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....

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".

The Trumpsession

Enjoy!

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.

I'll take the one on the left thank you.

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.

Shit man, I'd steal that stuff on general principle.

no

Ok, which one of us drives trains in LA?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/02/train-derails-usns-mercy-coronavirus/



Things are really getting insane out there. Not quite Day 5, but getting closer.....

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!

Good source for info on Covid19:

https://www.aaas.org/news/aaas-and-science-journals-provide-scientific-information-covid-19-worldwide

Science magazine usually has its' shit together.

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.

Interesting. But wouldn't more miners means the price goes *up* since they don't want to dump bitcoins at a loss?

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....

Pretty much. Wonder what they will call hoover hogs this time around....

This one is an ignorance dildo.

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)

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.

Good time to donate to your local food bank.

One big problem in this country (and probably capitalism in general) is the tendency to get into a queen's race on specialization. See, having solar panels and batteries and farmland costs money, ties up capital that could otherwise be invested in spaceships, and consumes money in an ongoing manner to maintain things.

If you go 100% specialization you don't have to pay those costs for things you probably aren't going to use. And since everyone is trying to buy the same house and truck and whatnot, those who are more generalists have less money and wind up being outbid by the people who ride on the edge.

This was happening in 2006-2008: You couldn't buy a truck without every fucking lardass option on the planet. Because vendors made a lot of money on the options, and you with your 10,000 for a truck were sitting in a room with people who would borrow 30,000 for a truck. So as a manufacturer would you build me a 10k truck, or would you build a 30k truck to the rotting debtor next to me?

Especially if you could finance the loan and make that extra 8-10% interest? Hell finance to a complete rotter and get 15% interest. Even better, hide or sell off any losses in "tranches" and book even higher profits.

This is a case of "bad money driving out good". I could no longer get a new truck for the money I had, and I wasn't going to get on the queen's race treadmill to afford a fucking rolling palace that would break down anyway. So I bought used, and dealt with the maintenance myself. Most people who are 100% specialized can't do that.

How do you fix this? Well you could use a government to limit access to easy credit but that's EVIL! You could force companies to build basic trucks but that is SOCIALISM! You could have a Govt that caps vendors also doing financing but that's BAD!

You could just let people pay the price but it can take years and when it happens then you have starving people in the streets and a lot of bodies to dispose of. People flinch at that so you get these fucking bailouts.

Not saying you're wrong, I think everyone should prepare. But most people consider it a choice as opposed to an obligation (Mormons excluded) and that leads to people chasing goods with all their money.