Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for February 06, 2025

He’s not worng….

Heck, I’ve even been to certain big box grocery stores where the price isn’t a shelf sticker but a digital price device. I find myself thinking they’ll raise the price between taking a can off the shelf and getting it to the cashier.

I would never have guessed Arlo had also studied quantum mechanics at one time. If you’re curious it involves the confusing concept of not just whether the cat is alive or not but both alive and not. Or very small objects may exist as superpositions, both existing and not existing. Please forgive my clumsy efforts, it’s been almost 60 years for me.

It seems intuitive that the cat is either alive or dead before we look in the box. When we look, we’re simply observing what already is. It’s not that the cat is both dead and alive, it’s just that we don’t KNOW if it’s dead or alive

I have news for Arlo – “old-style” currency is mostly like that as well.

I have news for Arlo – “old-style” currency is mostly like that as well. Coins and notes are the VERY small tip of a VERY large iceberg.

All modern economies are faith based.

Cryptocurrency is more like a commodity than a currency.

How much of your money actually exists? Most of it is just numbers on a computer screen.

Sounds like a scam to me, but then a lot of the crypto currencies have turned out to be just that so far. Good ol’ pump n dump.

And now Musk controls it all.

A waste of electricity.

I was looking for someone to post a Peanuts reference….

Brilliant deduction, Arlo!

This is the same gambit — crypto — which Trump proposes to use as the beautiful, best investment for the federal government to jump into. Not only that, the US will have to borrow even more $$ to so “invest,” and that necessity will add to the debt (and deficit). This is because the US has NO sovereign wealth fund assets — the usual resource governments use to invest in speculative instruments — because the US runs a budgetary deficit annually. What could possibly go wrong? trump invest in crypto

CRYPTO currency means it is a mystery to me. I keep reading about people being scammed out of millions of it. Since it really doesn’t exist, I wonder how that is.

This is the best description of cryptocurrency ever!!!!

There will be more real money lost buying crypto than generated, not crypto value, but real value in the real world. Blockchain is an excellent technology that can be used for good, but anybody or their cousin can “create” a crypto coin and sell it, just another slice of the Dutch Tulip market.

Cryptocurrency is not that different from paper money, except for visibility.

Crypto is the currency of despots and criminals. Virtually untraceable.