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New comment by snailmailstare in "Global coffee trade grinding to a halt, hit hard by brutal price hikes"

snailmailstare — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:29:37 +0000

If you are paying $20 a lb for expresso beans you are probably not a coffee shop and definitely not buying the coffee that costs $6 at a chain coffee shop.

New comment by snailmailstare in "Wall Street sell-off turns 'ugly' as US recession fears grow"

snailmailstare — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:30:22 +0000

How did he mess up? His goal is to screw up the real economy and sell $Melania coins.

New comment by snailmailstare in "Europe bets once again on RISC-V for supercomputing"

snailmailstare — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 22:01:35 +0000

The EU needs to build arms to defend itself that the US can't interfere with and knows less about, and so does China.

New comment by snailmailstare in "US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s"

snailmailstare — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 15:43:28 +0000

Germany must be wondering why it is keeping enemy bases on its soil.

New comment by snailmailstare in "How a Connecticut DMV Employee Made Thousands by Selling Towed Cars"

snailmailstare — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:40:29 +0000

Not have less than $1500? The shell company could have employed them or purchased parts from them, or they could also be doing the same with their own shells and therefore often need to get to the head of a specific line and the DMV investigation probably wouldn't say much more than it has said, unless that was solid evidence of collusion by a DMV employee.

New comment by snailmailstare in "Suspicious Tesla Sales Surge Triggers Canadian Government Investigation"

snailmailstare — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 22:55:18 +0000

If Doge wouldn't pay out then Musk can't complain when Canada doesn't.

New comment by snailmailstare in "62% of Canadians Plan to Avoid the U.S. for at Least the Next Year"

snailmailstare — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 21:52:40 +0000

Putin spent a long time saber rattling before he invaded Ukraine. I guess they shouldn't have been concerned back then because nothing horrible started happening yet?

New comment by snailmailstare in "WB offers replacements, but no refunds, for DVDs rotting prematurely"

snailmailstare — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 20:29:28 +0000

Copyright law has a long history ported from earlier media. People here want to say media is just some product but the US decided that is in no way true.

New comment by snailmailstare in "WB offers replacements, but no refunds, for DVDs rotting prematurely"

snailmailstare — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 20:24:37 +0000

You are paying more for the DVD because copyright law and fair use apply to it including the right to backup. Companies prefer to sell you new online licensing as a scam.

The US didn't correctly defend the right to backup, but that leaves a funny grey zone where WB being bad at making DVDs means less ability to shame "piracy" tool makers because backups is normalized and in no way suspicious if the media isn't perfect like they said.

New comment by snailmailstare in "WB offers replacements, but no refunds, for DVDs rotting prematurely"

snailmailstare — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 20:12:47 +0000

In the case of copyright you are not buying the media. You are buying a licensed right sent as media. If they wish to make no impediments to making a backup then maybe they have no fault.

New comment by snailmailstare in "CDC to study vaccines and autism despite research showing no connection"

snailmailstare — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 19:51:13 +0000

Right, if it is unreasonable a bunch of climate change denying creationists who think Canada is responsible for the US' drug problems will feel totally ashamed. Maybe they will even go to area 51 to ask for safe passage away from their shame in this galaxy.

New comment by snailmailstare in "US stops sharing intelligence on Russia with Ukraine"

snailmailstare — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 11:40:25 +0000

Apparently the delusion of exceptionalism affecting physics didn't die with the entirely equatable Afghanistan experiences or am I supposed to take something else from silent down votes?

New comment by snailmailstare in "The Strategic Crypto Swindle"

snailmailstare — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 07:01:32 +0000

Without Chelsea Clinton's endorsement, I don't think I could possibly use a 24 hour day trading tool. The US is a flim-flam nation now and you shouldn't buy all the crap they sell each other on TV.

New comment by snailmailstare in "The Strategic Crypto Swindle"

snailmailstare — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 22:47:41 +0000

Having a suitcase full of money has none of those problems.. And under performs because it does nothing.

New comment by snailmailstare in "The Strategic Crypto Swindle"

snailmailstare — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 22:09:46 +0000

QC might be impossible and some involved may view it as just an income scam, I simply doubt that they all do.. I don't really see a difference in bitcoins price. A large portion of crypto mercenaries are no doubt propping up even the more legitimate coin prices by utility in pig butchering, etc, in getting a mark into the right behaviors..

I don't know if the pricing of the champagne in the "champagne room" should be taken as reflecting market sentiment just because it has been globalized. In some sense any kind of scam that runs long enough is just the regular market, but if it has no legitimate revenue I think it must reach the plateau where it can't fulfill the fad function of investing in it. What is the market for currency as a casino, Forex is only half that illegitimate purpose and it doesn't command much respect.

New comment by snailmailstare in "The Strategic Crypto Swindle"

snailmailstare — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:16:08 +0000

AI winter means ChatGPT is a figure of our collective imagination or that past performance doesn't predict future returns or the rate of scientific developments?

Maybe you have a real thought on that instead of an arbitrary comparison of numbers that don't really relate.. I.e. Quantum research investment would be at least be a faith number that says something about the number of believers in something. What that has to do with the possibility that it falls apart I don't know.

New comment by snailmailstare in "The Strategic Crypto Swindle"

snailmailstare — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:52:46 +0000

Bitcoins price 1818: $0 Largest number factored with Shor's algorithm, 1818: 0 Bicoins price 1920: $0 Largest number factored with Shor's algorithm, 1920: 0

Point of numerology: 0

New comment by snailmailstare in "The Strategic Crypto Swindle"

snailmailstare — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:41:51 +0000

In something like transportation one is betting real returns come in before the asset is worthless. Bitcoin has no return so one is betting the asset goes up because it is scarce and you get out before it is worthless. Real estate at least has rents or personal use.

New comment by snailmailstare in "The Strategic Crypto Swindle"

snailmailstare — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:33:27 +0000

I find the scientific community that is either researching or confused by quantum phenomenon to be a lot more legitimate than the financial community who are either researching or confused by blockchain.

New comment by snailmailstare in "The Strategic Crypto Swindle"

snailmailstare — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:20:58 +0000

> Given that a wallet is basically a bank account except it cannot be seized by a government

All wallets could become worthless in a weekend if a government makes the wrong stride in quantum research..

El Salvador is not recommending Bitcoin and found low interest in actual use.

Madoff also had a fund that could return very well. Satoshi just has to show up and cash out to ruin his pyramid or push the pyramid entirely to the US tax payers right now. Seems improbable like the chairman of NASDAQ running a scam..

These bizarre scams have no place in a real economy and we have to get rid of 0% interest to kill this garbage.