SMURFSTR! View quoted note →

This is the hat I wore today:

TIL some Nobel prize winners hid their Nobel prizes from the Nazis by dissolving the gold into aqua regia and then just leaving the beaker on a shelf for a bunch of years while they occupied Denmark returning later to precipitate out the gold and have the Swedes smelt two new medals from the gold dust.

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Pack it up fellas, Zeihan was right. View quoted note →

Imagine legislating ownership of a future hypothetical fungible material to the extent it materializes on someone else’s property. This is an unconscionable law. You literally can’t play in the rain in this state on your own property. So I guess if the rain waters my tomatoes I go to jail? It’s the same fuckin’ thing except I’m storing the water in a plant instead of a bucket. View quoted note →