If we get this payment layer where we can pay for all these tools with micro transactions, then the future of subscription software looks very tenuous. Instead of managing a dozen monthly SAAS subscriptions to run your business, you'll have one subscription or pool of money to pay from.

That payment layer is going to have to be crypto because otherwise, everyone would get wrecked by payment processing fees.

This is something my father (a search and rescue pilot) always told me growing up

Hate to say it but this is also a common tradition for American engineers

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My plan is to do this each month around whatever makes me the most angry and theme it to a cookbook I wish I used more.

The reservoirs in SoCal are all at or above their historic averages. In fact, almost all of the CA DWR reservoirs are. In 2022, CA had alarmingly low reservoir levels but that is not the case in 2025. The mfer is always working on dated misremembered and misunderstood data.