...are they that demoralized and self hating that they've begun to emasculate themselves? Sex changes or gender reassignments are exploding. Apparently there are over 1 million transgender in the US mostly men becoming 'women'.

...in spite of what the doomsdayers say:



Still outerperforms the others and is seen as the safe haven when the SHTF, eh?

Is this an accurate picture of US economic strength?

Or just a mirage being propped up?

discuss.

This...


....announcing a huge tax increase of any kind right before an election?

C'mon, get real Liberals.

You aint gonna last much longer with policies like that.

Lately there's been this proposal to seize Russian assets outside of its borders to pay for the Ukraine War effort,


Do you think this is justified or not?

What's yer take/opinion.

I know what mine is.

....this video says so.


...according to them it was

About 3:30 into the video it is discussed:

https://apnews.com/article/strait-of-hormuz-vessel-33fcffde2d867380e98c89403776a8ac

...or does the board allow it now?

Eg,,,,

https://thebluecashew.net/index.php/topic,17299.msg533553/boardseen.html#new

...and became a multibillion enterprise....

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/gary-con-lake-geneva-dungeons-and-dragons-history

ESQUIRE ARTICLE:

QuoteDystopian jargon (like "dumpster fire" and "doomscroll") is taking over the way we talk. But the constant conjuring of End Times is having surprising, unintended—maybe even dangerous—consequences.

https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a60295595/doomslang-trend/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

...reason I wonder is the price of bitcoin is skyrocketing

Gold is one thing but when bitcoin outpaces even gold by a wide margin makes ya think a crash might be right around the corner.

We definitely don't live in normal times.

Something's amiss & something is gonna happen.

...I noticed in the last while it's either being discontinued or becoming subscriber only.

What used to be widely available, permanent and sometimes cheap, is increasingly being cut off from the consumer now. Unfortunately, the Internet has enabled software makers to offer it in subscriber versions only. Plus the coming of AI has something to do with it as well.

So, what this means is the end user won't just be able to fire up the computer and use what he/she wanted to without any restrictions. I the future, people probably won't be able to own the software like they used to when it came on a CD or DVD

Anyways, that's just the way I see it. So I've been trying to get the better or high end software while I can before that option is cut off/snuffed out from us one day completely.