I fully understand you in your thinking, and I agree that more and more BTC increasingly becoming the property of wealthy individuals, and thus centralizing and in some way becoming inaccessible to ordinary people. From the publicly released data of all companies and funds that have invested in Bitcoin so far, they currently hold just over 8% of the max supply - but I believe that is much more considering there are a lot of investments that are not public.
Yet the market is completely open, anyone can buy and sell BTC whenever and however much they want - and I have said so many times that ordinary people have 10+ years to invest in BTC, who to blame for not doing that? Satoshi has given everyone an equal opportunity, those who are poor and have only a few $ in their pocket, to those who have billions - now only those who are a little richer can afford 1 BTC - but that is the price of progress and adaptation.
I think it was a property of the wealth in the past, and was, kinda, in recent times but with USD and other currencies beginning to crash, expect more and more of the middle class/averaging working man to start picking up on BTC, either as a long term investment or something they expect to use often. The poor can't afford the price swings like the rich can, but the middle class is usually a bit more resistant. |
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If they are going to accuse, they should provide evidence so that Putin will not be able to rebut but it appears like its only accusations.
They could provide whatever evidence they want, Putin doesn't care. Remember back during the 2016 election when Russia was the boogieman for all of democrats' problem? Well, they had the problem of accusing Russia of the hacks, and of course they probably were behind all the hacks, but the problem is, Putin asked for proof. The US intel community isn't just going to dump all their classified intel so they can play his game, doesn't work like that. |
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Like you mentioned, it's mainly the young people that are getting infected so this isn't really a big deal.
Same thing will happen every where -- young people aren't getting vaccinated because they don't feel the need, so the cases will periodically have small peaks because the unvaxed get Covid. The thing you need to look at is the death rate. If the deaths begin to increase, then you have a problem. Deaths usually lag behind, so wait 2-3 weeks and then we might worry.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/health/covid-pill-antiviral.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimesNew potential Covid treatment in the form of an "anti viral pill". So maybe there might be hope for people that are aging, obese, and chose not to get the vaccine when they end up in the hospital due to poor choices. US government is investing about 3 billion+ dollars into this pill, a large gamble, but hey, the world doesn't have a good treatment to Covid, as of yet. Ivermectin and Remdesivir have shaky results. they dont have a pill.. there is no "this pill" they are now just getting investment to do research to find a pill they found that immuno surpressants like the silly crap badecker advertises dont work. because surpressing the immune system too early means the virs gets to replicate. and doing it too late is.. well.. too late. so immuno surpressants are not good unless you can administer it at the exact moment. also current antivirals-anti parasitics work great on guy viruses/parasites. but there is not really one that deals with lung based viruses. so they need to invent one ... as for badeckers/tvbcofs foolish conspiracy notions. they are just idiots having no basic idea of how the world works funny thing is they keep pretending US medical system is rigged.. and yet the whole world is having covid issues. so all those independant countries would show different results which would reveal US as rigged. however all independant countries are not showing any weird autopsy results.. and so some anonymous conspiracy idiot saying he found something unique and he the only one in the world but he cant reveal any proof of his claim because he doesnt want to be made public.. um.. sounds like a liar just trying to get famous I know, they don’t have a treatment in final dosage form yet. Like I said it’s just a potential, and they seem to be investing a lot of money into it, over $3 billion. They mentioned in the article that they have treatments for aids virus that work in a similar way so I don’t think it’s far off that they will have a antiviral Covid treatment in pill. Obviously, AIDS does not work the same way as an upper respiratory virus, but the point is that there's need for a new therapeutic because the ones that have been used for previous viruses (like Remdesivir, used for Ebola) don't do anything. |
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/health/covid-pill-antiviral.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimesNew potential Covid treatment in the form of an "anti viral pill". So maybe there might be hope for people that are aging, obese, and chose not to get the vaccine when they end up in the hospital due to poor choices. US government is investing about 3 billion+ dollars into this pill, a large gamble, but hey, the world doesn't have a good treatment to Covid, as of yet. Ivermectin and Remdesivir have shaky results.
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You can put it the way you want. This is not about what you recall or not , this is about facts.
Well, it is a fact - government didn't really make (or unmake) me fat. You are right, the government is not buying the groceries for us, nor are they putting the food in our mouth. But what they are doing is controlling the companies that produce the food. There are safety standards in place to protect consumers. Maybe the government could make better standards for the future, like preparing meals with less fat and sugar. The health of the population should be a major concern for the government. With a healthier people the medical cost should be reduced and the life expectancy increased. They only thing they control are things like corn subsidies. And the US is a big corn producer, so when corn becomes dirt cheap, what happens? You have food companies that switch from sugar to high fructose corn syrup. Mexico is a huge sugar cane producer, so it's cheaper just to use subsidized corn instead of paying for Mexican sugar. Still, no one is forcing you to eat unhealthy foods. They got the kcals in clear view on every label, just don't pick up the twinkies at the grocery store. |
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So owning a house or renting, this story comes to mind: https://www.businessinsider.com/blackrock-wall-street-investors-buy-homes-neighborhoods-single-family-rental-2021-6This was not really a scandal, but it did make rounds last week because the story is that a wall st. firm is buying up homes at a high mark, paying out like 1.2x or 1.5x the home's value. Now, some have speculated that a housing bubble was beginning to form with people dumping their investments, pulling out of liquid currency and putting it into real estate, but the idea here seems to be a a giant firm buying up tons of homes in a local community so that it can force people to rent. Two things to consider: Renting obviously is a bad economic investment, paying a mortage is better in the long run, but when a firm worth billions can outcompete the average home buyer, driving up prices, does that force you to rent? Another thing, say you are forced to rent because of out of reach prices, does that mean Blackrock now has local monopolies in communities where they bought up all the real estate? |
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To me that chart only tells half the story. Annual inflation matters, if we believe it, as the CPI does not accurately reflect the effects of currency printing, but even more important is cumulative inflation. An average inflation of 3% causes you to lose half your purchasing power in a few lustrums. Of course, if there are big spikes it is even worse, and the best way to protect yourself is to buy inflation-beating assets, Bitcoin being the one that seems the best, at least in the last 10 years.
The average inflation rate year per year does matter, yes, but that's only if the economic situation looks better -- meaning, do we expect the printing machine that is running on overdrive to be pulled back over the next few months, which would then combat the 5 percent inflation rate for USD? The answer is probably no. USD becoming worthless so soon is not something I predicted, but hey, the numbers don't lie! |
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/11/delta-variant-is-linked-to-90-of-covid-cases-in-ukDelta variant Coronavirus outbreak in the UK - Data shows that roughly a 3rd of all ER visits had at least one dose of a vaccine, a lesser percentage of those that visited the ER were fully vaccinated. Significance of this is that the vaccine appears to be vulnerable to the Delta variant, to some degree, but you reduce your chances of being susceptible to the Delta variant by being fully vaccinated. Previous variants held up pretty good to variants, but this variant has the potential of getting out of hand very quickly. It's not 90%, but >96% today, and preliminary data shows it's 64% more infectious, and 84% more pathogenic, than the Kent variant. Big Pharma should ASAP deploy new vaccines, effective at combating the spread of the newest variants. Effective not just at preventing hospitalisation, this is not enough, effective at reducing the spread. And all existing vaccines, which are useless at reducing the spread, should be immediately discontinued, except for vulnerable people. The ineffective vaccines only serve as a selection mechanism for increased immune evasion. The vaccine isn't useless, *yet*. In fact, the vaccine's been great against most variants. What people don't realize is that variants don't really become variants because of a survivorship bias. Meaning, Sars-Cov-2 can mutate, aka become a variant, spread to a vaxed person, but then the vaxed person combats this variant and we never end up hearing about it because the vaccine was effective and the variant doesn't spread. So we only hear about the variants that end up spreading due to either a lack of herd immunity or because the variant truly puts up a fight against the vaccine. So basically, vaccine is still working as of now. The theory some might argue is that COVID becomes seasonable, and in that case the vaccine would become useless, and they would need to make one every year just like the flu. |
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Hmmm, so this NYT piece makes me a bit more skeptical about the virus's origin: https://twitter.com/nytimesworld/status/1404433715267244034Shi Zhengli, China's 'Bat Woman,' breaks silence amid calls for a closer look at the theory that the coronavirus escaped from her lab in Wuhan. “I don’t know how the world has come to this, constantly pouring filth on an innocent scientist," she said.
I'm sure she's just an "innocent scientist", trying to play the victim card I suppose. We all know China would never let her speak out without repercussion, so are we really suppose to believe this is an "innocent scientist" that's being demonized by the entire world who wants to know where Covid came from? Who knows. But, her statement makes me even more of a skeptic, so she isn't very persuasive. |
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So all things considered, does the government have a responsibility to help fight obesity? Should they implement a tax on fatty foods?
I believe that simply changing the current nutritional guidelines for others that are more suitable for human beings would be enough. Do not tell people to follow guidelines that make them fat and diabetic, etc. Why should they tax fats? If you talk about fats that come from vegetable oils I might agree, but not fats from eggs, avocados and butter. Even if the guidelines change, will anyone listen to them? Probably not. I wouldn't say I'm for or against a tax of bad foods. Perhaps just neutral. The thing is -- it is your choice to be morbidly obese. If someone is a healthy individual, should they have to pay the same tax for sugary or fatty foods that an obese person would have to pay? But also, the world is getting fatter and it costs a lot of government money to take care of obesity and obesity related sicknesses, so maybe there might be a public interest in getting people to put down the cheese burger and pick up a salad. |
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/11/delta-variant-is-linked-to-90-of-covid-cases-in-ukDelta variant Coronavirus outbreak in the UK - Data shows that roughly a 3rd of all ER visits had at least one dose of a vaccine, a lesser percentage of those that visited the ER were fully vaccinated. Significance of this is that the vaccine appears to be vulnerable to the Delta variant, to some degree, but you reduce your chances of being susceptible to the Delta variant by being fully vaccinated. Previous variants held up pretty good to variants, but this variant has the potential of getting out of hand very quickly.
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See here for satiety values - https://www.diabetesnet.com/food-diabetes/satiety-index/Satiety values are not about calories, it just means how different foods will make you feel full. So carbohydrates (breads and pastas) are all empty calories that have don't make you feel satisfied, so you eat more and more. Leaner proteins, fish definitely, makes you feel full and the kcals aren't bad either. I haven't heard of elevated nitrogen levels just by eating a high protein diet, so that lady might've had other health conditions going for her. Plenty of people do high protein low carb diets with no problem. |
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As much as I would like to blame the government for making me fat, it's quite obvious by now that eating too much shit (well, not literally) and not exercising enough is the reason, not what the government may or may not say. If you want the real culprit, juicy burger ads probably do more damage but in the grand scheme of things - personal responsibility FTW.
You have commented rightly more about this. Like I implied already in my previous post, exercise is needed also, we can not expect someone with sedentary job not to exercise and not becoming obessed, exercise is very important for normal healthily body function and to also still reduce the bad cholesterol in the body (the low density lipoproteins). According to scientific researches, it is clear that intake of sugar (carbohydrates generally) can make someone obessed, even it is one of the dietary nutrient that many fatty people reduce in their diet. But for normal healthy diet, it must contain at least 65-70% carbohydrates which is very important for the glycolytic process and bodily energy generation, while some are stored in liver and muscles. But the excess will be converted into fat and amino acids which may result to obesity. But someone that is exercising oneself will not be obessed as many of the sugar will be converted into pyruvate which will be used in the energy generation process, while many lactic acid generated also from sugar will be use in muscle buildup rather than lipogenesis (fat build up) and also amino acid generation which can later resulting to obesity. Trust me when I say there isn't a human in the first world that has any problem getting carbohydrates for glycolysis. Carbs are so abundant that we have such a tough time keeping them away, and seeing that just about every food is loaded with sugars or sugary syrups (high fructose corn syrup), you can't avoid it. You don't even need to exercise, just keep away sugars, get in a lot of protein (protein has a high satiety value, in fact, carbs on the other hand don't make you feel full, yet they're high in kcals). Ketosis works as well (keto diet, low carb), metabolically all the fats you eat get broken down into fatty acids and then thrown into a catabolic pathway, but you need to watch for your cholesterol. |
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Yeah, it's kinda like how way back all the nutritionists demonized fats but then the food companies started loading up on sugar, because "zero fat! was the eye catching headline. Then high fructose corn syrup became dirt cheap and they loaded up every food on the planet with sugary syrup. Even if you look towards government for nutritional advise (imagine doing that), how are they going control Americans from shoving burgers and chips down their gullet? Don't trust them for much.
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"Nyquist is a high-IQ researcher" lol, okay.
Don't have to be a stable genius to recognize China is an enemy of pretty much any civilized democracy in the world. No shock they collude with Russia for military alignment, steal US R&D, and silence any dissent so they can keep their government in power. It won't be an all out war, just rising tensions, perhaps a pissing match here and there.
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Concerns of black fungus in India tied to COVID outbreak - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/8/black-fungus-new-scare-in-india-as-second-covid-wave-ebbsNo evidence that this is spreading to other countries as of yet, and they're still investigating this -- but it's worth mentioning that India already has insane amounts of poverty tied with very bad hygiene. I didn't really expect them to get a grip with Covid until the damage was already done, which includes new strains originating and spreading, along with other conditions like this "black fungus" fiasco. |
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-vaccine-myocarditis-heart-inflammation-cdc/I guess if your child is horribly obese with some other sicknesses, it makes to get them vaccinated, but children taking the Pfizer vaccine, some are being hospitalized for heart inflammation. The chance obviously is low, but it doesn't make sense to me that a child should be rushed to be jabbed. If you're an adult, it makes sense.
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