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TIL Ken Paxton is supported by a Tether backed PAC that spent $500k in ads and now he's the Republican nominee for senate.
A criminal?
that is some photo
where'd you get it?
on X.
Here is the original court report:
https://www.courthousenews.com/texas-attorney-general-booked-and-released/
Unfortunately, the wayback machine didn't archive the Collins County Jail entry for him, and it is no longer accessible. So we only have the copies floating around on the internet.
And here's the indictments:
https://static.texastribune.org/media/documents/Court_paper_work.pdf
And an article about them that includes the mugshot, but not the inmate details sheet:
https://www.texastribune.org/2015/08/03/paxton-set-surrender-securities-fraud-indictment/
Sell bitcoin pay off debt? Or open new loan use stables Pay off old debt don’t sell bitcoin?
Decisions, decisions!
Not to buy sats to pay off debt. Grown up stuff like a mortgage. Other purchases like appliances all take fiat if you didn’t realize.
mortgage = debt = slavery
other purchases = spending on things that you don't need = another fiat mindset
Definitely your mind is not aligned with Bitcoin. Maybe someday you will understand my words....
Need house I’m not going to live in. House in the mountain just to be cheap and not spend sats. Life is short I’m here to enjoy it not hoard sats.
Remember bitcoin is just software. It’s not going to marry me and give me children.
I am not saying to go to live in the mountains. You can live perfectly fine in a city or suburbs with less.
But if you want a fancy life, then you go into full debt.
When I started with bitcoin in 2012, my main focus was immediately to stop all the debt.
It is impossible to live on bitcoin standard and in the same time having debt.
This is true and this is my ultimate goal. I’m not taking out loans to go shopping to buy stuff I don’t need. All my debt comes from home repairs ($20k to fix roof), adding solar panels and other home upgrades.
As you know in fiat land everything is about quick profits this house I bought was slapped together with very cheap materials and poor workmanship. Over the last few years I been making repairs. Soon I gotta restore the deck that is falling apart.
So one must ask why sell 17M sats to pay off a fiat debt now? Have less sats just to say I live on bitcoin standard?
hahaha
What debt?
he's a fiat maxi that can't live without debts. Is deep in the mind...
BTC loan debt
#1496842
Mmm... I want to be able to trust AI coding agents... but I just don't... not yet.
Summary of my first world problems from my journal:
I decided against the dog and got the rest.
Growing up, we always had dogs at home. So there's also a bit of been-there-done-that.
And learning to fly is temporary. Unless you want to make that your career, of course.
You have a pilot license?
Good point. If I commit enough time to it, I could be done in a few months, I guess.
For now, no. Will consider again when I actually have my license. I don't know yet if I'm actually going to be a good pilot haha
Yep. PPL SEA(L).
Definitely doable. I completed mine in 6 months despite having several weeks of bad weather where flying wasn't possible.
I was lucky in the sense that my school had enough planes and instructors so I could lean on a couple of them when my primary instructor was unavailable due to completing his own training and ratings.
Good way to approach it.
Don't worry too much about being good. It's a learning curve with different bumps for everyone.
Some things you'll get immediately, and other things you'll need to practice, practice, practice until you get it.
That's a separate license from a PPL(A)? Flying seaplanes isn't a type rating?
During flight school, this question came up: which season is best for flying? Naively, I expected it to be summer because of the "good weather." But what's good weather for humans isn't necessarily good weather for planes. Summers are hot and have lower air density, so aircraft performance is worse, although visibility is usually better. In winter, you get higher air density and lower temperatures.
What's your experience with flying seasons? Would you recommend summer or winter? Or does it not really matter?
🙏
I started messing around in MSFS a while ago. My first surprises were that I struggled to land the plane centered on the runway, and that it's hard to maintain altitude, speed, and attitude, especially when you want to change one of them.
Btw, @plebpoet recommended The Rehearsal: Season 2 to me, and it was really good. You'll probably like it too if you haven't already watched it:
It's just different naming. SEA(L) is a class rating: single-engine aeroplane (land). That class rating is implied in PPL(A).
Similar to land rating, the one for sea planes is also a class rating.
Type ratings tend to be more narrow, like getting rated for a single, complex airplane. Think A320, B737 and similar.
A class rating encompasses a class of very similar to fly planes which don't require a separate check ride for each.
It depends a lot on location. Whichever season has less rain and better visibility.
The school will have suitable planes for the corresponding temperatures.
Where I learned, it rains a lot during winter. Summer has a lot of windy days, but otherwise usually decent conditions. Spring and autumn conditions are awesome there.
Haven't played MSFS in decades, but I suspect that is actually easier when you can feel the plane moving under you.
As you keep your eyes on the far end of the runway and avoid the temptation of doing too many corrections whenever you feel a gust, it becomes surprisingly easy.
Yep, they all affect each other.
The key is to allow the plane to settle somewhat after any change and then trim, trim, trim.
The key factor is to internalize what sounds backwards the first time you hear it: adjust attitude for speed, throttle for altitude.
Give it a try in MSFS: Get in a stable plane to some altitude and trim it out. Like a Cessna 172, Piper Warrior.
Increase the throttle slightly. Do not use your elevators, do not change trim, only use ailerons to maintain your heading.
Wait and observe how it settles.
Next, change your attitude ever so slightly with the trim. Don't change anything else. Again, ailerons only. Again, you will see what changes as your plane settles.
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Forgot to add:
In our travels, we sometimes house sit which includes looking after other people's pets. So we do get a dog/cat fix every now and then, too. They aren't "ours" of course, but we still enjoy hanging with them.
get a dog after travel flying to a nice place.
Solution: have a nice tent, travel (with that beinenwagen) with your dog, from flight school to flight school.
first world quadrilemmas really suck
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