It earns no interest but inflation serves the purpose of interest for a precious metal.

I just go back to the example of the 1964 silver quarter.

In 1964, the minimum wage was $1.25 per hour. If you had 5 1964 silver quarters today, they'd be worth over $21.

That's just under 5% annual return over the past 59 years.

By no means is that exemplary but it's also not just a dead asset either.

LK

There is a significant element of truth in what you say. We need to recognize and acknowledge that. But completely abandoning the concept of race is not the answer. There are significant health issues that are impacted by race. Sickle cell anemia and melanoma are two easy examples that correlate with race for different reasons, neither of which is related to social issues.

The popular concept of race was never particularly scientific, and the issue is absolutely muddied by historical prejudices. Most classification systems are artificial and boundaries are almost always fuzzy. The more you zoom in, the fuzzier things get. But that doesn't mean that generalized classification systems aren't useful, or have no scientific basis at all. Sigma taxonomy seems to be more scientifically valid than alpha taxonomy, but sigma doesn't abandon the concept of species.

Hunter Biden's laptop.

LK

Some people have a real problem with "congress shall make no law".

LK

If this was what was happening, few people would have a problem with it.

What was happening is that factual information, that ran counter to the approved narrative was being squelched via collusion between the public and private sectors. That's a problem.

You may not mind when you agree with the censors but the day always comes when people with whom you disagree get the reigns.

LK

GI Joe, Transformers, He-Man, She-Ra, Jem and the Holograms... All of those shows were long ass commercials intended to introduce kids to their newest toys so that we could pester our parents to get them.

They were still fun to watch.

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I want to see more of this kind of thing.

Companies have gotten too used to fucking people over and facing no more severe a backlash than some angry emails or an ineffective boycott.

I want executives to be afraid that some unhinged person will show up on their back porch, à la Paul Pelosi, if they screw people over too badly.

LK

Sounds like she might be the next Presidential candidate. I know she's in Australia but is she an American citizen?

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But it absolutely is.

Using the power of government to compel someone to pay money is extortion.

If we really want to break it down, it's more like this.

Facebook/Meta was telling people "Hey, there's an article over there about this subject. If you want to know more, you can go read it.", people go to the original source (the website) to read the article, the website gets ad revenue from the visitor and everybody gets something.

Now, Facebook/Meta is like "What newspaper? I don't know about any newspapers." People aren't being referred, the website isn't generating the ad revenue and Trudeau is bitching because the reaction to his policy wasn't what he thought it would be.

LK

Canada attempted to extort money from Facebook.
Facebook denied it.
Canada is crying because in the course of avoiding their extortion attempt, Facebook cut off important news to Canadian users.

Get fucked Trudeau. You caused this!

LK

Perhaps it's news because the company was willing to fix it. Microsoft and Google never do.

LK

Last month, the CEO gave a speech where he dropped some heavy hints about wanting us back in the office. That day, I updated my CV and started applying to new jobs.

LK

My employer is giving indications that they're about to force us back into the office. I have been applying for new jobs.

I will not go back to the old way.

LK

"Am I so out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong." - Principal Skinner

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