Wuhan Killer Sneeze (thanks Tea)
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- "the delta variant" starring arnold schwarzenegger #braille4bats and dancing!!! biscuits nuts bodies in the streets cool people with bad lungs corpsey = patient zero do you ever look at this thread and wtf get pits done haha protein printer go brrr i'm trapped please help johnson’s technique please boris die public health films for bats rodent trumpet rotting corpses sailing the sea of biscuits slick prick soggy biscuits wash hands or die trying we are the swarm wear a fucking baguette then wubonic plague wuhan got you all in check
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A few cans on zoom is better than the pub
idk i had asthma as a lad might want to find a guru with better long term prospects
its curious that of all the oratory standards for elected officials which seem to have been tossed in the meat grinder these last few years that kind of "telling it like it is" in the form of saying you havent really got a clue doesn't seem to be an option for some reason
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
in recent memory yes, but the most profound shocks of all produced positive things too - eg WWII and the NHS and the post-war social contract
IdleRich
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It's crashing at the moment though... why is that? Traditionally in times of strife money flows out of most securities and into those which are seen as universally safe and immune to a massive crash - normally dollars and gold. Kinda weird cos the US is a mess now and, if there is a real serious collapse, what use is gold? I would have thought that Bitcoin might benefit from this as paranoid tech-heads fled to it.
I noticed that the pound has fallen vs the euro quite significantly, is that cos the world can see all those pictures of everyone in Broadway Market and Tescos and thinks that we're fucked?
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
i'm not sure they think the tories will improve their lives so much as they see some of their worst feelings reflected in them
One theory is that it crashed because bitcoins were used as massively-leveraged (100x) collateral on certain exchanges (Bitmex mainly). There were margin calls and BTC positions were liquidated as a result. It crashed horribly but then soared a few hours ago on USA "infinite QE" news. I think it'll come out of all this looking good and more valuable than ever.
luka
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Wild Horses
I honestly can't tell if that's a Tony Blair reference or not.
pattycakes_
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Bitcoin was one important lesson learned and implemented. Can't think of much else.
What do you think bitcoin has achieved? While great on paper it's still very much centralised by the early adopters who have thousands if not millions from mining in the early days. Enabling them to manipulate the market however they like
one thing that remains to be seen is whether the it won't happen to me psychological shield that droid mentioned could increase our sympathy with refugees fleeing warzones and droughts or give us the conviction of having "seen some real shit" which erodes our empathy
Went into this at length in another thread but I very much recommend reading The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous if you're interested in what money is and why bitcoin is significant. It was explicitly designed for this class of crisis.
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"go and sort your own country out, ours is fucked"
luka
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Nick Land and fellow travellers are in raptures over this virus.
IdleRich
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Remember that weird story about how Apple paid a load of tax to Ireland and they said they didn't want it... presumably thinking it more advantageous for them to keep Apple sweet with a friendly tax regime than to have fourteen billion euros or whatever it was. Anyway, seems the money has been held in escrow with each side demanding the other takes it... and now they are seriously considering using it to fund the response.
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