I don't know how many noticed it, but The Intercept put out somewhat of a prelude to the Twitter Files back in October, which put together a lot of the "conspiracy theories" and rumors that had been swirling around for years beforehand. I usually lump it all under the umbrella of "inf...

seajay wrote: ↑Wed Dec 21, 2022 12:29 am The British Britannia had the prior edge and claim of the 'most secure'

The Britannia is damn good-looking coin as well.

TWO Christmases, an underrated benefit of national divorce.

dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 5:28 pmoh kriegs

I feel good now. Give it a shot.

Not sure how much China news is on most people's radar these days. My wife's family in the Northeast of China are dealing with covid now. Her younger sister & her boyfriend are getting over it. Mom (age 76) who lives in the same little apartment and smokes & drinks is fine (could be the hig...

Anybody have any thoughts on this? Should the US government support the Kiev group trying to re-occupy Crimea (which I think is 90% ethnic Russian or something) and bring it back under Kiev's control? In for a penny, in for a pound they say. Russia will never, ever, surrender Crimea so is everyone ...

I have a question for you. I enjoy listening to The Duran podcast. Are you familiar with it? If so, do you think they are paid off by the Russians? Even if they are, they make a whole lot more sense to me than the simplistic pablum fed to the masses. I used to think they weren't, but I'm starting t...

And that's why I'm no longer a Libertarian in the traditional sense. Citizens of other countries don't have any right to come to mine unless they're invited. Interesting points. When you say "invited" do you mean an approval at the end of an application process? If a country has an immigr...

It looks like things are actually moving in the right direction on the voting rights front. Vanguard just announced a pilot program that allows retail investors to have proper voting power with their shares. https://www.etfstream.com/news/vanguard-to-pilot-voting-rights-for-retail-investors-in-chal...

And this is coming from a Libertarian who believes that if people want to move somewhere, work and build a life then the fact that they have crossed some sort of imaginary line in the sand should not prevent them from doing so. But we should not ignore the cultural changes that will occur. I'm of t...

The last place I bought from was bgasc.com, which was totally fine. It looks like boldpreciousmetals.com has a little sale going on Krugerrands right now with a few left (their Maple Leafs are cheaper than bgasc if you are set on those).

polonium or novichok. Putin is ex kgb so no doubt he's ruthless. Whether this assassination actually was Putin it or if the guy was a foreign agent..... poisoning story on its face is stupid. I'm pretty sure if Putin wanted you dead, you'd be dead, not wandering around Europe claiming that you had ...

3. The US attempted no diplomacy and gave zero consideration to Russian security concerns or the people in the Donbass. I actually don't disagree with anything you said. But to clarify, I meant that US diplomacy failed to reel in the Ukrainian government from going after the Donbassians (?). I thin...

I don’t want Tortoise or Kriegs to think all people who support Ukraine and more specifically the idea of us arming Ukraine as vacuous “Russia bad / Ukraine good” and “I support the current thing” non-thinkers. I mean, if you do believe that, so be it, but it’s not the case. I know the Ukraine gove...

Please, tell me more about how corrupt and disgusting the political world of Ukraine is.

However, I think the below is the coup de grâce for just about all of your arguments. The top URL is the long version, the wikipedia URL is the short version. https://www.csce.gov/sites/helsinkicommission.house.gov/files/120191UkraineReferendum.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Ukrainian_indep...

Do you think by welcoming Ukraine, warts and all, into the fold (perhaps NATO) it may be good for us in the long run? What would the point of that be, other than to lead directly to a shooting war between us and Russia? As current CIA director Bill Burns wrote in 2008, Ukrainian entry into NATO is ...

By line break... Agree. Should have stopped with Afghanistan. Though I've zero personal problem with knocking off Saddam and pretty sure a majority of Iraqis would say the same (unless in the Saddam/Sunni power structure). Personally, I also think it's a good thing the Saddam government was overthr...

However, other than 9/11 (from an American standpoint) I can't think of a more worthy war to support in recent times. I'm assuming that you meant "other than the US in Afghanistan , I can't think of a more worthy belligerent to support than Ukraine in recent times." I'd take the opposite ...

I'm a bit behind on the Animal Spirits podcasts so I don't know if they've talked about it yet, but the ones with the guy from BlockFI are always pretty interesting. The one where they talked about 3 Arrows was cool inside-baseball stuff, I assume he knows about FTX and Binance too. Cryptocurrency ...

The founder of crypto exchange FTX went from being worth $16 billion to being worth $0 (probably less than $0) in the span of a day.

That'll sting a bit.

It looks like Ben took down the article. I'm a bit behind on the Animal Spirits podcasts so I don't know if they've talked about it yet, but the ones with the guy from BlockFI are always pretty interesting. The one where they talked about 3 Arrows was cool inside-baseball stuff, I assume he knows ab...

I get a bit sauced up and start thinking about rubbing gold coins on myself. Try doing that with a bitcoin.

Everyone: Biden is the most cognitively-impaired politician to hold public office. Fetterman: You to put hanHOLD hold to beer. My. https://babylonbee.com/news/nation-unsure-whether-to-support-party-that-runs-brain-damaged-candidates-and-party-that-loses-to-brain-damaged-candidates LOL. Superb.