Lost Lenore

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@the_wilderless Great song about this youtu.be/hv0bBjMc6FY?si…

Berlin's aimlessness/lostness feels like a whole-ass atmosphere; for 2 days after I arrived I had the strongest "who am I? where am I? what am I doing?" i've had in many years, and a friend just came into town a couple days ago and was noting "I spent yesterday feeling like i don't know who I am or if my life was a dream or something" Adding this to my notes on local fields of different locations. If I ever have a nemesis and I need them to get disoriented about their identity and life for a bit, lure them to berlin

@JoshMandell6 How do you choose your contract?

@lostlenor Careful not to pay too much for optionality. I have some in the money calls

For STRC, the most recent dividend period had a Record Date of April 15, 2026 for a Dividend Payment Date of April 30, 2026. What that means is that you had to own STRC shares as of April 14th or 15th in order to be entitled to the dividend paid on April 30th. The dividend arbitrage firms, therefore, time their purchases so that the transaction settles just before the Record Date. and then, all too often, they sell immediately after that date. This is why STRC briefly traded below $99 on April 16th. What’s interesting about the proposal to switch to semi-monthly payments is that the payment date for one dividend payment would line up with the record date that determines who’s entitled to the one after that. To be specific, June 30th could become the record date for the July 15th dividend payment and July 15th would be the record date for the July 31st dividend payment and so on. If I assumed that we reach a simple 12% dividend, the current dividend frequency of one month would lend itself to a one point drop on ex-dividend dates whereas the proposed semi-monthly frequency would imply a "fair" drop of only one half point and existing investors would have the opportunity to receive their dividend and plow it back into STRC at any discount which might be available in the market. Theoretically this could be automated by subscribing to a DRIP, otherwise known as a dividend reinvestment plan. As I stated before, I endorse the proposal. @Strategy @Z06Z07 @phongle @jameslavish

@infamous_1929 @itsnwts a date

@itsnwts What do you call it when you prefer to let people talk, not because you’re interested, but because you rather them talk than you?

Actually, only people with ADHD truly understand what it's like to be AGGRESSIVELY uninterested in something like so uninterested you're angry

@Scoobydouchebag The quest was half the fun

You kids today don't know how good you have it I used to have to walk uphill both ways for a dime bag. Oh your guy is out? But a friend of a friend of a friend has some? Enjoy your 3 hour, 5 town odyssey for $20 of the worst weed known to man

@art_is_found Because it’s made with no real emotion, it’s just nonsense for the sake of it. They invented slop years before AI

hot take: this type of music is total dogshit

@TeoDomani At least someone talked to you 😞

I went to London, Ontario once and a seven-year-old smoking a cigarette told me to go fuck myself

@The_little_poo @JF_Martin007 I understand it’s not your job to help them practice, but it’s hard to learn when everyone does it. By contrast when I go to Mexico people will respond to my poor Spanish in kind even if they speak English.

@JF_Martin007 @lostlenor J'ai travaillé comme réceptionniste dans un hôtel à Sherbrooke et littéralement c'est beaucoup plus efficace et sécure de juste switcher à l'anglais pour les clients qui ne sont pas assez à l'aise. On peut être tenu responsable en cas d'erreur et ça doit être pire dans les resto+

Why learn french when you can just throw a tantrum, act superior, and demand everyone speak english to accommodate you?

@JF_Martin007 🫡

@lostlenor Je ne peux pas parler pour tout le monde, mais personnellement je ne parle jamais anglais à Montréal a moins d'être payé pour le faire.

@AaronBlake The chick from Hanson was my first crush

MMMBop is closer to the moon landing than it is to today.

@WhenMooooon @CryptoKaleo Why 20-30% ? Most will transition. It should be encouraged but not mandatory.

@lostlenor @CryptoKaleo It's more like 20-30%. The mother of all dumps and trust lost for a decade. You already start paying for it now with the BTC price, as the prospect keeps buyers away. Is it okay for you if BTC doesn't make a new ATH for another 10 years, but in turn no (lost) coins gets frozen?

Up to ~6.8 million #Bitcoin currently sit in quantum vulnerable wallets. That's ~$500B worth of risk for $BTC the market has priced in. It's one of the major reasons people cite for the recent dip and underperformance BTC has had vs. other commodities. What happens if that risk goes away? If BIP-361 (or something similar down the road) passes, rather than worrying about a massive liquidation cascade, the total supply of Bitcoin would effectively be reduced by a large %. What's currently priced in as a massive risk factor - would all of a sudden become a massive supply reduction. BTC becomes verifiably more scarce, and is protected from extractors and bad actors. When you look at the incentive factor alone, I think this outcome is much more likely than people are currently giving it credit for. It'll obviously be hotly debated - but I think there's good evidential support this is what Satoshi would have wanted. And as hope and momentum replace fear and doubt, the price of Bitcoin will reflect it. You're still early. Be more bullish.

@seraleev Long onboarding is a way to trap users with a sunk time cost. They have to do this when the app has a delayed payoff (days, weeks). The solution is to offer a quick payoff after only a brief time using the app

Honestly, I don’t like this. AppStore is turning into a money extraction machine. Developers only think about how to get money. Nobody even wants to show their product, how valuable it is and what it can do. Just long onboarding and hard paywall. As a user, it became much harder to find a good app, it’s a real adventure. To find one app, you have to download 5 first, all built from the same template, like developers took the same course and ship apps by instruction.

@CryptoKaleo Why ban or freeze anything? If your coins get swiped that’s on you. There might be a window where up to 10% of coins get dumped and then it’s over

fyi - here's the tldr of the BIP-361 proposal timeline: 1) BIP-360 passes activating post-quantum BTC addresses 2) 3 years after activation: Ban sending BTC to (not from) any quantum-vulnerable address types 3) 5 years after activation: Any BTC still in vulnerable addresses is permanently frozen 4) TBD: Still research being done on a potential rescue mechanism allowing owners of frozen coins to recover them by submitting a zk proof of possession of the corresponding BIP-39 seed phrase (which still wouldn't help pre-2013 wallets... those would most likely be frozen forever)

@shagbark_hick Ottawa used to get Rochester tv stations and it was shocking to see how much dysfunction was shown on the local news

I wonder if some of the negative views Canadians tend to have of the USA come from the fact that the first bit of America they see as they cross the border is often Upstate NY. Imagine being from a tidy suburb of Ottawa and then driving through Ogdensburg NY... You'd think that the USA was kind of raw and barbaric; like vast portions of its land area had been abandoned and left to go to seed. Couple that with the CBC bagging on Trump, acting like he's some kind of evil dictator, talking like we have daily school shootings, etc -- and I'd be a lot of Canadians shudder at what it seems like we're doing down here. It's not the genuine reality of what America is at all, it's an edge case, but I'd bet it makes a lot of Canadians do a heel turn, cross back over the border, breathe a sigh of relief.

@weezerstillgood @aquiloniandream @politicalmath Agree Jerry is the weakest one, who takes his place on the comedy Rushmore?

@lostlenor @aquiloniandream @politicalmath Jerry was the least funny person on his own show

I'm re-watching Louie (Louie CK's show) and it's just one of the greatest shows ever made I understand cancelling it in the wake of his scandal, but it's insane how this work of art has been disappeared entirely. What a tragedy

@binou3333 @redroomrantings This kind of experience is… unique x.com/lostlenor/stat…

@lostlenor @redroomrantings That's just white men over 40 all over north america

Quebecois are actually extremely nice, it’s just they’re not fake and are less afraid of confrontation which the rest of the country is allergic to

@Hotmanon5 @redroomrantings I’ve never had a minor disagreement with a stranger immediately escalate to full on screaming at me like I have in Montreal. Bus driver, tow truck driver, even a government worker on the phone.

@lostlenor @redroomrantings And can you name a whole nation without some of them acting that way? 😉

@perreaux Starbucks in little Italy closed almost 10 years ago, could not compete with the local spots

I never really got the allure of Starbucks anyway but If you want expense coffee in Montreal there’s no end of local Indy spots.