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[01:31:57] <Runaway1956> https://www.startribune.com
[01:31:59] <systemd> ^ 03Fox bites man, putting Capitol Hill on high alert
[01:32:11] <Runaway1956> Mother Nature is taking out the Dems!
[01:39:03] <Runaway1956> <sqrlgrrl> tell us again how the united states and the rest of the west will collapse into a heap because of the economic sanctions.
[01:39:52] <Runaway1956> When Russia, China, and possibly India join forces, and switch to an alternate reserve currency, the US is going to be sucking fumes from a tail pipe
[01:40:34] <Runaway1956> Much of Asia will join them, parts of Africa, and quite probably most of the Pacific island nations, apart from Japan and Australia
[01:47:00] <Runaway1956> am I connected?
[01:47:26] <Runaway1956> don't think so . . .
[01:48:19] <Runaway1956> ???????????????
[01:48:46] <ptarmigan> quest
[01:49:34] <sqrlgrrl> Runaway1956: you're delusional if you think those countries will agree on a different reserve currency.
[01:50:35] <Runaway1956> Give it 20 years, and see how delusional I am Squirelly
[01:51:16] <Runaway1956> Maybe you like to list the nations pro and con in the world who like the status quo
[02:04:15] <Runaway1956> https://satoshichris.substack.com
[02:04:16] <systemd> ^ 03World Reserve Currencies last on average 100 years. The US dollar has been the reserve currency for 76 years.
[02:13:29] <tedious> Runaway1956: I don't understand why marxist tradition of opposing the evil american military and banking hegemony for the last 100 years has suddenly flipped do you?
[02:14:19] <tedious> Also I don't put much stock in this idea of 'cycles' where the decisions of bankers are concerned.
[02:14:35] <tedious> If they want to crash the dollar tomorrow then tomorrow's the day it happens.
[02:14:55] <tedious> If they decide to wait a year then that's the schedule.
[02:15:25] <tedious> I stopped believing in the 'business cycle' for the same reason.
[02:15:44] <tedious> It's just what the people who control the levers of power choose to do.
[02:16:37] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - 'Striking a Balance': How One Company is Rethinking the Office for Hybrid Work - https://sylnt.us - hire-less-fastidious-developers
[02:17:23] <Runaway1956> The article doesn't mention "cycles" - it only shows that the average is 100 years duration
[02:17:50] <Runaway1956> as you say, when a bunch of people decide that they don't want dollars anymore - they won't accept dollars
[02:18:28] <Runaway1956> We are actually pushing Russia and China together, and hastening the replacement of the dollar
[02:19:10] <Runaway1956> India is still up in the air - if they join in, then over half the world's population are in the network, with more to follow
[02:31:22] <Runaway1956> http://www.economicreason.com
[02:31:24] <systemd> ^ 03| World Reserve Currencies: What Happened During Previous Periods of Transition? Economic Reason
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[05:17:39] <Runaway1956> =submit https://www.upi.com
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[10:36:29] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - The World's Oldest Pants Are a 3,000-Year-Old Engineering Marvel - https://sylnt.us - ugg-wear-pants-in-this-cave
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[13:35:19] <sqrlgrrl> Runaway1956: 20 years ago people were talking about replacing usd as the reserve currency......... and 20 years before that. what do you think is different this time
[13:37:47] <sqrlgrrl> Runaway1956: this article is delusional. gold as the reserve currency? nonstarter for obvious reasons. the yuan? lol. riiiiiiight. bitcoin?! you have got to be kidding me.
[13:38:47] <sqrlgrrl> who the hell is going to trust china/yuan.
[13:39:24] <FatPhil> the biggest problem I have with that article is the chart they *always* use to illustrate the idea. They weren't reserve currencies. The chart is a lie.
[13:39:43] <sqrlgrrl> besides if $country decides to abandon usd they can say bye to american military might protecting their imports and exports. hellllllooooooo actual piracy. arrrr!
[13:39:54] <FatPhil> Even the guy who (claims to have) first come up with that chart disagrees with its current use.
[13:40:19] <sqrlgrrl> besides the nsa invented bitcoin and holds most of it. :D
[13:40:27] <sqrlgrrl> FatPhil: thanks. good to know.
[13:41:45] <FatPhil> They were major world currencies, yes, there's no argument about that. But pinning a single "reserve currency" rosette to just one of them is not how commerce worked.
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[13:54:34] <FatPhil> However, I am a believer that we're a complex dynamical system with underdamped feedback loops, and that pseudoperiodicity on multiple scales is just a natural outcome.
[14:00:02] <FatPhil> But I'm also aware that humans are notorious pattern-finders, and will often spot patterns that aren't actually there.
[14:43:49] <tedious> https://www.huffpost.com
[14:43:50] <systemd> ^ 03Russian Media Campaign Falsely Claims Bucha Deaths Are Fakes
[14:44:11] <tedious> This new article didn't age well.
[14:54:11] <tedious> Surely the trudeau government isn't going to let laws protecting the people be struck down. https://www.therecord.com
[14:54:12] <systemd> ^ 03Page Not Found | Waterloo Region Record ( https://www.therecord.com )
[14:54:14] <tedious> rriers-asking-appeal-court-to-quash-passenger-rights-rules.html
[14:54:26] <tedious> Oops. https://www.therecord.com
[14:54:27] <systemd> ^ 03Canadian airlines among carriers asking appeal court to quash passenger rights rules
[14:55:52] <tedious> Presumably they want to force the passengers to prove exactly how much they were harmed so that none of them will bother going through the process.
[16:07:51] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - House Committee Investigating Amazon's Labor Practices - https://sylnt.us
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[19:56:34] <Runaway1956> Janrinok fatphil chromas Someone needs to be spanked for abusing the spam mod again. https://soylentnews.org
[19:56:36] <systemd> ^ 03SoylentNews Comments | Elon Musk Will Join Twitter's Board of Directors
[20:02:29] <FatPhil> Runaway1956: ACK
[20:06:12] <Runaway1956> thanky thanky thanky
[21:41:36] <Bytram> Fnord666: Early congrats on posting story #6600 ( You are at #6599 now: https://soylentnews.org )
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