I know that in theory a worldwide independent currency, based not on one country’s economy but on an independent source of value, makes sense. But from what I can tell cryptocurrency has become nothing but a way for Bros to make money by speculating. Is there still a rational argument to make that crypto has value aside from as an investment?
NO! And you shouldn't invest in it either because it has no intrinsic value. Want proof? Try to imagine an aftermarket for resale or liquidation of crypto assets. Or crypto penny stocks. You can't because it's worthless & needs to be banned!
The way it’s being done now de-emphasizes anything except the profit-seeking motivation. That’s not to say the concept is inherently flawed. But until/unless there’s a coin which isn’t structurally focused on making money, as opposed to being a tool which can have societal benefits, I’m keeping my “real” cash in-hand.
If you want to get a bit of a nuanced look at what crypto could offer the world, search “crypto for good.”
Illinois doing great things here. An embarrassment of riches in candidates. Still folks leave nothing to chance and make sure you mount up and get ready to do the do!
We're moving to Illinois after kiddo finishes college (year and a half). The BIGGEST evidence that this is the right choice for us? Hearing some reich wing MAGA idiot here in Tennessee whinging about how bad the "Political climate" is there.
Dude, if your fascist ass don't like it, all the proof I need that we belong there.
It's a half & half state with a north/south split where north (Chicago) = good and south (Springfield) = redneck bullshit bad. NY is the same where the City & its environs (south) = good and upstate (Albany etc) is full of MAGA hellholes. Stick with culture. Fuck farms.
Do you have a reverse bucket list? I have a reverse bucket list. Things I'm not going to do or never do again. Like
- A cruise. Who the fuck wants to be in a floating mall with no escape?
- Cracker Barrel. Once was enough. I thought it'd be funny. It wasn't.
- Voting for the Conservatives. Fucking idiot.
- A Bruce Springsteen concert.
I'll explain that last one. A friend says "I'm going to get Bruce Springsteen tickets. If I get them, will you come with me?" so I foolishly agree thinking "There's no way she's going to get Springsteen tickets"
She got tickets.
Friend: I got them!
Me: [fuck] Great. Are you sure there isn't someone else you'd rather go with?
Friend: You promised!
Me: [realizing I'm stuck at this point] OK, I'll go
Friend: And when we're there, you're not allowed to complain.
Me: This deal is getting worse all the time.
So we turn up at the venue. I thought it was a bit weird when we showed the tickets and they said "here, you'll need these" and give us oxygen masks like mountaineers wear. Also, it was at the Chase Center, where the Golden State Warriors play. So after climbing to the Hillary Step, we find a bar. The line is like those lines you see at a newly-opened Shake Shack or the matinee of that Barbie movie or something. Also the drinks are $20 each and I'm not sure I can cope with Bruce on one drink, but them's the breaks.
After summiting, an ant with a guitar comes on stage and starts caterwauling. Now, I know this is just me, but 90% of the songs are just the same song. We get about an hour in and I'm thinking "this fucker must have a break at some point and I'm dashing to the bar like JD Vance after a Wayfair truck."
Little bastard is a fucking energizer bunny. I tried sleeping but it was kinda loud and I keep getting nudged and told "you promised!"
Three hours of this. The bar is shut by this point. Most bars are shut and Chase Center is a PITA to get to from BART.
So I make sure she gets an uber ok and slog back home cursing Springsteen, the Chase Center and $20 drinks. I think I even got some box wine on the way home.
I see & have seen hundreds if not thousands of concerts. Live music is how I stay sane. I will live and die NEVER having seen Springsteen or Billy Joel. On purpose. Fucking mediocrities.
I also wouldn't be caught dead on a cruise. If I were tricked into going, however, bunch of other passengers might turn up dead or floating. It'd turn into an Agatha Christie shitshow.
I always swore I’d never do a cruise. Or not really swore, but I just felt zero interest in spending two weeks trapped in a floating Petri dish with Mr. and Mrs. America and their screaming spawn. But now Mrs. 🦡🍄🐍 has arm-twisted me into a “trans-Atlantic crossing” where we sail from NY to the UK. But she keeps telling me “It’s not a cruise!”
Is it good that this political commentator is having to delve back into British history, to the 1940s and a literal Nazi, to find someone with views further to the right than sitting former-Reform UK MP, and Elon fave, Rupert Lowe?
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Alan Clark thought the National Front knew that he was the closest thing they could get to an MP. But Rupert Lowe - being elected on Nigel Farage's platform - has gone to the right not just of Enoch Powell, but of Nick Griffin's BNP. Has there been a further right MP in this century - or since 1945?
I've thought of commissioning an artist to draw an anthro version of Oswald Mosley just as he's hit upside the head by a rock during his rally in Liverpool.
The other day my county sheriff seemingly broke with The Homunculus and Gov. DeathSentence on immigration, joining a few other sheriffs in suggesting deporting only immigrants with criminal records and/or providing a legal framework for citizenship.
Yesterday he walked that back, saying "I want to dispel the hyperbole" as he repeated his opposition to illegal immigration, and - as per the playbook - blaming the media for blowing what he said out of proportion.
“Democrats in disarray,” where progressives win most of the major races and somehow that’s reported as… not doing well.
So three out of five wins isn’t momentum… it’s apparently a cautionary tale.
I’m just curious, at what point does winning elections count as success?
Because right now it sounds like the only acceptable outcome is losing more convincingly.
Fuck AIPAC. They should be listed as what they are, foreign agents.
I know that in theory a worldwide independent currency, based not on one country’s economy but on an independent source of value, makes sense. But from what I can tell cryptocurrency has become nothing but a way for Bros to make money by speculating. Is there still a rational argument to make that crypto has value aside from as an investment?
NO! And you shouldn't invest in it either because it has no intrinsic value. Want proof? Try to imagine an aftermarket for resale or liquidation of crypto assets. Or crypto penny stocks. You can't because it's worthless & needs to be banned!
The way it’s being done now de-emphasizes anything except the profit-seeking motivation. That’s not to say the concept is inherently flawed. But until/unless there’s a coin which isn’t structurally focused on making money, as opposed to being a tool which can have societal benefits, I’m keeping my “real” cash in-hand.
If you want to get a bit of a nuanced look at what crypto could offer the world, search “crypto for good.”
Illinois doing great things here. An embarrassment of riches in candidates. Still folks leave nothing to chance and make sure you mount up and get ready to do the do!
I like all these folks.
We're moving to Illinois after kiddo finishes college (year and a half). The BIGGEST evidence that this is the right choice for us? Hearing some reich wing MAGA idiot here in Tennessee whinging about how bad the "Political climate" is there.
Dude, if your fascist ass don't like it, all the proof I need that we belong there.
It's a half & half state with a north/south split where north (Chicago) = good and south (Springfield) = redneck bullshit bad. NY is the same where the City & its environs (south) = good and upstate (Albany etc) is full of MAGA hellholes. Stick with culture. Fuck farms.
Did anyone ever ask Jackson if he "happened to have six fingers on his left hand"?
Do you have a reverse bucket list? I have a reverse bucket list. Things I'm not going to do or never do again. Like
- A cruise. Who the fuck wants to be in a floating mall with no escape?
- Cracker Barrel. Once was enough. I thought it'd be funny. It wasn't.
- Voting for the Conservatives. Fucking idiot.
- A Bruce Springsteen concert.
I'll explain that last one. A friend says "I'm going to get Bruce Springsteen tickets. If I get them, will you come with me?" so I foolishly agree thinking "There's no way she's going to get Springsteen tickets"
She got tickets.
Friend: I got them!
Me: [fuck] Great. Are you sure there isn't someone else you'd rather go with?
Friend: You promised!
Me: [realizing I'm stuck at this point] OK, I'll go
Friend: And when we're there, you're not allowed to complain.
Me: This deal is getting worse all the time.
So we turn up at the venue. I thought it was a bit weird when we showed the tickets and they said "here, you'll need these" and give us oxygen masks like mountaineers wear. Also, it was at the Chase Center, where the Golden State Warriors play. So after climbing to the Hillary Step, we find a bar. The line is like those lines you see at a newly-opened Shake Shack or the matinee of that Barbie movie or something. Also the drinks are $20 each and I'm not sure I can cope with Bruce on one drink, but them's the breaks.
After summiting, an ant with a guitar comes on stage and starts caterwauling. Now, I know this is just me, but 90% of the songs are just the same song. We get about an hour in and I'm thinking "this fucker must have a break at some point and I'm dashing to the bar like JD Vance after a Wayfair truck."
Little bastard is a fucking energizer bunny. I tried sleeping but it was kinda loud and I keep getting nudged and told "you promised!"
Three hours of this. The bar is shut by this point. Most bars are shut and Chase Center is a PITA to get to from BART.
So I make sure she gets an uber ok and slog back home cursing Springsteen, the Chase Center and $20 drinks. I think I even got some box wine on the way home.
I didn't even get to keep the oxygen mask.
I see & have seen hundreds if not thousands of concerts. Live music is how I stay sane. I will live and die NEVER having seen Springsteen or Billy Joel. On purpose. Fucking mediocrities.
I also wouldn't be caught dead on a cruise. If I were tricked into going, however, bunch of other passengers might turn up dead or floating. It'd turn into an Agatha Christie shitshow.
I got enough "cruising" in the Navy. You couldn't PAY me to get on one of those floating disease factories they call a Cruise ship.
I always swore I’d never do a cruise. Or not really swore, but I just felt zero interest in spending two weeks trapped in a floating Petri dish with Mr. and Mrs. America and their screaming spawn. But now Mrs. 🦡🍄🐍 has arm-twisted me into a “trans-Atlantic crossing” where we sail from NY to the UK. But she keeps telling me “It’s not a cruise!”
My reverse bucket list includes climbing tall mountains.
That deal got worse all the time.
I know people love him, but he's never appealed to me.
This is my take on Bruce as well. I get that there are people who think he's great ... I just don't get WHY they think that.
I like Bruce, and appreciate his politics, but honestly, if I'm going to listen to blue collar rockers, I'd rather it be Bob Segar.
Oh hell yes.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DkKwXHDs1R6Y&ved=2ahUKEwjw2KHOta2TAxUujokEHfOwOw0Qo7QBegQIFRAE&usg=AOvVaw3sRJcnOuC0f53mmTbkYWTT
For me, the best I can give his music is "inoffensive". But agreed, politically he seems like a good guy, and he uses the platform he has pretty well.
Ta, Dok. I'm feeling much better after sleeping for nine hours and thank everyone for all the well wishes.
Yay!
We've got TABS SIGN!!!1!!!!!
Another shining example of a pro-family, "christian" values white dude ... that whole family is screwed beyond repair.
𝗝𝗼𝘀𝗵 𝗗𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗮𝗿’𝘀 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗢𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝘅 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/03/josh-duggars-brother-arrested-on-child-sex-chages/
That Quiverfull cult is vile.
You know your Trollope
"The family that plays together . . . "
3 outta 5 is not mostly flopped, NYT. 3 outta 5 is mostly did not flop
I mean.
Ain't words supposed to be their entire thing?
Zuludaddy: Words have no meaning
Is it good that this political commentator is having to delve back into British history, to the 1940s and a literal Nazi, to find someone with views further to the right than sitting former-Reform UK MP, and Elon fave, Rupert Lowe?
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Alan Clark thought the National Front knew that he was the closest thing they could get to an MP. But Rupert Lowe - being elected on Nigel Farage's platform - has gone to the right not just of Enoch Powell, but of Nick Griffin's BNP. Has there been a further right MP in this century - or since 1945?
https://bsky.app/profile/sundersays.bsky.social/post/3mhfsksennc26
I've thought of commissioning an artist to draw an anthro version of Oswald Mosley just as he's hit upside the head by a rock during his rally in Liverpool.
As of today, daylight is longer than nighttime!
Sunrise: 7:01 AM
Sunset: 7:06 PM
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗙. 𝗞𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗱𝘆 𝗝𝗿.’𝘀 𝗩𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮 𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗸𝘀 𝗮 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀
https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-vaccine-agenda-childhood-plagues
Make Whooping Cough Great Again! Fuckin' dipshits.
I'd like to think most of the recent polling data is because of shit like this.
But I know in my cynical heart it really is about fucking gas prices.
Whoop!
The rational US population is going to end up quarantining portions of the country.
Another data point to add into the "where to retire" equation. (As if it wasn't confusing & complicated enough!)
Good thing this 'excursion' is over!
𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 ‘𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐮𝐩’ 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐠𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐟 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐐𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞
that'll settle the gas prices. Blowing up an gas field
Hey! Rollin' coal poser F-150 owners! How about some $10/gallon gas?
I love that for them
For the record, I drive an F-150...
Pro tip: Selling your house and moving is a pain in the ass.
*noted* Are you selling the southern or northern estate?
Southern.. so about 7 years of accumulated junk..
Well, that didn't take too long . . .
The other day my county sheriff seemingly broke with The Homunculus and Gov. DeathSentence on immigration, joining a few other sheriffs in suggesting deporting only immigrants with criminal records and/or providing a legal framework for citizenship.
Yesterday he walked that back, saying "I want to dispel the hyperbole" as he repeated his opposition to illegal immigration, and - as per the playbook - blaming the media for blowing what he said out of proportion.
I wonder what he was threatened with ...
Probably nothing. He's always been conservative.
Fascist. Nothing conserving about any of this shit.
A Piggy endorsement?
No more "free" Army surplus tanks?
SS,DD