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Yep, just as the FTX bombed, the Fed announces a new CBDC. Coincidence, surely? ???? https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/fed-banks-digital-dollar-test

Hope the charges, erm.. stick

A stammer is a terrible thing.

They were given money at much lower value than the gold was worth. Basically a bailout for the Federal Reserve at that time, and private gold ownership was banned until the 70's. Australia and UK did the same also. I am aware of crypto, thanks. Decentralized currency is fine by me, but replacing cash with a centralized digital currency is a disaster for financial freedom, imo.

Ok, please explain how you think how a digital currency will benefit us? Just remember that this isn't the first time that a Govt has confiscated personal wealth: https://schiffgold.com/key-gold-news/the-great-government-gold-heist-of-1933/

You simply do not have actual money or personal wealth with a (centralized) digital currency. It's just digits on a computer screen that can be erased, debited (based on perceived social infractions), or credited at the will of the bank or Govt. Be a good citizen, or else.

"We've got some good news, and some bad news.."

Whose inventor Kary Mullis stated that running the test at above >7 cycles was 'meaningless'.

Yep, I still have boxes of actual paper books in various states of decay and gathering mould, in the spare rooms. Never really gotten round to throwing them away, tbh. But I keep a vast library on a single flash drive nowadays, and read mostly everything on a Kobo.

Programmable digital currency is the end of financial freedom as we know it. It is being sold as 'convenient' and 'modern' but it is a total control method. China is already using a social credit system where people get docked "money" or freedom to travel just for perceived infractions: You don't have money with a digital system. You have 'food tokens' that can be taken away at the push of a button. Your spending on eg; meat, air fares, travel etc can also be calculated and controlled using a 'carbon credit' system, that is already heavily-invested in by the usual billionaire elites. (Mastercard has started doing this already). Keep cash alive for as long as possible.

Immune system still working great, thanks.

At least you can hear drunken Somchai coming round the bend in a diesel pickup... In an EV you won't. Hub of hubris.

Seems to be a definite preference for Camels.

Thailand no doubt a signatory nation to the WHO's global "Pandemic Response Treaty". Meaning they can overrule sovereign nations in imposing lockdowns, digital ID's, etc., in response to any new "pandemic" they deem serious enough to do this: https://eppc.org/publication/the-whos-pandemic-treaty/

Source: https://www.legal.co.th/resources/thailand-real-estate-property-law/title/thai-gold-what-weight-and-measure-baht/

Even if it breaks your arm?

Hope none of our esteemed "World Leaders" try and actually use that zebra crossing... On second thoughts..????

I'd be a bit wary about contracting Lyme disease, tbh.

My mate's dad was a senior CID Inspector in the UK. Must have seen a lot of nasty stuff, but said the most disturbing thing for him was having to think like a psychopath in order to catch them.

Was there a Cane Toad in it?

Circle the wagons

Considerably wonderful news. Considerably.

Only once in 30 years. A drunk kid in a local 7/11 late one night took a shine to me for some reason. Two of the girls working there ended up beating the snot out of him. ???? Result.

Shaking down honest businesses.

"Birthing person". Translation: Mom. ????