@slutmagazine It doesn't matter where you are, dealers will pay you below spot price if you sell to them and charge higher than spot price if you buy it from them. If I recall there is a legal limit to this high and low spread from spot price. If you buy or sell in bulk they tend to cut you a deal and charge closer to spot price.

And don't try getting smart and buying straight from miners. That powder they filtered out of the dirt may appear pure but it often isn't. It typically has to be further refined to remove impurities, you could easily pay close to spot price for powder that is only 90% precious metal which can incur huge losses as you scale up in weight. The companies that buy from miners have equipment to check purity levels for that specific purpose.

Also do not forget various numismatic costs, those ingots and coins you buy cost money just to produce on top of the spot price of the raw metal. The molds eventually wear out, the polishing compound and people doing the work are not free.

@destraht Not southern but I get the sentiment. Lots of us wish we had an American version of Putin, he fights for the betterment of his own country. China is a shithole, literally. They squeeze frying oil out of their own sewage.

Russia lets you own firearms as a citizen (tiered licensing from smoothbore to rifle to handgun) and due to the frontier nature of Siberia lots of people can do whatever they want to some extent. China has zero freedoms and organ harvesting going on with it's prisoners. There is no further need to elaborate on that, Russia might not be as free as the US but it's free enough.

Russia is ahead of America on mental meds, Phenibut is a product from the 70's and we don't have a functional equivalent in the US besides Gabapentin but that is never prescribed for anxiety. They made other stuff since then and don't make near as many Benzodiazapenes like western shrinks tend to favor.

If Russia and the US formed a new partnership or coalition while ditching NATO the world would become a better place. But the US has to get it's loud minority of SJW's and crazies under control instead of letting them cheat elections.

@drake Insurance? Useless in a crisis. When hospitals are overflooded they have shown to not care about insurance, the dirty uninsured bums with no jobs and illegal immigrants will still flood in and they will take them first before you. I have dental insurance since that did save me money on stuff like cleanings and exams, oral health is important and not expensive.

As for inflation, well, this is like the 70's. I wasn't alive at the time but historical documentaries, my father, and grandfather have painted a clear picture for me. What we see today is the same as the 70's with inflation and tyrannical governmental overreach. Look up videos of people saying waiting an hour for gas wasn't bad. The 80's in the US was a utopia era because Republicans were in charge the entire time and reigned in those bad policies and the liberal-governmental overreach which was an earlier attempt at big government socialism. Only difference between today and then was the massive sedition Democrats were willing to commit and the outbreak of a disease that they created a false hysteria over for their own political purposes.

@drake I was slightly worried about it. There was no need for us to roll it out so fast. I was of the opinion to let China go ahead and blast their civilian populace with the higher frequencies, we can continue to develop the technology while still using 4g or upgraded 4g. We wouldn't get behind in any way, just wait and see what happens to them. Of course they lied about how many people died from COVID as they welded apartment doors shut so you can't trust any data coming from that liberal-utopia commie shithole.

As I speak my friend is working for a company laying terabit lines down, we have infrastructure in place so we don't need 5g. Data can go from a 4g tower to landline then back to broadcast tower if they wanted to ease up the burden on the wireless network. We wouldn't be hindered in any way by sticking to 4g longer. Now even the cheap phones at the store are 5g, so the push has been top to bottom. Your phone breaks bad enough and you need a total replacement you are going to be on 5g by force. It's dumb.

@destraht It's a what if scenario. Democrats tried to implode America in the 70's. Angry about Vietnam, gas prices jumped out and shortages everywhere. Carter fucked up bad, I mean real bad, there is a reason old-timers like my father kept saying Carter was the worst president ever even during the Obama years. Turns out Obama was just slowly trying to do the same thing and Republicans were slowing him down.

In the 70's we had idiots like Ralph Nader trying to stamp down on freedoms like even driving (when he admits he himself was always driven places, never really drove his own cars) and back then Brock Yates had a similar reactions that modern pro-Trump conservatives have by spouting logic back at them and when that doesn't work (as per usual with liberals) then proceeding to defy their wannabe tyrannical rules.

@TiberiusBravo87 You might be onto something here. Ultimately this medical tyranny is going to have to give way into something with longer legs such as "climate change" and security mongering. This already generated outrageous profits for the elites, and it jump started the creation of a social credit system in the form of a quarantine green-pass.

I think that while Australia is being run over so badly that they're getting all of the scale that they need to make a much larger system. Then a few other 50 million person experiments in countries with porous borders here and there to test the effect on the black market.

I want to say something strong, but I realize that I also had the foresight to organize my life such that weirdo shit like this would have a minimal impact. the point that I want to make though is that if your life has been fucked over by a vaccine mandate that you refuse to give into, then that was just a sample of the hell that awaits you later. People need to just give in like a bitch, or to find out what they're made of for when it starts getting real. Imagine this shit, but not coming out of a decently good economy, but rather ten years into the worst shit that anyone still alive can remember. If you insist on sticking around then this was just training wheels on a good day when your parents still got along.

Plot twist: What if the Democrats going insane and turning off the majority of voters from their bullshit is part of a plan to put Republicans into permanent power? After this people will legit never vote Democrat the rest of their lives, this leaves a potentially dangerous situation where Republicans become the major party in power for a potentially long time meaning they could end up being the targeted party for infiltration. Even if Republicans start trying dumb shit like banning movies and games (at least back then they still respected the constitution and various institutions and rules unlike Dems in power) people will tolerate it because we will look back and know it's not as bad as Democrats were.

If we ever beat back the election cheating then Democrats will never legit be in power ever again. I think our opponents at home and abroad know this, that is why they are so openly desperate to try pushing that voting bill with such dangerous rhetoric like Biden and other Dems have done. Operatives are probably planning to or attempting to hijack the Republican party. It happened with Mike Pence, he showed no signs of screwing us over until the exact critical moment he himself was needed the most. Ditto for the NRA. Lots of people who showed no signs of liberalism or anti-gun attitude for their entire careers slipped in then did a 180 on all of their prior "principles" which wound up destroying that organization from the inside. I suspect we will see an uptick of "conservatives" who are actually operatives playing a long-con just to take one well-aimed shot at their target. Once they show their cards they are done, their identity they spent a career creating will be thrown away in one moment so they will choose a very critical moment like Pence did.