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Would need an escrow agent probably who would provide contracts for buyer and seller for a specific dollar amount the crypto is worth at the time the contract is signed by both parties. No surprises and the escrow agent makes money through fluctuations by taking a cut. The precious metals dealers online have massively cut the amount they are willing to pay for silver. Used to be that you could sell Eagles at spot since eagles have some collector value beyond the metal. Now they can be sold at 90% of spot. The middlemen in crypto transactions would pull similar tricks in times of high volatility to guarantee their own profits. Current difference online between buy and sell prices for silver is 25%. I guess these guys are making plenty of money even through these fluctuations. And that assumes the customers are acting intelligently by buying low and selling high, which is not necessarily the case. I bet the metals retailers profits have spiked enormously through all these fluctuations simply because they dictate the spread, and demand for transactions has spiked.

I know what the 6.8 doesn't mean. Err umm, I mean I'd be guessing. I definitely do not KNOW.

I don’t know that I’d go quite that far. The title that is.

A couple more of those "predictable" developments ... https://newrepublic.com/post/206049/ice-agents-whine-massive-bonuses New hires at Immigration and Customs Enforcement are complaining that they haven’t yet received the massive bonuses promised to them for agreeing to brutally arrest immigrants. https://newrepublic.com/post/206029/ice-arrests-right-wing-influencer-trump-immigration-crackdown “A Brazilian influencer who openly backed President Trump’s hard-line immigration policies was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Saturday. // Junior Pena, whose Instagram account boasts almost half a million followers, was detained in New Jersey after missing a court hearing related to his own immigration status, ...

Linked the paywalled article, and cut out the juiciest bit that confirms his biases most.

Article is interesting, but I think that @89th makes some good (and funny) points.

Capitalize the G.

From what I have read, Warsh appears to be qualified for the job. Hasset too, but he’s a brown nosing jerk off.

She'll probably win. The left doesn't like her as much as you'd think since she's a bit wishy-washy-Washington. I do remember seeing her on a flight once, and she didn't seem that wishy washy. Anyway... as long as the pillow cocaine con man doesn't get close to that office, I'm fine.

I'm guessing they were both into pi.

Looks like the ground was prepped in advance for the truth-seeking to begin. https://x.com/etuckerap/status/2016599535267479938?s=46

@Horace said in Finally. A way to protect your home during a zombie apocalypse: Think of the electricity bills. They ought to have those be manual treadmills and build a generator out of each one…

Just found out that the backup “guest teacher astronaut” to McCauliff and watched from the ground as her colleague ended up perishing in the Challenger, later was selected to be an astronaut on Columbia for a 2004 launch and in 2003 was in the chase jet meant to rendezvous with Colombia as it landed, of course it never landed. That is wild. Eventually, she went up in the Endeavor shuttle… i’d have to imagine her crew mates were not believers in bad luck.

@Klaus said in Today’s fresh hell from academia: Surely none of you made up their minds … About what?

Hard to beat 1983. Heck, Kelly took his team to FOUR straight superbowls. Don't ask him how many they won.

I went Saturday when the app said it was surprisingly empty. The app lied. Everyone was there trying to get one in before the snow.

All I know is I physically peaked at age 27. All downhill from there.