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Cool! Things are going putt putt up. I like that!
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Until we see thousands fat cat bankers in NYC jumping from high rise buildings en masse, we're not even close yet.
That will be the sign.
Never worry about the bankers: They will get the message and scoop up all the coinz just before the implosion. Feel more sad about the poor person who cashed in their bitcoin for a few measly Lambos. |
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Ug, so we're doing the whole dance around $10,000 thing again?
Come on, fuck around at 50k.
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Don’t you guys buy and replace? Each purchase paid with bitcoin I immediately buy back on an exchange. And add some extra just to be sure, so you could say I have more sats because I actually do pay in bitcoin from time to time.
In the day it was more magic money coming from the little mining thing. Then it was earned money, and my philosophy that a business has to pay for itself, thus selling or using bitcoin to pay op expenses. No regrets, just some laughs from time to time. |
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I've just bought a new monitor at Newegg.com, and paid with Bitcoin.  Payment went thru smooth and fast. Much better than using my local (Argentine) credit card, asking for authorization for a payment abroad, and informing my unfriendly gov about any usd movements. The only drawback is that i spent my precious hodled satoshis. Now a frenetic bullrun will surely begin.. This is going to be the more expensive monitor ever (0.07 BTC for the records). Enjoy the +200 usd rise in minutes.. That was me, spending sats. Crap, Newegg is taking Bitcoin again? I still can't bear to throw out my $4,000 cell phone from a few years ago. Aarrgghh!!! |
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Bump is nice! Meantime I saw this and just fell over laughing. I simply do not think this well....  |
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That said, in this time where social media or biased media are now the main sources of 'accepted truth', real truth is a rare commodity; claimed by many, actually spoken by few.
Just remember: "Accepted truth" can make you feel good. "Real truth" can kill you. |
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KNC did, however it's funny to read old posts about ROI. If you just mined like hell, paid the electric bill, and buried your wallet in a closet you would have done well even with a negative ROI at the time.
Interesting.
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In the U.S., insurance companies (and Medicare / Medicaid) will pay out 3x or more on a hospital claim if it is submitted with a covid-19 diagnosis. It is marked as a "major co-morbidity," thus triggering the claim processing system to pay out an amount to cover the extra costs of treating a covid patient. This is definitely a motivating factor for doctors and hospitals to diagnose someone with covid-19, even if it is an inaccurate or fictitious diagnosis.
Since hospital systems are largely for-profit in the U.S., undoubtedly this situation is being taken advantage of. Whether it leads to an inflated count of covid cases by some statistical measurements, I'm not sure. Nor am I sure of the financial incentive for marking somebody dead from covid. But having worked in the industry for a number of years I know for sure hospitals lie all the time on claim forms for the sake of increased revenue.
Ok, however insurance companies have a vested interest to pay out as little as possible, so if a hospital was doing this they would be nailed to a cross in short order. I doubt the value increased would offset the risks taken so probably not. From the link cited by another person above: ( https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/hospital-payments-and-the-covid-19-death-count/) Q: Are hospitals inflating the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths so they can be paid more?
A: Recent legislation pays hospitals higher Medicare rates for COVID-19 patients and treatment, but there is no evidence of fraudulent reporting. So no evidence at this point. You could always cross check this against "excess deaths" which are much higher this year that last or over the last 5/10 year averages. That's a lot harder to hide/fudge as you would have to go back into the past to fudge the numbers. And I doubt either Trump or Biden has a hot tub time machine. As another cross-check, if hospitals were fudging the numbers upward I'm *sure* Barr would be all over it as this just makes his leader look bad. Overall I'd call bullshit on the assertion that (US) hospitals are false reporting cases for profit. It doesn't benefit the hospital, people with vested interests are watching, and the government is *very* invested in lower numbers anyway. A guy in my local pub told me his Dad sadly died of a heart attack in March, he didn’t even have covid but apparently the NHS put it on his death certificate & charged him £70 due to the dangers of supposedly ‘dealing with a potentially contaminated corpse’.
I am not joking.
Imagine every person over a certain age has covid as a potential contributing factor to their death, either honestly or falsely, £70 per body.
Very weak citation. FOAF (friend of a friend) is not something I would base my life on. Remember: Reality exists. |
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This is happening still, not only in England, but in a lot of other countries worldwide. Hospitals are given incentives to report Covid on death certificates as a cause of death for a while know. This was discovered few months ago already, but of course mainstream media won't report on it.
Cite? I'm curious as to what "incentives" hospitals "get" for reporting cases and deaths as Covid. Also if governments are no longer releasing data then people can make up whatever justifications they wish. Or someone can start a company that polls hospitals and sells the results to those who find value in being informed (ie: those who value their lives). Perhaps this is the point. |
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Where to build our Citadel?
Hm. What's your criteria, rule the locals with an iron fist? Be adored and loved as a living God? If so you don't want a place where people are happy. You want a place where they will line up to sacrifice themselves at your temple of Doom... Have I got a place for you..... |
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Yeah, sometimes it just sucks. I've had relationships with girlfriends end badly. but I would usually put the letters, pictures, and memories in a box to protect them from the hell that would follow. But in one case, with Kristen, I burned all the letters, deleted the emails, and destroyed every picture, item, and memory in order to remove every scrap of evidence she had been in my life.
Now, years later there is literally an empty hole in my life about 2 years long. And the very few bits and scraps that survived are like ashes on the wind, reminding me of good times I will never remember and good feelings that are gone forever. Like a blasted out crater in a field of flowers.
I vowed to never do that again. And I never will. Hopefully Bob keeps some memories of this place, otherwise years later he may be looking into a similar crater and wondering just what the fuck happened.
End of line.
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What happened, ragequit, or something he wrote makes him feel exposed ?
ragequit over BLM politics, at least that seemed to be the last straw That sucks. I ragequit another site about 4 years ago and kind of wish I hadn't. But there's no going back as the site is now gone. Sorry he's gone. |
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Market sensitive news:
*Moderna CV19 Vaccine Produced Antibodies in All Patients Tested*
-Moderna Inc.’s Covid-19 vaccine produced antibodies to the coronavirus in all patients tested in an initial safety trial, federal researchers said.
The neutralizing antibody levels produced were equivalent to the upper half of what’s seen in patients who get infected with the virus and recover
-The Moderna vaccine is one of the farthest along for Covid-19.
-Final-stage trial of RNA vaccine slated to start on July 27th
2 possible caveats :
-the initial trials hint at substantial side effects
-the sample was only made of patients who are from age 18 to 55.
This is good! |
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This would be God-like. Technically you could cash out, buy the coins the next day, then renounce your citizenship and pay not a fucking whit! |
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To renounce my citizenship would require paying taxes on the total value of all of my bitcoin holdings as if I sold them the day I renounced. The thought of the amount of brown skinned people in far off lands who's skin will be burned off using my money does not sit well with me.
My thought is that the US will collapse in the next few years so it is not necessary to renounce my citizenship. US citizenship will cease to exist. Then I can just not sign onto the America 2 (the electric boogaloo) citizenship.
But not to worry. I filed this year so when you leave your house in the morning there will be roads.
Yeah that does suck. Wonder if they would beat your wallets out of you on the way out, or just keep tabs on your spending for a decade. Hm. I'm finishing up my taxes as well. Every bitcoin sale tied to a LIFO purchase transaction, every deduction verified. Annoying as hell, probably stupid, but I sleep well as a result. |
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Sucks, something something Darwin
I wonder if I could have it printed as a "Little Golden Book" for children....  |
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The real traitor in the American Revolution was Dr. Benjamin Church. After Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill he really could have ended the revolution before it got started. Fortunately Washington was quite good with ciphers and codes, and they found him. Church should be a dirty word in the US..... |
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