This is of course the issue. I've toyed with the idea of the occasional cigars. But have thus far avoided playing with fire.

I definitely don't miss BUYING tobacco, even if rolling tobacco was a lot cheaper than premade cigarettes...

The street finds its own uses for things...

I'm still learning to use the Internet but I haven't found the Internet program I prefer to use yet...

I do half expect the big print to come in the form of major subsidies for oil, to both try to shore up liquidity AND tamp down on the demand destruction (and minimize consumer price inflationary impacts of it). Not sure how they'd go about executing it but it seems like the only way of threading the needle of boosting liquidity without exacerbating the price environment amid the oil squeeze.

Might help keep plates spinning a little while longer...

And if they do, will it actually impact liquidity?

You can lead a bank to liquid, but you can't make them lend...

I was actually going to say someone with useful skills who's not a yes person can actually be valued by those who are wiser than they are fragile in the ego.

As for the hotness...I mean, at that point we're talking Helen of Troy level.

If they were smart they'd be at least buying Bitcoin even while limiting access to it, so that as they sell their debt at favorable terms to stablecoins, they can also build their balance sheet as said stablecoins put their profits into bitcoin anyway...

But they're not.

The American Republic was compromised in 1913 by the British Agent Woodrow Wilson being installed as president, and further heavily degraded by FDR over his 4 term period. Since then we've effectively been wielded as an asset of foreign capital holders, primarily London based, though they learned that letting colonies know they're colonies is a bad idea.

As for the empire, that they're letting us think it's an American empire is just ego stroking. Those wielding this power seem beyond national allegiances.

The good news is, they do seem to be fighting each other.

We'd do well to let them, and do what we can to stay out of the way, and not get deputized in their fight.

Given how I hear you speak I expect you're from part of the country where there AREN'T Jewish people 😂.

Jealous. If you decide the nicotine is good and the smoking isn't the fun part, getting Scandinavian style snus is a pretty low impact way to do it on health. Steaming the tobacco helps a lot.

But nothing beats blowing smoke rings and telling the world to fuck itself.

You CAN zap them beer money on Nostr though.

I've been obsessed with the idea of an Alaskan king ever since I learned it exists. My king size takes up most of the bedroom as it is. I was going to say it barely fits us and the three dogs but really the dogs just want to be on top of or under us no matter how far to the side we are; the middle ends up empty 😂.