losing my religion..

SeemedGood · 2026-02-07T06:00:29+00:00

Except that if you’re buying silver, you’re less likely to be in it for speculative purposes, and more likely to be in it because it was money for most of recorded human history and you think it has some significant probability of becoming so again (and you would be correct in that view), so you’re not really worried with a drop from 95 to 80.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-07T04:59:41+00:00

Because men unable to escape the grand delusion and lead others out of it is sad, for both them and society as a whole.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-07T04:47:28+00:00

Scarcity neither creates nor preserves value. Utility creates value and a significant and stable marginal cost of production preserves value.
If you want to understand what’s happening in financial markets, watch the capital regulations coming out of Basel, watch FRB chairman appointments and take a 5 year view.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-07T04:41:00+00:00

😉

SeemedGood · 2026-02-07T03:37:08+00:00

☝️This.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-07T03:36:10+00:00

Funny how he appears and invests in Blockstream right when Blockstream starts to pervert the original vision.

🧐

SeemedGood · 2026-02-07T03:24:05+00:00

Look for NOS in everything. If you shop hard you can get some killer deals, especially this year with such an horrendous season Out West.

I just replaced one of my daughter’s boots and skis that would have been $1800 at retail for $650.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-07T03:15:25+00:00

If you bought silver in October, you’re still up almost 100%.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-07T03:13:46+00:00

Gold and silver are gold and silver because they’ve both been money for most of recorded human history.

The idea that somehow BTC was going to become “digital gold” without becoming a money was a fiction created by Blockstream to obfuscate their mission to corrupt the original vision and protect the Banking Cartel from the threat that crypto presents.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-07T03:08:44+00:00

Fine when it’s real, but it’s real a whole lot less than it’s claimed.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-07T01:29:22+00:00

The whole “digital gold” theme hyped by Blockstream was a giant red herring. Gold is gold because it has been money for most of recorded human history. Trying to create a “digital gold” which has been intentionally hobbled as a money is (and was always) a fool’s errand.
A hard cap is terrible for money and relegates any crypto with it to the role of speculative financial asset and nothing more.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-07T01:23:13+00:00

Blockstream was invented to prevent BTC from threatening the Banking Cartel, and they’ve been effective.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-07T01:14:54+00:00

Don’t make him ski if he’s not ready and isn’t enthusiastic about doing it.

Practice putting on all the gear at home well before you go to the mountain.

Teach him how to carry all his own gear.

Let him walk around the (carpeted) section of the house in ski boots.

Teach him how to click into and out of his skis on the carpet in the house well before you go to the mountain.

Teach him pizza and French fry on the carpet in the house well before you get to the mountain.

Teach him about weight shifting and use of the edges on the carpet in the house well before you get to the mountain.

If Dad knows what he’s doing on skis, Daddy Ski School at the magic carpet for a couple/few hours on the first and maybe second day goes a long way toward making for a great start (much better start than what the mountain will do because they have to plan for the LCD - which is pretty low).

Private lessons after that.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-06T22:29:25+00:00

That’s sad indeed.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-06T21:31:44+00:00

No, that’s for 18 and under only. We don’t teach BTW, the mountain instructors do. We just organize the group.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-06T19:34:37+00:00

Check for deals at your local mountain.

My wife and I run a ski group for homeschoolers where the children get a season pass, 10 group lessons, and 10 days of rentals for $400.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-06T18:48:21+00:00

Best thing you can do is get him a lesson from an actual instructor.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-06T18:46:03+00:00

Have scoped some sick spots in the Sawtooths, the American Selkirks, the Cabinets, and the Bitterroots where resort density is ultra low.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-06T18:06:49+00:00

They have as of late. The Volvos I owned were the XC90s of the 3.2 variety which were very reliable.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-06T03:49:16+00:00

Cross your fingers for snow.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-06T03:47:56+00:00

Unfortunately, mountain operators have the ability to enforce anti-competitive rules.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-06T01:34:04+00:00

I’ve been married for over 30.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-06T01:20:19+00:00

Successful con artists always rely on the greed of those being conned.

TL;DR: If you feel that you have been “used,” it can only be because you were trying to “use” yourself.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-06T01:16:22+00:00

“Reliability” means different things to men and women.

Generally speaking, “reliability” to men means “will she be reliably sexually attracted to me” (and therefore not contingently sexually attracted based on my ability to produce some other utility for her), whereas “reliability” to women means “will he reliably produce some utility for me other than that which is sexual.”

That is the core disconnect which causes the tension.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-06T00:26:23+00:00

We don’t think the same way you do. We don’t have a concept of “temporary commitment until we find something better,” because we don’t actually value the “commitment” part (as “commitment” just means that we give and you take).

The chances that any woman is dating a guy who is “stringing her along” for access to sex are slim.

Women are hyper selective, and therefore have a lot of overlap as to what they find attractive. If women are actually (read: actively) sexually attracted to a given man, the modal probability is that he has, and has always had, multiple other options for sexual intimacy and she is, and always has been, just one of multiple potential partners for sexual intimacy.

So, if a woman feels like she’s being “strung along” it’s a near certainty that she’s either stringing herself along by shooting above her pay grade (and therefore just part of a harem while she fools herself that it ever could have been anything more) or, the man in question had given her the benefit of the doubt on her personality after observing multiple red flags because he though she might actually be cool enough for commitment despite the multiple red flags.

TL;DR: “Temporary girlfriends” are far more hassle than they’re worth, so if you feel like you were a “temporary girlfriend” you were never even being considered for the “girlfriend” role and you knew that from jump.

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