The bad news is Kroger isn’t everywhere.

The good news is you don’t actually have to go to a Kroger.

You can go to any of: Bakers, City Market, Dillons, Food4Less, frys, Foods Co, Fred Myer, Gerber Market, Harris Market, Jay C, King Super, Mariano’s, Metro Market, PayLess, QFC, Ralphs, Ruler Foods, or Smith’s food and drug, and steal from them.

Bluetooth speaker in your pocket and a beep sound on your partner’s phone.

Kroger is a grocery chain in the US that is attempting to monopolize grocery stores.

It is always moral and just to steal from Kroger.

Next week on CNN, they’ll be reporting on the random missiles landing in Chicago as if the city fucking deserved it.

It’s not the average person’s stupidity you need to worry about.

It’s the exceptionally stupid that give average idiots a bad rap. We’re all average idiots every once in a while. The exceptionally stupid are the reason they put warning labels on chainsaws. The exceptionally stupid will ruin your entire day without ever interacting with you.

The average idiot might miss his exit, even shoot across a lane at the last second to make it. The exceptionally stupid will careen across 4 lanes of traffic at the last second and cause a 3 car pile up behind him, realize it was the wrong exit anyway and get back on the interstate going the wrong direction.

We are lucky when the wake of destruction following the exceptionally stupid catches up to them, if only because it slows them down long enough for us all to move on.

This literally happens in some areas outside the US. I can’t remember if it’s NotJustBikes or HappyTowns that talks about it on YouTube. But basically, the government offers affordable housing to force landlords to compete on quality and price. Shockingly in those areas rents are down and the quality of apartments is decent.

It’s possible she lost a substantial amount of weight at some point. The fat under your arms never goes away without surgery.

“A child who’s medical care would be completely free in every other developed nation, and a few underdeveloped ones too receives pocket change from a billionaire so that she doesn’t die under the crushing weight of the American medical system” just does not have the same ring to it for article headlines you know? We gotta get the current youth hyperfixation’s name in the headline for clicks, because we literally only exist to serve ads.

There are no billionaires without exploitation.

The best crab Rangoon I’ve ever had was literally just sweetened cream cheese in a wonton wrapper. It was 2 dollars for a bag of like 12 small rangoons and I ate those fucking things as often as I could. We’d make the drive in to town, grab some before we did anything else, and grab another bag on the way back out. I have few good memories of those times and those rangoons are one of them.

Man carcination really doesn’t fuck around

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Maybe you should look in to the history of money. Gold has not been king for a long time. It never really was.

Silver has always been more common as a standard. Gold and silver were frequently used in conjunction with each other, and neither of them have served as a standard intentionally since 1971. Well before any crypto. Using gold and gold alone as the standard is actually quite rare, and one time happened by accident.

Fun fact, at one point the Spanish thought they’d found an incredible amount of silver only to discover halfway across the Atlantic that it was some other shiney silver metal. They proceeded to dump tons of worthless plantinum overboard so as to not pollute the silver supply.

On Yap Island, giant circular stones were used as a form of currency. Everyone kind of just agreed on who owned what stones. At one point one fell off a boat and sunk, but because everyone knew that stone was still there, they could still assign value to it, and so it still stood in as currency. This single example is the closest real world example to crypto you’re going to find. And even obscure rocks on a remote island are a better investment because pretending a giant rock has value doesn’t depend on the Internet continuing to exist.

Salt, in various forms, has been used as currency and a standard of value. This is literally the origin of the word Salary. Roman soldiers were paid in salt. In Ethiopia they used bars of it as recently as the 1900s. In West Africa they even used bottle caps when coinage was scarce.

As it happens, bottle caps are a pretty good currency. They’re scarce, labeled, not super common, light and easy to carry, and easy to count. Notably, they also do not require the infrastructure that created them to continue to exist to retain value. None of the currencies I’ve mentioned, and to be clear these were currencies not commodities, require any of the technology that created them to exist to retain value. Bracelets, bricks of tea, tally sticks, seashells, even fucking Parmesan cheese all have functioned as a form of standard currency and all of them were better currencies than any crypto ever has been.

Crypto is a commodity. Except it only has value within is existing infrastructure. It will be like never getting able to check a book out of the library. Quite honestly if you’re going to trade commodities, it’s one of the least monstrous commodities to trade. The exorbitant energy costs notwithstanding.

If you burn down a library do the books still have any value?

The thing is, if I have a pile of gold coins, and a bunch of crypto in a private wallet on a hard drive and the house those things are in burns down, I’ll still have the gold. It just won’t be in coins.

All of that is kind of pointless because again, both of these things are terrible investments. You’re quite astute to point out the flaws in gold but what’s incredible is that you fail to see those same flaws, using the same logic, apply to crypto only in a more exaggerated form.

If you’re worried about the dollar collapsing, crypto will not save you from that, any more than a pile of gold will. Do you think the banks will just lock their doors one day and everyone will still go to work in the morning? Do you expect that trade will still function in a normal, civilized way?

Crypto is built on so many dependant layers of technology that if the dollar collapses, crypto will be as valuable as a library on fire.

Gold over Bitcoin? Yes.

Gold is also a shitty investment. But it’s a slightly better investment than Bitcoin. It has tangible value.

You’d be much better off investing that money in your community and building a robust support network, a small co-op to grow food, and find a secure source of clean water. If the kind of collapse people are talking about in this thread happens, no amount of Bitcoin or gold is going to be worth anything. But grain and water will be priceless.

Fairy dust, don’t be ridiculous. It’s Pixie dust.

Let me ask you this. If the hard drive that contains the private keys for your wallet is melted down to a liquid and allowed to cool, what is the value of that hard drive?

What would be the value of a gold coin given the same treatment?

Well no shit. If your basis for understanding Bitcoin is arguing for it, then sure, you’ll never meet that person. You’ll have a bizarre definition of understanding that no one else will use, but at least your jimmies won’t be rustled.

They also use silicon, platinum, copper, iron, cobalt, and glass, what’s your point?

I run a CNC mill every day that has aluminum wiring.

Gold as a unit of currency is only about 2500 years old. Prior to that it was used heavily in jewelry and adornments. Probably because it’s not good for much else and it happens to be fantastic as a jewelry material. It’s shiney, doesn’t tarnish, and is easy to work with hand tools.

The association with wealth probably came about as a result of being associated with expensive jewelry.

To be clear, modern historians do not look for piles of gold to determine relatively how wealthy a society was. They look at their ability to produce grain and other things that facilitated trade. Because gold is only valuable as a mechanism to facilitate trade. To a civilization more worried about feeding itself than foreign luxuries, it’s quite worthless.

If you find a way to link public transit to the further oppression of brown people or the extraction of oil, you’d get it in every city in America within 5 years.