The Bundesbank forecasts "growth" rates for Germany under 1% for the next three years. That would mean a GDP "increase" of barely 2%.... since 2019. How do you say "Printer go BRRRRR" in German?

The thing that pisses me off about the killing of that insurance company CEO is how clearly the message was sent and received that "law enforcement" and generally speaking the public side of the State Apparatus, work for the private side of the same State Apparatus. How many murders happen in the US daily? How many of them are solved at all? And how many of those are solved as quickly? How many resources did the public leg of the Apparatus throw at the almost instantaneous resolution? These people are completely shameless. But there's a silver lining, and you know what, I think this whole incident once again shows how in the end, the US remains in more in shape socially and to a lesser extent politically, than any other Western country: an armed citizen took action, and forced the corrupt State and its cronies to 1. scramble and show their true colors; 2. be afraid, very afraid.

These three look the same on the surface, but I don't think they are, and AMZN may give us a surprise.

> Since this is a new 2TB drive it will need to do a new complete download and index of the blockchain. This is why I decided not to buy a pre-made node. None of the options I looked into allowed for external storage of the block directory. I'm never ever in my life ever again going through the initial download and synch. I'd rather stop running a node altogether.

Holy fuck. I thought Brexit fixed all that. /s View quoted note →