IF we continue to keep seeing footballers, and tennis players having heart attacks on TV, and more of us have friends taken out randomly by heart attacks and strokes eventually the genie will be all the way out of the bottle.  I think we are already there.  It's just a matter of how bad does it get.

In the United States, there are approximately 100 to 150 sudden cardiac deaths (SCD) during competitive sports each year. The estimated incidence of SCD among athletes versus non-athletes was found to be 0.44 per 100,000 person-years, and 13 per 100,000 person-years, respectively. Despite the higher risk of SCD in the general non-athlete population, SCD among athletes garners intense scrutiny by the media and represents an emotionally charged medical topic. Indeed, the incidence of SCD in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) athletes may be higher than previously thought

This is a non-mandatory, recommended update.
Wallets running 2.3.1 can continue to do so, but server and staking nodes are encouraged to upgrade.

Greetings!

How many Pinkcoin does one need to start getting some stakes?

The whole reaction to Covid nailed down these points for good; we are utterly lost as a species if group intelligence is the standard of measurement.

I also tend to think of Winston Churchill's famous quote in this respect:


People rather stick to convenient, simple lies than handle the complex, inconvenient truth 

...and you vegans are fucking hilarious. 

Not all of us city boys are clueless about our food.



The Angus steer on the right is Murray, being held by the lad who lovingly raised him like a pet, knowing full well that he was destined for slaughter. He was reserve grand champion at the prestigious Royal Winter Fair a few years back.

The guy with the glasses, second from right, is my local neighborhood butcher in downtown Toronto. He sources his meat from small, humane producers like the happy family in the rest of the picture. Happy meat is good meat. Of course it's free of artificial hormones and unnecessary antibiotics.

Murray was raised on forage and silage and finished with barley. Needless to say he was harvested humanely, locally.

I was lucky to get a couple of steaks from the front part of his rib section (with large spinalis dorsi muscles), plus a couple of flat irons (infraspinatus muscles). While we were enjoying him we had his picture up on the 55" display and toasted him, thanked him, and complimented him on his fine flavor and texture. He was delicious.

You can't compare two very different countries, you numnut. You have to compare the same country before and after.
You had much less chance of being shot in Australia before you became collectively stupid and banned guns too.
I'm pretty sure that gun deaths didn't change much at all in Australia before and after the ban.
There is a lot of research on the issue, and as far as I recall, the verdict is: More guns in the hands of good people = less gun deaths.

If you do want to do the country comparison I will raise you Switzerland, where every citizen gets his or hers gun with him home after military service and where they can go in to any gun store and by any gun they damn well please, and yet, a very peaceful country.

it's been, like, 8 years like this, same goddamned clunky-ass opaque interface

Armory is pretty fucking secure, slow ass release cycle, they at least manage to give you a configuration tab where you can...oh I dunno...CHOOSE A NON DEFAULT LOCATION FOR THE FUCKING 280GB YOU HAVE TO STORE?!?!?

I'm over it

"a 1 percent increase in the unemployment rate will be associated with 37,000 deaths [including 20,000 heart attacks], 920 suicides, 650 homicides, 4,000 state mental hospital admissions and 3,300 state prison admissions."

The unemployment rate currently sits at 15% and growing.


There was an increase in suicides in 2009 due to the recession.

Wow, cAPSLOCK, your post has just fired some old memory neurons in my brain...

Dungeon Master!

I've spent countless hours on this game. High school, with a classmate and friend. On an Amiga 500. We were even making maps on paper for each level. We're talking hours of non-stop playing, we didn't eat or sleep until we were completely exhausted...

I remember we used to eat those damned plant things in your screenshot, which upped our stamina/power/abilities. After we finished eating them, we went outside the room and slept (in-game) for some time and these things kept regenerating, so we could eat some more and gain more abilities. It was a way to raise your level. Also, the small squares with the symbols on top-right were for casting spells.

Those graphics were breathtaking at the time, a truly immersive experience (IIRC, the Amiga had better graphics than your screenshot -- this is probably from a PC or other computer).

Good times...

I could easily name somewhere between 50 - 100 countries, and have been able to since the 5th grade (could probably name more then than now). The problem is, its just not a skill you need for anything, unless you want to be a participant on Jeopardy some day.

I'm just gonna leave this here for Marcus of A to read at his pleasure.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8235979/UKs-coronavirus-crisis-peaked-lockdown-Expert-argues-draconian-measures-unnecessary.html

Ours are bigger.

Supposedly, the american military doctrine is to be bigger than the next ten countries combined. If that actually is the case then it is a mere choice.

I just wish someone had a counterargument.

Interesting reddit on an analysis of all these "grassroots" protests to open the Govt. Hint: It's gun nut astroturf...

https://www.reddit.com/r/maryland/comments/g3niq3/i_simply_cannot_believe_that_people_are/fnstpyl/

I am unable to synchronize the wallet. Someone has a download link for the NavCoin blockchain?

It's not that I don't agree, but what the fuck good does it do us in local wallets.  The sad fact is that you can't buy food with it yet.