I hope you are actually planning on taking highway 101 through Oregon, it is right on the coast and awesome!

See you soon!

I don't like the blinking.

After noting an abundance of purslane growing in our garden we decided to grow some miner's lettuce since they are related. Another name for miner's lettuce is winter purslane. It did fairly well. It likes

Man you find the craziest things.

What tag should we use on our posts? feedthebeast, causality, doesitwork, bots4change, change4bots, etc?

In normal healthy individuals: probably not. In someone that already has violent tendencies: maybe?

For some reason I just kept reading it as the "doge"-mahal in my head, thought it was a tribute to dogecoin or something :) Looks pretty sweet.

So you are proposing a 'starve the beast' approach, but in reverse. Feed the beast until it either takes us to STEEMtopia or it implodes.

Spam the trending page using vote bots with articles that have well constructed 'How to' headlines that are sure to attract readers. Gain a bunch of followers. Write a paid article that is now guaranteed

So much to love about this post!

Well spoken. Just avoid the trending page, it is like a black hole of negativity that sucks you in. I was getting a little sucked in. Thanks for helping me take a step back.

Wait, is it the first email you send them 700 words or do you send that after they have responded to your initial email?

I read the whole thing too, a rarity on steemit.

But why why WHY is there no incentivized curation BY STEEMIT STAFF for quality blog posts? Then they would have to hire a writer instead of programmers, why would they want to do that? Writing is just

Thanks for visiting my blog. Pixabay is great and I have been using it for all my pictures lately.

and those are direct symptoms of greed Precisely. Business interests have shaped every aspect of life today and you can be sure they didn't shape it to maximize human happiness.

@qfilter is another to add to your list of projects promoting quality.

Valuable information for sure, but I don't try to operate from a position of fear. It is not a position of power. Eyes open, no fear, be safe.

I have been back and forth on up-vote bots. I recently tried them again and ran the numbers. It isn't coming out as profitable as they seem at first. Looks like I'm pretty much breaking even. I have also