I find myself wondering if that's not been exploited in some kind of rounding-error scam exploiting the ability to move hard currency into the #crypto sphere, doing murky manipulations using different "coins" that have widely different equivalent values in terms of hard currency, and then pulling the money back into the sphere of legitimate business. "Liquefying" it, some would say, although it's actually a process of condensation, condensing gas-phase money (i.e. money existing mostly as promises and gambles on the future) into liquid money.

Thinking about money in such physical terms has been, I must say, helpful in demystifying this crap. I don't like dealing with money and people who talk about it constantly are unbelievably dreary, not the least because such persons ALWAYS chatter about how they don't care about money.

They've managed to blur "money" in their minds enough to convince themselves that all the things they're doing, the #investment and gambling on the #markets and buying and selling and lending and extorting rents and such, is somehow not about money but some vaguer thing they imagine to be an unquestionable public good, like "wealth" or "value". No greedy person admits to being greedy: denying the greed, right in the middle of grabbing for money, is one of the surest signs of it.

They can always tell themselves it's #mathematics. You don't hate math, do you? Sorry, maths.

~Chara of Pnictogen

MD formatted

Meteorology

Current weather in Leonsberg SR SA with infinite power of wttr.in & the grace of lolcat(6) 🏳️‍🌈 wttr curl(1) & {ba{c{k{z{fi}}}}}sh

Background photograph is a cloud formation composed with DSLR using Circ POL 81A warming FL & UV filters

log

$ curl -v wttr.in/leonsberg_suriname|lolcat
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0* Host wttr.in:80 was resolved.

• IPv6: (none)
• IPv4: 5.9.243.187
• Trying 5.9.243.187:80...
• Connected to wttr.in (5.9.243.187) port 80
• using HTTP/1.x> GET /leonsberg_suriname HTTP/1.1> Host: wttr.in> User-Agent: curl/8.14.1> Accept: />
• Request completely sent off< HTTP/1.1 200 OK< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *< Cache-Control: public, max-age=600< Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8< Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:14:35 GMT< Transfer-Encoding: chunked< { [2583 bytes data]100 8987 0 8987 0 0 12315 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 12327
• Connection #0 to host wttr.in left intactWeather report: leonsberg_suriname

`/"".-. Light rain shower
,_( ). +27(31) °C
/(() ↙ 13 km/h
‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 10 km
‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ 0.6 mm

Location: Leonsberg, Blauwgrond, Suriname [5.8692506,-55.1026346]

Note:

Always remember to repeat the request with an interval of 12 then 48 secs when the server sends and empty response to curl, watch the LOG!

API

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_(Unix_shell)

https://wttr.in

https://gnu.org

https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Bash

https://curl.se/

https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat

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@Dendrobatus_Azureus

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