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This is very cool. There have probably always been these kind of things passing through, but we have not been able to see them until recently. As an fellow astronerd I can confirm parts a and b, but c is full of shit. There is an actual Harvard faculty astronomer, Ari Loeb or something like that, who has unfortunately gone off the deep end as far as aliens. His reasoning seems to be: A) If we are ever visited by aliens, they must come from outside the solar system, B) This comet comes from outside the solar system, therefore A+B) THIS MUST BE ALIENS!!! I'd ignore anything about aliens from Dr Loeb, which is most everything he ever says about extra-solar things.
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Gold bug / silver bug / numismatic / metals thread
pantone159 replied to 52-80's topic in Business and Markets
I have heard that the refiners are saturated with silver now and not buying. Resulting in retail shops not paying a good price since they are now exposed to price drops since the shops can't sell to refiners now. Too bad since otherwise it seems a great time to sell silver. -
Is it though? If I did not read this board, I would probably have no idea who Charlie Kirk was. He isn't a politician, just a talking head. Why should I know who he was? And as far as the shooting, that is just one tiny drop of the deluge of shootings that happen in this country constantly. As mentally unhealthy as it can be to keep track of politics, being unaware of who he was seems completely normal to me.
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Gold bug / silver bug / numismatic / metals thread
pantone159 replied to 52-80's topic in Business and Markets
Attaching the photos of that note. You can see the X cancellations if you look closely. The back is especially pleasing -
Gold bug / silver bug / numismatic / metals thread
pantone159 replied to 52-80's topic in Business and Markets
These cuts were indeed made when the notes were turned in for redemption, which meant gold back in those days. The Republic of Texas did everything they could to default on these obligations, and avoided redeeming them. As a result, these sold on the market for just a few cents on the dollar, to any speculator who wanted to bet on them being paid eventually. When Texas joined the Union, the USA figured that it was not acceptable to default on obligations of what would now be part of the Union, and the money (gold!) was found to finally redeem them, and the speculators came out very well in the end. Nearly all of these are cancelled, but not all the cancellations had a piece cut out like that, the nicest ones just had the cuts in the note, but not into multiple parts, or pieces removed, etc. A really nice one is coming up for sale in a couple weeks, this shows the full note design. https://currency.ha.com/itm/obsoletes-by-state/texas/austin-tx-republic-of-texas-10-jan-1-1840-cr-a5-medlar-25-pmg-choice-about-unc-58-epq/a/3599-20137.s -
Gold bug / silver bug / numismatic / metals thread
pantone159 replied to 52-80's topic in Business and Markets
Kind of like that. It can be fun to make a 'type' collection where you get one of each kind of design. For the Mexican ones, I want to get ones that actually circulated as money, while most of them are later restrikes made as bullion. They are all good gold though. That makes it harder, and I have not actually made any progress on my Mexico gold collection yet, I have none. I do have a few USA gold coins in this way though. But the idea would be, if SHTF and you had to flee with whats in your pockets, I would care very little that I paid a premium on my 50 pesos, but care quite a lot that I had 1+ oz of gold to sell in them. My plan is flawed though since I don't have any 50 peso coins. Hmmm... -
Gold bug / silver bug / numismatic / metals thread
pantone159 replied to 52-80's topic in Business and Markets
I like the idea of building a fun collection, that has the side-effect that you could sell the gold if SHTF. Not the most efficient way to stack metal, but a fun way that still gives you some insurance precious metal. -
And also, you don't get caught for testing that.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
pantone159 replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Whatever you think of that look, and at least the Cybertruck does look different, I'll give Tesla that much, in business terms, as in revenue > expense, I don't see how the Cybertruck comes out as anything but a monumental disaster. It just can't be profitable to make things that don't sell. And now Elon wants to pivot into making robots, I don't know if they are actually capable of making them, but I am 100% sure they are not capable of selling them. It is so weird, the market value of TSLA is obviously so completely dependent on Musk being the true wonder-genius, but it is incredibly obvious that these wonder-genius ideas will never make actual money, so the true economic value of TSLA is actually completely dependent on removing Elon from things entirely. Markets do a lot of irrational things but this is really one for the ages. -
Chase Sapphire Reserve new fees and benefits
pantone159 replied to wild_turkey's topic in Food and Travel
Do you get cash back with this card? If you don't, that needs to figure into the annual cost. My personal inclination on these cards, is that I don't want to deal with having to keep up with the benefits to make good use out of them. I'd rather think about something else, so I just get a decent cash back card, then spend that on whatever perks that card has, or something I actually want more. And maybe that benefit carrot hanging in front of you makes you pick a restaurant, hotel, or something else that isn't really what you want, just so you can claim a credit. To me, worrying about whether you get enough $ back is a waste of time. The plan is probably designed to lure you into spending too much anyways, which makes it even less of a 'deal'. So I'd only care about the non-financial benefits, and decide if those were worth the fee. -
They have already had radioactive alligators for decades. https://theaugustapress.com/radioactive-mercurial-alligators-once-roamed-srs/ https://srel.uga.edu/testing-toxic-cleanups-one-gator-at-a-time/
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What if there is lasagna though?
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I was just about to ask this with the Dumb Questions Amnesty qualifier.
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