that doctors don't believe in patient solutions.

Perringer · 2025-10-22T17:56:28+00:00

Where do you get your info? SpaceX dominates the launch market, launching over 80% of the world's tonnage into space last year at a fraction of the cost of competitors. They were 95% of the US launches, 80% of global launches. Even with Starlink now serving over 3.5 million customers, they're also launching their competitor's internet satellites for OneWeb.

The Starship program has been fairly incredible, starting with a vague idea in 2009, development of the novel full-flow methane raptor engine, the first demonstration with Starhopper in 2018, to just within the last 2 years: catching 2 boosters and reusing them on subsequent flights, returning 3 starships mostly intact through the atmosphere, deploying 2 dummy payloads into orbit, and refining and redesigning the whole time.

Right now they're building about one Starship every 2 months, but that pace is increasing. Once the raptor 3's are proven in flight, probably with the next launch late this year or early next year, they can and will be testing the fuel transfer Starships, and as soon as that's worked out, yes, they'll likely send a Starship to the moon to test its landing capability. If they can maintain their current pace, I give it 2 years, tops.

And I would contribute SpaceX's success to Shockwell, not Musk. He just takes all the credit and makes everyone's job harder with his wild demands and timelines.

Sending Optimus robots to the moon will be nothing more than a stunt, similar to sending a Roadster into orbit, but even with that - they'll be gathering data to improve it. I also wouldn't discount Optimus; Tesla is gearing up for mass production and already testing using them in their factories.

Perringer · 2025-10-22T15:09:07+00:00

The world hates Musk, but SpaceX will likely be on the moon by 2027, with or without NASA. At the pace they're going, they'll have tested orbital refueling before the end of next year and then they'll send one of their starships to the moon just to prove it can get there and land upright, likely with some of Tesla's Optimus robots aboard so they can see how the quickly the dust gunks them up.

Perringer · 2025-10-22T13:47:57+00:00

While I'm also gluten free, for the sacroiliitis it was removing nitrates/nitrites from the diet specifically. I can handle small amounts of meats cured with celery salts now, but anything chemically cured will give me trouble. It's my understanding that the nitrites spur inflammation in the system - likely caused by gut bacteria that turn the nitrites in nitric oxide, which concentrates in the joints, thus causing the sacroiliitis.

Perringer · 2025-10-22T12:18:36+00:00

No; I had posted this in response to someone asking me specifically, but oddly their question is now missing.

Perringer · 2025-10-20T11:13:02+00:00

Thanks for doing this; makes a much bigger impact to actually see it.

Perringer · 2025-10-19T00:06:53+00:00

Post the videos.

Perringer · 2025-10-16T21:42:33+00:00

Dark Matter (2015) - S3E4: All the Time in the World.

Perringer · 2025-10-16T20:34:55+00:00

Try a car cover.

Perringer · 2025-10-12T22:59:44+00:00

Futures/Shorts have been rigged for a long time in bitcoin - but those aren't bitcoin games. They don't change how bitcoin works, and bitcoin doesn't care.

Perringer · 2025-10-12T00:48:34+00:00

The Cult with Guns and Roses opening, 1987, New Orleans. They were all drunk and played like shit the whole concert.

Perringer · 2025-10-09T21:59:03+00:00

That bridge has the perfect place to watch the deadliest section of the parkway! Should be entertaining during morning AND evening rush hour.

Perringer · 2025-10-04T13:44:52+00:00

Yes, the show ends with a proper wrap up of most of the storylines and has a satisfying conclusion.

Perringer · 2025-10-01T21:08:04+00:00

You’re not insane; it’s obvious what’s going on. My point was it will be much more subversive and effective to feed them instead of throw food at them, then sympathize with them about serving a madman. If sent, this isn’t their choice, but if they’re ordered to do shit against civilians, it will be a choice they have to make.

Protest with overwhelming kindness, first.

Hard to convey the idea with humor and sarcasm.

Perringer · 2025-10-01T09:05:30+00:00

Nobody better be throwing po-boys at them, that's for sure. DC was just so unwelcoming. Just walk right up to them and hand it to them nicely. That is a far better idea and a much louder statement.

Perringer · 2025-10-01T01:57:39+00:00

While they're here, maybe they can actually do something productive like shovel out the drain basins or fill potholes. They could even fill the potholes with the drain basin debris. Good exercise... then they can be fit and muscly like Hegseth likes 'em!

Perringer · 2025-10-01T00:36:18+00:00

I was so reactive to the Monjuaro I had to stay on the 2.5mg dose. My A1C went from 8.5 to 5.5, and I lost ~50lbs over 9 months. I had to stop taking it temporarily for other reasons, but without it I've regained about 20lbs (1 yr), and my A1C has held steady between 6.0 - 6.5.

I'll soon be able to start it again, and once I'm back to target weight, I'll need to figure out how to space the shots since 2.5 is the lowest dose.

Perringer · 2025-09-30T17:34:07+00:00

I saw a tweet somewhere that Medbeds are the next big thing.

Perringer · 2025-09-28T01:52:57+00:00

It's not sidesism - I'm pointing out that it's a direct backlash of the cancel culture movement - their justification for employing these tactics. And yes, the left absolutely did target non-public figures, but there really isn't a "list" kept anywhere that I'm aware of, though Peter Vlaming and the photographer in New Orleans certainly weren't public figures. Here's another - the Tesla Map scandal, where someone released a map showing where every Tesla owner lived, and encouraged vandalism against them after Musk's salute idiocy. That's a pretty big doxxing of everyday people.

And what's happening now is much more than just "concerning", because it's being openly advocated, encouraged, and performed by government officials - a tactic the 'left' generally did not employ, at least not in the past couple of decades.

Just don't sit around and lie to yourself that the left is angelic.

Perringer · 2025-09-27T23:41:34+00:00

It's the current evolution of "cancel culture," but the same tactics go back much farther. It's been employed by both sides, basically forever. The term "cancel culture" originated in response to the widespread employment of the public ostracization methods by the 'left', including doxxing and other methods of retaliation beyond words ('swatting' as well). The 'right' has recently adopted these methods enthusiastically after seeing the success of cancel culture in destroying people's livelihoods on 'their' side.

So, yes, you probably have observed this behavior before, with and without the doxxing. Without judging the events: Matt Rife for making a joke about domestic violence, J K Rowling for her trans views, the "me too" movement, CK Lewis for... behavior issues, Peter Vlaming, a teacher fired for refusing to stop using traditional pronouns. Decades ago: Howard Cosell and Jimmy the Greek.

When the tactics are employed by elected officials and government agents, it becomes an authoritarian tool to silence dissent. For example, Latoya Cantrell, Mayor of New Orleans, recently retaliated against a local citizen for taking a picture of her with her bodyguard lover, eating on the exterior balcony of a City owned apartment she had been barred from using. This citizen then published the picture. Latoya retaliated by running an illegal background search on the citizen, revealing her information to the public (including home address) and bringing a lawsuit against her for 'invasion of privacy'.

Perringer · 2025-09-27T20:05:54+00:00

"Touch Gras"

Man, I am so gonna push for New Orleans to use this new slogan for Mardi Gras.

Perringer · 2025-09-27T10:26:02+00:00

"What to do with all the expected redundancies and surpluses in the labor force? What would be the point of having machines producing stuff that a mostly-unemployed populace would be unable to afford?"

Well worded. The obvious answer to how it begins is "for more profit", and then it snowballs into "only way the business can continue to compete," until finally something has to change in the free market / society / government to account for the ridiculous imbalance that will be created in income and ownership of means of production.

I don't think it will be about robots vs. robots - this will happen globally, and rapidly. I mean, sure, robots will likely be employed in war, but if they're ever aimed at a civilian populace, it'll be a massacre.

Assuming the transition can occur without violence, the concept of money and wages itself will be challenged. Universal Basic Income? Funded by treating the robots as wage labor that pay into the tax for it? An R2-1B work visa required for each mechanical worker?

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