I feel there might be disparate impacts between the reactions from CCP threats and USFG threats...
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It's also hardly an old tactic.
All I will say is that when I was forced by personal experience to inexorably learn the scope of what can be covered up is at least two orders of magnitude beyond what I'd thought possible... it gave me and still gives me waking nightmares and sleep deprivation.
Does that mean dumping money into Vanguard or something else?
Gold hasn't always or everywhere been real money, I've personally worked on an archeology site where I sifted out a tiny shell bead with an even tinier hole punched in it so it could attached to a string like ancient Chinese coins and so on.
I once read a claim that J.P. Morgan said something like money is only worth the character of the person who wields it.
I feel more like interactions with other people are more precious than precious metals.
If the dollar hyperinflates, some people will go into bunkers. I'd maybe starve or hide... I don't have a plan, I'm way behind on stuff as it is.
Krugman's first piece post 9/11 was about how getting to rebuild a skyscraper was somehow going to be a tremendous economic stimulus, as if the loss of so many knowledgeable and wise people being murdered all at once didn't occur to him... AT ALL!
In college I read the NYT everyday, thought it was the best paper in the world. Then one morning I opened my copy to see a full color photo of my rapist attached to a hagiography of how she had been elected to public office.
Now the NYT CEO is still Mark Thompson, who got the job because as Director-General at the BBC he covered up Jimmy Saville's... I don't have a word for it yet.
Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer for using the NYT to cover up Stalin's genocide of Polish people so that American media didn't seriously cover it until the 1980s.
Don't get me started on how many people with Gilead financial ties are acting as if financial incentives might somehow statistically significantly effect their behavior because it seems to just give me sleep deprivation.
I know that's far less than ideal but an open-source public Stratfor is kinda self-contradicting
I have no idea about Spotify or mumble rap but that's how they might not contradict.
2005 or so was the first time I had a really special relationship, online, and when I tried to meet the other person like they seemed to want they kinda backed out. It's 15 years later and no matter how close we get and the other person says we need to meet, when we want to meet and I'm so ready to meet them they instant or slightly-less-abruptly ghost me.
Um I really need a job where I could afford somewhere to live and it'd be helpful to have a job where I don't have to work 7/365 since I haven't had a day off in over 5 years and so I don't even know who I am or what I'm trying to do anymore.
My best friend is someone over 2500 miles away and 10 years older than me but they text me on discord about life and we watch movies sometime.
How do I find a place where there are one or more adults who could help me find a way to survive, afford a home and food and the rest on this planet? Is there somewhere else I could find someone or a future?
I've never worked for someone that didn't love me for anything longer than a weekend gig. Was amazing in school all the way into the #1 ranked grad school for my major and when I got there... I realized even my assigned "mentor" did not care for me. I spilled my soul to her, after experiencing so much contempt and hate, and she had no fucking reaction whatsoever. No advice, no... nothing! These hateful fucks wanted over $60,000 a year to give me no advice, consolation, compassion, NOTHING!
After recovering from that, as a last ditch effort to obtain a career where I could afford a family I tried get a CS degree at the local uni that I could afford.
It's a complete shitshow of no standards and professors would open their lectures with emails from graduates explaining how employers saw a degree from this school as worse than NOTHING. The "weed out" filter test after 2 years was such a fucking joke they gave us 3 hours and I aced it in 10 minutes and then resigned myself to taking a nap for the next 2 hours and 50 minutes until someone asked to leave and was let out so I learned even the bluff about not letting people out early so that they could message people still taking the exam was bullshit, too.
There were over 80 people taking CS in my cohort... I was one of only 3 that seemed competent, top guy, only one that actually stayed in CS was a sociopath who was constantly hacking and stealing from the university and local businesses and expecting to be lauded despite taking his plunder. Then there was a gal who decided to stick with mathematics and give up on the creepy CS department, prolly most of all for the creepy lecturer trying to get a Ph.D. talking about how the only real way to get money he could manage with the knowledge he was teaching us was with his porn sites, and how his personal hero is Howard Stern. After he was already under investigation for gender bias, she decided to stop trying in CS and just focus on math. So during the final exam, this guy realizes that there are only 3 females in this class of about 85 because any female willing and able to learn all this would be accepted and paid to go to far better schools... he's been told that if the grades of the 82+ guys are much better than the 3 gals he will lose his job and Ph.D. spot... and then as he walks the room during the final he walks right to her and sees she hasn't studied and doesn't give a fuck because she finally decided on Math and not CS.
So he panics and starts just outright literally in earshot of the whole room telling her every answer and begging her to write it down on her test.
That's when I decided to nope out of the major. They offered me a job Ph.D. spot and I went back to my janitor job for people who love me.
When they die I have no idea what I'll do. My best friend is someone ten years older than me that I've never been within 2500 miles of, and sometimes he really creeps me out, but I have no one else to voice chat with or watch movies with IRL or online.
At work... lately I mostly think about how I'm drowning in sweat having to wear a mask all the time but also I often feel glad I'm not working on some tech thing I oppose, or having to hear hate speech against me like at school...
The bad thing is not being able to have an IRL relationship, much less family, but that's due to a ton of factors... in the US, it was guaranteed by NSC 68, which reacted to the Soviet, communist goal of full employment of both men and women with trying to keep women in the workforce permanently (for the ultimate purpose of winning an arms race with the USSR) as they had been forced into it during WWII. According to this plan, the US dollar was devalued so that men AND women would have to work an hour each to obtain roughly the same relative purchasing power as one hour of work by a man before.
If someone wanted to keep goosing up the stock market and employment numbers further by various extrapolations upon this theme... anyone see where I'm going?
Reduced policing in Baltimore after Freddy Gray's death has led to more than 100 extra murders of black men per year.
Additionally, "lack of institutional control" often means someone loses their career because of something done by someone else that took great pains to hide their malfeasance.
https://newdiscourses.com/2020/06/do-better-than-critical-ra...
It literally ends with "give us the money or we'll assassinate your character."
Without anonymity, elections devolve into struggle sessions.
Same mystery as Mao asking for a thousand flowers to bloom, and there's also the possibility it's a tactic to bait out opposition so it can be destroyed.