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Re: How FOMO Hurts the World's Poor
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WillyAp
on 19/07/2025, 19:03:15 UTC

This is one example of how the government "FOMO" on one trend and only think about the benefits, but do not really understand the big risks that haunt the policy.

Absolutely, failure of the country or politicians greed. They just need to support the nickel smelters longer than other smelters survive. Chinese Style.
Governments should protect their state not abuse it. Later is in fashion though.
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Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress]
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WillyAp
on 19/07/2025, 18:58:47 UTC


We both know that paxmao is either a propagandist, or is just plain ignorant. While it is true that the West is advancing, following their advancement are all kinds of people in America and Europe who are waking up.

The Western banking system may temporarily prevail. It might even happen in Ukraine. But as they advance, their failure is following right behind them. They will collapse.

Waking up? That is kindergarten thinking, sometime my parents gonna wake and see what a marvelous person I have become?
The wake up theory is socialism's dream scenario. Socialism works just so people have to wake up.

When the banking/wall street crisis from 1929 went along not all banks went out of business.
Where states fail people still do business and it might be with sea shells.
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Re: The Burnout Cult & Remote Revolution
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WillyAp
on 19/07/2025, 16:12:20 UTC
Work is changing everywhere, and it’s messing with our lives

Companies are splitting into two groups:

Companies that prefer you to be in the office daily, and work long hours, all about speed and hustle. They believe faster and better when they are together in person. However, a lot of employees become stressed, exhausted, and even sick. We saw OpenAI (the big AI company) close for a week because their people were exhausted. Many good people leave these companies, and it is getting harder to find new workers



Control is part of the work progress, people forget.
Few people a capable of working effectively from home, or even more effectively.
For some the place they live is just a sleeping place, for others its a home.
Mental strength is needed, and you need to have a proper childhood. Video-games don't give you that.   
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Re: How FOMO Hurts the World's Poor
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WillyAp
on 19/07/2025, 15:38:24 UTC

If we are unbanked and it is hard for us to approach a real bank, there is always Bitcoin which is said also created for the unbanked.  The last thing that you said is scary but I think this isn't true at all. We only think there is no option but there is actually if we open our minds really well.

Visit me. On your own risk though, just being not from here makes you a victim. Most people have a smart phone. They don't know what a wallet is. The San Salvador project has similar experiences. Only a few Businesses accept USDC, or any other coin. The US$ reigns.

It's the vanguard, the world is marching into another dark age, thanks to the lack of parenting, social media and the use of the calculator in schools. 
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Re: Is it Ideal for parents to demand rent from their child who stays with them?
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WillyAp
on 18/07/2025, 14:33:09 UTC


It really depends on the whole situation. A parent won't demand a rent if they are not financially struggling themselves. They won't ask something for their children as long as they can bear what they are going through.

Plainly wrong assumption from your part.
My parents weren't wealthy but more or less well off.
 
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Re: Is it Ideal for parents to demand rent from their child who stays with them?
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WillyAp
on 17/07/2025, 17:11:03 UTC
Children are a blessing to parents, and parents won't be lonely if they have children living with them, especially if the child already has a job that earns money, which can also help them a bit because the child has an income. So it seems odd that a parent would intentionally demand rent from their child just because they live with them.

My parents collected rent because I started earning. To make me aware that washing my clothes, cooking for me is worth something.
Needless to say that I found a more conveniently priced option.
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Re: Is a University Degree Still Worth Anything?
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WillyAp
on 17/07/2025, 12:49:47 UTC
Microsoft, Google and some other big corp organice their own course work to make best use of the world's brain power.
Unfortunately though, people from sanctioned countries are excluded.

Further, it shows that the many universities have very little credibility.
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Re: How FOMO Hurts the World's Poor
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WillyAp
on 17/07/2025, 12:34:48 UTC
The worlds poor? Define that for me.
The poor I know are from my childhood, well I was one of them.

Nothing though compares to someone poor here, where I happen to live now.
Unbanked, unable to count, unable to save, grown up in a neighborhood where crime is the only option to make career. 
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Re: Is it Ideal for parents to demand rent from their child who stays with them?
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WillyAp
on 17/07/2025, 12:27:58 UTC
Well its not that bad, it happened to me and made me to move out earlier.
The new flat was more conveniently priced and much closer to work. a mile and a half. Walk-able in our times.
 
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Re: 11 more countries just joined BRICS this week
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WillyAp
on 17/07/2025, 12:24:30 UTC


I used to think it was a huge challenge and an impossible task, but with what Trump is doing and what America is facing. I believe that de-dollarization is happening faster than ever.

I bet he knows that, He also knows that going on as before it'll be inevitable. He only speeds up the process.
The advantage of the US$ is due to the not so thought through way the fees developed in Bitcoin, the spread in 10 of thousand alternative cryptos.
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Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress]
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WillyAp
on 16/07/2025, 23:19:38 UTC


The march of the west was sneaky, CIA, election fraud starting before 2014, but finally succeeding in 2014 and following.

The Ukraine military was killing its own citizens and destroying their property, militarily, even before 2014... and sometimes dipping into Russia to do it.

That is not a reason for the war, resources are and also from Russia.

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Pundits skeptical of or even hostile to Ukraine’s cause in its defensive war against Russia have different reasons, or rationalizations, for their views and hail from different points on the political spectrum. But there is one belief that unites nearly all of them: the conviction that Ukraine is not a democracy fighting for its survival but an American “Deep State” project, with a regime installed by a 2014 coup that was led by Ukrainian far-right extremists and backed or even engineered by the U.S. State Department. The corollary of this view is the belief that the pro-Kremlin enclaves in Eastern Ukraine, the “people’s republics” of Donetsk and Luhansk—whose defense was the stated purpose of the Russian invasion—are genuine expressions of the will of the local populace which rejects the pro-Western, anti-Moscow regime in Kyiv.

This narrative is embraced by the progressive left (CodePink’s Medea Benjamin, the Nation’s Aaron Maté, etc.) and the populist right (the Claremont Institute’s David Reaboi, Newsweek opinion editor Josh Hammer, and many others) and gives both permission to disregard their ostensible values—anti-imperialism and liberation struggles for the left, commitment to national sovereignty for the right.

It has been echoed even by some people broadly sympathetic to the pro-freedom aspirations of the Maidan (Independence Square) protesters who rose against Kremlin-friendly president Viktor Yanukovych in late 2013 and early 2014.

taken from:
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/what-really-happened-in-ukraine-in-2014-and-since-then
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Re: I've been having suicidal thoughts.
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WillyAp
on 16/07/2025, 21:27:53 UTC
You need to speak proper English.

Please forgive me, a y was missing.
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Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress]
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WillyAp
on 16/07/2025, 21:25:33 UTC

But the biggest reason why it matters is, it's getting closer to the time when the nukes will start flying. Seems like the West wants that to happen.

Why the West? Did the West march into Ucraine? 
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Re: Is AI Making Mining Better, or Just Faster?
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WillyAp
on 16/07/2025, 18:01:20 UTC
AI is bringing us to perfection. It won’t take long before be achieve immortality. Maybe we already did but they still keep it a secret. Maybe the price is way too expensive so there is no point in revealing it.

How, with their inbreed fantasy, with an input of 60% Lies?
Its LLM, no AI, and schooled on the internet, where what you read is true, in your words.
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Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress]
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WillyAp
on 16/07/2025, 16:12:31 UTC

It appears to be so with the robots. The only things that gives me any kind of hope is that robots will get so advanced that us meatbags will become obsolete on the frontlines, like horses. Superpowers will be protected by nukes and MAD, but these proxy wars can be fought exclusively with robots, until we enter the Terminator scenario, that is.

Think a little further and the only countries advancing in tech are the ones practicing warfare.
 
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Re: Housing is no longer a goal for the next generation
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WillyAp
on 16/07/2025, 16:06:36 UTC
Thanks to credo: Live your life to the max, don't build for the future.
Aimlessly walking from vacation to whatever is next.
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Re: BYD - the new Evergrande, but in the automotive market ?
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WillyAp
on 16/07/2025, 15:38:59 UTC
I understand the history quite well, but the main point is that it was a tragedy in the past and has nothing to do with what we are talking about here, even if it is offensive, it is over, so what do you want to convey?

People don't forget that easily.
Why is Ukraine fighting and not giving in?
Due to a pogrom called holodomor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

From the outside people ask; but why are they not just getting to understand each other.
After those happenings people carry grudges.

Do you know why German people are popular in northern Africa? Not for their wokeness,

Governments might make peace, their people less so.
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Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress]
by
WillyAp
on 15/07/2025, 18:53:00 UTC
Now veterans play video games to cope, I cannot imagine these new "bonus points" warriors ever be able to hold controller to play a regular video game with their son without flashbacks, once back to civilian life. But guessing long term effects and reintegration into civilian life is the last priority for Ukrainians now, and just a nice controlled psych experiment for the west.

Ucraine is the forerunner, next wars will go with robots, and might even have a LLM "Brain, or remote and here we go again.
Age is just a number, as you see it works for them. War is not about fine and nice.
War is also the driver of tech.

nice controlled psych experiment for the west.

I bet the "other side" has a similar set up, or worse.
The article said as much, how where soldiers given some metal orden for: How many life he took. 
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Re: BYD - the new Evergrande, but in the automotive market ?
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WillyAp
on 15/07/2025, 18:45:08 UTC


China has many friends, including Indonesia, which consistently provides resources for battery manufacturing. Nickel is a key ingredient in battery manufacturing, and by 2022, 85% of our nickel exports were going to China, partly to meet battery manufacturing needs.


Countries don't have friends.
You might need a little insight what was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1998_riots_of_Indonesia
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Re: 11 more countries just joined BRICS this week
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WillyAp
on 15/07/2025, 17:15:58 UTC
Opening broader market access depends heavily on each participating country, as market access depends on the export value of whatever commodity each country is trying to offer.
This step is indeed a good one, as it provides space for each country to seek independence in any form of cooperative relationship.

A long way to go.

List of the 210 countries using the swift system.
https://www.bank-codes.com/countries