I was in this crystal clear cliffside cove and could see in front of me maybe 10 m or so but the Rock only went out about 5 and then just plunged into the abyss. and after exploring the coastline I swim out about 10 ft past the rocks and realized that I could see nothing but the deepest blue I’d ever seen.

literally anything could be just a few body lengths away watching me were sensing me, it was almost overwhelming.

I felt this visceral terror, that I’ve felt before in the middle of reading a Lovecraft story.

very much looking into the eye of something unknowable.

uh what? why?

"Fine dust in the atmosphere permits blue light to penetrate the atmosphere more efficiently than colors with longer wavelengths.*

whAaaat.

does the red wavelengths get caught in the red dust or something?

this is such a good fact.

are you just saying random words?

“The man, who had a history of depression and alcohol abuse…”

go ahead, check what depressed alcohol abusers have done under the influence.

“The details of the event are unclear to the patient, as he did not fully remember what had occurred.”

“because case reports usually focus on a single patient, they do not provide the kind of broad, statistically significant data that is needed to establish definitive conclusions about a drug or condition.”

“While this case is the first documented instance of psilocybin-induced self-amputation, it brings attention to a broader phenomenon of self-mutilation during psychotic episodes, particularly among individuals with underlying mental health conditions.”

someone with mental health issues hurt themselves after eating breakfast.

We should probably write a case report about breakfast.

Type these things into a search engine first and then read, so you spare yourself and others from blatant ignorance and misinformation.

alternatively, if you can replace Bitcoin with USD and your concerns are identical, then none of your concerns are valid arguments against cryptocurrency.

“Ok maybe we had bitcoin over a decade and nobody cared.”

this is incorrect.

cryptographers, economists and governments were and are excited about cryptocurrencies because they’re an obvious evolution in centralized currency, in the same way that debit cards linked to bank accounts were, and now QR codes and digital wallets are.

“It was mainly used by criminals and tax evader.”

this has been wrong and irrelevant as long as people have been saying it.

Between 35 to 39 percent of USD is used for criminal activity, does this rampant criminal activity make the USD illegitimate?

“The concept of [USD] is stupid when they just [literally print money from nowhere] once a too rich person [gets caught]”

See what I’m saying? literally just replace the words and see if what you’re saying is still valid.

Printing USD and writing laws to protect rich people is a problem.

“[USD] is not regulated by the government, but by rich people.”

they are called the federal reserve, a private company that manipulates the dollar value at will.

The American aristocracy illegally manipulates the printed paper.

[USD]has a 100% virtual value.

That’s what happens when you decouple a currency from It’s backing value, like when the USD got taken off the gold standard and private companies are allowed to print fiat currency at their own discretion.

“An artificial scarcity does not create value”

scarcity precisely creates value, that is how the federal reserve manipulates the value of the USD.

It’s literally why the interest rates have been lowered this year rather than continuing to increase, the federal reserve is trying to create an artificial scarcity.

“If tomorrow the the USA makes [USD] illegal, it’s value will drop a lot.”

oh, “a lot”?

The gold price certainly didn’t drop after being made illegal.

“I mean the stock market is similar, but at least it is regulated.”

leaving aside that you are unaware of existing and developing cryptocurrency regulations, why are you so proud of regulation when it has been shown to facilitate illegal fiat currency manipulation?

Yes, the USD and stock exchange are “regulated” to an extent, but that regulation is completely irrelevant since white collar crime and illegal activity has continued unabated since fiat currency has come into play.

cryptocurrency is also regulated.

it literally has tax forms, just like the fiat currency that criminals use.

“The rugpull was in the context of [USD].”

If you want to talk about rug pulls, type in USD fraud.

you’ll get a few hits.

none of what you typed was relevant or correct, just type what you think into a search engine if you’re unaware of the facts.

Don’t make things up that are demonstrably false with a simple search or substitution.

or like The fluctuations in gold, silver, fiat or commodities when they first appeared in the market.

Good thing none of those panned out or you wouldn’t have a leg to stand on.

The thing wrong with a stable company is that it doesn’t afford those at the top uncontrollable, disproportionate influence and profit.

American business culture disdains stable companies that maintain their size.

American business culture advocates for and promotes unlimited expansion and profit increase above all else, which is obviously unsustainable and distracts from creating good products or social benefit If you put a moment of thought into it, and benefits the one or few at the top while exploiting everybody else.

When that venture inevitably fails, the winners at the top get to exploit their ill-gotten profit to influence culture at large, radicalize the exploited and propagate the exploitative system.

The winners are shuffled around, and continue making obscene profit from each successive top position at the expense of their society, simultaneously creating and breaking laws to further their selfish, unsustainable gain.

watching that whole thing seemed worth it.

thanks

“losing its previous 3-year lead.”

what three-year lead?

“The future is uncertain, but the past is already set.”

or you think it is.

glad somebody’s reading.

keep on.

Hahaha, this is so funny.

but with six.

“[Fiat currency] is a speculative market. That doesn’t make it a good currency - in fact, it makes it a very bad currency. [Dollars] changing in value so much and so rapidly makes them awful for use as a daily currency, and they’re backed by [gold] anyways because otherwise, they’d have no value.”

yes, yes, go on.

“The only reason people care about [fiat] is because they think they can make a lot of money off of it when they hand the bag off to somebody else.”

It’s good that fiat currency never really got a foothold or it looks like you wouldn’t have any argument.

this sounds like it’s confirming my original comment with more specificity, that Intel was consistently playing catch up to tsmc and the only thing that might happen in the future is that maybe tsmc doesn’t progress at the rate they have been and Intel develops a theoretical technology.

lots of maybes and ifs.

maybes and ifs are not evidence of TSMCs downfall, they’re playthings that may or may not happen without any reasonable data to interpret.

I don’t have a horse in this race, but I am allegiant to facts and logical consistency.

juggling what ifs is not very interesting for me.

“crypto was stupid from the beginning”

How? Do you find debit cards stupid?

“people who knew about the tech told everyone so”

completely untrue.

people at the forefront of cryptography and economics were excited about the Bitcoin white paper because cryptographic digital currencies is an obvious-in-hindsight evolution in currency.

they were so excited about it that they joined nakamoto in creating cryptocurrencies, collaborating and developing new technologies until it was launched and beyond.

“idiots bought the shit to get rugpulled”

how exactly is gaining 400,000% in value over a decade a “rug pull”?

wow, that’s great to hear.

you can definitely do this. it’s only scary until you start doing it, and then you’ll get right into the swing of things.