Last Notes
Most men I know inherited the exact same goal from our culture without ever questioning it. To make enough money that the options open up. Get the bigger house, the nicer car etc. Get to the point where nobody tells you what to do. Just keep climbing until the view finally looks like the life you were promised.
Let's call that life "the yacht." Not literally a yacht, maybe, but you know what I mean. It’s the arrival. It’s when the hustle pays off, the world confirms you've made it, and you finally have money, status, and freedom from the grind. Everything the system dangled in front of you since you were a kid.
Some guys actually get there. And a lot of them are miserable in a way they can't even explain. They got exactly what they were supposed to want, it didn't work, and now they have nowhere to put that feeling.
Picture a guy on a giant yacht with unlimited money, designer drugs, booze, and a bunch of people telling him how great he is. He’s standing at the bow, thinking about jumping off. What's running through his head isn't gratitude. It's the realization of how much he sacrificed and humiliated himself to get there.
Then picture a guy on a beat up pontoon boat with his sunburned kids. He is so much happier than the yacht guy. Why?
Because the pontoon boat guy has nothing the world told you to want. The boat's a beater. His kids are arguing about who lost the good lure. He's probably got debt, a job with hard seasons, and a life nobody's ever going to write a book about. He didn't win by any measure the yacht guy was using.
But someone actually needs him. Not in the abstract, not professionally. His daughter needs him to bait her hook. His son is watching him to figure out how a man carries himself when the fish aren't biting and the afternoon goes sideways. His wife knows what he looks like when he's struggling, and she's still right there.
He is woven into the actual fabric of specific people's lives in ways that are irreplaceable, ordinary, and completely invisible to anyone outside of it.
The yacht guy traded that. Maybe slowly, maybe without noticing, but somewhere on the way up he made the calculation that the "arrival" was worth the cost, and he paid it. He optimized so hard for what the world gives credit for that he ended up with an audience of strangers and a hollow space where the real thing was supposed to be.
That's not freedom. That's a specific kind of prison that's hard to describe because, from the outside, it looks like winning.
The point isn't that money is bad or that ambition ruins you. The pontoon boat guy might make decent money and be plenty ambitious. The difference is whether the life you're building has people in it who genuinely need you to show up. People who would feel your absence as a real loss. People you are accountable to in ways that can't be delegated or replaced.
That's what actually holds a man together. Being needed by people who know you.
You can lose the house. You can get deplatformed, fired, cancelled, or go completely broke. None of that touches what the pontoon boat guy has, because none of it lives on a server somewhere. It lives in the faces of people who already know exactly who you are.
I think most men figure this out eventually. The lucky ones figure it out before they've already paid for the yacht.
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the blockchain doesn't care how sentimental you get. doesn't care whether you get on your knees and pray to catch a block. it cares about electricity.
$120/year for unlimited soda is actually a good deal. Maybe if you live close enough...
A 12 pack of soda costs like $10.
My gf can easily go trough one a week. Definitely more tbh.
One a week is over $500/yr.
Steady singing Kumbaya beloved. the internet never forgets.
would be really nice to see people hodl hands and hit a block, but it's the same people who said basic with asics was a scam and they bought bitaxes.... not gunna happen in this lifetime- you said mining is a scam. what makes you think it'll work for YOU??
The Great American Squeeze Of 2026
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/great-american-squeeze-2026
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🔖 Title: Galaxy Secures New York BitLicense to Expand Institutional Crypto Services
🗓️ Published: 2026-05-19T03:01:56.000Z
📄 Summary: Galaxy has been granted approval by the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), enabling its subsidiary GalaxyOne Prime NY to provide trading and financing services to institutional investors. This milestone allows Galaxy to operate within one of the most tightly regulated crypto markets in the US, reinforcing its commitment to compliant and secure crypto offerings for institutional clients.
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Its kinda sad that its even legal, considering the widespread acknowledgement of the addictiveness of sugar.
Get a fucking job or create real value somehow. The stock market is a rigged piece of shit anyway. I'm glad I chose to avoid it early on.
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who the fuck buys a subscription to soda....
when subscription for breathing?
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🔖 Title: $181.2 Million Pollock, $107.6 Million Brancusi Sell at Christie’s, as Records Fall
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📄 Summary: Works from the prestigious collection of S.I. Newhouse have achieved a staggering $630.8 million in total sales in New York. Notably, a Jackson Pollock piece sold for $181.2 million, and a Constantin Brancusi sculpture fetched $107.6 million at Christie’s auctions, setting new records and underscoring the continued strength of the high-end art market.
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I pre ordered a framework 13 pro, am I making a mistake?
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used swan for DCA before i got educated on KYC and stuff.
thank god i got out of that before all their bullshit went down.
i guess im surprised to see them take the XRP
https://blockspace.media/insight/prime-trust-sues-swan-bitcoin-recover-btc/
Almost All Non-Iran Tankers That Entered The Persian Gulf During The War, Have Successfully Exited With A Cargo
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It's was at the request of the rest of the middle east basically. They are amidst talking to iran.
The war summed up;
Iran wants nukes because the other countries with nukes say its for safety. They enriched uranium to 60%. Israel dragged the US into war with iran. This is on government papers themselves. Iran is asking Why can't Iran or other places in the Middle east have that same safety while pointing out "who's the one with nukes waging war in 3 different places? Israel, the only one with nukes in the area."
They are using nukes as a shield, so to say, then saying iran can't make shields while the US sells protection service for resources to the other places in the middle east....
The middle east is probably about to flip and be against the US.
Gas to $20/gal. 🤣
It looks like Puerto Madero, the most expensive neighborhood here in Buenos Aires
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そんな生成速い？
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KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta Is Out, Here’s What to Expect in the Final Release.
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APT 3.3.1 Released to Debian Unstable with Solver Improvements.
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DietPi 10.4 Adds Copy Fail and Dirty Frag Fixes for SBC Users.
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Awesome podcast !
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Not exactly what I had in mind but sure. That too 😂
I'm lucky I recently moved. I have so much "fuck you weeds" ammunition 😂
Zionism is a cancer in the world.
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Evangelical Christianity has some problems…
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NerdOctaxe Rev 3.1 disponible en Tienda 21.
Para los que ya conocen la familia: es el de 8 chips. Más hashrate que el NerdQaxe++ manteniendo la filosofía open source.
Para los que no la conocen: la línea "Nerd" (Nerdaxe, Nerdoctaxe, Nerdqaxe) son variantes del Bitaxe con más chips ASIC en paralelo. Mismo diseño abierto, mismo firmware base, más potencia.
Datos técnicos:
- 8 ASIC chips
- Hashrate proporcional al número de chips
- Mismo ecosistema de configuración que el resto de la familia
¿Para quién es?
Para el que ya entendió el home mining con un equipo más chico y quiere escalar sin saltar al territorio industrial.
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Over the weekend, I met someone, so addicted to soda, they bought a $120 a year subscription from Panera Bread for Unlimited Fountain Drinks
I mean WTF!?!
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How different cats and dogs are... Some dogs need action during the day and cuddles at night, and treats all day. Cats need nothing apparently, they rule you and you do as they command, when you don't, they stare at you like "how rude to behave like this before a divine being like me".
#Firefox 151 Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New.
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“Judeo-Christian” has always been an oxymoron to me.
これの意図を知りたい。
鬱陶しさに痺れを切らしてメール解約のURLを踏ませる手口なのは分かるんだけど、xなどでも検索してみたがヒットせず。
ルールでスパムフォルダに入る前に自動でゴミ箱に入れるようにしてあるんで実害は無いんだけど。
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And in a devastating plot twist, so are bull markets
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It's on Netflix. I might watch it tonight