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Thread: RANT: R.I.P. Tyrbolift
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03-19-2022, 10:08 PM #6751
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03-19-2022, 10:20 PM #6752
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03-20-2022, 04:41 AM #6753
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The wife and I are pretty set on making moves this year while the dollar ponzi is still running. The only splurge spending I have done is starting to set up my fantasy shop. I have five 3D printers, 2 CNCs, mills, lathes, etc. The plan we set in motion in 2019 was to survive whatever happened - Idk that you can ever be fully emotionally ready for making a smooth transition... the volatility caused trading maturity very quickly, some of that easy come easy go.
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Which part? Trump the "republican" signed all the paperwork to set this in motion. In March of 2020 he removed all banking reserve requirements (technically the FED did with the administrations approval). They then also appointed Blackrock to help "manage" toxic assets... which is basically 10-20% of all debt in America at this point. Blackrock got to manage another 4T in "on the book" assets between March 2020 and now - not bad eh? They already were using a pseudo AI "Aladdin" program to buy slightly controlling shares in every company and that went on steroids in 2020. Ever wonder why you have such a unilateral message coming from everyone in Corporate America? It's because most of the CEOs borrowed cheap money to drive up stock price (with buy backs) then exercised those nice stock option bonuses between 2016-2020. Then they sold out and "retired" in 2019/20 leaving the company with insane PE Ratios and no real way to pay back what they owed. This is supposed to be illegal but they can cook the books 1000 ways because no law is foolproof... plus Trump was rolling them back. So corporate boards are entirely beholden to Blackrock and Vanguard who have stepped in to buy these golden parachute stock options. Blackrock in particular is a big fan of the ESG score crap so now basically every publicly traded company is owned by the US gov through Blackrock. If we had rule of law I'd be okay with it but we don't. The literally are buying up everything with the "cheat code" enabled. Idk what you'd call it, some sort of hybrid fascism or communism. It's at least some sort of socialism, brought in by Trump, while he said "America will never be a socialist country". In fact, you could argue it's the worst kind of socialism where the elite literally cannot fail until the currency does. America is being looted the constitution shredded and as it turns out as long as you keep the people who are supposed to guard the public stupid, fat, wellpaid and happy in a bubble they won't do anything about it.Witness the Final Days of My Sanity: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=144537581
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03-20-2022, 07:58 AM #6754
This is very extravagantly put, but this is just a transitioning economic age. Characterized by emerging markets and more integrated connectivity. It's daunting because wealth is generated out of nowhere and it is all unfair but so emblematic of basic evolution that it is practically criminal. What's happening at the same time though is more laws get created to tax transfers. Things get thinned out of course but more fluid at the same time. That's why nobody notices. It also happens to be true that more archaic systems of rents are broken down, leading upper class interests to divest more into the modern age. That's also something that tends to happen throughout time.
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03-20-2022, 08:29 AM #6755
Mostly salt, pepper, and garlic.
One's their basic blend called "The Blend" that's just salt/pepper/garlic, one's a sea salt/garlic/butter (maltodextrin), and one's a smoked garlic variety but does have spices as backup.
I still need to get herbs in there for the crust, and yeah add sugars and coffee/cocoa.Last edited by GeneralSerpant; 03-20-2022 at 08:44 AM.
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03-21-2022, 07:47 AM #6756
"Need a spot mate"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...oers-head.html
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03-21-2022, 08:43 AM #6757
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03-21-2022, 10:23 AM #6758
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03-21-2022, 10:41 AM #6759
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03-21-2022, 11:24 AM #6760
Got 19 months. Eligible for parole in less than a year.
News story here.
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03-21-2022, 01:59 PM #6761
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03-21-2022, 02:02 PM #6762
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03-21-2022, 03:55 PM #6763
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03-22-2022, 11:00 AM #6764
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03-22-2022, 11:53 AM #6765
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03-22-2022, 08:08 PM #6766
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03-24-2022, 05:26 AM #6767
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That's a stretch.
Interestingly, Putin seems to announce they are no longer taking usd for oil? This was the biggest part of my 2019 prediction. It's interesting seeing how long these things actually take to play out. I wish I had been looking at these things from a monetary perspective since I was 20.Witness the Final Days of My Sanity: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=144537581
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03-24-2022, 08:24 AM #6768
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03-24-2022, 03:02 PM #6769
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03-24-2022, 04:04 PM #6770
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03-24-2022, 04:46 PM #6771
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Think of it like a massive Jenga tower built on... well basically fraud. Kissenger knew what he was doing going to the Saudis and getting everything ironed out with OPEC back in the 70s. The dollar is only backed by blood if they no longer demand it for oil. It allowed the folks in Washington to basically print bubbles and cash in on the bubbles on both sides. Our only exports are terror, death, and green pieces of paper now.
Look at what went down in 2014-2016 with th Saudis thinking they would have to sell treasuries... We killed people in Iraq for 30 years because they threatened to export oil in yuan or rubles etc. The Saudis had a direct hand in 911 and we instead invade their competitor.Witness the Final Days of My Sanity: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=144537581
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03-24-2022, 06:09 PM #6772
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03-25-2022, 06:38 PM #6773
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03-28-2022, 05:00 PM #6774
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03-28-2022, 06:02 PM #6775
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03-28-2022, 08:40 PM #6776
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03-29-2022, 03:56 AM #6777
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03-31-2022, 06:12 PM #6778
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I'd rethink that in the near - future. I ended up getting about 12 NanoS/X's to break it up. Some of it's in banks (and a vault) and some of it's near at all time. We only keep the max $250k on each FDIC (Like Coinbase) account. If I didn't have a family I'd be on a sailboat and GTFO'd by now.
Witness the Final Days of My Sanity: http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=144537581
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03-31-2022, 07:33 PM #6779
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04-01-2022, 11:14 AM #6780
Yea I'm just doing whatever I can to get enough money where I work because I just want to and not because I need to. The problem is lifestyle and existing debts lol.
But you name it and I do it (other than mining). Get free crypto through brave that's staked on gemini. I have the crypto.com card. I also have the coinbase card that I use to pay my credit card bills and student loans which results in me getting anywhere from 4% to 10% tax free crypto cash back just for paying bills. It adds up.
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