COVID
There are now 11,533,445 active cases worldwide, which is slightly less than last week. 3,935,392 total deaths worldwide. NSW is now in lockdown with 106 active community cases. Victoria has 17 active cases. QLD has 13 active cases. NT has 4 active cases.
From the way NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant was talking and her body language, she seems incompetent and doesn’t have any answers. She was saying we are going to vaccinate everyone including your children, but you could still spread COVID and could still get sick. Umm… what??
Britain’s health minister Matt Hancock made rules that effectively banned hugging and physical contact with anyone not from the same household. However he was caught on camera cheating on his wife with a lady hired to be his assistant. Now the public are seething over this, especially this guy who goes on a huge rant. The English invented English so it’s not surprising they are the best at swearing in English. It is the best use of swearing of recent times. Of course if you cheat on your wife as an Australian politician, you get a promotion – refer to the deputy PM. Also People in London are out marching en mass in protest over lockdown.
We need this level of outrage when we are banned from overseas travel but our PM turns up in England recently. Not even dual citizens are allowed to leave our convict prison, even for compassionate purposes.
I’m not sure why this isn’t law in Australia yet, the use of QR code for any other purpose apart from health should be deemed illegal, but it’s currently not.
“There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.” – Thomas Sowell
Finance & Economics
Super is unfair, in that low income owners (like a cleaner, the old guy working at the supermarket) will never have enough money to retire, and they get money siphoned off to prop up the finance bubble. That’s a pretty harsh assessment. Also it’s interesting to note that Australia has pension agreement with 31 other countries, in that if you retire and go to live in that country you can still get the pension. The thing to note is that Australia has no pension agreement with France.
The Bank of International Settlement is against bitcoin, it facilitates financial crimes. Why shouldn’t that surprise you? Bitcoin is disrupting their business model. 18.4% of people own cryptocurrencies in Australia. If you go with the BIS narrative then they are all criminals. Raise your hand if you believe the BIS is looking after your interests. And keep that hand up if you you believe they will continue to look after your interests when it conflicts with global banking giants. They would like all the central banks to launch their own digital currencies, get rid of cash and be able to monitor what everyone is spending their money on. Central bodies not elected by you are not looking after your best interest.
This guy got scammed out of $200,000. I’m glad he got his money back, but it’s important to note how the scammed occurred, it was actually him that went googling for information. Also note that he got most of his money back, which is a contradiction to the BIS statement that there is settlement finality in the fiat system. If there was finality, it’s like having your wallet stolen and you never seeing the bank notes in your wallet again. That’s finality.
The front runner for the Mayor in NYC Eric Adams says that if he wins then New York will become the center of bitcoins. US Senator Elizabeth Warren think that bitcoin contains “…useless complicated math problems…“, which Jack Dorsey replied to. Jack has offered to quit being CEO of Twitter and Square if bitcoin needed more help.
Here is Mexico’s third richest man explaining why all fiat currencies are a fraud and he wants to hold bitcoin over the next 30 years. You have to consider that the Mexican peso went from 20 to 1 USD to now 20,000 to 1 USD.
Why El Salvador Made Bitcoin Legal Tender with President Nayib Bukele. He’s 39 years old, and this is what a forward thinking leader looks and talks like. Time will tell how this plays out, but I think he has answered all the interviewers questions well.
The bitcoin community actually agree with Warren Buffet, we just disagree with who is the vermin.
China, stealing the brand of “Crypto Currency” in an attempt to garner trust, but for all the wrong reasons. The digital yuan will be centralized, debased, tracked, highly censored, used for social scoring, etc. No one is fooled. Bitcoin is freedom, make no mistake.
For those who can code here is bitcoin in python with the concepts built from scratch. BTC is trading at $43,619.27 AUD or $33,060 USD.
Other Stuff
John McAfee (the fairly controversial figure who invented the anti virus of the same name) died in prison in Spain where the US were trying to extradite him for tax evasion. He has said in 2019, if ever news come out that he committed suicide, then he has been murdered.
This map represents our solar system as if the moon was the size of 1 pixel on your monitor. When you scrolling through you begin to realise just how much empty space we have in our solar system. It’s amazing. You need to do it on a computer.
Here’s what people in Australia’s hope’s and dreams are. I think it’s important to highlight the last couple who wanted to live in a specific suburb, with a son who has a certain name and to have an L shaped couch, and now they have that. What is it that you want in the future?
I found this interesting article from a start up called Fresh Paint breaking down in detail how they raised the seed round. Most of the money came from warm contacts.
Someone needs to tell this guy that he can’t engineer and infect humans with diseases against their will. He basically wants to infect humans with a disease that makes them allergic to meat to help save the environment. No matter if you’re vegetarian or not vegetarian, forcing people and their kids to get a disease to save the environment is psychopathic.
Cold showers – increase energy and motivation. You will get less cold and flu, seems to be supported by my swim coach who swims in the bay without a wet suit even during winter and hasn’t been sick for 15 years. It could also reduce the risk of dementia.
I found this site with plenty of handy tips. For example – pour your long life milk upside down. Clean your toilet with Coke. Freeze half a bottle of water lying down, to have ice water. Put your Slurpee lid upside down to be able to fill more. Peel your banana from the bottom. Do no mix baking soda and vinegar when cleaning, cause it simple turns to water, once it finish bubbling.
How do you get to this level of skating??
The Tour the France just started! We are in Bretagne today where a friend lives whom I tried to get to go out and wave! A French rider is in the yellow jersey. Yesterday, this stupid idiot held up their sign out too far and crashed half the peloton.
Have a good week all, and don’t beat yourself up if it all doesn’t go well.