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Thank you so much to everyone who has sent their love and prayers to Carla and our family. The number of people who have reached out saying “my wife and child almost died too” is truly staggering… Thank you for sharing your stories. The fact that these terrifying near-death experiences are so shockingly common (especially during pregnancy/childbirth) is a great reminder of how absolutely brutal and deadly most of human history has been… We are so fortunate to live at a time when modern medicine can save people who would have been guaranteed to die for 99.999% of human history… beyond grateful to the doctors, nurses, and paramedics who saved her life and the life of the baby in her belly. Carla is still in a lot of pain but she’s resting a bit now, thank god. nostr:nevent1qqszm6uenn6xtfj75w5h35mt6kp4qpkzggkr7rfx848gu6vty3nnxvgpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ex2mrfw3jhxtn0wfnsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsq3gamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7qg4waehxw309ajkgetw9ehx7um5wghxcctwvspzp3yw98cykjpvcqw2r7003jrwlqcccpv7p6f4xg63vtcgpunwznq3qvzqqqqqqy9s96ua

Yesterday was the worst day of my life and then the best day of my life… Worst because I thought I might lose my pregnant wife. Best because Carla and the baby survived and are stable. Thank you to everyone who sent their thoughts and prayers for Carla. It’s been an insane 24 hours… nostr:npub1hu3hdctm5nkzd8gslnyedfr5ddz3z547jqcl5j88g4fame2jd08qh6h8nh is stable now and both she and the baby are okay, but it got really fucking bad really fast… Scariest day/night of my life… Carla is an absolute badass and at the beginning of the slow road to recovery, and I am so damn thankful. Posting this here for those who’ve been asking what happened: Carla started feeling weird yesterday afternoon after a nap. We were up all night with our son and had to take him to urgent care in the morning, so we were all resting before going to meet up with the family for Easter Sunday. When Carla woke up she had some back pain and was very clammy. She was a bit disoriented but still totally coherent. Within 10 minutes she was almost completely unresponsive. Barely conscious. Crazy disoriented. Hardly able to respond even with single words. Zero control of her body. Totally limp in my arms. Vomited. I called 911 immediately. Paramedics arrived and she was still barely responding and could barely open her eyes. When she did open her eyes she said she couldn’t see, her vision was black. They got her in an ambulance to the hospital. Her BP was insanely low in initial readings, like 55/38… got her to the hospital and BP remained dangerously low. About an hour she appeared to improve a little after multiple rounds of fluids. BP still super low but higher than before. She became lucid and ER staff thought she was stabilizing. She was shivering from the IV and had a bit of back and abdominal pain but it was manageable. They said we’d have to stay the night for monitoring but would be fine to go home tomorrow. But then she started having severe abdominal and back pain around her shoulder blades. Pain got to the point where she was screaming like crazy. “Worst pain of my life” (and she has an extremely high baseline pain tolerance). I’ve never seen her in such unrelenting agony like that… The pain kept getting worse and they did additional scans. The ultrasound showed a lot of fluid in her abdomen, likely blood. They started giving her massive blood transfusions and shortly said she needed surgery immediately. They thought it might be a ruptured ovarian cyst but wouldn’t know for sure until they opened her up. Got her into the OR about an hour after that. Doctor said surgery would take an hour… 2.5 hours in the OR the later the doctor finally came out and said Carla and baby were both OK, thank god… longest 2.5 hours of my life... It turns out they had to do a giant incision down her entire abdomen from too to bottom to find the source of the bleeding (because it was NOT her ovaries or uterus) and bring in a third surgeon who was on call. They removed **2+ liters** of blood from her abdominal cavity. For context, the average adult woman has about 4.5 liters of blood in their entire body… They had to remove her spleen because it had ruptured and was the source of the bleeding… the doctors described it as “battlefield medicine” because of the amount of blood in and out and how dicey things got… but thank god both she and the baby are ok. The doctor’s still don’t know why the spleen ruptured… it was a “non-traumatic” rupture, meaning there was no physical injury to the spleen which caused the rupture (~1 cm). It was a “spontaneous” rupture, which is quite rare apparently. They did note that the spleen was slightly enlarged but also not sure why yet. Waiting for pathology to see if that provides any answers. May have been contributing physiological/mechanical factors from pregnancy but we just don’t know yet. The reason her shoulder blades were in such intense pain was because blood from the spleen was pooling under her diaphragm, blood is an irritant, and apparently that triggers the phrenic nerve which the brain interprets as pain between and around the shoulder blades. Multiple surgeons said she was “this close”…thank god we didn’t waste any time. When one of the surgeons checked in on her today, he said she would have been “dead by midnight” without the emergency surgery and splenectomy… The doctors also all said this combination of circumstances is very rare. Spleens obviously burst all the time, but usually it’s directly related to intense trauma, which was absent here. They said this case is probably going to be in medical journals because it’s so strange. Carla is still in a lot of pain (we’re not even 24 hours out from the end of the surgery yet), but she’s handling it like an absolute champ. She was sedated and intubated with a ventilator until about 5AM this morning. This afternoon she was already able to get up and go walking multiple times. The pain is really bad, but should hopefully start lessening with each passing day. It’s going to be a long road to recovery, especially with pregnancy on top of it, but she and the baby are both OK and right now that’s all that matters. One step at a time. In typical Carla fashion, she’s already been cracking jokes and trying to bribe the nurses. She even fired off a post while still a bit loopy from the sedatives, but now she’s just trying to manage the pain and hopefully get some sleep soon. Thankful for the great doctors, nurses, and paramedics who saved her life and our baby. Thanks again to everyone who has reached out and sent their thoughts and prayers. I’m passing along your messages to Carla and they’re very much appreciated. This still doesn’t seem real. A normal day turned into a nightmare so damn fast… Hug your loved ones tight. Life is a gift. Don’t take it for granted. https://i.nostr.build/BxB4G50GmvTugknx.jpg

Whenever I watch legacy media I immediately think “my podcast is so much better than this shit.” (Not just my podcast, to clarify. MANY podcasts) https://i.nostr.build/aSIZMdqDOroeNTFp.jpg

This is correct framing. Going around calling everyone who disagrees with you “corrupt” / “bad actor” / “compromised” is just retarded. Spam is also retarded, just to clarify. Two things can be retarded at once. i.e. the spam and the response to the spam are both retarded. nostr:nevent1qqsr68pq3pl42sz6ymfsatlp7hv7qksvdf2784g7zy2lwm88vtvng2cpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ex2mrfw3jhxtn0wfnsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dspzqw9pe5d7jzu63xxjg9wuzqwlppc0zkmjag3umv9dl2h6eqxs9lgfqvzqqqqqqyqupplu

Please explain how I am “corrupt” nostr:nevent1qqsgvlc2v6hppnu9yyumhqqc0veqpzhx8m3smzsw82nvnrw4hcxa7rgpramhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0v3jhyatwdejhyuewdejhgam0wf4sz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcpzfmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82cspzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgq3qcj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsxpqqqqqqz08fpak

Homeschooling was illegal in communist Russia, too. And in communist China. And in communist Cuba. It doesn’t matter if it’s left or right wing totalitarianism; totalitarians hate homeschooling.

Did you know in Germany it’s ILLEGAL to homeschool your kids? Why? Because Hitler’s 1938 compulsory public school mandate, or Reichsschulpflichtgesetz, is still in effect to this day… Whenever you see people say “homeschooling should be illegal” show them this… https://v.nostr.build/2Be7UQDA0vNzHlMe.mp4

called a plumber to fix a leak in our ceiling. he arrives. $250 just to "diagnose" turns out it's some valve thing. easy fix. i see him writing out a paper invoice. i chuckle. so quaint. i tell him "you should be using AI for that." "what?" he says. "yeah, you should get a mac mini and set up openclaw and automate all of this with your own personal ai agents" i say. "huh?" he says. clearly he's not getting it... I clarify in simple terms: "you're writing invoices by hand using paper. you're handing me a physical piece of paper for my invoice. this should all be digital. you can have your ai agents automatically generate invoices you verbally dictate into your phone via a telegram chat with your own personal ai workforce. they can handle billing too. this is just really inefficient and you're wasting time. time is money, after all." "ok. i'm going to go fix your leak now" he says. maybe he's finally starting to get it?? the job takes 15 minutes. he hands me the invoice. it's $2500. plus the $250 "diagnosis." i stare at the total. $2750. he looks at me and says “you’re right, time is money.” then he adds one more line to the invoice... a discount... $5 off for “AI consultation fee”

Haven’t done a nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8 #zapathon in a while so let’s do one. Here are the rules: 1. Quote-note this post 2. In your quote-note, link the latest episode of nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8 you listened to (or an older one you really enjoyed) 3. Tag nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u (that’s me) and nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8 4. Say “fuck you, Walker.” (Optional) Do this and I zap you 696 sats. Or don’t. Bitcoin doesn’t care. https://bitcoinpodcast.net/podcast

Peter Schiff accepts Bitcoin as payment. He doesn’t accept gold or silver. I find this infinitely amusing. https://i.nostr.build/rS7m4iL6jw0yIzXC.jpg

The “Epstein hijacked bitcoin” FUD is truly some of the most mid-curve politislop I’ve ever heard. If you see someone spouting this nonsense, first try to educate them politely. If that doesn’t work, ridicule them into oblivion.

Appreciate you being a listener of the pod 🙏 I enjoyed the heck out of the convo with nostr:npub10vlhsqm4qar0g42p8g3plqyktmktd8hnprew45w638xzezgja95qapsp42 . Basically he does *not* think BIP 110 (or the urgency around it) is necessary, but he also thinks it’s better to have some fork drama now versus a few years from now. That way we can better understand the mechanics of how a USAF would actually work if nodes starting actively rejecting blocks, instead of just threatening to do so. I also appreciate Jimmy’s position that fees ultimately price out spam. I’ve always found Jimmy to be a very reasonable person and first-principles thinker. Plus he’s more respectful in his discourse than 99% of us in this space (myself included). I also really enjoyed the SOV/MOE part of our conversation. https://youtu.be/49OsvoIh2SA

New ep of nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8 with nostr:npub10vlhsqm4qar0g42p8g3plqyktmktd8hnprew45w638xzezgja95qapsp42 just dropped. We discuss: - the biggest threat to bitcoin - is bip110 a good idea? - bitcoin core / knots - store of value vs medium of exchange - ossification and more.... FOUNTAIN: https://www.fountain.fm/episode/MPf5aJHxUZk34AHQClB4 YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/49OsvoIh2SA RUMBLE: https://rumble.com/v75dtam-the-biggest-threat-to-bitcoin-and-its-not-what-you-think.-jimmy-song.html SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7aP10FgNyLHbqgknonCBXM APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-biggest-threat-to-bitcoin-jimmy-song/id1694392423?i=1000748549228 GET EMAILED: https://walkeramerica.substack.com/ SHOW NOTES: https://open.substack.com/pub/walkeramerica/p/jimmy-song EVERYWHERE ELSE: https://bitcoinpodcast.net/podcast