John Drake

Can't wait to see how the Thais squeeze that 15 percent out of the Chinese.

What happens when I try to take it out of the country or bring it into the country?

Per the photo. Thai men seem to age so much worse than Thai women.

It seems to be a desperate piece of PR to me.

How do they know it got the correct answer?

I do believe you'll gripe about anything. Yes, free. Just like roads and highways are/used to be free. But of course to build and maintain them comes from taxes. Do you really think half a million American citizens should be thrown into bankruptcy to pay for the right to live through adequate medical care?

I'm utterly indifferent to the fates of these two, Thompson and Mangione. I am interested in abolishing health insurance, prohibiting health care from being anything other than a non-profit business, providing free, yes, free, care to citizens, and prohibiting all non-citizens from anything but pay as they go services.

I think much of what you say is correct. Biden did a relatively good job on the economy, especially reshoring and the CHIPs act. I had actually determined to support Biden over Trump, but Biden backed out. That meant a choice between Trump and Harris. Harris is horrible. She should never have been the nominee. Stupid, stupid, stupid move. Pelosi, Obama, and Schumer made this mess. Whatever happens is their fault for submarining Biden, helpless as he was, and putting up that low IQ nitwit who couldn't answer the lowest level of questions on Jeopardy if her life depended on it.

I don't believe in sympathy at all. Just polite indifference.

People celebrating his death are wrong. I think the proper response is simply to acknowledge it without comment and go on to discuss the depredations of his and other similar insurance companies and, indeed, the entire medical system and its employees.

Yes. That is the key. Physicians make outrageous sums. And see what happens with a trip to an emergency room. It can bankrupt you, even with insurance. Too much money is being sucked out of the rest of the economy just for health care.

I think those issues are addressed in the above links. And remember this is only Google's "latest" quantum chip. It's a developmental increase over what was already there. IMO this news will be used to generate a selloff. Too many people never investigate either what they are holding or the news that appears on their screen. Many of them are FOMO-ing, too, and it only takes a slight trigger to turn that around. One other thing: if quantum computers are ever able to access bitcoin safeguards, then crypto will be the least of our problems. There are many other encryptions/passwords/authenticators for everything from bank accounts to your Tops 1 Card that will fall prey long before crypto does. And if that happens, we'll all need to return to writing checks and withdrawing/depositing cash in person.

Sounds more like a commissar than a commissioner.

Lots of doomsayers claiming this is the death of Bitcoin. Seems slightly more nuanced than that, although it could provide a reason that some people have been looking for to exit crypto.

Almost every change in that region is always for the worse. Things were more stable under the Ottomans. Same for central Europe and the Balkans with Austria-Hungary.

And the bankers and billionaires know this as well. That's why they have built all those billionaire bunkers and taken over old abandoned missile silos in remote areas. That's why they wiped their online profiles after this incident and increased their security. They're running scared.

Thailand has nuclear reactors?

Well, he'll just need to get in line behind everybody else.

Lots of British on this forum are always talking about cheese. Maybe the UK could export cheaper cheese to Thailand.

Agree. GWB had the most disastrous presidency in American history. He, along with the Clintons and daddy Bush, enabled China's rise, began the debt fueled bailout of the bankers, didn't have the sense to go in and out of Afghanistan in a month or less, and mired the US in the MIddle East for two decades of expensive, immoral, bloody occupation.

Biggest conspiracy loon on X has to be Syrian Girl. Her profile picture, btw, is from about 50 lbs ago.

I used to buy gold coins. Liked the feel of them. Enjoyed having them in my possession. Then became fearful I might be holding counterfeit tungsten filled gold coins. Bars are somewhat safer, but buying gold coins is like purchasing a handgrenade. And the closer you are to China, the better the chance of counterfeit coins. I think there are a lot of people out there who have stacked up their gold coins with a smirk on their face who are going to be in for a real bad surprise when they try to sell.

Usually look for all my financial messaging on Stocktwits. Not many seem to care here.

You're beginning to sound like Peter Schiff.

200K. Maybe more. Maybe a lot more. He can still get on the boat and enjoy the ride if he wants to. I buy a bitcoin ETF. My wife buys a few thousand baht worth of bitcoin every month on her bitkub account.