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The Fed can't be abolished except by an Act of Congress. This is unlikely to happen for self-serving reasons of financial repression. However, it can, like many central banks, become irrelevant. That's the greater issue.

I think you're out of your league but if you want a reference... here. Good luck.

Roughly how much money is in the budget? Now... quadruple it and be fully prepared to kiss it goodbye. Still excited?

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I like pizza!

Did you want to voice your opinion or an answer to the question? :sneaky: Markets are an institution of human construction... of course they are being manipulated somehow. It's not God who controls them; too busy with earthquakes and plagues.

You know what might actually be helpful IMHO... in addition to being able to block/ignore users, one should be able to completely block/ignore threads. I don't think this functionality exists. I understand that threads don't need to be subscribed to. However, my reasoning is that conversation...

I don't suppose this has anything to do with it?

Or, perhaps #echochamber... since rebuttal is often unwelcome.

You're entitled to your opinion... just keep in mind those kinds of franchises are pretty big business these days. Last I checked MSFT bought up at least one game studio. And, let's face it... from the myriad of personalities on this site many members are little more than grown children ;)

https://mises.org/library/theory-money-and-credit/html/p/1183

Not _exactly_ a game but printing your own tokens that can be converted into something of value is a sort of "holy grail" anyway. It's not easy to pull off but the concept applies IMHO. So :finger: to you @Overnight you lovable gob-shite :p Fair enough, I don't see a big difference between a...

In terms of monetization, I'd also consider tokenizing likes or like ratios or something along those lines.... the same way you can skip the boring "farming" aspects of a video game by just buying "credits" instead. Leveling up should cost something; time or money. It's game development 101...

Exactly! That's the type of connection a bot would just plain old miss... but a human would probably understand, maybe not agree with completely, but understand, almost instantly.

I'm not convinced. He's too predictable. Very good chance he's a chat bot. Look at my post here: I predicted, in real-time, that @Scataphagos would block the user. And... it actually happened with time left for me to edit my post and add the last line that says: "AHAHAHAHAH, see... too...

I'm convinced @Scataphagos is an A.I. bot deliberately programmed to be stupid as possible. The Turing test is easier to pass when the chat bot appears to be an idiot.

You're right @murray t turtle! The player's supposed to push the machine around a little to juice the score, right? Just don't push so hard that the sensor goes off and it starts pushing back!

Fun fact... the term "tilt" originated from pinball, not poker! Games are supposed to be fun :caution:

You wanna see someone go on tilt really fast... call out @Scataphagos for being an idiot and then watch the tears run down his face. AHAHAHAHAH, see... too funny!

See, w've got to enlist the wisdom of the crowd to figure out what that wily coyote is doing, lol.