Cipheron on 22/4/2022 at 22:45
Not really the same gravitas, but Mike Tyson was on a plane and some young white guys were ribbing him, harassing him.
He let it slide for a while but then one of them apparntly pegged a bottle of water at his head, and he turned around and just started punching the guy in the face.
Being smacked in the face by Mike Tyson definitely took the cheeky grin off the guy's face.
faetal on 24/4/2022 at 18:41
Seems like Le Pen has no chance of winning the French election.
I'm not thrilled about Macron, but Le Pen and her supporters being given the middle finger is a good thing.
Nicker on 24/4/2022 at 19:04
At least the French chose the least worst person.
Now we can return to watching the glacial coup in the USA.
rachel on 24/4/2022 at 20:09
I went and did what I had to do.
Glad we got some breathing room yeah. Now let's see in June what kind of government we'll get.
Cipheron on 2/5/2022 at 22:48
Romana Didilu, self-proclaimed Queen of Canada has decreed that her followers don't need to pay their utility bills and to go and cancel automatic bill payment arrangements in their online banking.
The cognitive dissonance is strong, Canadian followers telling their electricity companies that they don't have to pay their electricity bills because Queen Romana said all electricity is free now and being confused when the electricity company sends a reply to them calling it a scam.
One of them got a letter back from the lawyers for the electric company trying to tell them they were victims of an OPCA: "Organized pseudolegal commercial argument", which seems to be Canadian legaleese for "sovereign citizten bullshit", as verified here:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudolaw)
Quote:
Canadian legal scholar Donald J. Netolitzky defined pseudolaw as "a collection of legal-sounding but false rules that purport to be law" [...] The term Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Arguments (OPCA) was coined in a 2012 Canadian court decision to reference pseudolegal tactics and arguments
And there were phone calls. Imagine you're working for the electric company and someone calls you up and tries to explain how Queen Romana had decreed all electricity is free and that you don't need to pay your bill, and to stop sending the bills or there will be trouble and the Queen would have them executed.
One of the companies also had some fun with a text response to one user: "All Hail Queen Romana! but just in case her decree falls short, we have some very competitive pricing plans".
Right now the Queen Romana stuff is entertaining and seems fairly harmless, but we've seen how that stuff can flip around really quickly, so should we be alarmed for Canada here?
Cipheron on 7/5/2022 at 02:12
Dr Oz on video at a recent pro-Trump rally.
He claims he beat Big Ag because they "were spraying stuff that could hurt our kids". Like, they were, but not any more because ... Trump I guess.
He also claims he beat Big Tech, because they were selling children online "and it was legal" but "we changed that".
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216668325)
So like, WTF, not even on the same plane of reality here.
It was legal to sell children online but "we" changed that? how and when?
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As for the whole idea that Trump fought against chemicals sprayed on crops because he loved the children so much:
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https://www.nrdc.org/trump-watch/trump-approves-herbicide-banned-federal-court)
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Trump approves herbicide banned by federal court
The Trump administration has again approved the use of the weed killer dicamba, skirting a federal judge's concerns that the chemical threatens other crops and endangered species and that it could be carcinogenic.
Yeah, if anything the Trump administration solved the problem of toxic chemicals sprayed on crops by simply re-defining the word "toxic".
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/18/epa-chlorpyrifos-ban-children-brain-damage-trump)
Quote:
Trump administration won't ban pesticide tied to childhood brain damage
Evironmental Protection Agency rejects proposed ban on chlorpyrifos, despite growing evidence of its toxicity
Cipheron on 12/5/2022 at 14:26
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https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/wealth/cryptocurrency-billionaires-fortunes-wiped-out-in-market-crash/news-story/739b1ce15fb72e35b0d92e91d9c0e12a)
Real blood on the floor with crypto-currencies at the moment.
Quote:
hardest hit has been Binance chief executive Changpeng Zhao, who debuted in the index in January with a net worth of $US96 billion. By Wednesday, that was estimated to be just $US11.6 billion, an eye-watering fall of $US84.4 billion.
Surprisingly, Bitcoin is holding up, so what's happening is people are retreating from altcoins (too many and the market is over saturated), and Bitcoin is being partly propped up by that.
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Stablecoins collapse
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Luna Foundation Guard, which backs terra, said on Monday it had deployed the equivalent of $US1.5 billion in cryptocurrencies to stabilise the coin.
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https://www.coinbase.com/price/terra-luna)
To give you an idea, a week ago TERRA was trading around $80. it's now trading about 1.5
cents. Even when the article came out, which was 7 hours ago the price was 50 cents.
The billions spent trying to prop up a pegged currency really do smack of the Bank of England fiasco in 1992.
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One that I've been watching is Sand, aka Sandbox*, because a friend of mine got suckered into buying $1000 worth of it believing it would shoot "to the moon". I told him to sell everything when it spiked but he didn't listen to me. It hit $8 last year, and has been gradually falling ever since. The latest market shocks have hit it hard.
* What Sandbox is, other than the coin, is they're selling NFTs which are land in a Minecraft-like game. The idea is that "everyone will want to play it" at some unspecified time in the future, so you better stake your land soon! Then you can build an amusement park basically, and charge SAND for people to play games on your land. Nevermind that you can make Minecraft worlds for free, that are infinitely larger than the tiny chunks of land in the Sandbox.
Sandbox is a failed Minecraft/Roblox wannabe game that's been around since 2012, and they jumped on the NFT bandwagon to try and boost interest. And my mate got suckered into it thinking it's the "future of gaming" because he apparently thinks it's "ThE MeTaVeRse". i have tried to explain to him that there's no such singular such thing as "the Metaverse" and it's certainly NOT made by the Sandbox company.
Nicker on 12/5/2022 at 18:31
I was just musing on South Sea Bubbles and Tulip mania this morning, preparing for a seminar I will be part of tomorrow...
Cipheron on 13/5/2022 at 07:44
Update: TERRA is now worth $0.000055, and continuing to fall every time i refresh the page.
It's dropped in value by another factor of 272 just since when I posted. Since the peak on May 5th, it's dropped by a factor of 1.5 *million*. I didn't believe it so it re-checked my math a couple of times. It seemed unbelievable that anything could drop by a factor of a million in a few days.
EDIT: something fishy is going on with this coin.
Right now the total TERRA coins in circulation is 6.5 trillion. Earlier today (May 13th), it was only 85 billion (archive.org). As of May 9th that was only 343 million. 99.86% of the total available coins were only created *today*, and of the remainder, 99.59% of *those* were created in the last 4 days.
What appears to be happening is that the company that runs TERRA is now minting vast amounts of their own coin and dumping them onto the market as an emergency measure to save their company. So even though they might look like a bargain and it might look like the price has to stop falling at SOME point, that's not the case.
This is not a Bank of England scenario, it's now a Zimbabwe scenario.
So much for the promise of a "stable coin".
