If you talk like that in absolute terms, it seems to me that we are going to have a lot to debate. Let's see if we can nuance and finally reach an agreement.

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The best way to help poor cities is to create conditions for jobs and low taxes so that people can save. And not to spread the misery.

Democratic cities do more taxes, more regulations, make individual initiative more difficult, are more tolerant of crime (because poor people, society has failed them), make it more difficult to build housing, reducing supply and driving up prices, and so on and so forth. ´

In return they give the poor people crumbs that ensure that they do not starve but do not lift them out of misery. All this sweetened with a discourse of good guys and bad guys in which the politician of the day is the one who saves them from the bad guys, when he does nothing more than perpetuate misery. I am sure that you could give examples of cities well run by democrats in the USA or laborists in the UK or socialists in Europe, but to speak so bluntly I don't think Detroit is an example of how well Democrats have helped poor people in Detroit.

You don't know for sure if you have insulin resistance or not if you haven't been tested. Another thing is that there are very indicative symptoms.


You see, you just don't understand what I'm saying. Insulin resistance is not equal to diabetes. Many people are insulin resistant and not diabetic. And just because you have normal sugar levels does not indicate how much insulin your body is secreting to keep it at normal levels.


I must be an alien, then, since I have managed not to feel sleepy after eating on purpose. With so many people having insulin resistance these days, no wonder you say that. Nowadays a predominantly carbohydrate based diet is the norm, just as it is quite normal to have insulin resistance (even if your blood sugar tests come back fine). So, the normal thing is to feel sleepy after eating. Logical.

The links you put are very good, and here I should qualify. I generally don't feel sleepy, even if I eat carbs. However, if after a long fast and physical exercise I eat a large meal based mostly on carbohydrates (we can add alcohol) and for dessert a large amount of sugars, I do feel sleepy. Like after a Christmas meal.

I have been checking what you say. It's not that I don't trust you. It's just that in general I don't trust what I see on forums. However, if I had to choose between blindly believing what you say or what TrollDecker says I would believe you.

Regarding El Paso, I have looked at the mayors backwards to 1991 and they came out Republican or no political affiliation. Another thing is that if you know the history you maybe know that such a mayor had an ideology closer to the Republicans even though he was not affiliated with the party but in theory he should be more independent.

Regarding Miami, if anyone doubts between what you say or what he says, you can see the following image to dispel doubts:

Lol. I said I've been thinking about it lately. I don't believe it like some people believe in God if that's what you mean.


If we are talking about the very long term, of course not. Bitcoin if I remember correctly started being traded for price below $0.01 (correct me if I'm wrong). If we agree that in the future it will be worth $1M or more, Saylor has little influence on that long process.

If we talk about the last year and the near future, I think it has played an important role, especially in the popularization to companies and to a lesser extent to retail investors. Nowadays you search for "Bitcoin" on Youtube and you immediately get Saylor's videos.

In terms of companies, in February they held their annual user conference which included the Bitcoin for Corporations. According to Mr. Saylor, the Bitcoin program attracted 8,197 attendees from 6,917 different enterprises. He has the videos posted on the website for anyone who wants to see them.


Again, if we consider the long term in Bitcoin, I think he has little influence. And that Bitcoin is going to succeed more because of its intrinsic properties than anything else. But I didn't want to focus on him so much as on to what would happen if big businessmen happen to have the same conception of Bitcoin as Saylor and act like him, buying a lot of Bitcoin to never sell it, which means a reduction in offer in large quantities. MSTR has approximately 100K Bitcoin. You could get to the point where 1M BTC or more are never offered to be bought.

By the way, this is the first time I've replied to you at length in a post, and I enjoyed it.

Today marks one year since I registered on Bitcointalk and I feel old enough

I agree with the majority of opinions. Religion is based on faith and faith has long since been in conflict with rationality. Only very few people will believe in Bitcoin as a religion, people who tend to have faith in things instead of investigating them rationally.

I believe that most of us who are involved with Bitcoin in one way or another do so because we understand its nature, the impact it can have on society and its future. It has little faith and a lot of rational thinking.

Hello, everyone.

Today marks one year since I registered with Bitcointalk and, as I've seen others do, I'd like to do a recap.

I have reason to celebrate, because although I used to earn some merits from time to time since I registered, I always had less merits than activity.

Only recently have I been able to surpass my activity in merits, which makes me happy, as it shows that I am contributing positively to the forum and creating good quality content for the campaign.



I hope to be able to maintain this merit earning ratio and even improve it.

I joined the campaign almost two months after I registered, as soon as I reached member status. In ten months I've jumped from tier E to tier B. I have also been upgraded from member to senior member. This shows that if you have patience, you will climb up in the campaign and little by little you will be more rewarded.

Finally, I would like to thank Brainboss for excellent management and to Lightlord for the payments. I wish Lightlord was more formal regarding payments as I've said in other posts but he always ends up paying and giving us bonuses, so thanks for that.

Nope. Very rarely.


It seems to me that we are going to be in pretty good agreement on these points. For a sedentary person, the worst thing you can do is a diet high in simple sugars/carbohydrates. With more physical activity you can get more carbs into the diet.

I think it is more important not to eat too frequently, no more than 3 times a day than to eat carbs or not, also depending on physical activity. I don't know if on the issue of meal frequency you would agree.

Nowadays many people eat more than 6 times a day: breakfast, lunch, dinner, 3 snacks in between but between meals and snacks they also drink coffee with sugar or some sugary drink or with milk, so they do not stop provoking insulin peaks.


Precisely, although you say it is not, that is the most typical symptom of insulin resistance. It doesn't happen to me anymore. It used to happen to me.

If you say there is a holocaust because of vaccines, the burden of proof is on you. I am not the one who has to prove that there is not. The same as if you say there are ghosts.

What is clear to me is that you believe what you say, but that does not correspond to reality.

Lately I've been thinking how much of a self-fulfilling prophecy Saylor's conception of Bitcoin may be. For him it's basically the best financial asset in the world, and that's why he's not going to sell it. Never. He's going to keep buying as much as he can. I think the pic that Fillippone posted in the WO thread characterizes it perfectly.


LOL

As of June 21, 2021, MicroStrategy holds an aggregate of approximately 105,085 bitcoins,

He plans to keep buying. Non-stop

What happens to those Bitcoin he buys? They reduce the offer. It's as if they are lost. They don't flow. The more Bitcoin he buys, the more he reduces the offer and the more pressure he puts on the price to go up.

If big businessmen start sharing their vision, the predictions of several million per Bitcoin in the future are going to be easy fulfilled but largely due to this self-fulfilling prophecy. The whales believe Bitcoin is too valuable, buy it and never sell it, and create even more scarcity than Bitcoin already has because of its limited (deflationary) nature and the reduction of supply with halvings. Aside from the Bitcoins lost already and those that may get lost in the future.

I think the OP is partly right that Bitcon today has moved away from the white paper's idea of being a P2P electronic cash system. It is more of an investment vehicle, and as of today and in the near future it looks like its success is going to be in being the replacement for gold in the digital world.

The option of making P2P transactions will always be there but it seems that if it is going to mark an important change in the world it will be because a multitude of companies acquire it as a reserve and because they implement it so that people can buy it through them, like Paypal.


I agree.

Oviously, that was a joke.


Getting sleepy after eating only happens if you are insulin resistant. Since I reversed my insulin resistance I usually eat more than 1K Kcal per meal and I don't get sleepy or anything.

Another thing is that at Christmas dinner you may have eaten 2000 Kcal plus a lot of alcohol, but that has nothing to do with what you explain that fat has to break down into sugar, because precisely on those occasions you usually eat a lot of sugar.

France has historically been a very vindictive country that at the slightest strike and takes to the streets to demonstrate.


I would not speak of censorship. Since most of the media are pro-lockdowns etc., they will tend to minimize the news. In the same way that CNN minimizes crime surges in Democratic cities in the USA and FOX minimized criticism of Trump.


I don't know if they will succeed but  not long ago the yellow vests demonstrations were not peaceful, so I'm waiting to see if these remain peaceful.


If you want serious answers, don't ask twisted questions talking about holovaxx and vaxnazis.

That is a fallacy. It's like if you say I can't have $1M net worth because my annual income is $50K.

The GDP is the annual income, the wealth accumulated is another thing.

Total global wealth is $431 trillion.

It is, of course, possible that Bitcoin, which is currently succeeding as a store of value, will absorb much of that figure. That is the thesis of Saylor and others.


On this I do agree, it would be normal for growth to slow down.

No, I don't think it's too soon. Unless by "soon" you and I mean two different things. Think about one thing, in which physical store do you go and you can pay with cryptos? There are very few today. I think that hopefully we can wait for the next cycle, if in this one institutional adoption takes hold and we keep moving towards mass adoption.

I grant you that today there is more junk food, but in the 70's there was already Coca-Cola and McDonald's people ate jam, and cakes. So they didn't spend all day eating vegetables (I'm talking about industrialized countries).



That argument is very nice but you forget that someone working in an office is not hungry for 3500 calories. If I eat 8 times a day based on sugars, maybe he will end up eating them, but it is not usual. Again, this is about hormones, not calories.



I didn't think of you as a commie. But lately I like commies. There are quite a few on this board and they are nice people.

I understand what you are saying, if you don't have the money, if you haven't received it yet, there is always a risk that you won't get paid. Although in this case, I think the risk is very low.


I actually prefer to be paid a little more, even if it's just a little. What I miss is a little more formality.


I believe that this is done because it is much easier to check and verify if there has been an error. Now you can clearly see if you have been underpaid by 3 posts in week 4. But if you were paid all together, you would simply see that you are missing 4 posts to be paid in the total weeks.

LoyceV's post is a good guide to consolidate inputs: Mempool empty! Use this opportunity to Consolidate your small inputs!

Nowadays you can consolidate your inputs for pennies, and even when fees are high, it is good to follow the post because there are times of the week when you can consolidate inputs for cheap.


Yes, as I said, I miss a little more formality. Here you never know when you are going to get paid.

Well, I am about to lock the thread.

Mostly because those of you who are against what the title says, and the video on which it is based, repeat the same garbage without providing arguments.

We already know that today the fat person is blamed for being fat, because if they simply ate less and moved more they would be thin.

That argument has already been refuted and you give no arguments to counter refute it.

The argument in the video, and by Dr Fung and many others, is that the weight issue is primarily a hormone issue, not a calorie issue. Calories are important to some extent, but not the main thing.

And you keep repeating the same thing.

In the 60's and 70's, people were mostly thin. In the 70's the US Government first set dietary guidelines and from there began an obesity epidemic that has continued to worsen.

If it is a question of willpower, what happens, that people in the 60's and 70's had a lot of willpower and humans mostly stopped having it from the 80's?

I agree.

Actually Alessio is talking about the short term, not about being bullish on USD for the next 30 years.

Within the long term downtrend, if you guess correctly when there are going to be some short upward spikes, you can make money on the short term.

Anyway I think Tytanowy Janusz argues well and has worked the posts and that's why I have merited him.

And no, I don't think the disinflation/deflation issue invalidates the argument, in the same way that Alessio talks about recession or depression, which are not exactly the same thing, as having the same effect on the granting of credit and therefore on inflation.

Yes of course, and your experience should be elevated to science, lol.

I'm not sick either and I had a lot of vaccinations as a kid. I got both pfizer ones and had no side effects. Nothing. I wear a mask where required and wash my hands frequently or use sanitizers depending on the situation.

Most people I know who have had the COVID vaccine have had mild to no simptoms. Some with astrazeneca had stronger flu like symptoms but I don't know anyone who had them last more than two days. However, I do know people who died from COVID, but very old or very fat people.

There is a thing called science that goes far beyond personal experiences.

I repeat that I don't actually say that, I summarize what Alessio says in the video, which sounded plausible to me. Now, you make me doubt. It sounds to me like a question of which came first the chicken or the egg.


Perhaps the inflation problem is more complicated than it would seem at first glance.


Yes, it is clear that there is now inflation. What I am not so clear about is whether in the future there will be a crash like the one in 2008 or worse, whether there will be inflation or deflation as the video says.


No, I don't think he thinks he is smart. He sounds quite humble. He always uses "What I believe it is more likely.." and similar sentences to make his predictions.

Morover, the difference in nuance between deflation and disinflation does not invalidate his argument.


They like to lend money but in recession they don't lend it (or don't lend as much as they would like), as I said above, no matter what they like or dislike.