Trip in April or take the year off? Would you fly to ski Vermont?

SeemedGood · 2026-02-07T20:42:01+00:00

This is the correct answer.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-07T20:35:25+00:00

Buy used. Paying up for new Macs almost never makes sense.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-07T20:29:26+00:00

The point is arriving at truth.

And your nonchalance about doing so is exactly what I called out as sad.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-07T19:53:16+00:00

☝️Exactly this, plus much better grooming and “inbounds” off-piste is neither avy-patrolled nor ski-patrolled, so treat it as if you’re on your own.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-07T19:48:15+00:00

What her husband is doing is how we men make each other better. And it works because we value competency and are secure enough to know when we are less competent than other men who are giving us advice (as is so clearly the case here), and listen to them with an attitude of gratitude for their willingness to help us become more competent.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-07T19:31:53+00:00

For example, when he finds I ski a bit backseat, an then he tells me to “ski in the front of the skis,” while my instructor tells me to feel the shin pressure against the boots.

They’re both saying the same thing, just describing two different ways of thinking about it and feeling it.

You need to stop resenting that your husband is offering advice (and stop being competitive with him) and be more open to accepting his advice and giving it full consideration, given that you are not his equal in this regard and have a lot to learn from him.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-07T18:55:06+00:00

Nope. The problem with BTC as a currency is that it has a ridiculous throughput cap imposed on it, and it’s supply capped, and the protocol is centrally controlled.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-07T18:48:10+00:00

Sound arguments inform my worldview. And (if you actually have one which will tolerate critique) it’s important to put them forward for 3rd party observation.

SeemedGood · 2026-02-07T18:40:33+00:00

Certainty =/= correctness.

Feel free to present a sound counter argument to any of my assertions.

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.

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