Hah, nice.

Yeah. Looks like the USD and rouble have been trading fairly evenly the last few years, within about 20%. So they’ve probably been inflating roughly at the same pace, I guess…

Regardless it seems like the basic thesis, that Russia doesn’t seem likely to have any more room for increasing spending, is accurate.

Although I guess a deflated dollar would look like an inflated rouble, and vice versa. On the other hand they can both inflate/deflate relative to yuan or euro.

I don’t think so… deflated would mean it takes fewer roubles to buy an item, not more. A 100 trillion economy would become a 120 trillion economy on paper with no other changes.

The US dollar has inflated like 25% in that period, maybe that is related.

Your body adapts. It’s mainly down to your gut microbiome being able to handle it.

Could possibly buy or make garlic infused salt, then mix the two.

I’ve learned about cricket mostly from Bluey.

Tempeh and nutritional yeast are a good start there, but you may need supplements, yes.

Trading taglines and signature files while downloading gifs at 300 baud (she was worth it) and my ip address was ‘3’.

(5 points for the reference)

Hmm… i briefly wrote a column (it was … pretty bad) for Linux.com when it was an online magazine in like 1998, i think. I wonder if the address they gave me still works.

Probably not. Heh.

Can’t tell if serious or not…

It’s definitely something that needs to be attacked at a systems level, not a personal one. Divesting your own investments is a small step. Writing your MP is another step. Telling your union’s retirement fund that you’d like them to divest is another step.

Many raindrops make an ocean, I suppose. But there are some people who control rivers that we can influence in a small way.

I just don’t see decoupling happening (in my lifetime).

This is a bit of a “all or nothing” fallacy. It admits to degrees. It’s like someone saying that they can’t be vegetarian because they like bacon. Dude, just cut out everything except bacon, it’s fine.

Countries reducing their exposure to USD is still a good step, given how unreliable a partner the USA has been the last decade. You don’t have to fully dump all your USD bonds to add resilience to your financial system.

US power stems directly from its dollar position. Its status as reserve currency is a force multiplier. The immediate step is to reduce exposure to it, which disproportionately reduces US power in the short term.

The longer this goes on, the more systems decouple from the USA and correspondingly the less power and influence they have.

Yeah, we go to Spaghetti Factory (Canada) and fill up on bread and just tip the main course directly into leftovers containers sometimes.

THX

I’ve been to Quebec. They’ll poutine ANYTHING. There are so many variations on the theme, nobody would bat an eye at that.

I hope it works! I’ve been meaning to try rolling them out before freezing them, which also seems pretty smart.

I am open to the idea but it would have to start with Schengen. I’m not sure our economy would do well if we couldn’t float our currency.