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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • There are several reasons why I ignore anything crypto related.

    • The barrier to entry is daunting. Where do I buy it that isn’t going to scam me? Where do I store it that isn’t going to just steal it? How do I use it?

    • Almost everytime I hear about it, it is related to a scam. I recieve texts from strangers wanting to scam me with it. I read about people like Bankman-Fried being seemingly legit but then stealing it. I read about Musk’s on-again/off-again love for Doge and it feels like just a way to pump up his own investment that would be illegal of it were normal investments.

    • The freedom it gives you to get what you need is the same freedom that allows organized crime, terrorist organizations, and sanctioned countries avoid scrutiny a lot easier.

    • Most are a risky investment. The price swings greatly on the biggest ones and never goes up on most of the others. The only ones that don’t seem to have that problem are the ones that peg their value to a real currency.


  • That is a good read but I’m going to muddy the waters a bit.

    I’ll start off with saying I understand this is fiction and doesn’t necessarily directly fit into real life.

    In the US military the ranks Captain, Commander, and General don’t exist in the same rank structure. Captain and General exist in every structure except the Navy and Coast Guard which have Commander and Captain. In the former, Captain is an O3 and General could be an O7 through O10. In the latter a Commander is an O5 and and Captain is an O6.

    So at the end of ANH Luke as either an O3 or O6 and in RotJ he had separated. Han in ANH was and O5 and later jumped structures and was an O7.