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Agent641

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  • TIL: There are roughly 2.5 million ants per person

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  • Do I get prep time?

  • Is gold investing a scam?

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  • Lots of things can be used as currency. Gold was the OG because it is scarce, takes work to mine, is finite(ish), it doesn't tarnish or corrode in air or salt water, isn't attacked by acids except agua regia, meaning it doesn't degade over time. It's a really good medium for labor-value.

    Problem is, it's also a useful metal now, in semiconductors and electronics, so now it is being 'consumed' by industry in a way that isn't readily recoverable except at product end of life, and even then it's not 100% recycled, probably more like 10%.

    So the global supply increases due to work mining, decreases due to consumption as a commodity, and is still treated as a currency equivalent.

    Solid gold is easy to store, and will survive calamities, bank collapses, fires, floods, ect where other intrinsic value items don't.

    So it's a good investment if you believe that you will survive the deletion of society, AND you believe that it will be tradeable post-collapse. Or if you just treat it like a commodity.

    But post-collapse, gold isn't intrinsically useful. In these events, other useful, consumable goods might be better for goods and labour exchange. In the early Australian colonies, there was no money, people bought, sold and got paid in rum.

    Rum is a reasonable value holder, it can be preserved against degrading, it is 'fungible' and divisible in a way that gold coins arent.

    Dried grains are a good currency too. Maize, wheat berries, etc, as long as you accept that your value will be contually consumed and replenished.

    Whether a thing has value is largely determined by whether the society you end up in decides it has value.

    The indigenous Australians would happily trade a gold nugget for rum or rope or steel tools, because their society had no use for gold, but did have use for steel.

    Disclaimer: The only gold I own is in my phone and computer.

  • Did I do a good deed or bad deed?

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  • You chop up lines of coke with it

  • How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number

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  • 15, (I'm a dude)

  • Women would rather do drugs than go to therapy

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  • The smell was unbearable.

  • I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.

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  • I cannot understand and debug code written by AI. But I also cannot understand and debug code written by me.

    Let's just call it even.

  • Good advice

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  • For me it was a life-changing friendship that I will cherish forever. For them, it was customer assistance finding an item in the storeroom.

  • Good advice

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  • Just stop, eh?

  • At least Wilson was gone by this point

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  • Is this some kind of extrajudicial drone killing meme that I'm too humanrightspilled to understand?

  • Statistically, probably with the beetles. 🪲

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  • They are doing meth in the toilets

  • The Sensory Biology of Plants

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  • One day, mycelium may be able to prove that it is not the only conscious lifeform on earth.

  • The Sensory Biology of Plants

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  • What does old stumps mean?

  • We need to organise...

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  • Where's a reaper drone when you need one?

  • TIL that actor Tim Curry is on a wheelchair since 2012

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  • Commuting by recumbent bicycle

  • Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’

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  • Three strikes on the end zone, and the goalie is out!

  • Berlin: Police can secretly enter homes for state trojan installation

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  • If they can install it on TempleOS then more power to them.

  • Very high resolution indeed

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  • It's not the duck in front you can see that's the danger. It's the two ducks either side of you that you can't see...

  • Three French teens drown in freak car crash in swimming pool

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  • Like some sort of.... Pool.... Of water

  • Microsoft forces AI into Notepad, users say, “Leave it alone”

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  • Forgive him O lord for he knows not what he says.

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    Sometimes google street view just captures a vibe, you know?

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    I forgot the lyrics to the Old MacDonald song, but It's All Coming Back To Me Now

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    TFW you see the toilet paper after the first wipe when your haemorrhoids flare up badly

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    Carcinisation has got the furniture too!

  • Art Share🎨 @lemmy.world
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    "Bertie" - me, ballpoint

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    "Bait" - me, Ballpoint

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    This Op Shop seems to have ordered their secondhand books by colour for some reason

  • Art Share🎨 @lemmy.world
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    "Practice, practice, practice", oil pastels on paper, me

  • Art Share🎨 @lemmy.world
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    "Papers" Oil pastel on paper, me

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    4 Years Ago

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    "Jealousy at the Party" Pastels on paper, me

  • Art Share🎨 @lemmy.world
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    "HMS Vagrant" - Fineliner on paper, me

  • Art Share🎨 @lemmy.world
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    "Peace 2" - Oil pastels on paper, me

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    This hair product remains effective up to 230 degrees C which is really handy because when I'm exposed to ovenlike temperatures, my first thought is "Oh no, my hair!"

  • Art Share🎨 @lemmy.world
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    "Sobriety" - Pastels on paper, me.

  • Art Share🎨 @lemmy.world
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    "Peace" - Pastels on paper, me.

  • Jerboa @lemmy.ml
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    Can I block any post that contains a particular word? Without blocking whole instances?

  • Art Share🎨 @lemmy.world
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    The long text goodbye - Oil pastel on paper, me

  • Android @lemmy.world
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    Question

    My morning alarms aren't going off on my new phone and I don't know why

  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Vietnamese Fishing Crew Attacked and Severely Beaten in Paracel Islands

    maritime-executive.com /article/vietnamese-fishing-crew-attacked-and-severely-beaten-in-paracel-islands