"What in the world are you talking about. In the recent I'm buying greenland tantrum of orangey, gold/silver seemed to be the goto, not btc."

It is clear you have no idea what I'm talking about. I was referring to BTC as a way to settle debts between nations... a hypothetical Greenland purchase is just an example of the concept. Any details of a real proposed greenland purchase or events surrounding it are unrelated.

"Warsh is not the guy you'd expect trump to go with really."

Correction, he isn't the guy YOU'D expect Trump to go with. Based on your general tone it seems like you are infected with severe TDS. But have no fear, I've no doubt that despite whatever cognitive dissonance you face when Trump once again does something good instead of crazy will shortly be overcome as your TDS rationalizes some reason the good thing was actually a bad thing after all.

"it is almost a given our old friends which we have alienated will be reducing their purchases of US debt"

lol Yes the benevolent parasites who leave us to pick up the check for them on defense, healthcare, and multiple recent european bank bailouts and then generously help us handle the resulting debt by loaning us the money it saved them... in exchange for future interest. They've been publicly shit talking us while essentially being on US Welfare since WW2.

If they feel alienated by us wanting fair trade and big hunk of more or less uninhabited ICE in the arctic then they can go fsck themselves. Let them sink themselves and just before China or Russia swarms in to take them, we'll save them via annexation. Because we have nothing to fear from Russia, China, the EU, or anyone else or even all of them together if it comes to that.

"Without the fed buying T-Bills, you have to find someone who will"

We are buying high rate T-bills selectively. Because we can afford to at the moment due to growth. That's hardly a bad thing. If we reissue domestic banks are thrilled to buy these shorter term and lower rate bills to have as assets on their books and which basically amount to free money. This is how we shrink our total liabilities.

The plan is not to find a way to dig ourselves in much deeper with higher rates that discourage growth, that's death spiral. We all saw how badly high rates wrecked us under Biden.

"Especially it is almost a given our old friends which we have alienated will be reducing their purchases of US debt."

You mean purchasing US debt with OUR money. That's how we got here. We don't need higher rates so we can get our 'old friends' to buy debt generated bailing out THEIR BANKS so we can pay them back for the privilege with interest. We don't need unfavorable trade terms to give them to the cash to buy our debt. We certainly don't need to subsidize their medical and drug research costs or pay their defense bills. The reality is that if you can't defend your own territory your sovereignty is a delusion pending someone bursting your bubble. The idea the United States should subsidize the sovereignty of inferior arrogant ungrateful elitist pricks to our detriment just so they'll call us 'friends' while doing nothing but shit-talking us for decades is preposterous.

Getting rid of the parasites is the cure, not the disease. We will grow at their expense because the alternative is them growing at our expense.

"Warsh is not the guy you'd expect trump to go with really."

He's not the guy YOU'D expect Trump to go with.

"Bitcoins total valuation is $1.5 trillion."

I might have overstated but these aren't static things. If the US were buying $1T [2/3rds] of BTC to effectively stockpile for the rest of time the supply would be diminished drastically [especially considering how much is in early lost wallets and burned in ether games] and the market would skyrocket. Forty-fold might actually not be an unreasonable new floor after the bubble pops. That would put the US in the black. At that point the US would control the world's reserve currency (USD) and 2/3+ of the world's reserve crypto (BTC) and the central bank can/will manipulate both to protect financial stability.

All of which is good for the US and the world.

"Not scalable. Very slow low bandwidth. Expensive to use."

These problems were solved a very long time ago.

"Not actually encrypted nor anonymous; actually a privacy nightmare mich worse than credit cards."

This is a feature for bitcoin, not a bug. Do you know how many undisclosed monero cracks there have been? Nobody does. But everyone who wants to hold bitcoin long knows there have been ZERO because not only could we all see it on the blockchain but we'd know where the money went. Bitcoin isn't ultimately for the likes of you and me. It's like high denomination bills never released to the general public; for nations to settle debts with nations.

The only reason there is still a crash is because of day trading dude bro speculators trying to make a quick buck. People who are serious don't care what the price does today, they care about the trend over decades. Do you think the US cares about the speculator price of gold? They haven't even bothered to update gold's value on their balance sheet since something like $3/oz. The US could erase it's national debt buying bitcoin with gold. Unlike the gold there is no risk of a giant bitcoin loaded asteroid crashing into Texas tomorrow and ACTUALLY impacting the scarcity and value of bitcoin. As long as bitcoin remains liquid they can use it to buy Greenland, regardless of any mistrust in the US and how it's managing its currency and Denmark or Norway can see into the blockchain 'bitcoin's fort knox' themselves and know the US is a qualified buyer for the negotiation and due to liquidity they know they can cash out in Euros or buy other goods. That is an innate value that transcends market rates.

It has nothing to do with R pedo vs D pedo... there isn't anything in these files that could convict the likes of Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, or any of these people in a court of law... not with the kind of lawyers they can afford. There's more evidence against Bill Clinton than anybody, they were obviously lovers and did everything together for years. That's just volume of material btw, I don't think anyone on the left is going to be damaged by Clinton being a horndog. You might as well have revealed JFK.

But there is no hard evidence of Clinton knowing or doing anything in the files. It was ever there, it certainly isn't there now. All that's there is the mountain of paper they've collected over the past decade and some of that mountain probably exists because Epstein's lawyers buried them in a mountain. Trying to pin something on Trump has always been about distraction or just continuing to imply bad stuff where evidence just doesn't exist.

It's literally a withdrawn claim from a discredited witness. Most of the contents of the documents are bullshit that isn't credible any random person with TDS who sent in a fake claim will be in the files. There is a reason they don't normally release this garbage.

"Tell us, is there any situation you can imagine where Trump... "

Not in relation to Epstein, the evidence overwhelmingly indicates Trump tried to be a witness and take him down. There were literally Dems in congress taking directions from Epstein to try to take Trump down because he was afraid Trump was the informant.

"Epstein was given a sweetheart deal by Alex Acosta who was Labor Secretary in Trump's first term."

Amazing, someone who has nothing to do with deals gave him a sweetheart deal.

"Clinton's the one who will take the fall. "

Clinton will take the fall if they find conclusive evidence but despite mountains of files there doesn't appear to be any evidence sufficient to support prosecution in the files, not on Clinton or anyone else.

"But yeah, "Clinton"

He is literally the lady Epstein hung over the toilet in his office and at the door... wearing the dress we used to think belonged to Monica and with stains we now know were likely from Epstein and friends.

"After all, as the documents show, he was there on multiple occasions"

You must be getting your news from bluesky. The evidence shows he never went to the Island, the girls literally testified that he was never inappropriate and wouldn't allow the underage girls into mar-a-lago [and Trump kicked him out before he was ever charged]. The only flights he was on with Epstein included his own wife and Epstein's. Epstein's own writings indicate he was paranoid about Trump because he refused to indulge and knew things.

"And it's "Her", by the way, not "Him"."

Get over yourself. In an anonymous context an author's own gender is acceptable as a genderless substitute and using male pronouns as anonymous pronouns is the oldest universal convention. Nobody cares about your jiggly bits and if you are one of those who wants people to respect your lack of respect for your own jiggly bits I care even less.

"I never began as a "proprietary UNIX guy" for two reasons; one is that I'm not a guy"

Everyone is a "guy" dude. You aren't special man.

"The problem with appealing to "the UNIX way" is that nobody really knows what that is, beyond a few vague generalities."

It's a general concept.

"It consists of 38 small purpose-built executables"

All of which are part of ONE monolithic solution to many unrelated problems. Exchange/Outlook/Office consists of many executables and yet is literally the most famous Microsoft monolithic solution there is.

"Anyway, I'd rather use a system that accepts changes than one that's doctrinaire and rigid and becomes ossified."

Change just for the sake of change isn't a good thing. Like you said, the Unix philosophy is very general, there is absolutely room to change the tools which fall under it. There was certainly room for an init replacement, if systemd had limited itself to scratching that itch then it might have been accepted and loved by the community.

You: "you often wind up using a script anyway. In that case you have really not made things any simpler than the usual case. Meanwhile you've added a whole lot of complexity which is largely unnecessary"

Him: "Systemd, at least in my experience, just works and writing systemd unit files is easier... I would say: very rarely, not often."

If this isn't a constant repeat of Unix philosophy clashes with Microsoft monolithic one-size-fits-all solution then I don't know what is. Yes it is easier to walk up and configure the monolith if you fit the use cases it addresses, often MUCH easier, yes it addresses the majority of use cases. The learning curve is much lower.

But once you overcome the learning curve the flexible combination of single purpose tools is MUCH more powerful and lets you handle cases the one-size-fits-all solution can't solve at all. Also there are ways to script/template or otherwise automate out those common use cases.

"Appealing to "the UNIX way" is just silly"

No, it's the Unix philosophy of small purpose built tools combined rather than large monolithic integrated solutions and that never changes. But you tipped your hand, you began as a proprietary unix guy and they use monolithic systemd-like chunks all over the place.

"it evolves as people figure out better ways"

The philosophy doesn't, the tools do, but systemd doesn't bring better ways to do things just one built with Microsoft's big monolithic one size fits all philosophy.

The feds had all this under both Trump and Biden and have determined there are no other prosecutions they could make three times over [except for whatever they got from Maxwell].

I suspect they thought of 'follow the money.'

There is nothing in these documents they can build a case out of and lots of circumstantial/unsubstantiated stuff connecting Epstein to just about everybody famous because he traveled and partied in those circles. That's why they didn't want to release it. That and the volume of materials they've release substantiates just what they've indicated, hundreds of attorney's combing through it 24/7 for redactions.

It's all a giant nothing burger. If anyone is getting convicted from all this it'll be Clinton due to additional investigation and lets be honest, that isn't news to anybody.

Yes but its been around awhile now. Will all the baby admins who grew up sipping from systemd's teet give it up?

Overrated. Prior to systemd Linux administrators famously admin'd thousands of systems vs tens in the windows world. That text/file/directory-based system combined with all the text-mangling power tools in linux, the shell, and perl... nothing compares.

It actually becomes much easier to work with configuration management tools when they are managing the state of text files as the Linux gods intended.

"Never mind the fact that many people importing the products did their damnedest to absorb the increases in tariffs because you've got your "truflation" index to trust!"

If they absorbed the increases then the prices didn't go up.

"Never mind that "truflation" doesn't really have a sound methodology behind it."

It's a blockchain with all available pricing data on it... there is no 'methodology.' As for the calculated numbers, they literally apply the official US govt formula for calculating inflation. If that isn't sound then take it up with the government.

"Just because you can find a number somewhere that supports your belief doesn't mean that it's accurate or economically viable."

Uh huh, good luck finding any credible numbers which don't support my belief because all the economic indicators are positive. Like it or not we are pulling up out of the economic nosedive we were on heading into 2020. Debate the why or complain about beef as the outlier if your cognitive dissonance and political leanings demand you make excuses but the facts are the facts.