This is the default with everything now anyway. K-street writes the legislation and the politicians don't even have the integrity (or often even time) to read it and the voting is all manipulated and horse-traded anyway.

Just remember this gif exists for a reason

It was secretly replaced in one night in 2011 with a coin that uses exactly the same code, algorithms and blockchain.

Have we finally seen the end of 3XXXX? Please say it's so.

Well, while we may differ on the details, we can probably agree that nearly everything about this situation is fuckery from the government. But really, I think the message I'm trying to get over is: "My butt's been wiped".

Linear looks great when you zoom out to the full chart

You know what the people who helped fulfill the self-fulfilling prophesy weren't doing? Crying about not having TP.

And do you know what gaslighting means? Not that.

There was actually ample time to stock up. I waited a couple of days after the news started talking about things and was worried I was going to be too late but while the stores were busy, they were not stampeded and there were plenty of goods on the shelf. I picked up one of those big packs from Costco which was more than enough to get my family through the rush. It was a few days later when the predictable calls to lockdown came and everyone entered panic mode while I sat on my couch metaphorically eating popcorn.

Human beings are the only animal we know capable of complex forward planning. Am I supposed to feel bad about doing so?

OK, I'll give you lumber. I didn't see it had fallen like that. But it seems there were backlogs and probably lots of jobs got cancelled. Good for me though, I have a shed I want to build. We'll have to see with the other stuff but IMO, the effects of government spending are going to dominate.

That short term isn't very interesting.

I did look at the price of beef today. $1-2 per pound up from when I last looked a few weeks ago. Lumber still up. 3,500,000,000,000 dollar bill floating around, millions of unemployed crossing the border and a number of countries who've already made noises about deposing the petrodollar.

It doesn't happen till it happens but anyone who's not getting their ducks in a row is going to be like the people who was complaining there was no TP available because all the people who saw there was going to be a run on TP went ahead and stocked up.

I mean, we knew they were not going to go down without a fight. The petrodollar is on borrowed time and we're at the foothills of hyper-inflation. Prepare for things to get messy.

Some changes better than others. I think moving away from the multi-episode stories was a mistake

Tom Baker was my guy. The new stuff was passable but no longer...

Just another blast from the past

So are we really running into Chinese aversion to the number 4?

I'm happy with it. The longer we hang out in a price range, the more it becomes the "new normal" (i.e. a launchpad).

It's also not necessarily what people think the legislation will do to bitcoin but what people think that other people think the legislation is going to do to the price. These second-order effects are a big part of why I hold and not trade. Long-term, you can have some idea of the value of the technology, short-term your trying to guess the psychology of a bunch of loons.

I've come to the conclusion that when people talk to me about crypto, they are looking for validation, not illumination.

Population 6.5 million. So it would take quite a lot to affect politics there. Perhaps somewhere smaller might be better.

Hey whoever's driving this thing, you've moved the lever in the wrong direction. Get it sorted!

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