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pantone159

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  1. Is it though? If I did not read this board, I would probably have no idea who Charlie Kirk was. He isn't a politician, just a talking head. Why should I know who he was? And as far as the shooting, that is just one tiny drop of the deluge of shootings that happen in this country constantly. As mentally unhealthy as it can be to keep track of politics, being unaware of who he was seems completely normal to me.
  2. Attaching the photos of that note. You can see the X cancellations if you look closely. The back is especially pleasing
  3. These cuts were indeed made when the notes were turned in for redemption, which meant gold back in those days. The Republic of Texas did everything they could to default on these obligations, and avoided redeeming them. As a result, these sold on the market for just a few cents on the dollar, to any speculator who wanted to bet on them being paid eventually. When Texas joined the Union, the USA figured that it was not acceptable to default on obligations of what would now be part of the Union, and the money (gold!) was found to finally redeem them, and the speculators came out very well in the end. Nearly all of these are cancelled, but not all the cancellations had a piece cut out like that, the nicest ones just had the cuts in the note, but not into multiple parts, or pieces removed, etc. A really nice one is coming up for sale in a couple weeks, this shows the full note design. https://currency.ha.com/itm/obsoletes-by-state/texas/austin-tx-republic-of-texas-10-jan-1-1840-cr-a5-medlar-25-pmg-choice-about-unc-58-epq/a/3599-20137.s
  4. Kind of like that. It can be fun to make a 'type' collection where you get one of each kind of design. For the Mexican ones, I want to get ones that actually circulated as money, while most of them are later restrikes made as bullion. They are all good gold though. That makes it harder, and I have not actually made any progress on my Mexico gold collection yet, I have none. I do have a few USA gold coins in this way though. But the idea would be, if SHTF and you had to flee with whats in your pockets, I would care very little that I paid a premium on my 50 pesos, but care quite a lot that I had 1+ oz of gold to sell in them. My plan is flawed though since I don't have any 50 peso coins. Hmmm...
  5. I like the idea of building a fun collection, that has the side-effect that you could sell the gold if SHTF. Not the most efficient way to stack metal, but a fun way that still gives you some insurance precious metal.
  6. And also, you don't get caught for testing that.
  7. Whatever you think of that look, and at least the Cybertruck does look different, I'll give Tesla that much, in business terms, as in revenue > expense, I don't see how the Cybertruck comes out as anything but a monumental disaster. It just can't be profitable to make things that don't sell. And now Elon wants to pivot into making robots, I don't know if they are actually capable of making them, but I am 100% sure they are not capable of selling them. It is so weird, the market value of TSLA is obviously so completely dependent on Musk being the true wonder-genius, but it is incredibly obvious that these wonder-genius ideas will never make actual money, so the true economic value of TSLA is actually completely dependent on removing Elon from things entirely. Markets do a lot of irrational things but this is really one for the ages.
  8. This is somebody whose net worth went up by almost $1 billion the day he announced he was leaving Microsoft.
  9. Do you get cash back with this card? If you don't, that needs to figure into the annual cost. My personal inclination on these cards, is that I don't want to deal with having to keep up with the benefits to make good use out of them. I'd rather think about something else, so I just get a decent cash back card, then spend that on whatever perks that card has, or something I actually want more. And maybe that benefit carrot hanging in front of you makes you pick a restaurant, hotel, or something else that isn't really what you want, just so you can claim a credit. To me, worrying about whether you get enough $ back is a waste of time. The plan is probably designed to lure you into spending too much anyways, which makes it even less of a 'deal'. So I'd only care about the non-financial benefits, and decide if those were worth the fee.
  10. They have already had radioactive alligators for decades. https://theaugustapress.com/radioactive-mercurial-alligators-once-roamed-srs/ https://srel.uga.edu/testing-toxic-cleanups-one-gator-at-a-time/
  11. What if there is lasagna though?
  12. I was just about to ask this with the Dumb Questions Amnesty qualifier.
  13. This was an interesting photo of Diego Garcia, from about a month ago.
  14. As a fraction/proportion of the capacity, both would be the same.
  15. If they are the same depth, then the surface area should have the same proportion to capacity in both.
  16. June 22 1941 is probably the single most disastrous day in Russian military history, it would make a good analogy.
  17. Not having aerial refueling on AF1 seems completely incomprehensible to me.
  18. pantone159

    SpaceX

    So, they aimed it at the Indian Ocean ok, and not much other success?
  19. Yep. After the one in Japan/Korea, FIFA came to their senses and decided to never ever do another World Cup that spanned borders. Now they have lost their senses again, and in this climate it will be a disaster.
  20. It needs a split thumb. Like the 'Da Vinci' painting the Saudi's have.
  21. Username and avatar check out.
  22. What source is there that this was TATP? And fwiw that is way way more hazardous than picric acid.
  23. Since they really are aiming for the 1800's, back then interest rates were like 3-4 percent I think, so at least we got that going for us...
  24. The treasury bonds are not callable by the holder, rather the US government must pay interest over the full term (up to 30 years), then pays back the principal at the end. So China (or anybody else) cannot force the US government to pay early. What they CAN do is stop buying more US treasury bonds. If we did try and default on paying them, that would cause an economic disaster that would make this current one seem like chump change. So we will probably try that next.
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