Lacessit

IIRC when bitcoin started, they were worth about 10 cents. As more were mined, the scarcity value of what was left increased. There may be also a cost factor, they are gluttons for electrical energy. I know enough about them to realize I would get burnt if I ventured into that market. I've never lost money on gold, silver and platinum. I stick with what I know.

I enjoyed the work I did. I probably could have made more money climbing the management tree, not interested. I created some things that are still in use today 40 years later. I was a positive influence on several co-workers, who flew higher than I wanted to. I am grateful I enjoyed my work. I can't imagine how boring it must be for people who just turn up for a paycheck.

Problem is, they all think they are GOAT's.

Only because it is a Ponzi scheme. Crypto is like a religion, belief in something that can't be seen. Outside a computer screen, it's nothing. Gold and silver are real. They have industrial applications. The computer screen or smartphone you look at to track bitcoin contains gold and silver, as does 99% of them worldwide. Governments don't like fungibles beyond their control. Why do you think the US government banned Americans from owning gold bullion for 40 years?

No incels in NZ. That's what the sheep are for.

The trick in Thailand is to find a condo with competent management.

Please. The word you are trying to use is ELICIT. Illicit has an entirely different meaning, and is an adjective, not a verb.

My average life expectancy is 5 years. Maybe sooner, maybe not. I have survived 4 different types of cancer. I do find myself wondering about people I used to know, whether they are still alive, or if they have passed on. My condolences to the OP. I have lost two good friends to brain cancer, IMO it is one of the cruelest forms of cancer to have.

I noticed a lot of minority groups who should know better did. Buyer's remorse will be coming soon enough.

Chalk this one up, one of the very few times I agree with you.

That's because it is not the same truth as yours, which you get spoon-fed by Fox News and Truth Social.

You're not handsome enough to get it for free, and you talk about fuglies? I'm wondering if you can even see what's down below.

They will be raped and killed by rednecks instead. Women of the right will be spared. I am quite sure you don't realize how humorous some of your posts are.

I know several decent men who were taken to the cleaners by gold-diggers. When things come up short, as you put it, will you trust the law of the land, or have a cast-iron pre-nup?

You may be right. How many government policy-makers are lawyers?

I would have thought, given your occupation, you would be familiar with the multiple abuses that have occurred. Kew Cottages or Larundel ring any bells?

Who do you think made the laws that enabled women to legally take half the assets of a man? It certainly was not women, more male traitors to their gender. IMO much of today's misogynism stems from those laws, which threw out fairness and equity. If I have a million dollars, and my wife has none, she can take half after a year's marriage in Australia. I still get to keep my million dollars in Thailand. It is only assets accumulated after marriage which get split. That's fair. Men should not be blaming women. They should be hunting down the male lawyers that created the inequity, or that sustain it, and exterminating them like vermin.

I don't even buy green bananas.

I understand the psychiatric hospitals in Thailand treat people with mental illnesses quite kindly.

I was going to ask the OP his location, then I realized all the mosquitoes will know.

IMO bricks and mortar stores will still be around. There are some things no-one wants to buy online, due to the risk. It's a sometimes painful process of adaptation.

Really. Didn't King George V change the royal family's name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor in 1917, to avoid anti-German sentiment?

I am wondering if the OP's spelling, fete accompli, is a deliberate malapropism. Or Spoonerism. Thailand was the best choice for me in retirement, economically. My personal "Heart of Darkness" was being appointed team leader of a McKinsey cost -cutting program. 6 months of my life utterly wasted.

How much wealth in terms of social welfare are those ethnic minority groups absorbing?

Trump is quite right to be taking Americans as idiots. Because they are. Now they have served their purpose, they will be tossed under the bus. The gap between haves and have-nots will widen, while the propaganda mill pumps out claims of how good everything is. The turkeys voted for Christmas. It's coming.