what kind of wine ? :) and what was on the tapas menu praytell?
You know how I love fine food.
Tonight, I had a simple dinner, basturma (salt cured razor thin sliced beef,) paired with nearly razor thin slices of Kaseri Cheese (thank you 7& change Japanese handmade white steel via 4th generation blacksmiths,) in Pita Bread. Lovely and simple on this fine eve. 2 sammiches. wonderfully full, but not too much. Oh, paired with a local unfiltered PA. notes of pineapple, peach, and guava.
I think it will be adsorbed into CBDC infrastructure at an "exchange" rate, and made illegal, under some draconian double speak law relating to security, scalability, safety or the usual crap they filter things they dont want, interrupting their status quo.
As far as cbdc being used for control, I'm pretty certain after watching WEF/financial summit, videos and reading many PDF's from the BIS and IMF, and so on for the last few years, they want more control.
anything else will have to "blend into" their plan, or else.
They're sadistic.
about to give this a go. I usually enjoy posting an occasional food photo, but the little yellow toggle fell off the memory card into the abyss of carpet somewhere, and it believes that it is locked. So no food photos until sometime soon.
I've eaten two basturma (salt cured thinly sliced beef, for you non familiar think see through), sammiches - with Kaseri cheese, also thinly sliced, layered on either side of the meat, in pita bread. Very tasty, and very ethnic.
@roya probably knows what bisturma is,
and when I pulled up this film I wondered, hmm, has #[0] ever seen this one? đ and I lament to inform you there is no "curious" or "glad," emoji in nostrgram.co
Ana and the Wolves
Directed by Carlos Saura ⢠1973 ⢠Spain
Starring Geraldine Chaplin, JosĂŠ MarĂa Prada, JosĂŠ VivĂł
One of director Carlos Sauraâs most potent allegories for the hypocrisy and repression that defined Francoist Spain follows Ana (Geraldine Chaplin), a young English woman who arrives at a remote Spanish estate in order to work as a governess for three girls. What she finds is a hothouse of dysfunction, perversion, and warped family relationships that lays bare the psychological trauma of life under an authoritarian regime.
It may take me a few days to reply, not having a letter working on the keyboard makes me feel apprehensive to type, LOL maybe I'll just try to answer replies and use different words if I have to run into the letter cue again, until I can somehow get a replacement.
:)
hmm, that's strange. me too. i'm sure you've already tried clearing your cookies and so on?
i am currently operating a keyboard without the letter q, the only way i typed that was by copying and pasting it off of a search result where i found the letter. bear with me. if you want to help me buy a new keyboard, please send funds. :)
hope you are all having a beautiful day.
i watched that yesterday, in fact the guy lead off with "you don't understand money."
what an asshole.
as presently configured, if we were to switch over to bitcoin tomorrow, and all remaining fiat dissapeared:
- economic scarcity
- a VERY wide gap between haves and have not's
- people hacking the blockchain, finding out where the bitcoin holders live, and robbing them blind so they can eat/pay rent, etc.
- technological barrier to entry. cash or card doesn't require specialized knowledge to operate.
- pretty much the whole world would have to figure out how to live with a fixed amount of currency.
- in short, it'd be like forcing socialism and communism on the entire world.
cc #[2]
technology gets cheaper over time because of inflation.
explaining in brass tacks:
- technology gets cheaper as time goes on because of inflation, such that:
- in order for a publicly traded company to maintain "we're in business!" it has to continually cut costs, while attempting to add either value or perceived value in its products.
- the problem here is of course, the technology didn't actually get less expensive, it just got cheaper in the quality of the product, due to having to remain competitive with inflation. concurrently, the product also remains about the same cost, but the dollar has had much more printed, so ultimately the cost of acquiring a said thing, goes up as there is more money around making it less valuable.
-scarcity in money does not create abundance. it creates people starving.
note ID copied to text editor so i can reply tomorrow. :) brief version, cool. :) brain turned off an hour ago. :) Yes, our heavenly father certainly does. Amen.
:)
You're kindly welcome. I relish an intelligent conversation. Most people cannot be bothered.
It will be interesting to see what comes of all this stuff, and no disrespect taken or implied untowards myself, by anything you said. Not to worry.
I don't know what's going to happen, and yes also keep an open mind. Just presenting some probabalistic counter points, and certainly not looking to argue. :-)
Cheers.
and get seeds that are real. which may be a problem in a few years.
yeah what i find interesting about the young folks, most of them as you said would rather do something like sit around and "look cute" and play video games, or start some kind of as you mentioned reselling business. it's really interesting, because these outfits fit into a secondary gig economy based on already manufactured goods, and in the first example, mens stupidity, and their lust.
i've looked at twitch tv to study it briefly, and found it horrifying that some people have so many messages streaming into their channel not only is there no possible way to read it, but its almost an epileptic inducing amount to just watch their channel . what it really tells me though, is that is massive amounts of miscalibrated, and wasted human energy and creative potential. (with regards to twitch anyhow.)
yep. i fully agree. i've been a computer geek a long time. also most people don't realize that every single bit of internet traffic, tor included, all flows thorough DARPA pipe, and is holographically catalogued and stored. There isn't a single thing that happens online that isn't recorded, they don't have a record of.
those machines at the bank that "count" bills? also optical scanners. bills as you know have been serialized for a long long time. if you want, you can think of that as bitcoin 1.0 lol.
- yes all roads are monitored, they buried RFID readers and other tech like weight bearing sensors in them from the 80s and 90s onward.
there are satellites (which are terrestrial btw, ) pointed at everything.
if they wanted to know if you farted in the middle of a cornfield in Iowa, they could figure that out.
i think this is the notion that's currently held, especially by people who are doing the whole monero thing.
- it's absolutely a lovely thing to have privacy with your transactions
- the powers that currently be aren't satisfied with knowing how much you have, they want to be able to control what you spend it on, and how fast you spend it, too.
- they've been working on that for the last 20 years.
- how much of a mess is it going to be while they concurrently don't give up, (or do??),
- and what the final outcome will be, should be really interesting.
okay then.
interesting. apparently we're at 431 trillion, at the moment in USD. for the worlds total wealth.
taking anything like "at this point if more is held," temporarily out of the equation and just focusing on the basics
- how does this bitcoin end up circulating? when people spend it right? okay cool, i get that.
- then once people start having to use it and end up having less, it just becomes like a currency, and nobody is "holding out" to become a millionaire, well okay some will, but those without the luxury will have to spend to eat, pay rent, and so on.
- am i missing a really key point here as to how wealth gets distributed so that people can all have an equilateral access to money, other than through work and getting paid presumably in bitcoin, since in this hypothetical scenario it's all thats left?
does this mean that would (based on your calculations, put this much $ into the world for this global liquidity pool?)
1,049,999,950,000,000 ~ and how do we go about getting everyone to just use this and not something else?
also, wealth redistribution from bitcoin holders unto trusts and other mechanisms for people to get paid, is an interesting notion and hurts my head a bit :) lot of stuff going on there for the thinking.
the banking elite aren't going to leave without a fight.
if it can lead to people wanting to sever all ties with their governments in terms of blind obedience and serfdom, then great. i'd be all for that. but the main problem is people will be likely too weak to eat, if they have to put up any fight? but back to your notion
- people do learn by example, so i like where you're going here.
- people are real tired of being hooodwinked by govts, ogliarchies, royal famiies, banking cartels, and so on. the evidence is everywhere.
- people are also blindly unable to change a whole lot about their outcomes for a variety of reasons, dependence on money is one of them, hivemind is another, then you've got stuff like lack of access to education, motivation, even that they know therein life could be better, and actually yearn for it, taking actionable steps towards that, inspiring others. (again hat tip to your point earlier, about an example country.)
at the same time, the banking cartel plays dirty, and it will be very interesting to see if a country can pull this off, country wide - renouncing their memebership in the UN, and whatever other unholy alphabet soups they belong to, nato, or whatever, remain uninvaded, unsubjugated, and so on.
interesting points. thank you.
also, - having people be able to learn from others stories, i absolutely agree this is very useful.
at least here in the united states, most of the people in the town i'm in are either vaccinated and therefore somewhat lobotomized, or they're generally just doing the best they can within the confines of what system is currently in place.
what remains to be seen is what happens when they either change the system, and nobody wants it, or if they just go all along with it, like everything else, like they've been psychologically conditioned to, ala gulag archipelligo, or pavlovian conditioning, or other such things. while i do think people can evolve as a whole, or a large swath of society, in any wholesomely cohesive way- other than widespread adoption of some socio-cultural marketing trope like, if you're under 20 you might be LGBTQ2S+^Pi(r^2), or some such, or any famous marketed propaganda of the last 100 years as an other example, it remains to be seen, in my lifetime, just yet.
here's praying things can change.
it is. but you'd be surprised how bad most people actually are at taking pictures. if you can do good work, it'll stand out.
that is really beautiful. :) #[0]
great since it made a new note for me, i'll just paste my reply below and we can go from there, collectively together.
that was interesting and here is my main thought about it:
the thing is, as best as i currently understand, bitcoin only goes up for two reasons:
people buy more of it, or, there's an increased demand for it.
but my main problems with this, are as follows
cbdc is emminent, and when that occurs it will change a lot. stay with me a sec.
when people globally "hypothetically" want to use bitcoin, but cant get any, how does that help any of them? are we hypothesizing that the entire world, is just going to use whatever liuidity is in the lightning network. and adjust the price of everything, based on an ever changing metric of how many scraps are in the digital bucket?
are we to assume that bitcoin will only be valuable because if the holders of it are the only ones who can get it, in a post cbdc economy, this somehow makes the people holding it more useful, or more valuable somehow?
on the last point, i would argue that it doesn't make those people more useful, primarily because human nature is such that people are greedy, and only self serving, MOSTLY and by most i mean about 90% of the global population. so you have people who cannot afford to buy food, because they are having cbdc, and their money got turned off, expired, or they went outside of their 15 minute city, or they lost too many social credit points , or what have you. and they need bitcoin to buy food and pay rent? how is this fair or even possibly imaginable, in anyones wildest dreams? it simply wouldn't take. they'd be rioting in the streets, for bitcoin to increase the market cap, so they could have a chance at having some money. even with all the halving, which just eventually brings it mathematically close to error divide by zero, there still wouldn't be enough to satisfy global liquidity needs, based on how people currently live.
where i'm going with this, is while bitcoin is a nice idea, and has a lot of cool things about it, i dont think in my wildest dreams as its presently configured, that it would ever satisfy the requirements for a global currency.
not today, not tomorrow, not next year. simply put, never.
and i do realize most of the things i mentioned above are largely left -out- of all the popular hype and books and stuff, unless i've missed these details.
thoughts welcome.