Just interesting news to me.
A good thing they can’t grow bigger. I caught a pike once, around 18 inches and it was the most fun I had fishing. That includes catching tuna in the Mexican Pacific.
>> “Muskies, the largest member of the pike family, are a species of fish that are sought after by many anglers and can grow over 50 inches long. “
I do think that crypto-currencies are a better safeguard than gold.
Of course, in a Mad Max world, the internet will not be functioning but, I think that gold will also be useless in that environment.
What will be of value in a Mad Max world? Food and the means to get it.
>>> “A few hundred thousand dollars worth of gold held by a single individual isn’t not as easy as say storing $300,000 worth of BTC.”
There are studies and then some interpretations. These interpretations might not be true and real.
According to a few other studies, human being is supposed to wake up every 4-6 hours. At some point, it was normal for a person to wake up in the middle of the night and go to his neighbors and play cards or something.
Waking up for a couple of hours and then go back to sleep until the morning is supposed to be normal. There was even a name for the second sleep it was called “Dorveille“. Google it.
When left to themselves without any pressure of any kind, human beings will revert back to that sleep pattern.
How do you measure success? For me, success has nothing to do with money or fame it has to do with happiness, the lack of care of suffering. In other words, the less you care about suffering the more you are happy.
That is my definition of happiness. In their study, there are using their own definition, which is more aligned with the consensus.
>>> “As you might guess, it’s better for the brain to sleep for a shorter number of uninterrupted hours than a longer number of fitful ones.”
Plants are the most efficient solar energy converter. Their efficiency is near 100%.
It would seem to me that the smart thing to do would not be to try to copy them but to use them.
>>> “It appears that the photosynthesis machinery evolved not for maximum efficiency but rather for an optimally smooth and reliable output.”
www.quantamagazine.org/why-are-plants-green-to-reduce-the-noise-in-photosynthesis-20200730/
Another problem with extensive agriculture.
Bees are declining because they have to eat our ‘managed’ plants. Why not just let go of everything? Would that be so bad? Maybe the wildlife would autoregulate in the most optimized way.
When we are fishing in the wild oceans, we are exercising less control over nature. Sometimes, we might be overfishing but only because there is a market for it. That market can’t be sustained for long.
When I am not hungry and my fridge is full, I can’t buy more fish. My own security feeling should be in thinking that the ocean is plentiful and not that my fridge is full.
I think we should not try to submit nature to our will. We should try to live with it.
>>> “Pollination by wild and managed insects is critical for most crops, including those providing essential micronutrients, and is essential for food security,…”
www.sott.net/article/439010-Decline-of-bees-other-pollinators-threatens-US-crop-yields
Finally a light at the end of the tunnel.
We will probably end up using hydroxychloroquine and the politicians who blocked it will just say “oops, sorry, we didn’t know” and we will accept that as normal.
>>> “”As a result of the feedback received by the medical and patient community and at the request of Gov. DeWine, the State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy has withdrawn proposed rule 4729:5-5-21 of the Administrative Code,” reads a Thursday statement from the board. “