!agree

lol - I've only been on Discord for like 2 months and I already get too many messages to just mute stuff

Evidently Discord rewards are really popular on Patreon

I take it this is Tim Pool's discord server, what with him being an admin and all lol

Coolies

I'm a Patreon pledge, so I assume that's how

3 ($20)

Yeh, it's already connected; I think the last run had an issue with payment which I just fixed. That may be why it didn't show a role

lol

lol - because you can only discuss one side

I used to have great discussions there; my subscriber base was pretty wide in terms of politics. But Twitter...made it impossible over time to have any real discourse

Gab's great in that they don't censor; but the user baxse there is almost exclusively right. Which, technically, so am I - but that's not really discussion if everybody agrees with you most of the time

You kidding? You know how many banks are buying up crypto to pad their "high risk" pools right now?

Yup

Crypto's fine, but not for the gen pop; you have to invest in it as commensurate with your tolerance to high risk. Which most ppl foolishly don't do - they think it's like ForEx, and it's not.

lol talk about a bubble; online vid is propped up by advert revenue - it's a big pool, but it's still finite

Then it's not propped up by anything of value; that makes it even more dangerous

Yes. They are. Ppl think vid content is intrinsically valuable, but it isn't

You can't rtade out video rights for anything in the general market

You know how unpredictable art trade markets are, right?!

YT is propped up by advert money, both YT and the millions of dollars Google pumps into it via Alphabet Inc

It runs on an almost exclusively carried loss - check their annual corporate statements

US gov't money doesn't just come out of thin air; don't buy into socialist mottos -> there's a lot of complicated exchange that props up the US dollar, including contracts, futures, liquidities and commodities

That's a gross oversimplification

No -> entirely

I don't know what tether is

Fraid I haven't

lol - this is reminiscent of debates I had back in the "gold reserve" days. There was a surge in printers of "promissory notes" about 10 years ago, where you would pay for a piece of gold reserve.

Turned out most of it was just a racket. Loads of ppl got arrested for fraud and racketeering

The market is. US dollars are only fractionally backed by the Fed Res. They're backed by contracts, promises, commodities, stocks, and pretty much every market on the planet

Woo hoo! I've finally recovered enough from my seizure that I can actually work a keyboard!

About a week and a half ago, I had a seizure for unknown reasons, which caused dislocated and eventually broken shoulders. Was in ICU for about a week, until last Thursday, when I was moved to a skilled nursing facility
Been doing rehab since then

Yup; sucks ass. Still have to have complex reconstructive surgery on both my shoulders and at least 2 months of rehab

thx contro