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i am about ready to add an audit by this guy to the constitutional requirements for being president of the united states along with being 35 and being a natural born citizen. jesus fucking christ these idiots. if you have ever incurred a late charge at blockbuster, your dq'd.

way overdue with firing lampard. everton's form is literally the worst i have ever seen from basically any team. they played the other two teams that are getting relegated along with them over the last two weeks and lost a combined 4-1. they are so brutal that it is comically ridiculous. you have to try to be this bad.

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This seems naive from my perspective. We saw the rise and fall of a competing currency in BTC and a few other legitimate blockchain currencies. As expected, they simply became a speculative trading asset just like gold, equities, real estate, etc... Why do you believe that long-existing commodities would be different. your test case of zimbabwe itself has shown significant inflation in the value of the gold coins, wildly outside the market price for gold commodities. That is purely trading speculation. When you say things like this, it is hard for me to take seriously the notion that you actually want to introduce a competing currency and makes me think that @CooterBrown's post above is the real driving force here. you just want a tax free way to invest in speculative trading mediums. I would have thought you knew why i referenced the saudi arabia article. I am aware of its recency but I was using it as an example of they type of article you have been linking to for a couple of decades here. i have been going back and forth with you on these topics for long enough to know you are way above not discussing things in good faith. that isn't an appeal to flattery fallacy...just an observation. i know you aren't full of shit and you aren't a bad faith debater. but when i read the above quoted comments, i feel like i am on some sort of punked or prank show. there is no way you can possibly state with a straight face that you have held a "long" view on usd. if you are long, then i would hate to see what the bearish case looks like. i am fully aware what sound money is in the context of currency and economics. i wanted to ensure that when you were using it in your previous post, you were just referring to gold standard money. my point was that there is no actual history of "sound money" that has somehow avoided the same debasement and inflation issues just the same as society-agreement fiat. the italicized portion was a statement that this fantasy notion of incorruptible gold standard money is simply ludicrous. so again, when i read this, i am really getting the feeling that you just want to chase up the price of gold and then convert it tax free and this has nothing to do with a competing currency...you don't even seem to take seriously the notion that it would be used in day-to-day transactions. the market confusion, the added infrastructure expense, the instant speculation and guaranteed 30-40% overvaluation of certain commodities...they are all negative effects. a monetary tool that the united states government manipulated in order to ease the economic collapse accompanying the covid pandemic was to increase the money supply which has had a consequential effect of inflation. however, had the government not undertaken the extraordinary measures to aid businesses and lower-income individuals, the economic consequences would have been significantly more dire. there are certainly negative consequences to what did happen (see inflation) but the alternative was catastrophic. in a sound money (gold-based) world, what tool would you utilize in order to stave off a calamitous, long-term collapse of the economy and society in the second quarter of 2020? the population is taking a very minority share of those gold coins. most of it is corporate buying and they are being used as speculative investment vehicles, not really a competing currency. https://www.kitco.com/news/2023-01-18/Zimbabwe-s-gold-coins-now-cost-more-than-2-000-each.html

i know we don't really give a shit what milos zeman does on a daily basis but i really feel like the fact that the czech president was clandestinely running around muscovian tunnels with cia agents for a few days with virtually no contact with...ya know...the czech republic government or security apparatus would have been noteworthy. maybe it's just me.

i am obviously not understanding your question at all...i am completely confused. a sample scenario to clarify... on spotify, you play a track...let's say "wish you were here" from pink floyd. then you decide in the middle of the song, you want to play "money" so you click through to get to dark side of the moon and click play on "money." are you saying that spotify is playing both "wish you were here" and "money" at the same time?

can only assume you would be the drummer for pearl jam had you bought the right cymbals.

it's always been shit. you just stopped being poor (presumably).

huh? never heard of that. just click play on whatever song you want to listen to and it should play regardless of whether you're currently listening to something else.

don't know why you guys are overreacting to a $100,000 guitar. nerds. meanwhile...

your simplification and your faith that the alternative currencies aren't going to follow the same volatility and debasement issues is pretty critical to your premise. unfortunately, reality demonstrates that where there is an arbitrage opportunity, it will be exploited in the marketplace and abused. see bitcoin. bitcoin lost more than half its value in a few months, not 100 years. you underestimate the non-regulated marketplace's capacity for destruction, corruption, and malfeasance leading to a true disaster. you also ignore the fact that in the 100 years of debasement of the usd, the population has increased four times and economic activity has increased from $590 billion in 1900 to $24 trillion today. it is not a mischaracterization to say you have spent the last 15 years on these sites posting every doom and gloom article regarding the relative state of the u.s. dollar..."warning" everyone of how the impending doom from the house of cards is inevitable any day now...again, all while the role of the usd has actually gained significantly greater importance and entrenchment. jim rickards has been predicting the complete collapse of the u.s. economy every year for about 20 years running...and yet here we are. of course all monetary systems fail in the long run...virtually all human constructs of political economy fail because the organizational dynamics of every system fail eventually. "in the long run, we are all dead." you have been linking one-off stories from goldbug sites about how saudi arabia is "open to discussion" about settling its trades in something other than usd with certain partners and how china is doing bilateral trade deals that exclude usd basis for years. and again, in that same time period, this fictitious alternative "sound money" has not emerged in any material way and the role of the usd has strengthened. but i would like to know what you believe is "sound money" and when has it existed in a way that did not likewise fail? what do you think will happen to that sound money in a global marketplace that is not regulated with guardrails some sort of authority. particularly in any type of complex economy. the fact that gold has endured as a store of value is no different than diamonds, artwork, land, etc... have persisted over the same time periods. it is predicated on precisely the same concept as fiat. it's a commodity. it has a market value today that changes tomorrow based on what people are willing to accept. and it is vulnerable to precisely the same type of debasement as fiat. it's where the entire premise and definition stems. what do you think you are desperately waking the sheeple up to and what alternative are you offering that is not susceptible to precisely the same potential for rent seeking (if not considerably more) that we currently roll with? now, if you want to talk about income inequality and the political tolerance we have of it in the name of our true religion of unregulated capitalism in this country, that's another thing but acting like the federal reserve utilizing its tools to try and stay within the rails is the driving force of that and not rent seeking behavior, political corruption, and natural economic outcomes of capitalism, then you're missing the forest for the trees. i am not sure how this is responsive in any way to the question you quoted. you didn't actually answer the question i posed to you...about how your preferred trading basis and currency paradigm would be able to respond to significant economic events like 2020. avoiding "playing the game" is akin to sticking your head in the sand and letting the slings and arrows of fortune rule the day to day. economic outcomes are inherently volatile...that will always be present. keeping some guiderails to cool and stimulate has certainly led to greater stability...what do you think 2008 looks like with even less regulation and no tools to respond? the ball escapes the pressure really, really fast without any guardrails and history has shown us that repeatedly. tell me what happens to the economy in 2020 without the flexibility of those tools and instead, a finite set of gold value storage? zimbabwe is an interesting event study and its effects are still tbd. but you are also talking about a tiny economy overall, and the largest shadow/informal economy as a percentage of total economic activity in the world...more than half. that lends itself to bit more success in alternative trade means...you are talking about a bartering economy at its core in the informal marketplaces. here's hoping it works. regardless of using rtgs, usd, pula, euros, rand, hyperinflation has been a mainstay for a very long time. let's see what happens to the gold coins as they actually start to hit the non-corporate population if that is allowed to happen. moreover, it is difficult to separate the cooling of inflation in zimbabwe as attributable to the very limited competing currency experiment to the global cooling that has occurred from its peak in the summer to now as a result of....wait for it...monetary policy and everyone adjusting to a new normal of russia's role in the global economy being mitigated.

ryuchi sakamoto - 12 john cale - mercy (tomorrow) rerelease of mogwai young team (february) m83 - fantasy (march) lana del ray - did you know there's a tunnel under ocean blvd (march) everything but the girl, smashing pumpkins, and the national all have april albums. eluvium releasing something new in may. peter gabriel has promised that i/o will release some time this year.

impressive recruiting board-level inconsequential tangent game in this thread. very impressive.

how are you getting at a competing currency based on physical silver and gold (that is really just using minted gold and silver coins) being used as an alternative to current fiat as serving as a check on central bank activities via gresham's law. gresham's law would say that everyone would just hoard the (presumably undervalued) gold and silver coins and utilize as much (overvalued) fiat currency as possible in commercial activity. just because the federal reserve undertakes cooling or heating policies with usd...if that has the effect of increasing the value of the competing gold currency, gresham's law says that you're going to see a higher use of usd. i recognize you have been heavily invested in gold/silver for a very long time and would like to see their prominence and value increase...and along with your inherent distrust of central banking, that's why you are constantly rooting against the dollar as reserve currency and as petro trading basis but what do you honestly think would have happened in the spring of 2020 to the u.s. and global economy if we were still tied to gs or if the prevailing means of currency was just a bunch of finite gold coins? do you think the outcome would have been preferable to the 5-10% inflation that was endured for the last year?

Watching that video, this psychological epidemic isn’t limited to American males…looked like the message resonated amongst a number of Asian men as well. That’s less surprising to me though given the gender numbers in places like China. It is certainly tragic that a guy like this who just talks louder and bulldozes everyone with rapid fire nonsensical words can realize any notariety at all in this day and age but never underestimate the incel population.

i found it to be highly forgettable and shoulder-shrug worthy. i enjoyed the scenes with poe but the story, the resolution, the twist, the characters...didn't really give a shit. just kind of meh to me.

I really haven't paid much attention to the NFL the past few years since Jerrah ruined my childhood team, but which teams that could possibly draft him high 1st round fit your description? i was actually thinking about that and there's only a few that would work but i don't think that bijan will go in the "picked too high and thus condemned to a shitty team like the texans" territory. for money, you obviously want to go high but for career quality, you ideally want to go 15-32. a couple of the good, marginal teams where he could be a difference maker that come to my mind are the chargers and the dolphins. of course, getting drafted by san francisco would be perfect but they already have mccaffrey (who i think think is part of the model for how you maximize bijan). rams, eagles, and kc are obviously places where he would be able to really shine as well with offensive coaches who know wtf they are doing imo.

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got a chance to chat with bijan at the hoops game on saturday night. pure class all the way...very charismatic and a guy that would be successful at anything he does. so easy to root for. really hopes he gets to go somewhere worth a shit with a creative offensive coach and a good oline/qb.

tom waits is in the bushes just singing for bob?

the only thing i can think about every time i see this thread is just how utterly fucking incompetent one would have to be to play tcu at home and: 1) score 3 offensive points; 2) have 199 total offensive yards; 3) have one of the best players in college football rush for 29 yards on 12 carries; 4) go 1 of 13 on third down. i am genuinely incapable of even conceptualizing that. we are clearly not georgia and don't offer the same l.o.s. matchups that they did. their qb has been in college for 74 years and our's should be a true freshman. but holy christ that was such a humiliating failure of a game.