Quote from: BobLawblaw on March 21, 2023, 05:00:55 PM

Oh yeah, no offense to the amazing haberdasher who created my hat, I would request my removal from the formal "hat gang".

I'll always love my hat, but it's something I've had to sadly place in my trophy case, as a memory of a better time.

Don't let the door hit your furry lettuce butt on the way out. Cheesy

By the way, I give less than two shits about being part of a group or a gang, but I like the idea of lazer eyes combined with hats that happen to represent a kind of sentiment of the day.. and I told Homer that I did not really want to change my avatar, but it seems that I ended up; changing it several times, and surely nice pieces of art too... which largely were better than my previous avatar.. and also I don't even have the same interpretation of lazer eyes in terms of people telling me that it means that I am looking forward to $100k or some bullshit interpretation like that...

My own interpretation is "keep your eyes on the prize" which surely is bitcoin, continues to be bitcoin and likely will continue to be bitcoin.. and sure I suppose if some other coin were to come out or maybe some other kind of symbolic sign of the time (or communicative fad) in which my hat were to get updated even MOAR better (if that is possible?), then I am more than willing to change into that new fad.. so long as I were to agree with it and if such a thingie were to come.

Quote from: philipma1957 on March 21, 2023, 05:37:02 PM

I have a source that swears it will be +0.25%

He is a recently retired banker.

Ie smart enough to leave his bank in 2022 as rates rose.

No wonder your brain is so muddled. Rubbing too many shoulders with bankers, so you are likely brainwashed.... fiat brained, if there is such a thing.. . Cheesy

snap out of it..

snap out of it...

lobotomy in order, anyone?

Quote from: Toxic2040 on March 21, 2023, 11:03:50 PM

if you can get by not vaping....dont....its probably not good for you imo
as a life long imbiber of toxic substances...i can honestly say it starts having effects on health as you age
thats the kicker....at some point the piper must be paid and you only get a very small say in where, when and how as the bill comes due
kinda the old saying...take what you want...just be prepared to pay for it
stronghands

Actually, you have a decent point toxicmoxic, and I am not sure exactly of the expression, but there is a kind of dynamic in which our bodies can take a lot of abuse while we are younger and while we are still growing (and sure in spite of all the little fat diabetes kids), but anyhow, it is quite possible to be in great shape, have a lot of bad habits and your body still can tolerate and recover from various kinds of abuse; however, like you mention, as each of us gets older, our bodies become less tolerant to some kinds of abuses, and some people are more sensitive than others to certain kinds of abuses and some people are more able to tolerate and recover from various kinds of abuses that others are able to tolerate. At the same time, we might not be able to measure exactly if we might be causing some irreparable damages, and if we have historically had some issues (such as heart issues), there could be some signs that we might have some vulnerabilities that we had not known about.. and so some of the heart related matters, but then there are immunity and also insulin resistance matters that sometimes are not clear.. or liver damage that can build up.. but the liver tends to recover quite well, but sometimes even the liver does get overloaded, too.