China has been quietly selling off its USD for a decade. The geopolitical alliances have been shifting for a while, but Hormuz just pushed it into high gear.
Personally I now avoid doing business with US companies where possible and am looking into Bank of China for banking - getting away from anything that sends money to the US where I can. I doubt I’m the only one.
oh yes another reason to avoid. The list gets longer every day.
yes, but politically these days (since March 2026) it seems much smarter to reject the US completely, it does not feel at all as stable as China now. I mean China’s power is what has stopped the cost oil sky-rocketing into the stratosphere this year. China is clearly in control and the US is a dumpster fire now bent on destroying the globalisation it once created.
given the current political climate I’m surprised they allow USD anymore. I’d expecting them to be sucking up more to China and requiring RMB.
technically you can push the Coles gates open, but they don’t really swing. I hate them and they usually don’t like me, and I actively avoid Coles for all but emergencies specifically because of them (and oh the Palantir contact too of course).
I have Mitsubishi Minicab-MiEV, it weighs about 1T, and is very stable even in high winds, is the battery plus light commercial tyres that really help!
and still, they authorise more giant data centres
no no noey no
about time!!
Maybe he actually meant Biblically accurate? The two are quite easily confused, after all.
Also, remember DeepDream?
Like that.
Is he related to John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt?
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This is all documented and pretty fucking obvious. Liquidate Edmund Rice Education and split the proceeds between survivors.
And do the same with any number of companies that have exploited and destroyed the innocent.
interestingly, after we read 3 (short) books, my little one chooses which “sleepy sound” in the app, and they go to sleep to that. She mostly chooses beach, but sometimes forest. I usually choose crickets, and rain if it is a rainy night 😊
I think making any valuable dataset more comprehensive/complete makes it a bigger target for attempts to compromise it. Any time the data is more split up the less attractive it is. I know a single medical centre which may have worse data security practises is more vulnerable, but I’d still prefer not to keep it all in one place.
and this is why I opted out of MyHealthRecord.
I’m autistic and was recently summonsed for Jury Duty. I’m high functioning, and actually wanted to do it but as a single parent it wasn’t possible, so I had a different reason to excuse. Autistic people are part of society too, and we usually have a very strong sense of justice and fairness. But often there are distressing details in court cases, so if your anxiety is likely to be extreme then I think that alone is reason to be excused.
Don’t forget the acknowledgement of stolen data. It’s an important first step towards justice.
hmm, this seems somewhat to tell a different story?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign-exchange_reserves_of_China
The true breakdown of total reserves is not public, but it does seem to me that the actions of China are bolstering stability far more than the US at this stage, and I expect to see further decline in USD holdings globally as the US implodes its former soft power supremacy.