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J.A.B.C. posted:Guy at work was listening to a Youtube guy discuss this topic this morning, actually. But wouldn't gold be totally worthless in a wasteland scenario, thus making the chud atually poor? 
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My boomer mother had her brain broken by the internet and made the rational decision to pull all her retirement investments to get a generator, some solar panels, a safe, and a bunch of silver bars (for the apocalypse). You see, she'll just use the silver to keep living the high life when the anarchist punks take over. I asked her if I could see her silver. When she opened the safe I pocketed it all. When she asked for it back I said no. When she got very upset I gave it back. I think the lesson may have been lost on her. Anyway, she's broke now and survives off abnb and uber income and is absolutely hosed for retirement. But that doesn't really matter because she's 63 with limited mobility but the rapture will be any day now! E: and, yes, she hates immigrants specifically South American ones. She lives in Canada. She was born in war torn Europe and he parents fled for better prospects and she got to live a relatively comfortable life as a result.
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Kitfox88 posted:It always makes me my man, let me tell you what cryptocurrency people believe about what will be of infinite value when Trump evolves into his final form, Immortan Joe
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my mom makes fun of Trump and sends me pictures of her dog tucked into her bedsheets like a baby. a Good Mom
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JoelJoel posted:My boomer mother had her brain broken by the internet and made the rational decision to pull all her retirement investments to get a generator, some solar panels, a safe, and a bunch of silver bars (for the apocalypse). You see, she'll just use the silver to keep living the high life when the anarchist punks take over. at least its stuff you could theoretically resell and not something worthless like iraqi dinars
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hobbesmaster posted:that topical use only is pretty important. isopropyl alcohol is also a good antiseptic and you really don’t want to drink it either whoa look at mr big shot and his fancy liquor tastes Epic High Five posted:what use does silver have post-collapse? you don't want silverware during the apocalypse? you're gonna eat with your hands like a barbarian? E: duz posted:at least its stuff you could theoretically resell and not something worthless like iraqi dinars hey do you know where to unload those, asking for a friend
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Following up on that Tennessee rural health care article from earlier, here's a bit from today's Krugman column, comparing Tennessee (which hasn't accepted the Medicaid expansion in the ACA) with Kentucky (which has):quote:According to a Georgetown University study that covered a seven-year period spanning the introduction of the A.C.A., the percentage of low-income rural adults without health insurance fell 27 points in Kentucky, only six points in Tennessee. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/opinion/republican-states-health-care.html
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Kumo posted:https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/24/trump-trade-farmers-loans-1547826
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Mr Interweb posted:An interesting thing I learned was that, although I knew the South has always been kind of lovely, I didn't realize HOW lovely it was in terms of providing services for their people. Pretty much all the hospitals that are present in the south are entirely the result of the New Deal. Without federal intervention, there would be almost no reason for doctors to be in many of these areas in the first place. Good thing that there hasn't been a multi-decade soft propaganda campaign to make white people throughout the country identify with and seek to emulate the South!
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FMguru posted:Following up on that Tennessee rural health care article from earlier, here's a bit from today's Krugman column, comparing Tennessee (which hasn't accepted the Medicaid expansion in the ACA) with Kentucky (which has): as a Tennessean, goddamn this owns lol
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don't gently caress with knitters, man https://twitter.com/ravelry/status/1142766608680660992
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I can only imagine how bad it got with maga chuds all sharing the same 4 patterns over and over just to goad a response because that's all their reptile brain can process as human interaction lol
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Epic High Five posted:I can only imagine how bad it got with maga chuds all sharing the same 4 patterns over and over just to goad a response because that's all their reptile brain can process as human interaction lol "Hmmm, why are so many people sharing swastika knitting patterns on our site?"
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I was pleasantly surprised to learn that ravelry based their ruleset/reasons on rpg.net doing the same thing in 2018, which I wouldn’t have expected from a hobby that is stereotypically full of the worst sort of toxic nerd 
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DragQueenofAngmar posted:I was pleasantly surprised to learn that ravelry based their ruleset/reasons on rpg.net doing the same thing in 2018, which I wouldn’t have expected from a hobby that is stereotypically full of the worst sort of toxic nerd Oh yeah totally, I remember the rage filled screeds that would happen in my knitting circle when someone accidentally used someone else's knitting needle. I know what you're saying, I just wanted to make the joke
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DragQueenofAngmar posted:I was pleasantly surprised to learn that ravelry based their ruleset/reasons on rpg.net doing the same thing in 2018, which I wouldn’t have expected from a hobby that is stereotypically full of the worst sort of toxic nerd pen and paper has kind of come around with the rise in popularity of video games featuring online play. I feel like a lot of the shittier people have just moved on to being assholes on call of duty or something. at least as far as my local groups’ representation has gone in the past dozen years or so.
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DragQueenofAngmar posted:I was pleasantly surprised to learn that ravelry based their ruleset/reasons on rpg.net doing the same thing in 2018, which I wouldn’t have expected from a hobby that is stereotypically full of the worst sort of toxic nerd
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FMguru posted:RPG.net used to be really bad at tolerating all kinds of nonsense (under the typical conflict-averse nerdlinger belief in freeze peach and 'fairness' and 'open-mindedness'), but over the last few years they've gotten their act together and made MAGA and Trump and gamerrgate support and all that other garbage bannable. they gave really good reasons too, in the thread where they announced they were doing this they got a lot of the typical "why do we have to have politics in my hobby? why don't you just ban all political discussion? you're excluding conservative viewpoints! this isn't fair and balanced!" type responses and universally replied "we are not interested in balance. we have chosen to protect minorities and oppressed classes specifically by excluding people whose "political" views delegitimize their right to exist. we are explicitly choosing a side, here" and it warmed my heart
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:gonna drink so much colloidal silver in the radioactive wasteland Skin gonna be blue, glow gonna be green. That'll look pretty radical.
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Epic High Five posted:I can only imagine how bad it got with maga chuds all sharing the same 4 patterns over and over just to goad a response because that's all their reptile brain can process as human interaction lol My mother in law posts there. It was alt righters posting porn
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I stopped posting on rpg.net several years ago (probably the better part of a decade at this point) mostly because of the conflict averse permissive nonsense. If someone is being a poo poo and talking nonsense you don't tiptoe around trying make some sort of argument, you just tell them to gently caress off. Glad to hear that they improved, though I'm never going back because I mostly list interest in rpgs.
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Epic High Five posted:It's always a vent or wrapped in a box and hidden above a support in the basement ding ding ding on the basement. two hordes in two different areas. he is legitimately a pretty handy guy and he is terrified of tornadoes as a transplant to the midwest so he built a metal bunker under the stairs. it looks like itll support a lot of weight on it, but it also wouldn't be out of place in some sort of american gothic meets josef fritzl situation. so some of it is in his weird tornado shelter/kidnapping victim holding cage, and the rest is hidden under a filing cabinet. i dont know how much their is, only where it is should something happen to my mom and him on their adventures around the globe.
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Marxist-Jezzinist posted:My mother in law posts there. where’s she going to go now?
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Eat This Glob posted:ding ding ding on the basement. two hordes in two different areas. he is legitimately a pretty handy guy and he is terrified of tornadoes as a transplant to the midwest so he built a metal bunker under the stairs. it looks like itll support a lot of weight on it, but it also wouldn't be out of place in some sort of american gothic meets josef fritzl situation. so some of it is in his weird tornado shelter/kidnapping victim holding cage, and the rest is hidden under a filing cabinet. the shelter is the first place anybody would look lol, they'd look there for guns, see the heavy rear end lumps of metal, and then move on
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i never claimed he was smart lol. he believed the earth was going to be hit by planet x or whatever a few years ago because you tube told him it was going to happen
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lol https://twitter.com/AskYourself_45/status/1143044123202449410
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Chokes McGee posted:what the hell did I just read puns
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Chokes McGee posted:what the hell did I just read a tangled skein of wooly-headed thinking
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Kitfox88 posted:It always makes me It's like saying you're buying a really good umbrella in case it rains every single day for the rest of your life.
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when pressed I've had bunches of those dudes start talking about how gold has "intrinsic value" like worth is a material property like fuckin magnetism or something obvs fiat is a Big Government scam to steal all the gold by fooling people into thinking paper can also have value A Wizard of Goatse has issued a correction as of 21:50 on Jul 1, 2019 |
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:when pressed I've had bunches of those dudes start talking about how gold has "intrinsic value" like worth is a material property like fuckin magnetism or something I mean that's not entirely wrong, gold has value in and of itself, it can be used for things, dollars only have value so long as they are backed the US Government, there are paper currencies which have had value and then had none, so you can see how they get this stupid idea and run with it, because of course, it has a smidgeon of truth to it. Maybe recommend they look into Dinar revaluation.
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pseudanonymous posted:I mean that's not entirely wrong, gold has value in and of itself, it can be used for things, dollars only have value so long as they are backed the US Government, there are paper currencies which have had value and then had none, so you can see how they get this stupid idea and run with it, because of course, it has a smidgeon of truth to it. Gold also has an inherent weakness in that science may render it obsolete for electronics as they develop new materials. It could very well go the way of diamonds and end up being an entirely artificial value with a few industrial uses.
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Tetrabor posted:Gold also has an inherent weakness in that science may render it obsolete for electronics as they develop new materials. it's almost like the real value is
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pseudanonymous posted:I mean that's not entirely wrong, gold has value in and of itself, it can be used for things,. So can paper
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pseudanonymous posted:I mean that's not entirely wrong, gold has value in and of itself, it can be used for things, But what things can it be used for that will urgently be needed in those quantities in their Doomsday scenario? It just relies on some idiot trading their food water and ammo for a heavy block in the hope that they find another idiot later who wants it more.
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