Just another man

Why would future people take civilization building advice from people who failed at maintaining a civilization?

https://www.occ.gov/topics/charters-and-licensing/interpretations-and-actions/2020/int1170.pdf
Yes the Acting Comptroller who wrote the decision was previously Chief Legal Officer at... COINBASE.
This is HUGE people....

Cast of Bohemian Rhapsody v actual members of Queen

https://www.reuters.com/article/paypal-cryptocurrency/paypal-to-allow-cryptocurrency-buying-selling-and-shopping-on-its-network-idINL1N2HB14U
PayPal Holdings Inc joined the cryptocurrency market on Wednesday, allowing customers to buy, sell and hold bitcoin and other virtual coins using the U.S. digital payments company’s online wallets.
PayPal customers will also be able to use cryptocurrencies to shop at the 26 million merchants on its network starting in early 2021, the company said in a statement.
 

It is an interesting way of pointing out instantly how you feel about subject being unrelated without having to say "I think this is not relevant to what we are discussing"
Now that I think about it... it would probably be better to just say that rather than making the harsher point... especially on national television.

It is an interesting way of pointing out instantly how you feel about subject being unrelated without having to say "I think this is not relevant to what we are discussing"
Now that I think about it... it would probably be better to just say that rather than making the harsher point... especially on national television.

@JW Insider I like your approach. Gold we all agree seems like it can only go one way. 
Amazon and Alibaba are definitely eating up all commerce.....
And Netflix seems unstoppable. 
Only major risks I see are Alibaba getting banned like WeChat etc... in the USA. Although that might not stop their meteoric worldwide growth.
The other moderate growth option is just used as a "stabilizer"

Mostly I use Wikipedia for details on out-of-the-way topics that you wouldn’t think would be subject to bias—lately it has been to corroborate some background on Voltaire, for instance.
But not always—sometimes I use it as though a base stock, like you would in cooking, to develop a post on some contemporary issue. Others do this, too—pretty routinely—to provide backdrop for points they are making. @JW Insiderand @Araunaare doing that right now with a thread about China and its modern-day & changing role.
It’s an encyclopedia, Wikipedia is—that’s how everyone thinks of it. As such, it is unbiased—that supposedly is it’s mission statement. Anyone can edit it (I’ve never quite understood how that works—well, I guess I do, but I’ve never been interested enough to attempt it, and the premise is that when anyone can do so the result will be complete and unbiased.) Not so, says co-founder Larry Sanger. “Unbiased” went out the window long ago. NPOV (neutral point of view) Is a thing of the past.
He says it here, on this post from his own blog: https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/
He doesn’t say the website is not factual. Nor does he say it is not objective. But it is not complete. It clearly sides with particular points-of-view. Larry offers about a dozen examples of clear bias, from politics, to science, to health, to religion in which the minority view is run off the road. 
Sigh...this seriously compromises Wikipedia as a base. It is a leftist choir that is preaching there these days, and if you quote the source, which I do all the time, you will be getting a leftist point of view, and other viewpoints either ignored completely or declared wrong. It is not for an encyclopedia to do this, Sanger says. It is supposed to reflect all points of view. It is not to declare a winner. 
Sanger’s background (per Wikipedia (!) ) is not primarily technology, as being co-founder of Wikipedia might imply. It is philosophy, epistomology, and ethics. He is clearly disappointed in the path his creation has taken. 
 
 

Isn't it just a way of saying 'Everybody is different'.  Actually i love Brussel sprouts but my son will only eat two on a meal and that is only to please his mum. 

When Anderson Cooper interviewed Jakob Blake’s dad, the latter answered a question with ‘Some people like Brussel sprouts.’ Anderson was flummoxed over this answer and when he pressed the dad, the dad explained that he hated Brussel sprouts—which also flummoxed Anderson.
This only registers because about two weeks ago on my blog, someone answered with a similar reply about food choices.
This only registers because @The Librarian(that old hen) has at times thrown in a complete non-sequitor about “I love pizza” or ‘I love tacos.’
Am I looking at a new evolution in memes and language? 
When the old hen does it, I think she is being snarky about those who destroy the order of her library by throwing any irrelevant remark into one of her threads—Dewey Decimal System be d**ned. I have no idea what the fellow on my blog is doing—does he just lurk here, too, and he is playfully imitating the Librarian. (Gasp! Don’t tell me it IS the Librarian—naw, I don’t think so (but you never know))
But there is no way on God’s green earth that Jakob’s dad is reading my blog. Why does he say what he does to Anderson about Brussel sprouts? Does he do it to say to Anderson: “I’d appreciate it if you’d stay on some topic that’s meaningful?”
[edit: I put this on my own blog as well, after working it up more, after watching some of Anderson’s interview. Even linked back here to the Library.] 

Does no one know or does no one want to answer ? 

via .ORGWorld News

The meaning of the song was hidden in plain sight after all.
Although... I thought I saw an interview where Freddie denied "Boehemian Rhapsody " as his coming out song? I could be wrong.

I figured I would be the one to start with my current pie: https://m1.finance/6kKyu2gmpkAH
After the next "crash" I will lower my % of gold / stocks.... so far the fed is pumping in money so it is hard to tell when this game will change.
If you don't have an M1 Finance account you can use this link to get your first $10: https://m1.finance/M6u9h3dISyGH

This is not financial advice as I am not a financial professional. This is just me sharing my current allocation. Trade at your own risk. Never invest money you aren't willing to lose.

I think he has hit 170B now.....in such a short time btw....
The Jeff Bezos Empire in One Giant Chart

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/jeff-bezos-empire-chart/

Yeah... they are nothing to really celebrate are they?
Wouldn't it be better to improve the current government?
In this case they are leaving guidelines for a post-apocalyptic reader.....hmmm.....

Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature. Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity. Unite humanity with a living new language. Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court. Avoid petty laws and useless officials. Balance personal rights with social duties. Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite. Be not a cancer on the Earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature. In other words:
1. Eliminate the vast majority of the earth's population. There are at least 7 billion people too many.
2. Use eugenics, but a little better than the way the Nazis did.
3. Open re-education centers to teach everyone a common language.
4. Replace excitement, religion and cultural traditions with things that a certain set of rulers accept as reasonable.
5. New World Order
6. New World Order
7. (OK. Revised Federalist Papers.)
8. Hmm. Don't allow personal (civil) rights unless they are earned.
9. A more secular definition of spirituality.
10. (OK. But not at the cost of 7 billion people.)
 

Funny. . . . and sad.

An inquisitive alien visits the planet to check on our progress as a species, and gets into a conversation with the first person he meets. The alien discovers that we live under the rule of a thing called "government", and wants to understand more about what "government" is, what it does, and why it exists.