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What? Do you think every bitcoin holder is plying the internet shilling the coins? If the price is driven by hype then there's a lot of hype. If you invested $100 in the first year of bitcoin you'd be a multi millionaire now. https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses.html

If you buy a bitcoin today you will own it. It's exactly the same as buying a useless 400 year old painting. The issue here is that people can't get their heads around "if I can't touch it it, it's not real". Deal with it, bitcoin didn't go from 0.30c to $65,000 for no reason over ten years. You might not like it but that's hardly an argument against it.

If he perceived the price of bitcoin to be high, paying with bitcoin is just like paying with gold when it's high. Investments are like roller coasters but they shouldn't be ridden to the top and down again. Paying with bitcoin is no different to selling bitcoin.

The difference is that your fart in a bag can be destroyed but a bitcoin can't. Not ever, that's the reason for it having value. I'm not suggesting that bitcoin can't go back to 4k and I actually think it will but it will always have value and be a good investment at some point, whether now or in the future.

Google, Amazon and a host of other companies would have been a fantastic buy when they were not making anything and burning capital. All you are doing here is presenting the old canard "if I can't touch it then it doesn't exist and can't be worth anything".

Maybe some o0f the Russian propagandists could go fight for Russia too? hahaha. ????????

The US is delivering missiles and artillery to Ukraine which will allow it to target any missiles and artillery sites used to attack Ukraine. The US' stated intention is to so weaken Russia that its military will be spent and it can't threaten any cities or countries again for the foreseeable future. The only outcome in which Russia will be welcomed back into normal relations will be if Putin is delivered to a war crimes tribunal and Russia pays reparations to Ukraine. Failing that, sanctions will continue and Europe will continue to reduce its reliance on Russian gas. While Putin remains Russia is finished as a world player. https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/05/04/yes-the-united-states-should-weaken-russia/ https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-finance-minister-demands-russia-pays-reparations-once-conflict-ends-12588141 https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/3261070-reparations-what-will-russia-owe-ukraine/

That's another problem with the Philippines...

The advice is spot on. For the vast majority of expats, the only way to survive is to live in a guarded enclave, own your own car and shop for imported products in S&R. Healthy food and fresh vegetables and fruit will still be a problem. Even fresh seafood is hard to come by unless you live in a fishing village.

where? You just had a bunch of posts deleted for failing to provide links yet to still continue.

We conclude with high statistical confidence that the scientific consensus on human-caused contemporary climate change—expressed as a proportion of the total publications—exceeds 99% in the peer reviewed scientific literature. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2966 Nearly all actively publishing climate scientists (97–100%) say humans are causing climate change.[5][4] Surveys of the scientific literature are another way to measure scientific consensus. A 2019 review of scientific papers found the consensus on the cause of climate change to be at 100%,[2] and a 2021 study concluded that over 99% of scientific papers agree on the human cause of climate change.[3] Papers that disagreed with the consensus either cannot be replicated or contain errors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_consensus_on_climate_change

Finland announced it would apply to join NATO, as top diplomats from the Western alliance, including U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, gathered Sunday in Berlin to discuss the war. Sweden’s governing party plans to announce its position on seeking NATO membership later Sunday. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-eurovision-song-contest-zelenskyy-kyiv-entertainment-c01129f703b79b0757771afc60172257

I fear for the people living in a world of conspiracy theories and lies, caught in the post modern mass psychosis.

Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) announced on Saturday that they will not accept any territorial gains by Russia in Ukraine. “We will never recognize borders that Russia has attempted to change by military aggression,” G7 foreign ministers said in a statement concluding a meeting in Gut Weissenhaus, a luxurious seaside resort in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The countries will uphold their “engagement in the support of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, including Crimea, and all states,” they added. https://www.politico.eu/article/g7-foreign-ministers-will-never-recognize-territorial-gains-russia-ukraine-borders-military-aggression/

According to an ongoing temperature analysis led by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), the average global temperature on Earth has increased by at least 1.1° Celsius (1.9° Fahrenheit) since 1880. The majority of the warming has occurred since 1975, at a rate of roughly 0.15 to 0.20°C per decade. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/global-temperatures

*Deleted post edited out* why are these guys wrong and you are right? In 2020 – one of the three warmest years on record – the global average temperature was 1.2 °C above the pre-industrial baseline, according to the WMO’s report on the State of the Global Climate 2020, released in April. It highlighted the acceleration in climate change indicators like rising sea levels, melting sea ice, and extreme weather, as well as worsening impacts on socio-economic development. The Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update confirms that trend. In the coming five years, the annual mean global temperature is likely to be at least 1°C warmer - within the range 0.9°C – 1.8°C - than preindustrial levels. https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/new-climate-predictions-increase-likelihood-of-temporarily-reaching-15-°c-next-5

did you do the sums for the world cutting CO2 emissions by 50% tomorrow>

completely wrong. https://thediplomat.com/2021/09/the-real-cause-of-chinas-alibaba-crackdown/

Australian lottery. Topic is about Australian server based vpn.

Feel free to provide credible links without breaking forum rules. When it suits you, you quote too much from biased sites and when it doesn't you quote nothing. Both approaches lessen the board experience for all of us.

How are humans now vs 1980? More genuine or less genuine? Less Are we just a number now? Yes Is the media better or worse? Worse Is the world getting better? No

Russia and its apologists should be thankful that the US didn't take that position in WW2.

To be clear, the US (and Biden) were warning that Putin was lying and that Russia really intended to invade Ukraine. The extent of the destruction, targeting of civilians and the war crimes was a shock to the whole western world. Your take on this is a delusion at best. It won't be Ukraine paying the reconstruction bill, it will be Russia. Either way, Russia's economy is crippled and will remain so for the foreseeable future to prevent Russia from threatening other nations.

Zelensky could not possibly have prevented this war. Did he provoke the war crimes as well?

I got a TP yesterday. 9 of the ten minutes required to apply was converting PDF's to JPG and I got the approval back within the hour. Trivial to say the least.