Bay, where did your post go. It was so funny I was trying to merit it. :-)
(can take a joke :-)
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Sorry to hear that. Guess the crisis actor thing is fake, who knew?
In other news, looks like the Trump Administration (I'd say the US Govt but it's really just Trump and his crap) is lying once again and under counting COVID deaths.
(See WaPo. They have screwed up links right now)
Will be interesting to see if they can keep these people off the "dead" roles long enough to vote R in November. After all I'm sure that is what they would have wanted.
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Not yet. Will have to go to the bank to turn it into cash for the bitcoin machine down the street.....
Hm. Wonder if this will constitute my buying bitcoin, since I did nothing to earn this money and barely consider it mine. It's really more like a shitcoin airdrop that I'm converting into BTC....
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As a lot of Trumptards ignorant fools in the good ole USA take these clowns' words as the gospel, small wonder we are where we are today. I shouldn't have watched that... these people... I have no words The same mentality as bcashers; living in fantasy land No. They live in a land where reality is a thing to be cheated, and that someone else is responsible for keeping things going for them. That's the key to understanding these "people".
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I mean, what do you even call an era that is way bigger than The Great Depression? The Really Great Depression? The Yuuge depression? The Fucking Massive Depression? I just don't know, I can't think right now, I'm ... depressed.
The Trumpsession Enjoy!
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Honest thought: There is something wrong with me.
I'm now watching the US death count for coronovirus and saying the same things I do when watching the bitcoin price.
"Stuck at 7152 all night, comeon: DO SOMETHING".
This is bad.
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I'll take the one on the left thank you.
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- We need to be manufacturing much more of our pharmaceuticals (including the vital precursor chemicals) here. In US plants (Europe as well). It is awful that we have to put up with Chicom threats to cutting us off our pharma. I understand that many pharma companies strongly resist this (higher costs, they are not ready, etc.). Well TS. We should have started this process a long time ago.
- Similarly we need to start mining Rare Earth metals here in North America (Europe has some deposits as well). These are vital to new technologies and for alternative energy (inc. electric cars). We have to break down the barriers to opening rare earth mines, and to build the processing plants to turn the minerals into useful products (magnets, etc.).
- And we need to produce more electronic components here in North America and Europe. Trump has already suggested to Tim Cook that Apple building more plants here in the USA would be a good idea. We are very dependent on China in components as well.
Sure. Won't happen without government intervention or *lack* of government intervention. The key truth about capitalism is that it's a race to the bottom to produce items and a race to top to price items. If one company makes widgets in the us for $1.00 and someone else can make it for $.1 in Crapistan, then people will buy from Crapistan, especially if the other true costs (risks, shipping, etc) can be hidden. Lack of Govt intervention is not bailing these companies out when things go bad. That won't happen. Government intervention includes laws requiring things to be sourced locally, but then the people who can make short term profits in China will scream about evil socialism all day. Not as simple as you think. Plus even if you do things now people will forget about this in a year.
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Shit man, I'd steal that stuff on general principle.
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Oh oh... Looks like cheap real estate And looks like I will be infected with the Therymos virus soon. Edit: That sucks! I didn't post one thing and I'm infected anyway. Boo!
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Bitbolo's got it: This is pre-publication, pre-review studies and should be treated as such. It's not 100% bullshit out of the box (they did take the time to write it and at least document some of their methods/observations) but it's amazingly easy to make mistakes in a study and find erroneous conclusions. Small sample size, sample weighting, and a bunch of other variables can tank a study.
A great example of this was cold fusion. A lesser example was sonoluminescence which while real is not quite a "star in a jar"....
Best thing to do is see how these studies fare in peer review. In the meantime hell, if the person is dying I say give it a try, why the fuck not? Then again I'm a person who contemplates having my head chopped off and mounted on a popsicle stick because I'm dead and hell why the fuck not?
But don't start popping these pills as a proactive measure, could be a waste of time, could do harm, and could pull the pills from people who actually need them to live/whatever.
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Very interesting newsletter today:
Interesting. But wouldn't more miners means the price goes *up* since they don't want to dump bitcoins at a loss?
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I am sure his contribution here is actually worth something. But it surprises me how much I recoil when I read yet another celebrity pontificating about things. It bothers me especially with the whole: "I am not a doctor, but I played on on TV" angle. What a plastic world we have built.
And boy, I have become cynical.
Yeah, but there is a significant portion of the population who will not trust a real doctor but who will trust an actor they saw on a TV show....
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So breadlines then?
Pretty much. Wonder what they will call hoover hogs this time around....
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The dot com dildo. The housing market dildo. The coronavirus dildo. Too many god damn dildos.
Greed dildos FTW This one is an ignorance dildo.
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Good time to donate to your local food bank.
by which you mean my fucking pantry? If you're totally out of food. I like food banks: They're local, they don't fuck around, and they give food to people who ask. I've worked/volunteered there and they really have their shit together. So... I'd rather put money there than in some Christian minister's pocket any day. (Or Govt pocket) (Wait, maybe you meant your pantry that fucks you. Or your pantry where you keep the love dolls? I might have made an error of presumption in my post)
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"Don’t look now but you’ve been screwed again. The Wall Street bankers are again able to borrow at 0%, while charging you 17% on your ever-increasing credit card balance. Why aren’t these scumbag bankers announcing a three-month moratorium on credit card and mortgage payments, with no interest accruing? Because their goal is to further enslave you in debt, while enriching themselves. They will run patriotic commercials, while sticking a red white and blue dildo up your ass."
You know, a lot of people (myself included) are really big on paying back your debts. However a creditor who charges 17% interest on 0% money and then bitches because people default will just not get that much sympathy from me. Go figure.
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