snot

@snot

You write:

@jimlane, the “floor” of 5,000 rubles per gram would become relevant if others were selling gold for less than 5,000 rubles – that’s why it’s a floor.

Yes, it’s a floor on the price of gold, expressed in rubles. But that does nothing to shield the ruble from devaluation.

You go on to write:

It seems to me that such a floor would…

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@gzeush

There’s still no answer to what @snot and I said in the other thread (link): The Bank of Russia is offering to exchange rubles for gold, but the ruble doesn’t become a gold-backed currency unless the BoR offers to sell gold for rubles, which it hasn’t done.

The video tries to obfuscate this crucial difference by confusing wording – tha…[Read more]

@gzeush

I think @snot had it right: To back the ruble with gold, the Russians would have to offer to exchange gold for rubles, not the other way around.

The math in your example is correct except for what I assume is a typo. You write, “Multiplying it out, we can see that your ounce of gold will buy 5169 rubles today, so only getting 5000 is n…[Read more]

CakeWrecks, Jen, didn’t know what was going on with that one. The first line over the image was “???” 😄

https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2022/3/18/unusual-names-now-with-more-porn

Many more good ones at the link, plus people’s comments after 🙂

@snot

@snot

I think it was some kind of limited “autonomy” but not full independence.

See what @snot posted – it’s good background at https://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/helpful-more-balanced-summary-re-ukraine/ .

I’d also suggest that while the US may call it “Russian aggression” my wife calls it a civil war, just like the civil war in the US. She lives in Ukraine not far from Donbass in central Ukraine.

@snot

That is a great quote. I’d not heard of UNEF, but searching for it led me to the entire article on the Anarchist Library. Thank you.

This was a lovely thread.  What resonated with me is the thread opener by @alcina, and thoughts by @snot and @voltairine, and really everybody.  Not many words wasted.

Scientists can be tribal, prejudiced, can proudly fail to accept something that doesn’t fit in with the paradigm, can try to doom the opposition to the Funny Farm.  Can throw ou…[Read more]

@snot

While fleshing out my rant, I ran it past my partner for a reality check; and he asked me a few questions, the answers to which were almost identical to yours. Great minds, eh? 😉

Regarding education: Here in Ontario — and pretty much everywhere else in north America, as far as I can tell — there’s been a significant downward trend in…[Read more]

@mindwalker

GPT 3 models have the ability to “kind of” learn, but their process is flawed.  They can pick up things about their user using predictive algorithms and such – and some times those algorithms guess right.  But they are guesses

For example, one might say, randomly during conversation: “I saw you at the hospital and waved, but you s…[Read more]

as a case in point.

Wow your stupid

Wow your stupid 🤦‍♂️

— Steven Yeager (@VelevetT) September 5, 2021

@segami @passionateprogressive @davidthegnome @snot

@snot

Thats what happens when the only leadership you have is cowardly, incompetent and hopelessly corrupt.  People fight among themselves…. For a while.  Eventually that anger and fear that the politicians have stirred will turn on them.

It won’t be pretty.

@snot

THIS! This is NOT our Bernie, not at all.

@snot

I haven’t had a cold in years. I’ll keep taking precautions. Maybe they will find an actual cure one of these days.

You have no idea how we go to insane lengths to keep this anonymous outside of admins @snot

And we admins don’t give a rat’s ass, so we don’t count.

@snot.
You can’t force lockdown compliance without draconian measures. The only countries that really managed it have social cultures that value social cooperation for the good of the many.

Going back to pre-pandemic ‘normal’ is not a good idea (my town, Las Vegas, is going to find that out in the fall. Nevada is opening up fully June 1st).  We…[Read more]

@snot

but in the usual way of things, I’ve never had a business ask me to prove I’d been vaccinated against measles, polio or anything else.  which are worse killers & spread via air & contact.  though vaccinations are in health records.

the only entity i know of that requires proof is public schools, & easy to get around it by home-schooling o…[Read more]

WPFW’s Music – which educates while it entertains – WONDERFUL…

@snot

@mrdmk

Friday April 16  News & Views 6:00 p.m.

The issue is far more complex than most of the stories make it appear – and he had already been ordered to stop publicly discussing the issue. He chose to defy the court order. He was arrested for contempt.

I’m not going to get into the rest, except to point out that some in this thread (not you @snot) seem to think that the treatment includes…[Read more]

“Free speech, b.t.w., entitles you to say what you want, but not necessarily to keep or get the job you want. It’s totally irrelevant to this impeachment trial.”

–Thank you @snot

Hard to stomach seeing right-wing talking points from the Trump defense posted as received wisdom