All right, thank you. How are you guys doing? OK, well, Pete said my name. My name is Alex Lee. I'm very talk you guys about Darwin and just sort of about history of evolution in general and kind of explain how these three words are all sort of related together. Just a little quick bit about myself. I actually got my degree in evolution and ecology from UC Davis. Dose it now at the California Academy of Sciences. We were there on the third Saturday or on some Thursday nights. I'll be there. And I can't emphasize enough how much I love invertebrates and how much they love me. And by the way, I don't even drink and you could get me to do things like this. And history of evolution, I mean, evolution is no small idea. I mean, we're talking about something that's going back with life about three and a half billion years and has sort of been with us since, in fact, in all aspects of life and creating beautiful things such as these colorful nudibranchs here and also creating really hideous things too since it's almost Halloween. This guy here is a parasitic isopod now occupying the mouth of this poor fish here. And usually when we think about the history of evolution, we usually just think about Charles Darwin. He went on this five year around the world voyage. And at some point, he stopped by the Galapagos Islands and found these interesting finches that somehow inspired him to think about evolution. And just like to add, this is the delightful, oops, delightful vampire finch. It actually consumes blood. Yes. But this beagle voyage is really just an incredible scientific voyage. I mean, I absolutely just love the stories from it. And I'm sorry to say, I'm not going to be talking about those stories. Sorry, I am a tease in that regard. I feel like we talk so much about the beagle, even though it's such a great adventure. We talk so much about the beagle. We just kind of ignore all these other great stories. I mean, Darwin had a really long life after he returned from the beagle voyage. What was he doing then? And also, there was this, a lot of people who were talking about evolution even before Darwin, believe it or not. So who are these people? There are a lot of great stories about that too. So I'm going to be focusing on that and kind of ask these two big questions. Is that who were these people who were thinking about evolution before Darwin? And why do we spend so much time talking about Darwin and not these other people, these other transmutationists? Now, this was before the word evolution was used. So people use the word transmutation. I just like saying that word just because it sounds hideous. And also, the other question is that after Darwin returned from his beagle voyage, it was for over 20 years before he actually published on The Origin of Species. And he was very clear that he was thinking about evolution just really early on. Why was he taking 20 years? I mean, was he sitting on the idea? What was he doing during those 20 years? Yeah. So just kind of back towards just evolution as kind of a topic again.  It started with life. It's been going on for three and a half billion years. And you would think through the course of human history that people would have noticed something about evolution, something about its consequences, some evidence left behind for it, even if they necessarily didn't understand what it was that they were looking at. And as a turnout, when we look at human history, people weren't noticing signs of evolution. I mean, take, for example, the ancient Greeks. They were well aware of fossils for large extinct invertebrates. But the ancient Greeks being the ancient Greeks, they actually creatively reinterpreted these fossils as giants that were defeated by the almighty gods. And even Leonardo da Vinci was actually aware of something about evolution. He actually knew of fossil seashells actually found in the mountains in Italy just far away from the ocean. And Leonardo da Vinci, I mean, he didn't believe in superstitious explanations of the universe. But he couldn't, as brilliant as he was, he didn't know how to explain how clans would just suddenly decide to go rock climbing. And then we have this really interesting fellow during the Middle East, actually kind of during the Golden Age of the Islamic empires, during this period, quite a number of scholars came to this period who were really, really into things from ancient Greece. Al-Jahiz was, in particular, really interested in Aristotle's writings about biology and just worked on trying to greatly expanding upon that work. And one of his really fascinating contributions was that he very clearly understood that all life that is born from sea, birth, eggs, and whatnot, not all those that are born could actually survive. I mean, it sounds obvious to us, but it's not so then. I mean, the reason why this idea is so important is that this is actually one of the pillars of natural selection. And Al-Jahiz lived about 1,000 years before Darwin. And then things started getting really interesting and exciting around the 18th century when quite a number of Frenchmen, for some reason, I'm actually not so clear on the French history about this, but you could have a lot of French scholars, writers from this period who started talking about discussing how species could change, how transmutation could happen. But this was kind of kept on the download just because talking about those things was heresy. It could get you into a lot of trouble, and these people were actually called infidels for what they believe in. And so one of the interesting infidels that came out of this was Dennis Diderot, who was a encyclopedia writer. He also wrote about how species was changing over the course of millions of years, just imagining someone being in the 18th century talking about the earth as it was millions of years. Oh, it sounds pretty crazy. It sounded pretty crazy to the police who were also in charge of policing heresy. I mean, they monitored this guy, harassed him, and actually jailed him at least once that I've read. I mean, remember, this is not much more than 100 years after Galileo was talking about his crazy ideas about the universe and how much trouble he got into that. But of all these early transmutationists, I mean, I think one of the most important ones is Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, another Frenchman. And he comes up with kind of an interesting mechanism of how these change in species could happen in that, for example, would take a giraffe that he envisioned that a giraffe a long time ago had a short neck and just trying to reach leaves that were just too high for it to reach by just using its neck, using its body parts, it could actually stimulate what he called the nervous fluid.  I mean, to grow within their lifetime. And they would acquire their new traits within their lifetime and then pass it on to their offspring. This is how Lamarck envisioned how evolution would happen. And this view is actually incorrect. However, the reason why Lamarck is actually, I think is so important, is that he was a well-known scholar, he was a well-known naturalist. He had other people from other parts of Europe, England in particular, visiting him, wanting to talk to this famous biology. He taught classes in Paris where he had lots and lots of students. He was influencing a whole new generation of scientists and got them thinking about evolution and transmutation and just keep them open to the idea about species how these species could change. Sorry, how these species could change. He had so many transmutations before Darwin, why do we sort of still talk about Darwin so much and what about these other people? I mean, there's so many of these people you could probably make several Robert Altman films like out of them, but one of the reasons why, which is kind of a very obvious one, is that Darwin had the most robust theory, the most sophisticated and just light years ahead in its accuracy and sophisticated than all the other people before him. I mean, he proposes his theory of natural selection, which much more accurately than Lamarck explains how species change could happen that different individuals, some can just survive better than others and those are the ones that can live to mate for another day, but another sort of very key thing that Darwin sort of recognized that in order for natural selection to work, you need a lot of variation, variation today that we call mutations. Mutations is the feel of natural selection. Those are the things that natural selection is selecting on and Darwin recognized that change and variation was not just happening, but it had to be extraordinarily common, which is something he observed and it had to be extraordinarily common for it to work. I mean, this is over 100 years before proper genetics came along to help us confirm that.  The person you're looking at is a mutant. Every single one of us are born with mutations our parents didn't have and all our children will have mutations that we won't have. I mean, that's how common it was. I mean, most of them are really minor, most of them actually don't even do anything, but Darwin over 150 years ago was able to recognize this. And another actually great innovation that really put Darwin ahead of his other predecessors was he came up with the idea of the evolutionary tree. Lamarck and others came with this idea that an animal, for example, going back to the example of the draft would start with a short neck and over time, time going up, they would become the long neck draft in this linear fashion. Darwin recognized that species could start as one species, oops, down here at the bottom and over time, split into two completely different but related species. So in case for drafts, you have the common ancestor, a draft and the Ocopy, which is their most living relative now, but they shared in a common ancestor. So as species continue to branch off and branch off you get these really complex evolutionary trees. And this is actually from a notebook from actually the Charles Darwin wrote. Notice at the top, he writes, I think, and then he proceeds to draw this evolutionary tree diagram here. This is the first evolutionary tree diagram ever drawn. And he does this, draws this in 1837. This is less than a year after he returns from the origin of species. I mean, I love this notebook. I mean, this is such a powerful idea that connects us with every single thing that has ever lived and will continue to live on Earth. And it's so understated with, I think, but less than a year after he comes back from the view of what he's not only thinking about evolution but having a very sophisticated ideas about evolution. This is no small matter here. This is a very, he's already thinking about it in very complex sophisticated ways. So why does it take him, coming back from the Beagle voyage, he draws that diagram, but it doesn't take him for over 20 years before he gets the origin of species. What was he doing during that time? It's a long time to just sit on the idea and it's kind of a complicated question. I won't be able to go over all the factors, but I'll just go over just a few of the very interesting ones. I mean, for one thing, Darwin sort of recognized that he just couldn't find one or two examples of evolution. He just couldn't say, just point to Finch's. He knew that in order to demonstrate something in science, you'd have multiple lines of evidence. So he looked at pigeons. He was looking at mathematics and statistics. He was looking at geology. That was much later, actually, but grapes. And research actually took a long time, but compounding this was that surely after returning from his voyage of the Beagle, he started getting chronically ill. I mean, we're talking about nausea, vomiting, upset stomach, tiredness, gas. I mean, he had various combinations of all these symptoms, waxing and waiting for the next 40 years.  And this, I mean, it really affect how he worked. It affected the way he worked.  So he had a lot of work to do, but his illness, and his illness is actually still a mystery to us today, although there's quite a number of different hypotheses.  So this here is what's called the Black Penny. It's the first postage stamp ever issued. This came about during, actually, during part of the Industrial Revolution where you started to get the expansion of not only railroads, but you also got mail that was hitchhiking on that too. It got this enormous expansion of rail. So by the middle of the 19th century, over 600 million letters were being delivered each year by tens of thousands of mailmen. I mean, you could sometimes expect several deliveries in a single day where a mailman will give you a letter. He'll wait outside while you read the letter inside and compose a response, and then you just hand the letter back to the mailman. Darwin, and so Darwin, this was something that Darwin took great advantage of at his peak. He was writing about 1,500 letters a year, and he had about 2,000 correspondence around the world. I mean, he spent a equivalent about what was then about 20 pounds worth of postage and stationery, which is almost $2,000 today for a single year. I mean, and the reason why he was spending so much on postage, because his illness prevented him from traveling much. He sometimes could even travel to London, which was actually a relatively short ways away to be able to talk to other scientists, pick their brains, get their expertise, their opinions, go to meetings and talks, or even visit museums to visit samples. He couldn't even really do that. He was home-stricken, vast majority of the time. So when he couldn't travel, his letters did it for him. And in addition to just sending and receiving letters, instead of just not just the power of the word, he was receiving packages. He would ask for seeds, fossil bones, animal hides, specimens he wanted to look at to sort of see if he looked for certain characteristics to support some of his ideas that he was developing. So, and he in the mail actually received lots and lots and lots of barnacles in the mail. This was something he specifically requested. So why was Darwin getting so many barnacles, this lowly invertebrate? Well, we had to step back a little bit about this. Actually, right around this time, Darwin was actually better known as a geologist. I mean, we think of him as this great naturalist biologist, but when you look at his research note from the origin of species, most of the time he was actually talking about rock formations, layers in rocks on exposed cliffs, his sedimentation patterns, and Darwin even developed actually a really great theory of actually a correct theory on the formation of archipelagos in the Pacific from based on some of the observations of evidence that he gathered actually on the Beagle voyage.  You also have to understand life. And Darwin didn't quite have that background. He had incredible amount of skill at this point, but he didn't have quite the naturalist biology background as some of his other peers. So he really essentially need to develop his biology cred and his entryway into that was actually barnacles. So in this time, barnacles was considered this really strange and very ignomadic group of invertebrates. I mean, things that people, that naturalists thought they knew about barnacles were actually discovering at this time were incorrect. People thought that barnacles were thought that they were muscles like clams, but they had recently found out during this time period that they're actually not muscles or clams, but were actually crustaceans, much like lobsters, even though they look anything lobster like at all. And another great naturalist, Leonard Jennings, actually considered that's how there's so much history surrounding life and just so much how strange barnacles were. He thought that an extensive study of barnacles could actually reveal much to our understanding of life. Well, little did he know. Darwin actually sides to bark on this barnacle study and he starts with this barnacle here. This guy is actually only a few millimeters big. Darwin found him on a, or her actually on the beach in Chile, named them Mr. Arthur Galanus. This is just some of the barnacles that Darwin did. This is actually straight from his manuscripts that he did on barnacles. So you have the acorn barnacles. You find those very commonly encrusted on rocks. So he's cataloging all the different variations and the patternings on their plates. And of course, on their right, you have the stock barnacles. Mr. Arthur Galanus actually didn't belong to any of these two. It actually belonged to a group known as the Boring Barnacles, not because they're boring, because they actually drilled themselves into rocks and shells. Actually, Mr. Arthur Galanus was the first Boring Barnacle ever discovered. And just to show you the amazing diversity of barnacles, this was one barnacle that Darwin was not aware of at the time he was doing this research. This is a crab, but if you look inside the crab, you see this network of root-like tendrils throughout his entire body. That is a barnacle. That is a parasitic barnacle. It's funny, I can't stand horror movies, but I really love stuff like this. It's almost Halloween. I have to scare the daylights out of some of you. And Darwin ends up getting just a number, more than the finches. Like I may have said before, we think of Darwin and think of finches. I think barnacles were far more even important than the finches in just the amounts of insight that he got about evolution, one of which is homology. And this is kind of one homology that we can sort of all relate with. We have the human arm here, skeleton of the human arm, dog leg, bird wing, and whale flipper. But notice that they all have the exact same sets of bones, four different animals, four different purposes. But why would you do completely different things with the same bones? Well, it's because we all shared a common ancestor. And we just all happened to inherit these same sets of bones from our common ancestors. They're granted with lots of heavy modifications over the past 200 plus million years, but this homology, the similarity in these bones, reveals to us our past evolutionary relationship. And this was something that Darwin got to intimately study with barnacles. So in barnacles and in their elder crustacean relatives, do you have something, do you actually have this forked appendage called the Byramus appendage? I mean, we're talking about their legs, their antennae, their swimmerettes. This is various examples from several different crustaceans, how we get the forks here, right here and right there. And in barnacles, they don't look like a lobster at all, but if you look at, but you've ever seen barnacles underwater, they have these appendages, they're sticking out and pulling in, sticking out and pulling in, and they're using that to capture food. And you look at those appendages very closely, they also forked same homology with all their other crustacean relatives. And this and numerous other characteristics that Darwin studied revealed to him probably far more about evolution than the finches, really ever did. And Darwin actually spent eight years working on barnacles. I mean, we're talking, I mean, he spent five years on the Beagle voyage, one month on the Galapagos, but eight years just working on this one group of invertebrates.   Don't all fathers work on barnacles? But I'm sort of gonna conclude this, talking about Darwin's family, I already mentioned his son. I can't really do his family's justice. I just love his family stories. There's so many great stories about it, but Darwin actually marries his first cousin, Emma Wedgwood, of, you know, Wedgwood Pottery. And remember, this is during the time when it was perfectly fine to go to a family reunion and hit on your cousin. This was still very common and very acceptable, although Darwin actually really secretly thought that there were negative consequences to this. You know, he went and married his cousin anyway. Yeah, yeah, and with Emma, they actually fathered a lot of children, 10 children, seven survived to a delta. This was also during the time period where it was not a surprise at all. If you were having 10 children, you're gonna expect a few not to make it. I mean, even though people would expect, or expecting that to happen, it really hit everyone hard. It really hit Charles and Emma really hard every time, you know, when their children died, you know, first married, then Annie, then Charles Warring.  He loved being a father. He spent quite a bit of time with them. He was at home all the time. He was a stay-at-home dad. He was home a lot, and he was doing research a lot, so of course he was gonna, of course he was like any good scientist, he was gonna mix the two together. So I'm just gonna end this. Okay, I did mention that he'd sometimes subject to his parents with experience. No, he did not harm his children in any way. It was more like they were just observational experiments. I'm just gonna end this with this one experiment that Darwin did. It's actually one of my favorite Darwin family research stories. He did very late in his life. Very late in his life, you know, he was just really fascinated, became really fascinated by earthworm. He was fascinated lots of things. He got into orchids. He got into how plants grew. He got into tendrils on grapes, and you know, he had this really big earthworm period. He wanted to know what earthworms were doing in the soil, how were they behaving? How they were responding to the different stimuli, and one of the stimulus that he was really interested in was sound, because you know, he knew that not all animals could hear. You know, he wondered, could earthworms hear? How would they respond to sound? So this was the experimental setup that Darwin had. So his wife, oops, his wife, Emma, was on the piano. Son, Francis was on the bassoon. His grandson, Bernard, was on the whistle. His daughter, Bessie. I could not find a picture of Bessie, Darwin. So we have to settle with this. So Bessie was just shouting. And you could just, and they were just all collected together in the family's drawing room. And you could just imagine this cacophony that they were just racket, they were just making, because there was this flower pot just right in the center with some dirt and some earthworms. And while his family was making all these noises, Darwin was just kind of sitting up right in there in the middle of his entire family, observing, seeing if earthworms could, were doing anything with all that sound. And as it turned out, the earthworms didn't care for pianos, bassoons, whistles, or shouting. So it was a negative result in this experiment, but it still sounded like they were having a lot of fun. But even though the result, it is a negative result out of the countless experiments and research that Darwin did in his life, I don't think this would really affect this reputation too much. But thank you so much. I got into this because eight years ago, I took a class on Darwin and like a good drunk, I just never stopped reading about him, about his letters or anything. So I have some books that I would recommend. If any one of you are interested in this, I mean not just Darwin, just any science history stuff. It's just really cool. So are there any questions? Yeah. Yeah. Well, partly because he wanted to accumulate all that evidence, but actually one of the triggers, he was actually already starting to work on his book by the late 1850s, but one thing that really sort of kicked him in the ass was a man named Alfred Russell Wallace. He was another naturalist. He was actually in the middle of Malay, acupallical at the time, and they were sort of sending letters back and forth to each other. And Darwin had mentioned two wallets that, oh, I'm working on a theory of species change without really saying anything.  And he goes ahead and starts describing natural selection. And this sort of freaks Darwin out, because Darwin has been working on this for 20 years. So he had already been working on his book on this, but this sort of really sort of kicks his ass and that sort of, he accelerated his book schedule actually. But at the same time, he didn't want Wallace to go unrecognized, so he actually helps arrange for that both him and Wallace will get their papers presented a couple months later at this one talk in London. So Wallace would end up getting some recognition, although Wallace has been unfortunately been forgotten too. All right, yeah, you? Two things, inheritance. He had a very wealthy father. Another thing was that his father really taught him really well on how to invest in land and in various farms and businesses. So he actually had a very steady income without having to leave the house. So, I mean, remember, this is in the area of Victorian science where you still had a lot of researchers who were like the gentlemen scientists. They were people of a means, so they could support themselves because science wasn't really much of a paid occupation at this time. Yeah, there's a couple. The one that I personally favor and actually these two sets of biographers, they wrote these two epic Harry Potter-esque Darwin biographies. They're massive volumes and they're fantastic. I mean, I just absorbed them. But anyway, they favor, as long as I, as well, that these were psychologically stress-induced elements that he was just very prone to anxiety. Because thinking about evolution was believed to have made him really stressful and his wife was actually really religious and was not fond of his ideas at all.  They were very supportive to each other, even though she was not fond of his ideas about evolution at all. And I think part of that, and part of knowing that when he publishes, he's gonna get a lot of blowback from people, could have caused stress, so that's one of the hypotheses that this was anxiety psychologically induced from stress. Another one, which one that I'm not gonna favor, but I'm not gonna try to bias this too much, is that was that we know from his notes that he's probably bitten by an insect known as the kissing bug when he was in South America and kissing insects transmit a disease called Chaga's disease. Some people believe that he was chronically suffering from Chaga's disease, but the reason why I don't favor that hypothesis too much is that if he had Chaga's disease, he would have died a lot sooner, I think, of heart failure. Yeah, you in the back? Yeah, so David in the back. He asked what sort of other societal political pressures would have affected him at the time when he was starting to publish his ideas? I mean, I think part of the reason why he waited so long was he was really nervous about that, about how people was gonna react, but actually there was one story that I was forced to omit from this talk because it was getting a little long that sort of talks a little bit about that, and that is that the society as a whole was actually somewhat interested actually in this topic by the time Darwin published in part because there was a man named Robert Chambers who anonymously published a book talking about evolution as well before Darwin, but Robert Chambers, he did this anonymously, he wasn't assigned to it, so his science was really sloppy, but he got the public really excited about the scandalous, exciting idea of species change, so the public was already somewhat primed to this at the time. By the time Darwin came along, sorry, one more question? You, sir, what's your name? Hunting and eating habits, actually I can't recall off the top of my head about his eating habits, although he did eat something very interesting in South America because in South America he had heard stories from local cowboys of, because there was this Rhea, basically a relative of the ostrich that was well known there, but these local cowboys were telling of the smaller species of Rhea, and Darwin really wanted to see this Rhea, wanted to shoot, got a specimen of it, and send those bones back to England for them to examine, and he searched far and wide and he couldn't find it, and his friend Conrad Martins, who was an artist on the Beagle voyage, he comes along and says like, oh, why don't you just have dinner with us? I just shot this bird, we'll just make the stew. So Darwin was in the middle of eating the stew, and then for some reason at this point he realized, oh my God, this is this other species of Rhea that I've been looking for, so he asked everybody to tear the bones off the meat that they were eating, and he collected all the bones and all the feathers, no one fortunately didn't throw away the feathers and sent it all back, and in terms of hunting, Darwin was actually a very good marksman, because his father was really rough during an early part of his life, he was a little bit of a playboy in the sense that he kind of didn't care that much was going on, he went out, hunted a lot, he really honed down but his hunting skills quite a bit, so he was very good at shooting birds, because this was still a common era where unlike today we were more likely to just wait for a bird to die before we collected for a museum specimen. Back then the people were still shooting them and this was one of the things he did. Yeah, oh yeah, one more thing, Beagle Boy, she actually did hunt meat for the crew also, so he was actually quite helpful to the crew. All right, thank you.


The Great Search brought to you by DigikeyNative for it every single week. Age of Fruit and Digikey team up and Lady80 uses her knowledge of searching the Digikey site to find the parts you need. Lady80, what is this week's Great Search? Okay, so we actually just talked about using the same board layout with parts that have the same pinout. So BMP280 and DPS310. I've talked about the VL53L0X from ST and there's the 53L1CX. So again, you know, sometimes companies will reuse or competing companies will use the same pinout and package which is like really awesome because again, you don't have to re-spin a board, you don't have to re-spin a tester, you can recycle the same layout. So this week I was tasked with, and you'll see why this is, you know, in thematic, we just ran out of ADXL377. This is a really cool chip. Anyone who devices courses is one of the first companies to make, you know, analog and digital accelerometers. They're famous for it. This is a 200g accelerometer. Now most people don't use 200g accelerometers. They use 2, 4, 8, maybe 16. 32g is kind of a high end, you know, for like, you know, sports and some automotive. But there are, you know, rocketry and mechatronic and robotic reasons that you'll want up to 100 or 200g output. This accelerometer, it's funny. I think this actually uses the same pinout as the ADXL326. I think this one, maybe it's not, but it's very similar. They have a lot of LG, it's 16LGA sensors. And yeah, I really like this one because it was a 200g analog output. And I was like, well, I'd like to see if I could find a replacement. Analog is kind of nice. It's ratio metric, which means that in whatever the V, sorry, within the 3.3 volt output, it's, you can use that 3 volt output into your analog reference for your microcontroller. And then exactly halfway 0g and then, you know, as it all the way to 3.3 volts is plus 200g, all the way down to ground is negative 200g. So one of the most interesting is, you know, one reason that you will have, I like to, you know, when a sensor becomes obsolete, it's just became obsolete, it's a longer manufactured. I sometimes like to look at the obsolescence document. So this is interesting. So, you know, there is a last time by date, which just passed.  It used to, you used to have a little bit of time, you simply get the parts. And now I'm finding that when it's gone, it's really, it's gone gone, that end of line time. So I think we have a couple more in order, but I did want to find a replacement. What I thought was interesting was that this ASIC process is being discontinued by the foundry. I have seen this happen. And when this happens, you're really, I mean, there's, especially interesting analog process chips. I'll see that they're discontinued and it's not like, oh, you know, they're not popular. It's like, no, that process, that there's not enough companies using that process. The wafer foundry, the company that makes the silicon is actually going to shut down that line. And they're going to replace it with a more profitable line. This happens and when it happens, you are totally SOL. I think there's a couple of Macs and chips. I think they, a couple of analog chips that I got from Max and I remember were also shut down for similar reasons.  I didn't select plus or minus 200 G because, you know, maybe there's 100 G available. And of course I want surface mount. So let's see. And then let's look also, of course, only active. See all the analog ones, and you'll see, you know, some of these are the, you know, old mill spec ones. These are some of them are quite ancient. The 335 series we've been carrying for quite a while. But I thought maybe let's look at, you know, the high G rate. So maybe, you know, 50 to 500 G. And unfortunately, you know, they do exist, but they're all like super expensive. They're like about $100 a piece and they're available only from TE. So these are very specialty parts. This is kind of why I sort of have to make a decision. Look, you know, this analog, but I'm not going to get an analog version of this accelerometer, but maybe I can get a digital version. You know, maybe I have to give up on the end. I do like the analog ones. I think they're really cool. But I also know when to give up. So going back here, we're just going to go to accelerometers. I only want active ones because I don't want to go through this whole process again so quickly. And then I want XY and Z. I really only want triple axis accelerometers. It's very common these days. And then acceleration range, you know, I do, I want to see maybe, you know, 50 to 500. 6000 G is kind of bonkers. I'm not really ready for that. So 250 to 500. And you'll see that, you know, there are a couple really expensive, you know, industrial use ones, but there are also a couple of inexpensive ones as well. Looking at price, there's the list series. I'll say you can't get any accelerometers from ST for next year. So I'm going to skip that one. The list 200. I think we stock this one. But this was kind of interesting. Again, I really like analog devices for their accelerometers. So this 200 G accelerometer, first off, they have a lot in stock, which is really nice. Another thing that is cool is that they are, they have this package, the 14 LGA and the 14 LGA pinout is shared with almost all their other accelerometers, which is why I was talking about shared pinout. So this, this is the, the pinout for the accelerometer. You can see it's, you know, not all the pins are used or some reserved, but it does have two interrupt pins, SPI port and I squared C shared, which are really, I like it when sensors are like, look, we can do I squared C or SPI because I feel like they really, you know, I squared C is tough to bit bang, but SPI is quite easy. SPI is also faster. If you really want to get the data out much quicker. Of course you can have multiple sensors on SPI. So I'm really like, I'm always in love when sensor companies have I squared C and SPI dual purpose interfaces. But thankfully, you know, this LGA, when I saw this, I was like, ooh, I wonder, you know, hopefully, is that going to be the same as the, the other LGA accelerometers, the, sorry, ADXL 345, which is ancient and historic, right? This one. And also, the 343, which is kind of like the next gen of the, the 345.  It's a very nice, very low cost accelerometer. And again, I've got devices that do a really, really good job with their accelerometers. They're not the cheapest, but they're like really reliable, very quiet and you get really good performance out of them. So thankfully, this board, the 345, which is the same pinout as the 343, is, you see, I also did a feather wing of this, this board. These are the same pinout. And so the 375, I was like, oh, you know, this is an easy, you're normally, it wouldn't spin up a whole new board for this accelerometer. But if I can reuse that same design to all three of them, I'm, I'm, I'm loving that because I really like to have one design. So I did, let's see, it's gonna be recent. So for the ADXL and the ADXL 343, it's actually one of the last boards that we did before we changed over to some of our standard static QT format. So I was like, you know what, let's make a breakout for this board. And while I'm at it, revise the 345 and the 343. So this is what I came up with. It's, it's a little bit of a tight fit, but it does fit. Let's do top silk. So the accelerometers in the center, we've got four big mounting holes, I squared C down here, and then the extra SPI pins up here, and then everything, everything fits. And there's a little bit of room for the part number. And then of course, on the back, I can have even more part number info, but maybe I'll, you know, over here in the corner, I can maybe fit an XY coordinate marking. But yes, it's the design I made and that's the accelerometer I picked. I wish there was an analog 200G accelerometer, but I think, I think the days of analog output accelerometers is kind of over. But you know, I squared CSPI is available. And I think not only is this chip going to be pin compatible, but it's likely going to be very close software wise as well. Probably will be we use the Python and Arduino drivers that we've written for the three XX series for the 200G accelerometer. So I'm going to pick some of those up and spin out this board and I'll mount it on and it will just work. That's a great search.


Hey everybody welcome back to the channel. Today I'm going to be discussing the top five music players for Linux. Now these are completely of my own opinion. There are tons and tons of music player apps out there for Linux. These are just the ones that I find the best. So it's my opinion. I've left links to everything that I talked about today down in the description below. And let's just go ahead and jump right in. This should be a fairly short video. So let's jump in. The first one is going to be VLC. Now it does mostly video, but VLC is actually will actually play music as well. Now it doesn't do like my library management or anything. But if you're the minimalist sort, the minimalist sort, you might just want one app that does everything and literally does VLC. Now VLC, I can't show you on this because it's going to show up on a different monitor. I might be able to transfer it over to. Yeah, this is what VLC looks like. It's just a blank thing. And if you play music in it, it will still be blank and it'll just show the MIDI controls down here. Like I said, it's mostly for video, but it will, if all you want is one app that will do everything in terms of playing stuff, VLC is your best bet. So the next one I want to talk about is Rhythmbox. And Rhythmbox comes preinstalled on Ubuntu, I believe. At least it used to. I think it still does. It's been around for a long time. Let's see if I can find a picture. I don't have it installed. Alright, I got to always just spell it right. This is what Rhythmbox looks like. And because it will manage your libraries, it has a tag editor. It will allow you to scrabble last FM and play from various audio stations, it's very full featured. And it's very, very appropriate for anyone who's running in the GTK, like a GNOME or Mate or whatever, it will fit right in and will follow your themes and everything. It's great. It's not for me because I don't use GTK stuff. But it is very good and obviously free and open source is all these are. The next one I'm going to talk about is Clementine. This is what Clementine looks like. And yes, this is a looks like this is Clementine on Windows, but Clementine is available for Linux. It's a lot like Rhythmbox only has a huge plug in library so you can get it to work with Spotify. I think it will work with Pandora and other music radio services like that. It will also scrabble the last FM and all those things. Also has a tag editor. One of the great things is it has tabs so you can have different playlists open at the same time and be playing from different ones, you know, whatever. It's not as well designed. I don't think it's Rhythmbox. I've never really cared for it, but it has different views. I'm not not sure if it will show these again. I don't have this install. I should have should install some of these. But anyways, it has different views. So the looks of the default view never really appealed to me, but you can change that so it looks a little bit different. The next one I want to talk about is Lollipop. And I do have this one installed. If I can get it to open. Apparently I can't get it to open. Why would anything work when this is like my fourth attempt at a video today? Okay, well, I can't get Lollipop to open either. That's really weird. Not sure why. Oh, there we go. That's Lollipop. I don't. Why do you need my password? Really weird. Anyways, you can see this is Lollipop. Now this is a GTK theme. I think this is better than Rhythmbox if only because it's updated more often. And it's prettier. It doesn't have as many features as Rhythmbox does. But I just like the design of it better. Again, it will do pretty much all the normal stuff. If you do the preferences here, you can add several things from the web, including Spotify and things. So I guess it has more features than I actually thought it did. I never use any of these things because I stopped using Lollipop quite a while ago. But it is available and it's I like I said, I think it looks better than Rhythmbox. Functionality wise, they're fairly similar. All right. The next one, or the last one I want to talk about is one that I can't pronounce the name of. It's NCMPCPP. I'll have the actual name down the thing, but this is a terminal based one. And it requires MPD to set up.  But it's a horrible name for a really good friend. This is the one I use. Basically, I'm trying to go to all terminal based or all console based applications other than you know, like web browsers. I'm just because I'm an Erd and I want to. But I like this one because it just allows you to use the terminal is very, very lightweight.  So if you're not interested in trying to figure it out, I would avoid this one and just use one of the graphical user interface ones. Those are all very easy to set up and we'll work with external hard drives and stuff. This one here will work with external hard drives, but you got to set it up in config files. And if you want to theme it, you have to deal with config files. So it's not as is not user intuitive at all, like 0% negative percent. But if you're a control addict and like to literally dive into config files, this is the one that you should choose. Anyways, like I said, very quick video. Like I said, there's are tons and tons of music app music players out there. These are just the five that I particularly like the most. And they're older ones like Amorak. I think Amorak is the name. That's a KD one. Why don't why doesn't have a K at the beginning of it? I don't know. There's I mean, there's several other ones that are really good. I think there's one that Katie is actually working on to replace Amorak right now. But I'm not sure what that's called. But anyways, these are the five that I've chosen. I will put links to all their pages in the description below. 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When the sun was shining, I was a man to be One minute she changed that I never had or was to live But both of us and our lives together Sure was going to be rough Mama's home made dreads, mama's banked the world I'm just out of the road, my shoes I'm fed to do it at the end


good morning it is actually thursday no i'm sorry it is friday the day after Thanksgiving and i am playing an among tournament so i'm about to go get some coffee get caffeinated and get on my way thank you you too so as you guys know i like documenting the different places that i do play volleyball especially since there are a lot of different unique places out there so i've never played in a among tournament tip before so i'm very excited about what it's going to be like what we're going to do there and all of that it's actually 6 30 am so let's get driving so this is the next day after the tournament unfortunately we did not make it to the end however we almost made it to the semi finals one thing that i can say that i have learned from this tournament is that i really greatly want to improve my serve receive as you guys know i typically don't pay back row but in this tournament i did have to play back row which it wasn't wasn't something that was uncomfortable for me but it was something that it was greatly a learning experience you guys have seen my progression through grass and i want to continue going through that progression and learning every step of the way so in this upcoming year before the next grass season because we're transitioning to indoor i want to greatly work on my serve receive my energy my stamina and just becoming and living a healthier lifestyle so i'm unsure whether i'm going to do vlogmas or not however i do if i do i know it will be something that is more health oriented because i want to have more energy i know you want more energy and we want to build up the best weekend for volleyball so it was an honor to play in the mung tournament i learned so much about the culture tradition all of that and i'm excited to see where we go from here thank you so much for watching this video and i hope you like comment and subscribe and i'll see you guys next time


Hi everyone, Chris here from IELTSAdvantage.com and in today's lesson we're going to look at five things you must do to get a band seven or above in writing class two. So we just finished up teaching about 3,300 students last week on our $1 challenge and there were things that we noticed that students were not doing and these were the reasons why they were failing. So we decided today to share these five things that you must do and if you do those things you will be in a very good position to get a seven or above. So let's get into it. So number one, very obvious, do the work. So you're watching this, you're like, that sounds very, very obvious, of course I'm going to do the work. Everybody says that but very few people actually do it. So on our $1 challenge, only about 4%, less than 5% of people actually completed the final challenge which was to write an essay. And it wasn't because the lessons weren't good or they weren't dedicated to what they were doing. The number one reason why people said that they couldn't do it was I don't have time. This kept coming up again and again and again and again and we asked people to do about one hour of work a day and 95% of people could not get one hour of work done. So why is that? Let's have a look. The last time I checked, every single person on planet earth has 24 hours in a day. There are some people who are highly productive and get lots of stuff done and there are obviously people who get nothing done. Why is that?  And the vast majority of people that we deal with are those people that are busy but get nothing done. They say they're busy with this, that and the other and they don't have time to do anything. And I actually analysed some students during the week. So some students were emailing me and saying thank you for the lessons, they're great but I just can't look at any, I just don't have time. And some of the students I said send me your timetable from yesterday, tell me exactly what you did yesterday and I'll have a look at it and see if we can help you with finding a little bit more time. So we had one student and she went to bed at about 9.30, 10pm and got up at 5.30. Fair enough. That's a lot of sleep though. Could she have got up 30 minutes earlier or one hour earlier? And then from 5.30 to about 8.30 she looked after her kids. So she was getting her kids ready for school, getting them breakfast, getting them dressed. That time there's no way that she could not do that. She had to do that. Like fair enough. Okay, so he could have got up one hour earlier here but fair enough you're busy in the mornings. Then she said she went to work so she was a pharmacist so she worked from about 9.30 to about 5.30. I said well what about lunch time? How much time do you get for lunch? It turned out that she had an hour and a half for lunch. It's like could you eat your lunch in 30 minutes? Is that possible? And then study for one hour, it's like I'm tired, I like to have lunch, I like to relax. I'm like okay, it's like you have a choice. You can be relaxed or you can do the work to like choose. Then we said what do you do in the evenings?  It's like well what does your husband do? It's like oh he watches football and you know talks to his friends, he's busy with that. It's like what could your husband not look after the kids for one hour or two hours maybe if he really wants to help you? And it turned out that this person like everybody else who was complaining that they didn't have time actually had three or four hours in a day. Do this yourself, look at your day, where do you spend time on leisure or spending too much time with your family or spending time looking at Facebook or where in the day could you find time? I guarantee that you will find the time to do it and you don't need a lot of time in order to improve writing tasks too. Thirty minutes a day, one hour a day. If you do that consistently in no time at all in a month or two months you're going to be able to get the scores you need. Number two, follow one method. One thing that we noticed was students were sending in their essays or sending in their paragraphs and we were like what are you doing? Why are you not doing what we suggested to do? And it turned out that they were looking at so many different options and so many different methods on YouTube, on Facebook and books and like they had five different teachers before they came to us that they were really really really confused about what to do because there were so many different people saying so many different things. If you follow multiple teachers or multiple people online you are A, wasting time, B you're going to cause a lot of stress and frustration for yourself because everyone's got a different method and C you're going to lower your score because your writing is a reflection of your thinking and if your thinking is confused your writing is going to be confused. Let's look at an example of this. So we asked some students to write an introduction and a main body paragraph and we noticed a lot of people instead of just doing what we suggested they do they were just following their own method and doing their own thing and it wasn't because they disagreed with us it was when we actually asked them it was because they said oh my old teacher said to put in background statements at the beginning of the introduction and the beginning of that like no don't do that that's not something we recommend and then they would have like three main ideas like firstly secondly thirdly in their main body paragraph like why did you do that you'd one idea here now you have three and two of these ideas are not even related to the question like oh I was looking at another YouTube channel and the teacher there said to put three main ideas like no so their whole thing was a complete and utter mess and if they had just followed one method I'm not saying to follow me I don't have time to help everybody but follow one person or one course or just pick one and you'll save yourself time and you'll improve your scores number three learn what your weaknesses are there are very very very specific reasons why you are failing so it's not just you know a vague reason like you're not good at English or you're not good at writing or you did this thing wrong or that thing wrong they're very very very specific things related to grammar vocabulary task achievement coherence and cohesion that you are not doing so well right I can look at your writing and within one minute tell you give you a list of things you're not so good at this you're not so good at that you need to fix this you need to fix that they're very specific things and they the same things come up again and again and again for each student so you need to find out what these are if you don't know where you're going wrong you won't be able to to do well let's think about it let's use an analogy what would you do if your car was broken down so you're not a car expert you're not a mechanic if your car is broken down there's a very specific reason why your car is broken down it could be a certain part of the engine it could be you forgot to put petrol in it could be anything but you don't know what do you do you take it to a mechanic and they tell you the specific thing that is going wrong let's say you feel really sick I'd say you feel tired all the time and you go to the hospital you go to the doctor the doctor is going to run tests and is going to ask you questions to find out the exact reason why because they can't treat you they don't know how to treat you unless they find out that exact reason you do not know how to improve your writing because you don't know where you're going wrong you don't know this your specific weaknesses if you don't find those out you're never going to improve same as like if you feel sick and you don't go to the doctor you're not going to get better if your car is broken down and you don't take it to a mechanic it's not going to fix by itself you know you're not you can't hope and pray your car to start working number four take action on fixing those weaknesses this sounds really really obvious but we worked with multiple students last week and we told them you're not so good at this you need to fix this you need to work on that and then they would do nothing about it it's like imagine going to your car is broken down and you take it to a mechanic and they say there's a problem with your gearbox we need to fix your gearbox and you say no don't do that it's like what's going to happen or imagine going to the doctor and they say you've got anemia you've got an iron deficiency you need to take iron supplements you say no i'm not going to do that so like what's going to happen if you do not do anything to fix your problems you're not going to improve again this sounds really really obvious but i'd say less than one percent of students actually do it and the reason why they do it is they're lying to themselves so i don't have time as we've already shown you yes you do have time if you actually look at your time if you actually look at your day you will find time other people say i don't know how to do this i don't know how to fix anything we'll hire someone there are people called teachers teachers will help you with that other people are saying i don't have any money it's like well you do have money how do you live how do you eat how do you pay your rent i know some people don't have a lot of money um but there are some people who have enough money to solve all of these problems and then don't do anything about it and if you think about it in a very basic way what is my problem how do i fix it then you'll be able to fix those problems but if you're constantly just thinking i have a problem i have a problem i have a problem and they're not doing anything to fix those problems guess what's going to happen number five have a positive mindset i'd say the majority of students more than 50% of the students are not going to fail the test the students we worked with last night or last week they're not going to fail the test because of poor english or poor writing they're going to fail it because of a poor mindset because if you have a poor attitude you're never going to improve if you have a problem for every solution you will constantly have problems we were giving solution after solution after solution and students would come up with another problem another reason why they couldn't do it let's look at an example students say i don't have time actually you do it's going to take me a very long time no it won't it'll take you one month or two months okay and then they do it are not really good at this sure that's why you're learning it and you're not you're learning something new so you're not going to be good at it that's a natural part of learning something new and they would try it again oh i keep making mistakes it's not perfect good you're going to learn from each one of those mistakes and you're going to get better oh i just can't do this so like every time we help them their mindset stop them from improving and until you have a positive mindset like some of the students we worked with i'm going to find time i'm going to get one hour i'm going to get up early or i'm going to you know check facebook you know for one hour less or you know not watch tv or not spend four hours with my family every every night and i'm going to get the time and i'm going to schedule everything and i'm going to timetable everything and i'm going to get it done in a month or six weeks or two months and i know that i'm not good at this but if i learn from my mistakes and i do it and i find out what my weaknesses are and i work on those then i'm going to get the scores that i need and those are the students that we love to work with because those are the students that help themselves um because they're going to do really really really well um have a positive mindset you're going to do really really well so in summary number one do the work number two follow one method number three learn your weaknesses number four take action and number five have a have a positive mindset i actually spoke to one student this morning about this and we were talking about this and they said um i i don't think this will work it's like i don't think this is good i don't think this will work it's like okay do you think not doing the work following multiple people not finding out your weaknesses not doing anything about those weaknesses and having a really negative mindset like you have right now is going to fix the problem it's like yeah so 99 of the problems that you have can be fixed just by fixing this just by having a more positive mindset knowing that you can do it and taking action on it that's all i'm going to say about that and that's what we learned last week and you can learn from that as well thank you very much guys um and if you need anything feel free to get in touch hope that you enjoyed bye


Great everybody. Welcome to the live stream. So just as the thumbnail the title suggests black rock finally gets it We're gonna take a look at exactly What they understood as far as crypto and digital assets and why really what they're talking about is there is an accelerant To the market to actually get into the space So take a look exactly they're talking about also We'll take a look at Solana goes play to earn gaming and hits a home run in my humble opinion for its One of its partnerships and then lastly we'll do a quick correction from yesterday two things I need to talk about capital gains and play to earn gaming via mobile So go for all those things and we'll do five questions in five minutes the very end But first let's take a look at the market and if you're here for the live stream welcome here for the replay Just know there'd be timestamps underneath to have fun with that And if you want to continue the education go to Dan teachers crypto comm links in the description Let's get into it. So today is most days and actually I What I do usually is I look at the price last It's always interesting me to see like what things are changing or whatnot. So this was yesterday. I believe me refresh it Yesterday Bitcoin is 43. How do we do today? Roughly the same thing boring So if we take a look at the stats the market cap still above 2 trillion, so that's good I mean, that's great But in all honesty quite boring for the crypto market and it is a kind of a snooze fest But sometimes when things are just a little bit choppy It allows people that are trying to accumulate in the background to have a pretty good time because they just need said time to Accumulate and just a hopefully as time goes on the price goes up and then not a financial advice financial opinion But usually it does so Bitcoin's up 2.6 percent in 24 hours. Great a theorem is very 100 Any big winners? Holy smokes. So Cardano's up 10 percent. That's something 40 percent for a week not too shabby. So Lana is up 16 percent 5 percent Tara's down Tara too bad of it. I mean, it was on a it was on a huge run for for quite a long time doge coin Congratulations doge coin holders still on the top 20. Don't know why whatever Let's see Kronos. Oh, that's crypto comms on 3.7. I'm finding really big Hey, 23 percent axi infinity 32 percent. We're gonna talk about them at the very end so good for axi infinity holders kind of an inflationary asset, but it seems to be doing a lot of good globally, especially if you are on the Scholarship process when you bring things out. How's a coin doing? That's the big question. Just kidding 60% up for the week 2.3 for the day I'm not buying that. I'm not buying it. I know People say, oh, you're gonna miss out. Trust me. I've missed out on many things and that's gonna be one of them So that's what we have right now. Let's take a look at today's top story. So this one Comes to us black rock and If you don't know black rock, they have 10 trillion assets under manager. Let me say that again 10 trillion they're pretty huge and when I see These enormous entities come out and go, you know what? Crypto might be a good thing, but when they talk about here as far as acceleration I get what they're saying and I understand what the CEO think talks about Larry think and and why Crypto could be big now, but this is the story Russia-Ukraine crisis could accelerate digital currencies. Here's what we got So in a letter to the shareholders, this was all shareholders of the world's largest asset manager Larry Fink said that the war will push countries to reassess Currency dependencies and that black rock was studying digital currencies and stable coins due to increased client interest Let me go back real quick. So When Fink is talking about client interest everything else, don't be fooled. Okay They were gonna get in this a long time ago. They knew they were gonna get into it They were gonna study it just like everybody else just like the Ray Dalios who came out when the largest hedge funds in the entire world said First of all Ray said Crypto's not great. Bitcoin's not good. Then I bought a little Bitcoin now. We're studying Bitcoin and crypto now We're dabbling into it before you know it. It'll be like mr. Wonderful And he where he says yeah now I got 20% of my entire portfolio in the crypto It's just like a natural progression and thinks no different So I'm gonna take you back a little bit of history July 14 2021 black rock CEO Larry Fink says there's very little demand for crypto Lately and he just goes on to say that and we're gonna take a look at a nice little piece right here that one squawk box Where he explains himself, which does make a lot of sense But again, it's the same progression that we see time and time and time again with these billion and trillion dollar Ascent or management institutions the same thing happened. So if you're wondering like am I in a good place? I think you are I think in the right place at the right time just an opinion So to move on into this article here He states a global digital payment system thoughtfully designed can enhance the settlement of international transactions while reducing the risk of money laundering and corruption, so I'm hoping Senator Warren Takes takes note when Larry Fink is talking. I don't know if she does I'll make she's really big with bankers But that would be a good thing I think to to reduce the risk of money laundering and corruption Even though people in the United States in Congress they will say oh, it's the worst place Well, if I was an illegal entity some like the cartels or or maybe like Somebody who would engage in elicit activity. I don't think I want to put it on a public ledger That's just me And to finish up he says over the past few weeks I've spoken to countless stakeholders Including our clients and employees who are all looking to understand what could be done to prevent capital From being deployed to Russia. We believe this the definition of fiduciary duty and he talks about how Crypto digital currencies and stablecoins could be one of those ways So that is the first part to it and again, I think it's the same thing the same rabbit hole a lot of these different places go down here's what Really got to me When he's talking about this just a less than a year ago as far as crypto and digital assets So I'm gonna have you take a listen to what he says here, and I think I kind of see where things are going I think the writing is kind of on the wall. Let me stop the screen real quick. Let me share my Tab so you can actually hear it Ba-ba-ba and let me mute myself Which would probably what we've seen with Robin Hood in other areas. Is that still the case? What portion of the American public you think is actively involved at this point and making sure they're putting more money aside? Well, as I said in the past, I'm very Excited about seeing how investors are focusing on even meme stocks and other things like that as you said Robin Hood I believe if we could improve financial literacy as we could help more people focus on Not just a speculating of markets in the ups and downs, but translating that into investing in the long run The issue about retirement that Joe talked about may be less of a problem for the next generation That you know the young people we're now focused on things like equity equity markets So I this is one of the things that I I look at this I look at this as a Possibly good first step now if they remain to be speculating on a few stocks and that that's all it is and Then that's all it is. I will say again though What happens on those shares Those types of trading activities is totally unrelated to our mission at BlackRock I don't have any conversation with any investors about what is happening there The long-term investors are looking to how to build long-term returns over a long period of time and there You know, we don't have those conversations I think in the past you've asked me about crypto and Bitcoin again in my last two weeks of business travel now One question been asked about that That is just not part of the focus on retirement and long-term investors and We we see very little in terms of investor a demand on those types of things But quite frankly they may not come to BlackRock for that type of demand But I would say for all the pension funds in the insurance company for all the RIAs That we're talking to for their clients on behalf of their retirement, you know The dialogue is about how should I navigate my portfolio and how should I think about my portfolio? over a long horizon I mean, I'll be honest with you. Some people will Let me back up. Some people will take a look at Larry Fink and be like this guy's evil because he you know runs this 10 trillion assets asset under management's Institution and he he's the the epitome of everything bad. He's not anything bad. He's just inert what he really is is a person That is trying to do the best thing for his business and that's about it So when he talks about like we're not gonna get a crypto again. This was less than a year ago We're not gonna get into crypto because it is a speculative asset And there's and really what has to happen is there has to be a little bit more of a longer road to go Rails have to be laid a little bit of regulation probably would go a long way So when he says these things I'm like, yeah, I can get it and I and then you know and I know that there's a lot Of speculation here in crypto and digital assets So when we start talking about like well everybody should have and everybody should do this thing I don't think so I think it has to go through a longer journey and there and there is like a longer different timeline for most people So when he talks about that there is some Investment as far as like the long term people to think long term and a little bit more financial literacy I kind of get what he's saying because I see the craziness that is in crypto and I've been here since 2017 Some of you've been in longer. Some of you've been here shorter It is a wild different radical place and a lot of the times when people are talking about, you know Getting into like the long term that just goes out the window. They're like make me a dogecoin millionaire I don't think that's how it works. It doesn't work for me anyhow But let me just think about that in the comment section is just one of those things where I can see like, okay That makes sense. He doesn't like the whole Speculation aspect now there's some things that are going on globally in the macro environment Which would make it an accelerant now that probably get into it I like where things are going right place right time. Let's move on. So that leads me to my next point Played on gaming and I know this isn't like a big hot topic on my channel I mean this my channel is not based on played on gaming You want to learn about played on gaming and great stuff like that go over a crypto stash and those guys those guys Are like geniuses at it actually as link in the description for his channel But I see it like this All the different things we're gonna talk about as far as these games and things are gonna be Maybe you don't have to invest in said game or said projects Maybe you just take a look at the underlying Project that is being built on and just go that route. There's an option just an opinion anyhow This is what's happening here. So PUBG developer teams up with Solana Labs to launch Play to earn crypto games. First of all Crafting that's Cheng bung you I think I nailed it the founder and chairman of online game company Crafting Crafting South Korean gaming giant founded by billionaire Cheng bung you is expanding its crypto empire by partnering with blockchain startup Solana Labs to develop Play to earn crypto games so What they're talking about here is the company behind the popular PUBG player unknowns battlegrounds. Does anybody know what that is? I didn't I had to look it up So this is PUBG battlegrounds. Apparently super popular. I am not a gamer. I'm just an investor I don't really care about games that much. I mean I play like the old stuff My job is to find where the hockey puck is going now where the hockey puck is now So when I see something like this, I'm like, okay, this looks pretty interesting Battlegrounds a lot of people are playing a lot of people spending a little money. Okay. I like that And then there's this PUBG universe looks like they got things fleshed out and it's a working product right now What's going on over here? So Bop bop bop bop bop company behind PUBG video game announced on Wednesday Yesterday it had signed a business agreement with Solana Labs to make blockchain games that allow players to earn nft tokens and of course, this is Solana Labs is the company that developed the Solana blockchain And risen the challenge of dominance of ethereum is more and more developers are adapting it for d5 projects on top of also Play to earn gaming and of course this is also being pushed by that guy named sam bankman freed Founder of ftx. So when I see stuff like this, I'm like, that's pretty great. I can get into that again I'm not a gamer But if I look at the things that are being built on it, I'm like, hmm I don't know anything about that, but that looks pretty good So maybe I might take a little harder look at Solana Just an opinion or for ethereum is all like for as far as like total value locked up in b-fi You know, it's like over 100 billion dollars Maybe I should look into that and then also you want to take a look at Other studios that are getting into gaming. There's another one called polygon studios And they do things stuff like over here They're selling a hop of digital culture Really what they're trying to do is take games that are already out there in the wild and going Hey, are you free to play? I think you might want to look at play to earn and we're going to help you Transfer that over that's exactly what happened with elemental knights and against akishi And that's going out pretty swimmingly. So again, when I start talking about all these different projects I think people just tune out you can do deep dives into the games themselves and the actual Tokens like for here for against akishi. I talked about this on digital asset news clips Where we go over like the advancements of things and we talked about the token That is their their meta and then also they have the round token that you can just bypass it all and just go You know what I don't know anything about that, but maybe polygon might be something to look at Just a little opinion. Maybe a theory and maybe salana. So that's what we have for that story Let me know what you think about that in the comment section and then lastly we'll finish up with Corrections and my screw-ups. That's always good. So real quick yesterday. We I I made an off hand comment about how I think that it'll be great when finally there'll be some not just Plater and gaming that's on pc or mac only you can actually play that on your android device or Your apple phone and I didn't think there was anybody anything out there But people corrected me like you do which is good. I mean that's great. That's what we're here for So they said hey rob There's axi infinity. You can already play it mobile. I was like really tell me more So I just did a quick search and it is right out there axi infinity mobile download How to play axi on android and ios? I didn't know this. This is pretty good Is axi infinity available to play a mobile? Yes, it's available to play. Here's how you do it How to download axi infinity? while unavailable via the google play store, so you can't just go to the google play or the uh Apple app store because you can't they don't have it there for the game but You can make your way over to official axi infinity sites I'll link that in the description You can click the play now button This will bring up several different versions of axi It's like the android version and your game should start downloading Once installed you need to link to your metamask wallet And you can start using axi infinity and you can play that on your phone And there's there's like a couple more that have actually crossed over Into the mobile device area. So that's good things are moving so fast that I didn't know about that So fantastic. So that was the first screw up I had the second screw up was this one We were talking about well, I wasn't really screwed but we were talking about uh Capital gains tax everybody's favorite, which I'm gonna get slotted on that this year, but whatever So I was talking about I could have sworn I said Netherlands of Denmark was zero percent And someone said no, no, no, it's Or no, no, I said it was high and someone no, no, no, it's zero percent. I'm like, oh, okay so Denmark Has the highest tax top capital gains tax of all countries at a rate of 42% Finland and France. I think I said 30 was actually 34 and then here's all the capital gains tax You guys really got a tough in the EU except for belgium lucky sons again. He had zero percent Uh austria 27 check republic zero if anyone wants to move there No Denmark it says 42 and I think I said nev I said Netherlands Netherlands I said Was high and it is high someone said it was zero, but I'm looking at here and this is from data from uh as of april 2021 Uh 31 maybe I was talking about something else, but that's someone corrected me and said it wasn't 54 percent It was lower than that. So yeah, all right Anyhow spain's 26 Sweden 30 switzerland zero turkey zero But turkey you got to move there with their lira fiat going crazy out of control inflation No, thank you. I can see why so those are two scripts and that will conclude today's New story so if you want to stick around for the q&a we're gonna do five questions five minutes always entertaining always entertaining a lot of good stuff But if not if you had to take up it's okay, uh, hit the like Subscribe all that great stuff. It seemed like if you laid the like for some reason youtube pushes the video out more Go figure algorithms and that's it for today. So thanks much for stopping by. Let's jump into Five questions in five minutes and go from there Ah, let's see ah, okay You said 30 it wasn't a lens. So I guess yes Someone said another lens was zero percent and now I'm looking over here and it's different But anyhow, it doesn't matter You had to pay a lot of money. All right. So thank you Slovenia is beautiful. I have heard that from many people Czech Republic is beautiful. It's my home. We're great Whatever Soul won't recover Maybe I don't know I'm not here to predict I'm not here to predict prices anymore Dumb Who knows where things are going I can give you a price prediction get super lucky and then you know, I'm the genius out there but this time goes on price predictions Usually don't make it And then oscar must be a gamer says pub g was crazy popular probably the biggest title for years Who to knew who to thunk it pub g I don't know what you call it. That's how I call it makes me easier for me So this is a good question. This is the first one. Zach says I know you're not an ape Just got in crypto in january. Could it be a shibu opportunity for someone who hasn't amassed much yet? And let me get this out of here. I don't need this So the answer is yes, it could be a great opportunity. The thing is is that And guy over coin beer did a pretty good job about you know, the utility and what it's going to be It could be massive great utility. They already have a dow That's the whole thing of why they put this out and it could be fantastic and it could lean to like great metaverse plays and so on and so forth, but Really it comes down to it's it's risky. It's very risky because you never know When the rug is going to be pulled I mean a lot of people got aired off a lot of tokens that weren't you If you owned a board apia club or you owned a mutant Yacht club whatever the things were called and you got a lot of tokens more So the board apia club and they dumped initially on people but just know that those Those tokens there was no vesting period They got a bunch of tokens just for holding nft and they have a ton of ape and they can dump on you at any time Could you make a lot of money? Sure It's just it's very very risky It's the same risk that you dealt with with dogecoin and what happened down there I know a lot of people put a lot of money in the doge and then uh The night that ilan musk was on sariah live and went from like 67 cents Down to like 30 drop like 50 in like 24 or 40 hours. A lot of people lost a lot of money. That's all and Yeah, I just someone says um It's a good buying ape is just giving more money to the rich Hmm. I know Vitalik didn't had a lot of choice words to say for it but it is I didn't really like it Joel says Larry you think the guy behind the mortgage crisis has no clue He's got enough of a clue to be a ceo of a 10 trillion Ascender management company.  I don't know but seems to be A lot of people seem to like what he's doing But sort of Bernie Madoff a lot of a lot of there a lot of his customers love what the what he did until the end so Yes, I'm pumping this just me Don't if if the crypto is going up. It's only because of this show Nothing else What do you think of menswap? I hope they have a better time than sunday swap. That's all I can say Yeah, everybody Everybody check out scott milker's willful wall street podcast with ral pal instantly bush When is ral pal not bullish like like a permeable? And maybe I'm just too negative And see What do you think? Dave bacon. What do you think about a bitcoin yield etf? Paying 12% monthly. Let me know what it is. I'll take a look at it. That's what I think Question number two Let's see Adrian says a majority of the airdrop tokens have been sold already something you should do some due diligence But we're comparing ape to doge So adrian you can you're welcome to spout off but How many were actually delivered? I think it was over 10,000 tokens for the board apia club I think it was 2,300 for the mutants. I don't think they were all sold altogether on top of that Where was everything else done, I guess it would be so yes, I'm going to compare ape to doge That's the second genre. Rob pub promise crypto Ra was a great salesman and not to take anything away from him, but uh He is extremely bullish and I think that's what some people need I To me in the short run I I see next like we did a video yesterday about the different months. I think Next month will probably be pretty decent ones Historically april is a pretty great month and then things start to kind of get a little wonky in may and then june july I was a timber not so great and back to october That's just historically. Does it mean it's going to happen identically? No See for your cycles And that's what I was talking about didn't work out And you know what I shouldn't have been so harsh I think I know why people get so ticked off of me when I say something negative about their project I get it.  I got it. I just for me personally. I'm not going to buy it. That's all I can tell you Great question question number four. How do you cover your family with medical insurance in Puerto Rico? It's first of all, it's very inexpensive. I use triple s and uh It's not much at all. So that's just me and my wife's the kids are all gone. So It's very cheap actually The problem here though is that we have minimal doctors Here in Puerto Rico. There's a big brain drain and they just move to the states and I was talking to an agent and Who will remain nameless and he Said that he's seen letters from From different hospitals in the states, you know people who are doctors here trying to pull them away offering them ridiculous amount of money and perks and Hey, they take it off they go It's Hey, Rob. Wendy a question to you with bitcoin family plus will you whose idea is about Supercycles being in as a scenario with the highest possibility to happen Who knows I mean, maybe maybe it's a supercycle doesn't feel like a supercycle. That's for sure Supercycles mean essentially that For your cycles are done as far as I understand it and that just means that we're just going to like There's been other people who talk about a commodity supercycle going on all the way crazy hyperbolic things like copper silver gold those types of things And I mean, maybe we can kind of see it. I don't think it would have worked out as well If we didn't have the supply chain issue. So as far as like this for a supercycle, sure. I don't know but The only thing I can tell you is that everybody has a good guesstimation about what's going on But they really It's just a it's just an educated Guess some were educated others And for this one, I mean it could Work out and we can go all the way up. So it depends on what your goals are like. I don't really Intend to sell bitcoin or crypto too much anytime soon in the future. I will sell things along the way But if it goes up, sure I have to take a look at why they think that well He was talks a lot of different things and that's about it and let's see in the last question I'm in my 50s with a small limited budget. Is it too late for me to build wealth and crypto? Um, no, I don't think so. I mean look I was It's my 40s when I started then it's uh, just fine and I mean look I think the worst time to to start investing is never I mean you can put your money in the bank What's but what does that do for you a cd will get you like a nice ripping 0.0125 percent I guess so I mean really like what are the options these days?  It's super high You get into the to traditional markets as far as stocks things like that But seems like they're they kind of peeked out not too long ago Now they're in like a little bit of rebound phase Maybe and then there's crypto. So I mean really in all honesty What's the options these days and this is what I was talking to with max um video we did with uh About millennials. He's like I Where else are you gonna put your money and it was a it was a It was a sobering statement. That's for true. So all right. So look that's it for today So like uh about 30 minutes or so if you like today's video give it a thumbs up if not give a thumbs down That's uh, and then tell me why in the comment section. Tell me just how awful it was And uh consider subscribing. That's it for today. Thanks so much for watching. I appreciate it. See you on the next one