Left or right, I think it doesn't matter that much.

If it's a BBC they really want, maybe Bob can cater for their needs,
at least as long as they're decent-looking guys?

I've missed that. What's up with DuckDuckGo?

One of my favorite "bittersweet" SF short stories - along with Song For Lya by George R.R. Martin.

Gotta watch this miniseries! Thanks for the heads up.

I don't understand youbrrrr wobrrrds.

I've been force-fed Alexa along with my firestick. I had to get that or upgrade my TV (still quite good), because it wouldn't run a modern Plex client so I could use the content on my (local) Plex server. At any rate, I never use Alexa. I have to say, unfortunately, it can't be shut down/disabled from the firestick menu. in theory, you have to press a special "eavesdrop" blue button to engage it. In practice, I have little doubt there's a steady audio stream from my living room to AWS.

Just for the lulz, the first days I tried to abuse her it verbally. F** off, suck my d***, "Hey Alexa, are you up for DP?". All it ever answered was "I'm sorry, I don't understand your request." Which means, it can do no harm since there's no understanding. Amirite?


EDIT - I made a conscious effort to use the pronoun IT when referring to Amazon's spy, but one HER slipped through. I had to re-read with fresh eyes, and edit it back. This gives me the creeps. It is AN ABSTRACT OBJECT, a huge pile of pseudo-neural matrices or whatnot. It's not a woman. Neither are Siri, Cortana or all the other modern digital assistants, even if they all disguise as humans. And female humans in particular. I'm sure some woke foul-smelling hairy feminist will be glad to explain why this preference for female vs. male. I'm glad I don't have to listen to that explanation. Back to watching porn now.

Alexa, show me some oldstyle hardcore with submissive wom... oops^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H....

Excellent summary!

I think there's a big misnomer about the word communism (and communist, and similar).

Communism, among other effects on society, starts from the assumption that the means of production (materials, machinery, even the labor) should be owned by the producers - that is, the workers. TLDR: factories are owned by factory workers, likely in equal per-person shares. Of course, in practice the workers eventually get royally fucked by TPTB anyway, since such ownership is not enforced as promised, the devil is in the details etc. Look at the Communist Party in China, hand in hand with their oligarchy - at least as long as the oligarchs do not go "against the people", meaning "against the party nomenklatura".

At any rate:

Putin is NOT a communist. He was put there by Yeltsin exactly to STOP some communist from seizing power. He is a plutocrat, which is the exact opposite of a communist.

"Normal" western governments (USA, Canada, Europe) are not communist. They don't even lean towards communism. Not a bit.

Control freak with totalitarian inclinations does not equal communist. If in doubt, read up on communism on Wikipedia or other sources you deem reliable.

Socialism is a different but similar doctrine. There are elements of socialism in several "normal" western governments. Socialism is inherently "weaker" (less totalitarian) than communism, although it can slide into horrible forms of repression too, as can pure capitalism BTW. It's just human nature and has little to do with the underlying ideology, if any. A bland form of socialism generally yields higher minimum wages, higher income taxes, universal health care and instruction, a patronizing nanny state  etc. A particularly soft form of socialism (so-called social democracy) has been mainstream in most of Scandinavia at the end of the 20th century. Your neighbors would snitch on you if they noticed you bought too much alcohol for your own good, but e.g., your children would have free or near-free education up to the university level.

I propose panopticoin.

I was sure Bob would go all the way to Carolina Reapers.

A new twist for CCMF: Carolina Chili Mentrance Freshener?

Let's just be glad it's a jalapeño and not a habanero - or worse.

Thanks for taking the time to ponder my question, @JayJuanGee. I admit it was hastily written down - I did little beyond copying it from that twitter link.

The question itself, at least as I meant it, can be answered with certainty, and is not of a speculative nature.

Here it is again, in more precise wording.

Which is the shortest WMA that has never been higher than the price?

Let's assume the first 2-3 years don't matter much, so the answers can look at 2012 or so onwards.

@OOM :-)

For the time being, it looks like "Buy the rumor".

An interesting question I've seen on twitter. I'm asking it here, for the crowd of pundits and observers and long time bitcoin followers.

Q: What is the shortest WMA that results in BTC never going down?

Seen here:
https://twitter.com/cryptoartists1/status/1501559160684662789

Now this looked like a proper short squeeze! 

Georgia might be less than enthusiastic about Russian "refugees". They have been fearing Russia since 2008, and recent developments haven't improved things a bit.

RIP DudyDoggy.

Is this really necessary?

Who will buy "physical" gold from Russia? Who would trust them with the delivery?

I gave you my last merit as an encouragement.
And I'll add a small piece of advice: if it's a tweet, paste a link too 

Explain "works good for me". Does it mean it's preventing you from bogus forecasts?