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EverDownward posted...

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slow heavy metal music? I need to hear this.

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Investing in anything whose value is pegged upon the US government or US dollar in any such a way is bad news. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is almost upon us where nations and big banking institutions alike are HEAVILY researching and investing in the spinoff technology of the bitcoin, blockchain technology, to create their own cryptocurrencies to knock the US dollar off its World Reserve currency status. When (not if, WHEN) this happens, the US dollar is going to implode. Its only saving grace is its status as the the petrodollar, which is under threat because of the petroyuan.

If you ask me personally what to invest in, obviously, I'm going to say Chainlink.

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But whatever you decide upon, keeping your money with banks is playing with fire.

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Balrog0 posted...

Neither better nor worse, I think there's ample evidence that people will create other sorts of belief systems and sort themselves into tribes even without religion per se

This is essentially what's happening now. Religion has been on the downtrend and what it's being replaced with is consumerism, where people are revolving their identities on things they buy or media they consume.

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The_Scarecrow posted...

Bottom line? Is the virus a problem in China? Yes. Rest of the world? Not right now. Will you die if you get the virus? Are you old, have underlying health conditions, or living in a very poor, air polluted environment with bad medical care? No? Then stop stressing for now. Stress actually weakens the immune system so youre not helping yourself.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/china-closes-foxconn-johnson-johnson-and-samsung-factories-amid-virus-outbreak

Literally Foxconn, home of the suicide safety nets, is shutdown because of the virus. And US politicians are floating the idea of a travel ban against China. This is a problem for the rest of world. Both economically due to how prevalent Chinese manufactured products are, and how high the rate of infection is. Don't wait for a situation where it's not contained and it ends up in your area to start preparing for it.

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Generational wealth is created by generations, not by singular persons. The biggest lie ever told is that you're an adult if you leave your house and live on your own. Rich people and the lowly poor support their own till the end of times. It's only the middle class that subscribes to that idea.
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I want to believe Modern physics in the 1900s paved the way for semiconductors which paved the way for electronics thoroughly embedded in our culture toady.
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I'm in a pretty safe area, but you guys in the US, I wouldn't take a chance with this if I were in your shoes, I'd start stocking up now if I could.
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*Sees a Kill Bill Part 3 scene being shot in the Caribbean*

Okay Uma
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Probably pushed it to next gen.
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pinky0926 posted...

Also pretty sure auto rotation is one of the the very first key skills you learn how to do in a helicopter after working out where the controls are and how they work. I didn't want to raise this though, because arguing with engineers is never a good idea

How often do you think they practice emergency situations? It's possible in the heat of the moment they made a mistake or got caught up in the panic. Desperation is a nasty and dangerous feeling to have as it'll screw with your decision making.

Really, nothing wrong with the conversation you had.
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Im quite disgusted, Smith said. Let me be very, very clear: Im honored to be up here with you guys. Im a spectator watching the sport. I expected to see more than 40 seconds. I predicted McGregor was going to win this fight inside of two rounds. I thought he would take him out.
Heres the deal: 15 seconds in, Cowboy Cerrone was done. He got hit with those shoulders in the clinch, and he was done. It look like he gave up. It was just an atrocious performance on his part.

"lol this dude got knocked out by a legendary fighter in less than a minute so he sucks"

Good lord dude, why would you say this knowing you don't have a background in the field? No wonder Rogan got weirded out and called him out on this. Even worse, he didn't address any of Rogan's points in his response.

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I do recall also some British CIA equivalent intelligence leader being skeptical of Obama's origins. One thing I don't understand, is how does it undermine his right to the presidency? His mom is American, so he'd be a full blooded American too.

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Dragonblade01 posted...

Life experiences can affect sexual expression, but its influence on gender preference is hard to determine. After all a lot of heterosexual people have unfortunately been victims of molestation as well, but nobody thinks that is the cause of their heterosexuality. Instead, we take what we perceive to be abnormal behavior (homosexuality) and try to rationalize its existence by correlating it to some other abnormal event. Not maliciously, for the most part, but just because that's how we go about investigating things.

The research paper solosnake posted investigates links between childhood sexual abuse and sexual identity and the paper mentions that heterosexuals report lower rates of sexual abuse compared to their nonhetero counterparts. I also hear there's a noticeable percentage of porn stars that went through sexual abuse as kids. Given how precarious childhood development is, I wouldn't put it past it that you can significantly alter a kid's life trajectory from their experiences there.

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Either we're all allowed to say it or none of us should say it.

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Squall28 posted...

The focus should be on improving our technology

The improvements of technology is going to lead to even more job losses, entire industries being absorbed in fact, as we're looking at the greatest wealth transfer of all time.

https://twitter.com/twetchapp/status/1219686207610814464?s=21%27

I implore you to start reading up on Ethereum's Smart contracts (no I'm not advocating you buy ETH, always Link), the biggest breakthrough of blockchain technology. In a nutshell it's an automated contract. Once formed, it holds its word. If X, then Y. What makes this so powerful is that it's built up with security and with banking features integrated in. "Things like turn your timesheets, and you'll get paid" will get automated without the need for someone in the financial department to process. In the government, at least 3 or 4 hands are involved in verifying a payment; smart contracts will reduce it to one. There's a bunch of cool stuff that you can do with smart contracts, it's going to revolutionize the world and it's going to hit mainstream adoption soon. That's what our favorite World leader is referring to.

In your quote, remember that Feynman wasn't alive for the global trade opening up where companies are moving jobs from their countries' economies overseas thereby reducing the overall amount of jobs in their native countries while taking on bigger profits thanks to lower costs of employing people overseas. He's not even talking about that, he's saying cause a nation's better than a poor nation in terms of efficiency and capital, the rich nation can take the poor nation's resources with no need to support them. That sounds like a breeding ground for poor relations as another rival country can come in, make negotiations to share the wealth to gain their support to push out the nation that was exploiting them in the first place.

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Foppe posted...

It means nothing in this case.
The Coronavirus are a group of viruses, not a single one. Remember SARS and MERS some years ago?
They are both Coronaviruses.
This new virus is believed to come from snakes, and it belongs to the same family as the Coronavirus.

As for the patent, it is a patent of variant replicase gene encoding polyproteins comprising a mutation in one or more of non-structural protein(s) (nsp)-10, nsp-14, nsp-15 or nsp-16. This coronavirus may be used as a vaccine for treating and/or preventing a disease, such as infectious bronchitis, in a subject.

Thank you for explaining this.

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What books did you read OP? Might as well post the pic of your grid of read books.

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I fear not the man who has read 100 books once, but the man who has read 1 book a hundred times.

• Rock Lee

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BillyKidd posted...

funny how the coronavirus vaccine got patented last month and now all these cases are happening.

Oh? I did see the patent for the virus.

https://patents.justia.com/patent/10130701

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There is a patent out for the Coronavirus.

https://patents.justia.com/patent/10130701

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z760XNy4VM

Remember watching this a long time ago. One thing that struck me was the emergence of asocial mice as the population grew past a certain point.

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Good looking out for us OP. My pops is in the healthcare business and he has already contacted authorities asking about preparing for worst case scenario of someone being diagnosed in our lone island in the Caribbean.

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Sabram posted...

Well, as an example of someone who legit made over a billion on almost completely his own work would be Markus Persson, or Notch. He made the original versions of Minecraft by himself, and eventually sold it to Microsoft. Since he created the product initially by himself, then made the company that continued the product, and then sold his interest in it, he in fact made all his billions himself

Yup, there's a difference between Wealth creation and Wealth transfer. Wealth creation is like you described in creating a product that offers new experiences or creates a new product. Then there's wealth transfer, where they come up with new and superior ways to offer the same services which then absorbs wealth from other services, like Amazon absorbing malls and local outlets' sales or even Eshop/PSN to gaming store outlets. I want to say the bitcoin is purely wealth transfer. Wealth transfer in that it was developed as a response to the 2008 housing crisis. They want to strip bankers of their power. The blockchain industry has since further grown to create opportunities to uproot the entire banking system as we know it and knock the US dollar off its world reserve currency status - bad news for us.

But I suppose AOC is complaining about is the incredible wealth generated while too many employees aren't comfortably compensated. The wealth gap wouldn't be much of a factor if the people below are happy. But they're not. Fair complaint. She's gonna have a field day when the Fourth Industrial Revolution kicks in, which appears to be coming real soon according to the greatest leader in the world.

https://twitter.com/twetchapp/status/1219686207610814464?s=21

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I had to read the OP a few times over as well. He bought 9 XBX for $200 in total, not $200 each? That's pretty cool. But then he pushed them back into the Gamestop ecosystem, that's kind of lame as store credit isn't real money.

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https://twitter.com/twetchapp/status/1219686207610814464?s=21'

If America's supreme overlord was being straightforward instead of beating around the bush, he'd say that the 4th Industrial Revolution is coming where Smart contracts are going into mainstream adoption.

But they won't. Worst yet, this is going to be the biggest wealth transfer of all time. Knowing that I'm going to profit immensely at the cost of people's livelihoods, I'm not keen on the idea of "we poor people owe the rich nothing!".

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garlic powder posted...

According to the affidavit, Toney is very outspoken about his beliefs and has said the government is out to get him.

I think this is less that he's crazy but more that he hasn't been paying his taxes.

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BigDoinks posted...

B) Thinking your taxes buy a first row seat to their personal lives is also silly.

Their actions represent the country. If my country had a monarchy, I'd be insulted if a royal family member said "I love this country and it will always be my home... but I'm still living in some other country from now on. Adieu!". They may not have chosen their lives, but with their privileges there are still responsibilities they have to uphold.

tremain07 posted...

one of the prince's was a pedophile yet that story died and he's still there but one prince marries an american minority and everyone despises them.

pinky0926 posted...

Hey remember the pedo uncle? The only royal anyone should be talking about right now

That story got killed really bloody quick. It'd suffice to say that you can mess with Harry but don't **** with the family.

And Epstein had girls around 16 and up. That's not pedophilia, ephebophilia is what you're looking for and we all know everyone digs HS chicks.

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mrduckbear posted...

The freaks met for the first time 3 years ago when Samantha was 17 after asking who her real father was.

I was wondering if he groomed her or not. But this makes sense. The reason incest is an anomaly is because kids raised together develop against an attraction to those they grew up with. The father wasn't there so she never developed that trait around him and as far as he's concerned, she's a younger version of the mother he previously had a kid with.

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Solid Snake07 posted...

The reason anything costs what it does is because people are willing to pay that much for it.

But yeah, the whole giving dumb teenagers with no job history or assets 10s of thousands of dollars in loans does inflate that

Does in inflate that? The government influenced society to make having a degree the standard. They're the one who handed out loans like candy and allowed colleges to keep inflating the tuition. They're the ones that made it illegal to default on your school debt. A number of politicians, including Clinton, kept pushing for people to go to college and ultimately we ended up in a culture that treats any alternative options as second class citizen options.

As someone "privileged" enough to have a family that paid for my undergrad degree and wasn't given a choice but to go to college, pinning any blame on clueless dumb High schooler teenagers is ignorant, especially when we were collectively never taught about investments and finances in school and most people can't even say what gives the US dollar its value.

And yes, while there is wealth creation in creating new markets, there will is also wealth transfer, like in factories moving overseas to create jobs in other countries at the expense of its home country's, Uber's gig services absorbing the Taxi industry, or smart contracts and AI automating white collar positions in the near near future.

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CosmicShadows posted...

From any place in the world that serves steak or burgers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CTzhqVHmww

WELL SIR.

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The Popo posted...

Things would need to get a lot worse to get to that point

Get worse you say?


I invite you all to learn about about the spinoff technology applications from the bitcoin, blockchain technology; more specifically the biggest breakthrough tech is smart contracts. The leading institutions are quietly hacking away at preparing this for mainstream adoption within the coming year. What stopped it from catching on a few years ago was the lack of communication between blockchains and legacy systems (essentially the lack of proper internet infrastructure for blockchains), accurately the oracle problem. It has been solved. By Chainlink. Here's a nice non-exhaustive list of companies you may know that are currently researching and investing in blockchain technology.

https://twitter.com/AdamScochran/status/1217524745853423622

I implore you all to find out what they know as we're looking at the greatest wealth transfer of all time as it will completely absorb and revolutionize industries left and right.

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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

Just say exactly that?

"You've made it pretty obvious you are interested in a romantic relationship with me. I'm not looking to get involved with you in that way"

Nah, that's too difficult to do. Let's just keep it under wraps.
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You'll end up burning that 10K and selling the mansion anyway thanks to the property taxes.
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Not even the biggest 3 Houses fans would have chosen Byleth. Everyone would have gone with Dimitri while contrarians would have gone with Edelgard. But Chasing Daybreak is in the game so I'm pleased with Byleth getting in. I do wish Indomitable Will was in. Oh well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7c0CD3NoUk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kef24Po3pc0

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Good thoughts. I'll have to refresh my memory on the paths and the Somniums so I can try to ask some spoiler free questions and engage some of your theories a little more.

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Broseph_Stalin posted...

"fake news" is not an argument. next time you post some dumb prediction from a guy who doesn't know what he's talking about, check to see if it actually came true or not first

It's not fake news, statistics downplay the unemployment rate like crazy. We literally have a movie on Netflix, a documentary about bringing manufacturing back to the US, "American Factory". Part of what put Trump in office is because of people wanting a solution for the loss jobs in manufacturing.

Tell me, how is he wrong? How have wages NOT stagnated? How has moving operations overseas to China NOT stolen jobs from the US?

Do note, I study some of this, investing, as a hobby and I've come to learn that service is not infinite. There's only so many dollars available to push around and easier processes will absorb the money from more expensive processes. For instance, Amazon has stolen a metric ton of money (or rather money has been transferred to Amazon) from traditional outlets congregates like malls. In the future, smart contracts are going to absorb a ton of jobs, like the trust assurance industry where you need to transfer assets of high value.

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Broseph_Stalin posted...

the unemployment rate was nearly twice as high as it is today when he gave that interview, the exact opposite happened

They are using so many different criteria to ignore as many people as possible to downplay the unemployment rate, using things like, "must be actively looking for a job within the past 3 months" or so. You can't go up to a company's doorstep, hand in your resum with a firm handshake to get a job nowadays (I admit, I did this by being like ants on sugar, didn't last that long at the job). What are you talking about?

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Broseph_Stalin posted...

lol that aged terribly

protectionist are so dumb

@Broseph_Stalin care to elaborate? The present of corporations expanding the economy at the expense of wages going down and unemployment skyrocketing is exactly the future he predicted.

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Just post the Opinion piece. I just finished watching an interview of James Goldsmith predicting that free trade will cause unemployment rates to skyrocket due to US corporations moving their operations overseas for cheaper employment thereby killing jobs in the US.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwmOkaKh3-s

Our economic problems, barring the college and healthcare debt issues, stem from what he speaks about here.

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SH_expert44 posted...

Wow fucking bragging he can eat every day while millions worldwide go hungry? This POS needs to donate 99% of his salary to end hunger

Cause a year later, they would be hungry again. Throwing money at a problem wont solve it. You need a self sustaining solution. Which is generally has a smaller price tag than donating millions at the expense of requiring a lot more effort and know how.

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Man it would have been great if it were Dimitri who got in. At least we have Chasing Daybreak so I'm content.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7c0CD3NoUk

I'd also take Indominitable Will and I know a lot of people were gunning for God Shattering Star but oh well.
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Duwstai posted...

That's a lot of time off work and savings down the toilet. I'm ok with 1 trip a year, she wants like 5.

How do you guys reconcile?
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Solid Sonic posted...

For me it's not about getting "likes" for what I do but rather NOT getting dislikes on platforms that support them.

Dude, that is very dangerous. You can't wait for something to be socially acceptable before you start talking about it. You'll miss out on opportunities and could very well sabotage yourself that way.
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toyota posted...

social media obsessed

The writer acts as if the rest of the world isn't already social media obsessed.

vigorm0rtis posted...

... for fuck's sake.

Reading the article, that is a big factor in what led to her passing. If she's attractive and can't feel accepted, she'll be at a loss thinking what else is she supposed to do to be validated.

Number090684 posted...

The family wants to blame social media, but the fault really lies with her parents and family who didn't teach her better and / or support her well enough, or seek professional help for her if they did and she wasn't listening.

Depression rates are rising across the board; lots of kids are trying to substitute real friendships with online pseudofriendships via Twitch and Youtube streamers. We have a national epidemic on our hands. Society needs to step up to protect our future generations.
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OP, care to sum up what you think happened? Whodunnit, why, etc etc. I'd love to see your thoughts on the Somniums you dove into and what information you got out of it. Like that one you talked about in the first post.
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