War Room OT Discussion v3

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Where's @HUNTERMANIA at? February looms, and Trump is still President. I'm curious about that $$$ bet he supposedly made, and if he's still confident in his position.
 
JonesBones said:
Bottled water? Get out of the past. Boxed water is where it is at.

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"Definitely a water company," says Jeremy Adams, vice-president for marketing at Boxed Water Is Better, when I ask him whether Boxed Water is a paper company. The water is purified through reverse osmosis and ultraviolet filtration. Still, if virtue is one of the company's main selling points, then the name needs a tweak: Boxed Water Is Shipped Better.

For one truck's worth of bottled water, Boxed Water can deliver 26 trucks' worth of cartoned water. Here's how that works out: The company sends its cartons to its filling plants empty. A single pallet can hold some 35,000 empty, flat-packed Boxed Water cartons. Only after they're shipped to the filling station are the cartons filled.
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Are they just liquid paperboard? I think the goon sack is a better option personally (and a local invention, although I don't think we've managed to export "Goon of Fortune" to the world yet).
 
Ruprecht said:
Are they just liquid paperboard? I think the goon sack is a better option personally (and a local invention, although I don't think we've managed to export "Goon of Fortune" to the world yet).
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It is almost 100% recycled. The box. We have goon sack like things here. They are harder to handle with bigger volume though. Like boxed wine. It is a goon sack inside the box. The box makes it easier to carry. I used to walk around a party carrying it around like a suitcase. lol.

We have them for milk and other things too.

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One thing I need is a thing that stops shit from falling inbetween your seats. that hole between your seat and console. My phone, wallet, etc are always sliding out of my pocket or off the seat into that crack. There was a guy on Shark Tank pitching a thing to stop that. And one of the guys is like, "Is stuff falling through seat cracks really a problem?" And then Mark Cuban says, "Yeah, go look under my car seat right now." lol. Cuban knows.

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Jack V Savage said:
Mostly anti-anti-gold standard, though. Haven't actually seen anyone explain why it would be a good idea.
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I had it explained to me in like 10 minutes and figured out how dumb it is. Gold is totally disconnected from market dynamics. Money should be increased or reduced based on what is happening. Not random finding of Gold. That is absurd. Wait for new gold to be found to increase money supply. Basically having to wait for a black swan event. I think it bankrupted the Spanish; all the gold and silver they stole from the Americas caused massive inflation.
 
JonesBones said:
I had it explained to me in like 10 minutes and figured out how dumb it is. Gold is totally disconnected from market dynamics. Money should be increased or reduced based on what is happening. Not random finding of Gold. That is absurd. Wait for new gold to be found to increase money supply. Basically having to wait for a black swan event. I think it bankrupted the Spanish; all the gold and silver they stole from the Americas caused massive inflation.
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I think in the past people just didn't know any better, and that's probably why most people who support it today support it (they just don't realize why it failed).
 
Jack V Savage said:
I think in the past people just didn't know any better, and that's probably why most people who support it today support it (they just don't realize why it failed).
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I mean, I get Ron Paul and people like that supporting it. People who support gold also overlap with bitcoin people who think bitcoin is the new gold 2.0. They are paranoid people who don't trust the government. The US dollar is only worth something cuz the US Government says it is and the government can't be trusted. Well the the US Government is a powerful fuckin force you idiots. What they say is law. It's like saying the only reason rape is illegal in the US is because the US Government says it is. Which is true. That doesn't mean you can rape people.

Steve Forbes is another guy who supports gold. I don't know 1% of what he knows about economics but it blows my mind that such a major figure could support it. It has to be ideological. It is certainly not practical.
 
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"Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is."

-William James
 
Bought a bunch of these the other day at 70 cents. Opened up today at 1 dollar and hit 2 dollars. damn. lol

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This thing turns any phone into a measuring device. You can measure yourself for clothes. how long surfaces are. it is a level too. bunch of shit.

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MySize’s innovative technology has been designed to allow consumers to measure themselves using their smartphone and then be matched with an online apparel item in their size.


Some websites are partnering with it.
 
JonesBones said:
I mean, I get Ron Paul and people like that supporting it. People who support gold also overlap with bitcoin people who think bitcoin is the new gold 2.0. They are paranoid people who don't trust the government. The US dollar is only worth something cuz the US Government says it is and the government can't be trusted. Well the the US Government is a powerful fuckin force you idiots. What they say is law. It's like saying the only reason rape is illegal in the US is because the US Government says it is. Which is true. That doesn't mean you can rape people.

Steve Forbes is another guy who supports gold. I don't know 1% of what he knows about economics but it blows my mind that such a major figure could support it. It has to be ideological. It is certainly not practical.
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Or it could partly be a belief that he would personally benefit from it at the expense of others.

I guess the general-good argument from paranoid nutters would be that essentially randomizing monetary policy and separating it from human needs is better than having people try to respond to needs because people are *inevitably* going to act badly. Most sane people acknowledge that people *can* fuck up or be corrupt (liberalism is about containing those weaknesses through institutional design), but right-wing libertarian nutters think people can *only* fuck up or be corrupt if they're calling their social organization a "gov't."
 
JonesBones said:
Steve Forbes is another guy who supports gold. I don't know 1% of what he knows about economics but it blows my mind that such a major figure could support it. It has to be ideological. It is certainly not practical.
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You don't have that hedge in your portfolio?

I like the way this guy explains the hierarchy of money.

http://ieor.columbia.edu/files/seas...ch/pdf-files/Mehrling_P_FESeminar_Sp12-02.pdf

While the gold standard has been cast aside, it's still held by governments and central banks. Maybe that's a matter of old habits dying hard. Maybe it's because when shit hits the fan people would rather receive an asset than a promise to pay. Don't know. But without the global financial system we have today it's not hard to see why gold might be preferable to a foreign fiat currency.
 
Limbo Pete said:
Been a while since we had a go-around in here about the gold standard
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Never again would be too soon. This place was unbearable back when Peter Schiff was considered the second coming by what seemed to be half of the War Room and "mainstream economist" was used as a diss while praising people like Rothbard. Hayek was misquoted into oblivion.

It was frankly impossible to debate people here because they challenged just about every single premise reasonable people built on (just for the sake of it, not because they could debunk anything) and had their own weird alternative definitions for basic concepts (i.e. inflation).
 
MiniCraque said:
Never again would be too soon. This place was unbearable back when Peter Schiff was considered the second coming by what seemed to be half of the War Room and "mainstream economist" was used as a diss while praising people like Rothbard. Hayek was misquoted into oblivion.

It was frankly impossible to debate people here because they challenged just about every single premise reasonable people built on (just for the sake of it, not because they could debunk anything) and had their own weird alternative definitions for basic concepts (i.e. inflation).
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Still better than identity politics...
 
MiniCraque said:
Shit... point taken.

I do miss the gold bugs and paulites though. Their jovial optimism is kind of endearing in retrospect.
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Yeah, I think I've said before that it's weird looking back at the mass defection of neocons to "Paleoconservatism" and "Libertarianism" as "the good times".
Libertarians going Trumpet (including their old youtube cult master Molyneux) certainly wasn't an improvement.
 
HereticBD said:
to which you have lent credibility to, by not merely ignoring my accusations, but by letting them rustle you to the point of running to the mods over them, and hilariously playing dumb over the name(FYI, that doesn't really work when it's in text).
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I could give two shits about this, but expecting him to "merely ignore" is kind of moronic when you were acting with all the subtlety and moderation of Donald Trump in a photo shoot with his 12 year old daughter. You were/are literally quoting him multiple times in a thread and tagging that other member, so as to further avoid substantively engaging him.

Regardless of this, for all the exasperated whining you have done about liberal degeneration, your post quality, intellectual honesty, and general credibility have nosedived in an extent far outpacing manic liberals. From being a few noticeable classes removed from the bottom wrung of right-wing Pwentian posters here, you've devolved into purely a hissing partisan, completely disregarding any sort of policies or principles in defense of a hilariously inept strong man that you lust after. Sad!

EDIT: But, fwiw, I think reporting/contacting mods is almost universally stupid. Who cares that much about a message board. Unless you're advocating genocide, reporting should be scant.
 
Cubo de Sangre said:
You don't have that hedge in your portfolio?

I like the way this guy explains the hierarchy of money.

http://ieor.columbia.edu/files/seas...ch/pdf-files/Mehrling_P_FESeminar_Sp12-02.pdf

While the gold standard has been cast aside, it's still held by governments and central banks. Maybe that's a matter of old habits dying hard. Maybe it's because when shit hits the fan people would rather receive an asset than a promise to pay. Don't know. But without the global financial system we have today it's not hard to see why gold might be preferable to a foreign fiat currency.
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A "promise to pay" is not what people have now. And, yes, in a kind of post-apocalyptic world, people might barter or use gold. That has no application in the real world, though. Also, our central bank doesn't own any gold.
 
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