It's really exciting to watch this project unfold... and I am very impressed with how thorough the planning and "back room work" has been on this.

Very interesting. Sadly, I find myself wondering whether this research will ever become something if it doesn't fit the officially endorsed "fear narrative." The whole thing is such a circus.

Thanks for the support @steemflow and @indiaunited, I appreciate the support!

Since my mother and I were not really close, it took a few years after her death before I could truly appreciate the things that were no longer there...

Sadly, we do. And the indoctrination starts so early, with it being "uncool" to excel at anything because that would be exclusionary to someone. Meh...

It does seem like Bitcoin has become a lot more correlated with the legacy financial markets than it used to be... and perhaps we'd have to concede that this is the "price" of mass adoption,

Beautiful... and cold! I love those shots with the frozen water from the faucet; water as art! Glad you are feeling better; Covid can be a really nasty experience.

Thank you, and you're welcome! I've sent you a small "delegation" of "Hive Power" so you can create and engage freely without getting hampered by "out of bandwidth" messages.

Welcome to Hivelandia! It's hard to describe what exactly this place is, because it's so many things... but it's definitely a community, with hundreds of subcommunities embedded. Be patient with it; it

Thanks for stopping by, and for honoring me with such a thoughtful first comment on Hive! Welcome to the community! Most stuff we collect is worthless. Just in stamps, just the fact that something is really

Well, it's undoubtedly scary for some, but I don't play markets and I certainly don't try to "time" the ups and downs. I am sure there are those with a stouter constitution than I who relish

Yes, indeed. Before electronic "brains" we had to rely a lot more on our own imaginations and fantasy to entertain ourselves. We moved so much and so often that I rarely made friends where we

To be prepared with some basic common sense seems like a good path... I'm not about to start building an armored bunker deep in the woods and laying in 10 years' worth of freeze dried rations! The wider

Thanks for the support, I appreciate it very much!

Well done for getting the washing machine to work again! It IS very annoying, because most of the time these are perfectly fine pieces of equipment, and it's just some small 25-cent plastic bit that's

It's very annoying, to be sure. That's quite an odyssey you went through with the blender! Although I don't like to go down that route, I find that the "twitter/YouTube threat" tends to be fairly

Thanks for the support... I appreciate it!

I'm a big supporter of the whole "right to repair" movement, which is just a variation on this experience... I'm also a fan of standardization of many things. Appliances are a sore point with

Thank you @consciouscat, I guess I come from a long line of people who keep things until they are so far beyond "unfixable" that it truly is their time. And I just hate waste...

Hah, indeed! Coming soon, to a movie theatre near you: "The Lost Commandments."