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@newstik By the way, it also seems like the author either doesn't know about the Bretton Woods system, or is choosing to misinform the reader intentionally, since the U.S. Dollar, and thus all Western currencies pegged to it, were convertible to gold at a fixed price, until Nixon unilaterally (and allegedly "temporarily") bailed on that in 1971.

These are not simple mistakes when someone chooses to construct arguments based on them.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_

@cjd @raucao @newstik it just didn't work anymore, war bills had to be paid and there was no better way to make everyone poorer without them noticing immediately.
The world is ruled by:

@mms They have been doing marketing about how they are a good privacy alternative but many people forgot how they allowed Microsoft tracking DDG users.

@jeffcliff most of this knocked on my ass was experienced well before the killer virus.

@zemichi @kumicota @McMongoose @deadheat @takao i heard this melody somewhere and have it stuck in my mind for months now. where is this melody from?

@iron_bug
didn't had a high fever but slept like 12 hours a day for some days. really exhausting indeed.

diarrhea is likely the biggest killer by numbers so one can definitively say poop kills!

@Vo it's certainly no comparison for the real flu or rota or norovirus. those really knocked me out for 1-2 days.

i can now add rotavirus to the things which have knocked me out worse than covid.

@djsumdog @gerikson they banned so many old time people with high karma that it's now the lifeless husk of the community jcs started.

it's unreal how often i have osho appearing in my mind, saying "... but the people are retarded".

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