John Drake

Yeah. For the past week, 28 has been the low out here in the western suburbs of Bangkok. It's not the daily highs, even 41 or so, that are the problem. It's the high lows around 28 or 29 at night with high humidity that makes things miserable at times. Nights can be like a sauna here.

Now you know who to blame for the all the sugar cane burning and poison air.

You can forget about 26 unless you're hit with a rain shower.

A lot. Certainly the majority. Probably true of the Russian colony on Phuket, too.

The terrorists do deserve everything that is coming to them. But there is no doubt that Putin and his minions are using this to go after Ukraine, while the pro-Hamas people try to claim the Jews are behind it all. These whacko conspiracy theories then get played up by the likes of Alex Jones and Jackson Hinkle. The pro-Chinese (I should say paid Western China shills) are backing them up. But you really can't blame them. They defend their interests and the interests of their citizens, something Western countries are willing to sweep under the rug to keep access to cheap offshore labor.

Sniffing or eating? Cannibalism now appearing on American streets?

I think I will start out with a small position in an ETF. Both BRRR and BTF look like a possibility. Meanwhile, my wife who can open a Bitkub account has been buying steadily every month. And I feel better about it than the time she went out and spent 10,000 baht on lottery tickets of the same number!

Just checked on Twitter/X, to a man/woman, the pro-Hamas, pro-Palestine, pro-Russia, and pro-China accounts are claiming it's a Jewish conspiracy backed by the CIA and Mossad. It's remarkable they had their stories all lined up and waiting to go within minutes of the news breaking. Not to mention the usual whackos like Alex Jones are also claiming it's a Jewish conspiracy.

Billy Jack!

That's quite a list! I can't begin to match. I did mow lawns in the neighborhood when I was 10 and 11 years old. Did landscaping (which is damn hard work in 100 degree weather) while in high school, and then later worked at a shooting range--sounds easy until you spend 100 plus degree days running up and down inside skeet towers or flushing out the water moccasins from the trap houses.

Another factor, at least in the US, is people from my generation took summer jobs and even part time work during school. That doesn't seem to happen much at all anymore. Perfect way to gain experience, not only for discipline needed to show up and do work but understand salaries, deductions, and banking.

That's why the US just imports them from the Philippines.

That's why you're probably better off financially than I am.

Yes, I think the housing market must crash to give another generation a chance.

It must be revoked. What she did was actually worse than what the Swiss doctor kicker did. Anything less than the same punishment will mean Russians are getting treated preferentially.

I was six years old when my mother took me to the credit union and had me open up a savings account.

I think this is true and is at the core of the problem. I'm not sure what financial strategy can even help you buy a house in the US today. It's just beyond reach for everyone starting out.

I knew there were going to be problems when, a few years ago, a news report said millennials weren't buying breakfast cereal because they didn't want to clean the bowl after eating from it.

Anybody surprised?

RFKjr the only rational choice, when otherwise left with the two doddering, brain-impaired, criminally prone Biden and Trump.

I have had a terrible time with miners, especially Canadian miners who pay themselves huge salaries and then issue shares left and right for their own options. An example, I bought and held Yamana for several years, because I knew it had good properties and was reducing debt. Finally, the company turns around and starts to move. The stock I bought between 1.50 and 3.56 looked like it was ready to move, goes to over 5 and Poof! company does a rug pull, takes huge buyout sales gains for ownership and leaves the shareholders with stock and cash. I'll never get stuck with another Canadian miner again.

Yesterday's dovish Fed development really spooked me. Powell and company are going to let inflation rip. They're going to let QE rip. There will not be a safe way to protect yourself from inflation. Gold just won't do it. Call it FOMO or YOLO, whatever. At this point, got to take at least a little risk in the hope of keeping even. And the more I think about things, particularly with nothing backing bitcoin except other people owning bitcoin. Well, you can say that about almost any class of investment, dollars, gold, art. No difference.

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The UK is a third tier country which is not part of the "Indo-Pacific region."

Yeah, I was thinking that. My capitulation might mean a Bitcoin top.