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rkbabang

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  1. Great point. Situational awareness is the best thing most people can improve on. I learned this early in life. I had an incident in my teens where I was stopped at a stop sign in a city and someone opened my passenger side door and started getting into my car. I popped the clutch and hammered on the gas and the guy with only 1 leg in my car up to about the hip went flying head over heels. I never drove with my doors unlocked again. I'm buying this one. Thanks.
  2. There will always be some "best performing investment" over any time period. Hasn't it been something like MNST or something for the last 20 years? I've never owned MNST and never regretted it. Sure I regret selling NVDA after only 100% return a few years ago, and I regret selling Netflix at a spit adjusted $4 after a triple more than 15 years ago, but you aren't always going to be holding the best performing asset in the world over every time period possible. That says nothing about whether or not BTC is, has, or will be, a good investment.
  3. Exactly. People talking about shitcoins and lumping Bitcoin in with them, it’s like if every time you tried talking about gold someone would bring up the price of tin and aluminum, talk about how their cousin claims he can use mercury to turn lead into gold, and caution you that they know 10 people who got scammed by fools gold and it’s all just a big scam.
  4. They never did. History is written by the winner to make themselves look good.
  5. Hillary engaging in clickbaiting too maybe? Trolling for likes? Or trying to spread lies? I don't know.
  6. Yes, 99.99% of crypto really gives the other 0.01% a bad name. I wouldn't recommend putting real money into a dog with a hat coin.
  7. Some Starship porn. This guy has some good photos of all 3 launches. https://www.johnkrausphotos.com/Galleries/Launches
  8. You misunderstand my point. It isn’t that UFO “enthusiasts” should be believed or are more/less credible compared with the pentagon. My point is that the pentagon weighing in on the topic provides no new information, because they can’t be believed. You don’t know their agenda and why they might want you to believe a certain thing at this time. This would also be true if they suddenly said there were aliens. Unless proof is shown and verified there is absolutely no information in a government pronouncement other than “This is what we want you to think.”
  9. I’ve owned 5 houses since the mid-90’s (4 were existing houses, 1 I bought the lot and built) and I’ve never had a buyer’s agent. I’ve always contacted the agent who listed the house (or land) to show it to me. I’ve never understood the necessity for a buyers agent even in 1995 when doing your own leg work to find a property wasn’t as easy as it is now, now you should easily be able to find the houses which you want to look at and be able to contact the realtor who is listing it to show it to you. What is the point of hiring an agent?
  10. They can’t stand that someone with money and power doesn’t agree with their leftist BS. I saw a bumper sticker on a Tesla the other day that said “I bought this before we knew Elon was nuts.” That said to me much more about the owner of the car than it did about Musk. What Musk has accomplished is extraordinary. Getting to space isn’t easy. The proof of this is that to this day there isn’t another company or government anywhere on Earth launching, landing, and regularly reusing rockets. And there is nothing comparable to Starship. Nuts, indeed.
  11. If you don't think there is just as much evidence of government lying as there are UFO nuts lying, then I don't even know how to respond. The only thing a government report tells you is that this is what that government agency wishes you to believe at this time.
  12. I have no idea if they are here or not, or if they've ever been here or not, or if they have been here that they are from outer space or from somewhere else (interdimensional, time travel, etc.), but one thing I do know is that I don't trust the Pentagon to tell me the truth about what they know or don't know any more than I trust that the CIA didn't kill JFK. A Pentagon report is no information at all.
  13. Yes, I watched the first 2 tries and I plan to be watching this one live too tomorrow morning.
  14. That is 46.1% not counting real estate.
  15. As of right now: BTC: 17.8% ETH: 9.7% MSTR: 6.3% 33.8% of net worth if considering MSTR as a crypto investment (which I do). 27.5% if only counting self custody crypto.
  16. Also because of the new coins that have been mined since the last ATH in 2021 the market cap is well above 2021 highs.
  17. You can also get robbed if you carry gold, which seems to me more likely than needing it for bribes. ”Venezuelan military personnel at the borders have a reputation for seizing the money of people who want to leave, but Juan’s, being in Bitcoin, was accessible only with a password he had memorized. “Borderless money” is more than a buzzword for those of us who live in a collapsing economy and a collapsing dictatorship.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/opinion/sunday/venezuela-bitcoin-inflation-cryptocurrencies.html Also: https://brendait.blogspot.com/2022/03/what-asserts-should-refugees-carry.html?m=1
  18. Yes, it is like the difference between owing a gold ETF and holding physical gold in your safe. The ETF lets you speculate on price and trade in and out easily, but in a crisis (governments decides to make owning it illegal or starts confiscating it), or if you simply want to pay for something with it without authorities being able to block the transaction the ETF isn’t going to be of much use.
  19. Pix is a centralized database created and controlled by the central bank of Brazil. It is the opposite of a decentralized secure blockchain. Whereas Bitcoin is the most secure asset on Earth. A completely different animal. Sure people might use a CBDC, but they will not have control over their account, the central bank will. The next time a tyrant like Trudeau wants to stop donations to a protest, or freeze protestors accounts, for example, they will have an easier time doing it if everyone is using CBDCs.
  20. How much more is there to say? Now we just watch it play out.
  21. Interesting that “Softwar” is available again on Amazon. Softwar: A Novel Theory on Power Projection and the National Strategic Significance of Bitcoin https://a.co/d/0GZXeU1
  22. Overcast. It has "Smart Speed" (cuts out silences) and you can also pay $9.99/yr for some premium features, like ability to upload your own mp3 files to your own private 10gb of file space. I take epub books that aren't available on Audible, and convert them to mp3 file using some scripts I wrote and Amazon's Polly service, then upload the mp3s so I can listen to them. The app is great, even if you don't need to premium features. I switched about a year ago from Overcast to Pocket Casts. You have more control over the silence trimming. You can set it to mild, medium, or "Mad Max". Medium is my setting. Also has speed control and a volume boost which makes voices louder. On top of all of that, I like the UI better than Overcast. I used to pay the $9.99/yr for overcast, but I canceled my subscription. Now I pay for Pocket Cast $14.99/yr. It's a little more, but the app is so much nicer to use. Also I just looked you can play your own files with Pocket Casts as well, but I haven't tried that feature yet.
  23. I think there will be a lot of places to buy bread in CA soon. McBread, Starbucks Grande Loaf, Taco Bell Bread Flavored Loaf, etc. The best way to play this is to offer the bread, but make it taste really bad and charge an outrageous price for it. It will be there on the menu, but no one will buy it.
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