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.

You have a very valid point, Arlo!

In God we trust, therefore, the only bitcoin I would invest in would be the one issued by the Vatican bank.

I think Arlo is giving too much credit to crypto currency. Besides, what happens to it all if in a worse case scenario, we get get hit with a series of big electro magnetic storms from the sun, and all the electronics go wonky worldwide?

Panel 5–Janis: “I think I like chocolate better than vanilla.”

Valuable and worthless at the same time….

Or like any digitally stored value, one good EMP and poof it’s gone!

Another topic Janis tuned out…..

“Real” money only exists digitally/virtually, when you get right down to it – that’s kind of the nature of fiat currency. AND it only has value because we agree it does, not in any intrinsic way.

What’s that thing on Arlo’s head? I figure its some kind of hat, but honestly it looks like an upside-down pot for plants, kind of like what Devo made famous.

You did fine.

The thing that bothers me is that U.S. currency used to be back up by the promise of a tangible exchange of gold or silver….but now is back up by the exact same thing as crypto currency is…nothing tangible.

Spot on, I’m stealing it.

sounds like the Great Tulip Crash to me

Most people, and by that I mean everyone whoever watched The Big Bang Theory, have heard of Schrodinger’s Theory, but that is about as far as their comprehension of it goes. They both know and don’t know at the same time.

World Class Grifters are running the USA today

Back when cryptocurrency was introduced I won about $10 worth in some contest I didn’t remember entering. I didn’t know what cryptocurrency was so I threw it away. A coworker assures me that it would be worth quite a bit now.

Just like your money in the bank. However, with crypto, one good virus could make it all disappear all over the world all at once.

“Cryptocurrency” . .. Madoff is rolling over in his grave: “Why didn’t I think of that!”

And today Frank and Ernest feature Pavlov’s dog.

Apt analogy JJ. Very apropos

Can you buy a burger with it?

A ‘Crypto’ can be alive and dead at the same time.

NFT = no freaking tangibility…

Unless the money is in a metal (gold or silver) which has an intrinsic value the money only has value IF someone will give you something for it.

US Currency used to be backed by silver or gold owned by the country. It is now based on “the full faith and credit” of the U.S. Government. This means it has value as long as one believes that they will get something for the paper bills or coins they have based on the stated value on the money even though the money has no intrinsic value.