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    The US has been dumping since September. The Aussie is close to a low of 0.66c which it has frequently defended in the past aside from a brief notable run down to 0.50c. That would indicate a further decline in the US coming. At the end of the 70's the AUD was worth more than the US and at least once since. AUD is pushed by gold prices to some extent and gold is likely to rise if there's a US recession. Some economic fundamentals like inverted bond yields with the 10 year at critical levels of support don't bode well for the US I think. Failure of the US to hold this level of support might be ominous and might portend a recession coming. The gold bugs are suggesting that gold might get a lot more expensive later this year and further. This is the DXY for the past year.
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    There are some stray garlic pieces missing but I was really only looking for plain, pitted green olives anyway so all good. Big C Extra got in a new supply a month or so ago in a 100 gram bag or maybe a big bigger. I just bought these on impulse. I have a bottle of green olives but they are much smaller and still pitted so it takes that much longer to put a salad together which is already a time consuming effort. I'll look for the bagged, pitted olives in Big C again when they run out. I just add about a dozen of the smaller olives into a large salad so they last most of the year I think. These are about double the size so I need fewer of them.
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    Trump said it was America's fault last week.
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    I was at central festival this morning and hit the bank so I could buy some stuff and pay the electricity bill at the end of the month so I was a little cashed up, if not pecunious. I have a particular predilection for large green stuffed olives. They have them at Tops supermarket in central but they are pretty spendy at 270 baht or so for 100 gr. They had some large packs of 1.3 Kg for 5100 baht. I'll have to make them last. They also had 100% cocoa Lindt chocolate at 175, also not cheap. Previously I'd only ever seen 99% cocoa around in Pattaya. Chocolate afficionados might find that interesting. I saw some Ritter Sport at 85% in my local 7-11 a while ago but they've never restocked them since I bought the last few bars.
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    I have to beg to differ here. At a personal level, I had an option of taking 2 years of American history at a public high school in the 60's but chose ancient history instead. There many academics as well as people in all fields of life who are well studied and well traveled withing America. Probably more so that the average American. I fact, I'd say that American politics on the right especially, a demographic openly hostile toward academic institutions and in education in general, especially when it comes to race relations, exposes a particular and widespread ignorance of American affairs and policies. And when it comes to knowledge of American foreign policy, well that's a hands down winner for non Americans TBH. Bottom line, plenty of non Americans know plenty about America.
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    So is America, that's why Trump got trounced at the last election.
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    The recommended intervals are probably OK in Japan but not so much in a hot, tropical country with much higher dust and soot levels. I'd be changing both oil and filter at 10,000 max. In every bike I've owned in this climate I did them at 5,000 Km. Using synthetic oil obviously does increase the change interval but dirt is still an issue.
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    Trump got elected by dividing America. He can out with a racist slur in his first speech. He never had a coherent policy which wasn't based around enriching himself and his only message was one of racism. Trump stands for racists and nobody else.
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    Innuendo is a wonderful thing when you don't need to back it up. At least give us mere mortals a hint.
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    That ship has sailed. They had 4 years and could find what it takes.
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    The democracts aren't making noises about civil unrest.
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    Because every country should remain friends with Turkey while they run cover for Putin?
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    I'm waiting for the mug shots. Complete without hair piece.
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    Seems like it's good news week. Except that I just discovered I accidentally left $500 on FTX when I decided to remove all my funds there.
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    I think the truth is coming out now. Over 30 counts of fraud according to CNN cable TV.
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    The first of many indictments to come. He could conceivably politically survive paying off a couple of hookers but but the election fraud and insurrection indictments yet to come. Even here, the court will need to reconcile sending Cohen to jail but not Trump. That will be hard to do.
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    By the end of this year the right wingers who wish that every story wasn't about Trump will get their wish.
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    If you want an all in one PC as opposed to a laptop, I highly recommend buying a mini PC and using a separate external monitor, keyboard and mouse. Choose Asus mini, NUC mini or Apple mac mini m2. I have both the ASUS mini and the Mac mini m2.
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    Held at the Impact Challenger pavilion.
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    They will be used much more but I doubt they will replace solar energy. My comment was in response to the current forms of larger nuclear reactors. Solar will continue to get cheaper and has the advantage of lower distribution costs (virtually none).
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    Batteries. The subsidies created rapid uptake which reduced prices and contributed to greater acceptance. CO2 emissions have benefited. Everyone is connected to the grid in cities whether or not they have solar panels and batteries. The electricity rates they pay reflect the cost of wasting that money on distribution rather than encouraging people to install batteries which they could use for off peak consumption even without solar panels.
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    Many houses are now installed with solar panels and batteries that provide more electricity to the grid that they use, to the extent that early subsides for feeding the grid have been cancelled. Local panels and storage also obviates the need for distribution which is why utilities gold plated the distribution grid when they saw that coming and charge consumers for it.
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    Fukushima. Nuclear waste storage. Ukraine. What's so amazing?
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    There's a tendency for the right wing to pass the responsibility to act on individuals and claim the high moral ground because they installed a solar panel to save themselves some money. Anything except admit that it's a global problem which requires global cooperation. Individual effort is like peeing into the ocean. Sure, about 1% of fossil fuel use. Nobody is suggesting or ever has suggested banning fossil fuels entirely, especially not products derived from fossil fuels. Nope, 100% of the cost of the electricity is recouped from the tenant. Is that not true? Batteries and other storage mechanisms. Again, fossil fuels will always be used but to suggest that since we can't remove them 100% so we shouldn't remove them at all is ridiculous logic.
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