Notices by cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)
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The Anglo-American elites funded both Hitler and Stalin. Hitler was setup to fail - but only after stealing all the gold in Europe and hiding it in one convenient place where the Americans could take it. Stalin was setup to succeed, so that Russia would be destroyed and depopulated.
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New meme: A little mercury exposure is good for you, helps build immunity. Breaking a fluorescent lamp every now and then is way cheaper than ridiculously expensive """"vaccines""""...
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A College Educated Professional will sooner die in a gutter than admit that they're no smarter than a tradie.
And because they're emotionally attached to the notion that being a tradesman is stupid and mindless activity, they actively dumb themselves down, absolutely guaranteeing that they will be useless on the job site.
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Italian espresso is very strong, but that's because they only run it long enough to fill the little espresso cup 1/4 of the way, which means it's really not going to make you crazy because it's so little...
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This is double-speak for saying the election was rigged, and he's in on it. Which is the same as the Trust The Plan, Patriots Are In Control, Q narrative. And I think there's probably some credibility to that - except of course, I don't know if these "Patriots" have my interests at heart...
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> It came into existence because I had to code it. Any attempt on my part to say something about it, to attempt explanation of the inexplicable, could only destroy it.
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So it's a Jewish sectarian civil war.
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Imagine being like St. Patrick, except you're remembered as the guy who drive the mosquito to extinction.
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US spending reductions?
Ironically I think this is likely to be *better* for US research, because over time you get cliques of scientists who all keep writing the same papers over and over citing each other and soaking up all of the research money....
When you dynamite all of the funding, those cliques disburse or go elsewhere, and so then when you bring funding back, it goes to new researchers who are actually quite a bit more likely to discover something useful...
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one-shotted by the anime avatar
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Good.
The political narrative around nuclear energy is so stupid that the only way to fix it is by creating so much demand that it is impossible to keep our collective heads buried in the sand.
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It's always been like that. The US has always derided academia compared to other countries, and it seems to work okay for them because pretty much ~all inventions post-19th century are from the US.
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Yup, and you'd be lucky to beat inflation :(
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As long as the issuer of the bond is sure to remain solvent. US Treasuries are probably a pretty good deal at 5% but if the rate goes to 10% then those 5% notes you're holding aren't going to be so cool anymore.
Then you can always just bet that no one will agree on anything but the internet will continue to work and gold will keep on being a giant pain in the butt to move around...
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Unless you're getting a really good rate of return, you're better off with US treasuries. You can use money market funds so you don't have to deal with actually purchasing the individual notes.
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And you're absolutely right that BTC is a big bet, but it's basically betting:
1. Central banks are too incompetent and uncoordinated to issue a global reserve currency that they don't end up printing away to nothing
2. Crypto remains a greasy pole and in the crypto-sphere BTC is impossible to dethrone
3. Gold remains stupid and annoying to move around, protect, or transact in
So basically it's betting against legacy institutions.
Also I personally agree with most of Saifdean Ammous's political message, but that's a personal conviction so YMMV...
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Insurers are never supposed to make a fuckton of money, their income should be matching their payouts, modulo a little bit of buffer space.
That said, I think ANY group should be allowed to insure it's members. Say you and I are neighbors and we want to join in an insurance club, we should be allowed to set aside a few thousand € each in a fund, and then buy reinsurance to cover everything above what that fund can cover.
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It's a great point, but this is not the only thing that discourages having children. In a lot of places, childcare is obscenely expensive, and one thing you can't really get around is the aspect of being sick more often (ask me how I know).
I think the right way to incentivize having children is by a tax reduction - especially since we all know that without the next generation, public pensions are doomed.
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To combat inflation, government is forced to reduce money in circulation. They can either raise taxes on an already small and weak workforce, making them actually LESS productive (Laffer Curve), or they can reduce spending on the elderly. They arrive on Canadian Healthcare 10 times out of 10.
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In that case it's a wash, because that money will be spent somehow by someone either way, either the old person or by a heir who receives the inheritance.
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