Aloha Puns

I (31F) live in an apartment that, while there is green space around, faces the parking lot. My wife and I have two cars and one garage spot, so I park my car in the surface lot.

I have not been driving my car much or at all because I am working from home, and my family is very strict about staying home right now because we have to go on a trip in April. Still, it is in a spot close to my apartment door because there have been car breakins and I want to watch it.

One of my neighbors complained last weekend to the property manager that my car smelled funny (it doesn’t, I confirmed this with an outside party), so I should move it farther away from the building. Then, she upped the ante yesterday by claiming my car smells like gasoline and I need to move it right now because the smell is getting into her apartment.

I have never smelled anything, and I took my car to the mechanic to have it checked (thanks for the bill, Karen!) There are no faults or problems to cause a smell, it is not dangerous, the mechanic didn’t know what she was talking about.

I concluded that this woman is lying because either she wants the close space for herself, she doesn’t like me for some reason, she’s on a power trip, and/or she’s homophobic. I am moving in June.

So, commence where I (and my wife) are petty. We got the car back as quickly as we could and parked it next to the neighbor’s car, which had of course taken over the closest spot. My wife plans to also move her car to park in one of the “good” spots too.

Just now, I saw that the petty neighbor and her car(s) were gone, so I ran out and moved my car to the closest spot. There is no problem with it, and if my neighbor is going to be petty and I’m about to give notice, I’ll play. I literally can see the parking wars and have every opportunity to move my car, since I WFH.

And guess what, bitch? Since you made a baseless complaint and cost me at the mechanic and goodwill with the property management, I am leaving my car in the prime spot in a few weeks when I go to Hawaii to deal with estate stuff.

For 10 days, possibly more if I have a COVID scare. Wife is coming too. Cat sitter drives over. So, three cars taking up all the prime spots you wanted so badly as to get me on trouble for.

Never fuck with someone who has a flexible WFH job.

My wife has been referring to this stuff as “the petty-mobile conflict.”

With all the crazy gains coming off of meme coins in the DeFi space, we can get a little lost on the utility of blockchain. After all, BSC has essentially rolled itself out as nothing but a host of imitations so far and Ethereum projects are still working through gas issues as well as expanding fiat on-ramping.

But when you look at what a trustless ledger can do for all of us that the internet alone cannot, it’s going to find value in handling multitudes of microtransactions at blazing speed, minimal fees, and best of all, without the intervention of a third party.

This opens the door for a number of businesses that faced huge logistical hurdles in finding adoption of their digitally-based product, previously requiring messy KYC procedures and massive overhead costs that come with being a custodian for consumer funds.

Aloha, $ALOHA, is delivering a product that checks every one of these boxes in exploring what blockchain can really add to global economy infrastructure. By giving people the ability to buy or sell excess mobile data peer to peer in a decentralized and frictionless environment, an entirely new marketplace has been given life.

When you consider that retail banking has been around since the 1400’s with 4 billion people banked, and retail cellphones have been around for, I don’t know, 30 years, with already 3.5 billion people owners, you can see the size of the market we’re discussing. So when it’s been joked about for centuries how much money is created from just skimming pennies off of banking transactions, you might just see what Aloha has in mind.

After all, the M-Pesa became a huge cryptocurrency in Kenya because it allowed unbanked citizens who had phones to access banking through crypto. Imagine if you told them they could also make a buck selling their excess mobile data and get paid to the only bank they know?

And yeah, you can still laugh when you see on their roadmap a $50M revenue projection for 2022, $100M for 2023, and eventually $800M by 2026. Just know, the only laughing I’ll be doing as a holder is on my way to the bank.

By offering the security of cost-efficiency of the blockchain for the sheer number of transactions required to make this a profitable business, Aloha’s public team (check out their LinkedIn profiles, this is an extremely experienced group) has struck gold on a previously untenable market.

While there have been teams in traditional finance that have tried this, Simplify being one, they’re

Aloha everyone! I live in Kauai and am looking for more friends to send cool gifts to along with inviting to remote raids where you can catch your very own Hawaiian Pokemon 🤩 Here is my code: 2400 2707 6999 🌺

Blockchain and DeFi programs will change everything about our future, and while most of us got into crypto because "line go up on funny animalcoin", there really is technology here that will change the lives of others.

Aloha wants to solve one of the most major issues our new digital world still faces, a lack of access to internet for a large number of people. With Aloha others can share their unused mobile data through the app and make wifi accessible to those who need it. Aloha has an app you can download right now and try it out for yourself too, but this isn't about downloading an app, this is about why you should buy a bag in the product itself.

Aloha solves a problem that many have, it is currently only sitting at a $2M market cap despite being one of the first of its kind in the blockchain space, and there are no whales as no one owns more than 100k of a 30Mil supply. If you're here to invest in new tech, this is it. Or if you're here for an easy 2-10x, this is most definitely that as well.

Website: https://alohadefi.io/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlohaDefi/

CoinMarket Cap: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/aloha/

Whitepaper:https://alohadefi.io/assets/documents/Presentation.pdf

I'm just hanging out on a lazy sunday when I hear the familiar noise of a very short skid and a big BANG. I head out to see if everyone is ok.

Sure enough, one car pulls in to the parking lot, the other car is smashed up and in the middle of the road with smoke coming out the windows from the airbag exploding.

The one who got hit is a local girl who is clearly startled but otherwise fine, the other a tourist gal who says that she just landed and came straight from the car rental place. The tourist is ok too but clearly upset. She says over and over that her daughter's wedding is in 3 hours up north and it's obvious that she is stressing hard.

By this time more neighbors come out and we were able to push the car off the road. After making sure the police are called, her desperation grew. One of the neighbors offers to take her to the wedding. She thanks him but says that won't work because she has to get to the hotel where her dress is being held...and it is 20 minutes in the opposite direction. My neighbor offers to take her their first and then to the wedding.

The look in her eyes. At first not believing, then as it settles in that her ride is taken care of and she is going to make it to her daughter's wedding, a puzzled look stops her in her tracks. "Who does this?" she asks not understanding why people would go out of their way to help her. "Seriously, who does this?" she asks him again. She can't even allow herself to be happy because she is so stunned. He just smiled, but two other neighbors chime in, "This is the Big Island," they say at the same time. The lady holds her tears back.

My heart squeezed because I realized just how much I missed my home. I left the Big Island for Oahu about 23 years ago, and then left Oahu for the Bay Area about 18 years ago and was depressed almost the entire time. I got married and kept asking my wife to come back (we met on Oahu). It was only after the riots, fires, and Covid that she finally agreed. We came back in January and I have been the happiest these past few months than I have the past two decades. I keep saying over and over just how nice everyone is here. I love it here and don't want it to change, but I'm afraid it will.

There are a lot of people moving here and that means they are bringing their culture with them. How do we protect and grow the existing culture? I know it sounds lame, but I spend a lot of time thinking about what I can do to help such a beautiful culture continue to thrive. I k