Sorry grandpa. All your friends are dead.

I’ve never lived in the US.

Going to the doctor for the common cold is insane. Why waste doctors’ time on something that’ll pass on its own with a bit of rest and paracetamol? Utterly selfish.

Driving to a hospital if you’re not badly injured is also perfectly normal. Once again, why would you call an ambulance that could be helping someone in dire need, if you don’t need to?

Unless the injury is life threatening, drive yourself or have someone drive you. Not insane at all.

Oh, yeah.

But I mean piracy filesharing. That was already popular on dial-in BBSes in the 80s.

Filesharing pre-dates the web.

Sorry to tell you this, but my father is not a medical doctor.

Almost 50 years ago…

When’s your next prostate check?

C64?

It was also called piracy back then too. It was incredibly common on the Commodore 64 starting in the 80s . They’d often call themselves crackers, because you needed to crack the piracy protection to be able to copy disks.

Those disks and even cassettes would then be shared from person to person or sold in shops or on second hand markets. AFAIK this is also when 1337/leet became popularised, to avoid censorship on BBSes, where file sharing was also possible.

For example, a magazine from 1991:

Note the group is called Elite productions and they call themselves pirates. There’s also mention of crackers, specific events, and I especially enjoy that a piracy/cracking group felt it necessary to add a copyright logo next to the name of their piracy group which was called Elite Productions.

That’s just what the woke media want you to believe! Also, did you know licking dog turds cures the common cold?

Shocking news. I would have assumed he would be working for a Russian state propaganda channel.

I feel it’s more important we focus on changing the world maps, so that Madagascar becomes Africa’s penis.

Thanks to smart phones, this generation of kids is roughly as tech literate as boomers.

I wouldn’t get your hopes up.

Dunk it in toilet bowl water and it’ll be fine.

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Moved over the past 6 months, but on the down low. I suspect we’ll be hearing similar stories from other central banks sooner, rather than later.

Not surprising. There’s been talk of removing gold from the US for a while now. For example Germany and Italy together hold over 2000 tonnes in the US. But there’s been plenty of talk of removing a large proportion of that.

AFAIK France already removed their last remaining gold at the beginning of the year.

I wonder if Blair’s suffering from a psychotic break.

Genuinely delusional thinking.

I’m being unfair. Perhaps he’s just the messenger for someone who’s suffering from a psychotic break.

Although Greece has closer ties with Ukraine, due to the whole Orthodox thing, Ukraine has less missiles to spare. Especially not in the time frame the Israelis are offering. I googled, should be operational within 3 years.

Israel also has plenty of experience fending off the kind of drones the Russians use too, like the Shahed.

In any case, from what I’m reading the Greeks are buying a fully layered Air Defense system, part of the money they’re going to spend will flow back to Greek manufacturers, Cyrpiot manufacturers may also become a production location, and they’re also getting access to the source code, etc. etc. The whole thing will also integrate with their own systems and allow them to develop related industries in Greece and Cyprus.

Alternative is for example buying from the US, but they’re not exactly reliable, and if you ever get what you ordered, you’ll end up paying too much for something that arrived a decade too late.

As the likelihood of war increases, I’m afraid you’ll see more of this kind of thing in the coming years. Israel does have good products to sell, if you’re willing to look the other way.

Necessitas non habet legem - Necessity has no law.

TLDR: Yup. Realpolitik.

It’d be kinda funny if Dolly made the US go tits up.

I’ve always suspected the US is uniquely susceptible to the worse effects of climate change and a changing world.

Population too spread out to make public transport or cycling viable in the event of fuel shortages or distribution problems. Electricity also has to travel longer distances. Too reliant on AC, rather than passive insulation. A problem when fuel shortages and heat are combined.

And you’re taking too long to go full in on renewables. For example, even ignoring the environmental benefits, solar panels are great at reducing power consumption when its hot/sunny. Hell, on a sunny day it’s possible for a house to be giving back to the power grid, even with the AC on full.

Europe’s also fucked, but at least the houses are well insulated, and solar adoption and AC use is skyrocketing. So when cities as far north as Paris hit 50C(122F) by 2050, as is possible assuming an unfortunately plausible 3.5C global warming, the number of deaths won’t be catastrophic.

Of course, once agriculture’s hit, shit’s going to hit the fan globally. We’ll get a taste of this in the coming year. Farmers have been suffering badly from climate change, high fuel prices, and high fertiliser prices also due to Hormuz.

But only in America. Outside America, we continue to pretend that we’re somehow different, a comforting lie we tell ourselves. Like children who think a night light will keep away the monsters. But outside through shadow of the setting sun, they steal past the windows of the blissfully dead, looking for the victim shivering in bed. Creeping closer now, closer to the foot of the bed.