Jetty's supermarket report.

I've been talking to the security guard at a Morrisons supermarket, and he says that he makes anyone wearing a mask remove it. He has had some problems with the Chinese though.

He asked one customer why he was buying two trolley loads of toilet rolls, and the reply was " I'll take them to the market and sell them out of my van"

There is an old boy ( not me ) who walks round the supermarket checking to see what is likely to be reduced Then he comes back later and tracks the staff as they make final reductions. Then he tries to get the self scan tills to skip some of the items.

The largest amount that he has stopped someone trying to steal if a trolley was 985 pounds. That was a mix of meat, drink and household items.

If the virus only kills 1-5% then this is a bit academic. Also there won't be and health care systems, so people will be more healthy from natural immunity.

They won't find a vaccine. You need to test it for at least a year, and to check on its interaction with other poisons that Big Pharma produces. In a year's time, the virus will have changed, and the vaccine will be useless. In fact there is a growing body of opinion that believes that the virus started with an inadequately tested rogue vaccine. That seems to fit most of the known facts surrounding the virus.

In the meantime, one of the most effective cures seems to be drinking hot water. For every one degree that you raise the core body temperature, you double the effect of the immune system. Of course they won't be publicising this, as you can sell hot water in pill form.

As a side note - the virus lives for a maximum of 3 hours on copper surfaces, but can live for up to 2 days on cardboard and stainless steel.

The whole situation is really strange at the moment. I think I posted in another thread about eggs. Sainsbury's in Liphook has sold out completely, but Morrisons in Portsmouth has Happy Eggs ( free range ) on sale for 10 pence for 12. Fresh food is on offer at silly prices late in the day, for example, a large, healthy fennel bulb was for sale at 5 pence - normal price one pound twenty. Tinned sardines, soups and meats are often sold out.

I've found some beds of wild garlic, and I'll grow some of that in a washing up bowl in the van. I've also got a load of potatoes, as they seem to keep for a long time. The healthiest vegetable you can obtain is the stinging nettle, and those are free and abundant in the UK. I'll keep a look out for some road kill pheasant and deer as well.

I gather Facebook is demonetising videos that mention it, so they are using "honey badger" instead for some reason.

These masks would be great for a porn site. I bet there would be a load of pervs joining up.

I remember reading that Darth Vader used to get some very explicit letters from women.

I read the title as "gangs talking", and I thought that sounded like fun.

Not everyone is selling, some are using the drop to accumulate. I suspect the sellers are highly geared traders who have to pay for margin calls. That could be why gold went down as well.

Masks protect the public from you, and don't do much to protect you from the public. Gloves are far more useful. Hot water is good as well to boost your immune system, and undo the damage done by vaccines.

That could cause it to end up as a bit of an elitist discussion board. I think it would be best if any member could post there, including brand new.  Some newbies who want to run a node aren't sure about disk sizes for example, although that could be asked in a Bitcoin forum. I would see it as useful for Raspberry Pi discussions, computing in a van, WiFi usage, hardware upgrades  and stuff like that.

It would have been useful to have opened a chat thread to help me with the planning. I messed up, and I've ended up going down a few side tracks. It started just after I opened this thread, and I realised that I had ordered a 3.5" desktop drive. I decided I would keep it anyway, and I would buy a docking station, and use it for my easy Bitcoin mining project. The docking station looks good, but it only supports modern drives, and not the older ones that I planned to check. The station has 12 volt power, so I can use it with a Raspberry Pi when I get round to installing one in the van.

I need to collect all my drives and memory cards on a table, and work out a sensible structure for the future. Right now I'm sync'ing an old node that is 2 years out of date, and I'll use that on the Linux machine. It's on a 2Tb Toshiba portable drive.

I'm starting a new project. The basic concept is to experiment with various alternatives to conventional mining for Bitcoin. I've purchased this docking station from Amazon - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B018EOZGU2/ref=pe_3187911_189395841_TE_dp_1 and a 3Tb HDD. I'll be using this for urban mining, and scanning scrap hard drives for Bitcoin wallets. No doubt I will be back on here if I find one.

If anyone has any other ideas, then I'd be interested in trying those as well.

Update:
I've hosted the domain for this, and I'll add some articles next week hopefully. The URL is Easy Bitcoin mining   The docking station is not going to be suitable for checking old drives, but I have a small desktop box I can probably use for that. The docking station will be great for cloning the blockchain onto backup drives though.

It isn't as simple as that. You need to differentiate between gold delivery contracts, and physical gold. Even in physical gold rhere are differences between gold coins,bullion and scrap. Another consideration is the gold/silver ratio. At the moment, it is looking as if silver will show the greatest gain and the best security. This is why Jamie Dimon has bought so much of it.

Maybe the exchanges think the price will drop a bit further.

The virus was just the pin that pricked the bubbles created by the central banks. It isn't the cause. Gold, silver and Bitcoin are stores of wealth, so you can expect them to increase in value in the medium term. Expect a rocky ride whilst the world economies reset though.

Leaving aside obvious wealth protection purchases such as gold, silver and Bitcoin, how can we profit from the current major changes. One interesting area id the shift away from the large media platforms like YouTube. I think content producers and bloggers should be using a variety of platforms, and trying to pick up revenue in crypto currencies. It also seems to be a good time to start a new project of business, but what is going to be profitable in the new and changed world?

There is a shift towards artificial foods, and there should be some profits to be made from services and advice that helps people to obtin traditional food. Also the fiat system  will either collapse or be subject to substantial change, and this should provide some scope for educational sites. Retailing is another area that won't ever be the same. Is there scope for alternatives to Amazon?

Leave the water in an open jug for a couple of hours - that gets rid of most of the chlorine.

There are many punishments -

Poverty for some
Lung disease
Reduced libido
Greater risk of serious complication from the Corona Virus, because of the increase in ACE-2 receptors.

I believe that in Venezuela toilet rolls were used as currency for a while.

I hope that they will give up this idea of screwing up immune systems with vaccines, and just recommend hot water so that we can build herd immunity. Fat chance though, as big pharma can't make a profit from hot water, and it doesn't lead to a dependency on pharmaceuticals.

If it is spam rather than scam, then just think of it as a free bump for your topic.