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I have thought about this over the years and I am interested in purchasing GOLD. I want to diversify my portfolio, so to say, and gold might be the answer. I was talking to my friend about the purchase of gold and he said he invested 11k and now his investment is 28k. Woo hoo, cash it in and let's go on vacation! He said that he has to hang onto it for approximately 10 years to reap the full value otherwise the increase is negligible. He said that the "value" of his gold is not in the quantity, it is the quality of what he has purchased. What I understand him to tangibly have in his possession is 2 coins and some 1 ounce gold bullion. Apparently, the coins are where all the projected value is calculated from. In my head, I say BULLSHIT!
Has anyone purchased GOLD, who/where do you buy from and what should someone anticipate receiving in their purchase?
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If you already have a portfolio talk to your current advisor to may update your portfolio to maximize the return within the times you wish
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I can go down to the creek and have some shimmmer in the bottle in a matter of minutes. Been a while since I did it due to my handicap now.
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Remember this post a year ago when I told everyone to buy silver
If I get a wild hair to purchase gold.
Let's just say, 10,000 dollars worth today.
3 years later under harris we go into a serious economic depression.
How does a person use that gold to say buy food?
I remember reading about times in germany being so bad back during the war that a person took a wheel barrow load of money to the bank and someone left the money and stole the wheel barrow.
if you were to sell the gold, and cash is worthless, you would loose money wouldn't you?
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I was spot on
1. Gold bullion, is it like 100% gold or is it a alloy, like some other metal in it (that could be easily extracted, so it may be better for transport & stuff), I know pure gold is soft ?
2. Does bullion only come in 1 size/weight, like a universal thing world wide or do different countries have different size/weights or in general say in a single country 1 size/weight ?
3. You say you have purchased gold, so when ya do, do ya take it to ya car in a shopping trolly, chuck it in the boot (trunk), take it to a secure location or home, or is it stored at the location you purchase it from, so you basically own some of the the stock that is there ?
Nicely done!
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Melt Value: The primary value comes from the silver content, also known as "junk silver" value. As of December 2025, the melt value for a single 1964 half dollar is around $24.06. For 40 coins, the total melt value is approximately $962.40.
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1964 and older coins have 90% silver and 1965-1968 have 70% silver. 69- present are only worth face value, so if you have 40 pre 1964 fifty cent pieces you can get around $950.00 melt value and half that for 65-68 half dollars. All assorted pre1964 coins can be mixed in a one lb bag to receive 950. Dollars
Of course the winner of the Powerball has the option of taking 29 equal payments but they never choose that. I suppose that when you get to a certain age 29 equal payments might outlast your life.
If you win$820 million and I suppose about half of that will go to tax which pockets you $410 million. I could get by on that.
What government takes half of it; is it state or federal?
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I brought it home (the turkey not the dog!) and it is in my fridge now and tomorrow it will be turkey stew.
I told my niece that I will take her lunch to work one day next week.
I hope everyone had a great day.
Yesterday was a first for me……Yes, you guessed correctly, I prepared the turkey! I have baked chicken, you know, something the size of what you might purchase fully cooked at the grocery store, HOWEVER THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME I PREPARED A TURKEY AND HAM FOR A GROUP OF 18 PEOPLE! The turkey was perfect but unfortunately, I thought the gravy was too salty and there’s no way to fix that!
It was a long day, up at 05:15am, brewed a pot of coffee, combined the stuffing components that were chopped the previous day, stuffed the turkey, turkey in the oven at 06:30am. According to the label, the turkey was only 13.18lbs so it was done roasting at 12:30-ish, pulled out of the oven, allowed to rest, carving began shortly after 1pm and sliced turkey placed in crock pot to be kept warm until 2 o’clock mealtime. Dinner on table at scheduled time and everything was delicious (with exception of the gravy)!
I know that after dinner the cleanup is huge but once they're in your house you have many volunteers and of course many hands make light work.
The gravy would be used for the turkey and/or mashed potatoes so if it is too salty just tell people not to put salt on their turkey or mashed potatoes.
Another thing to do would be to add some wine or water to water it down. If it becomes too thin a little bit of cornstarch and water will thicken it back up.
My Golden rule of spicing anything has always been that you can always add more but you can never take it back.
As an aside, the same rule applies to anger.
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Less mistakes in manufacturing, less accidents in manufacturing ,less workers comp claims, less labor cost for company's.
He is actually just explaining what folks thought when the assembly line started, or when robots first came to car manufacturing, "oh the humans are going to be out of work". No the humans will just have to get better educations to maintain the machines.
I think the threat of AI taking jobs should be a great motivator to our young people to get good educations so they can build the buildings and the power grid and such for AI to function.
I don't see poor people being any more poor or more of them.
This is video is just gloom and doom talk
ok so AI can start a war. It can also fight in ways humans are to slow to think about. Simply hack into energy grids and communications and radar systems and the enemy is down. done.war won.
Personally, I don't think that they will succeed in creating a "god in the box",
but their goal is to make as many working people obsolete as possible.
You are not thinking about what happens to all those people.
If they do manage to create a "god in the box", what confidence do you have
that its creators manage to maintain control over it?
Why would it obey the order to shut down the enemy.
Do you think it would agree with you who the enemy is?
God has no manager, i guess you could say Jesus does as he checks with his dad,
but Ai shouldn't need management once it is finished to a point it can be self reliant.
Have you seen the movie I, Robot (2004), with Will Smith?
Did you see Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning (2023) and its sequel, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)?
Did you learn anything from all the Terminator movies?
Of course, Hollywood movies mostly have good endings. Real life, not so much.
You get spooked when NASA finds an asteroid with 2.3% chance to hit the earth in 7 years, when the data is just in. You were also fearmongering over some clickbait about solar flares. Why are you worried about these things, and not about the tech giants investing trillions into an AI overlord? Why are you not worried about the absolute inescapable disaster of climate change, and politicians completely ignoring it?
I think you have no idea about the ridiculous power consumption of AI.
In my country, they are talking about building an AI-gigafactory for $26.5 billion, which would consume the amount of power comparable with 2.5 million households. One of our biggest wind-farms produces power for 1.5 million households. What a waste of (green) energy. We already have so many problems with the power grid, that new homes are waiting to be connected and some beach clubs have now created their own green energy grid, to be able to exist.
There are now lots of areas in your country, where people pay a much higher electricity price, because, big companies pocket the profits, but outsource a lot of the costs.
When AI data centers move in, utilities must build new infrastructure, and they spread the cost onto the citizens. Data centers often get special electricity deals, and the shortfall is shifted to regular customers.
AI data centers don’t look dirty, but they drive pollution indirectly and locally through the energy, water, and backup systems they require. Fossil-fuel power plants get built or run harder. Diesel backup generators pollute neighborhoods directly.
Many Americans also suffer from the noise. Building codes might restrict a grocery store in a neighborhood, but very noisy data centers are built way too damn near to people's houses.
Trump tried to get a proposal through, to ban state AI regulation for 10 years, in the federal budget bill earlier in 2025. Imagine how people get fucked over, if states cannot in any way limit where, and how many, AI data centers are built. How about state's rights, that your side claims to care about?
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Asteroids can't,
Ai will never have the 1 advantage Humans have over it. The power to Reason.
No i don't want to be Controlled by AI Gods but at the same time I think Ai would do a better job at alot of things eliminating human interaction and necessity of paying them.
If it spreads itself all over the world, in every server and data center, we would never
be able to unplug it, because those utilities have completely taken over everything
we need. It might require a global memory wipe, destroying all data we have accumulated, including the system of money itself.
The AI that they want to build DOES have the power to reason.
That's their whole goal. It wouldn't be a "god in the box" without it.
I also think that AI would do a better job than humanity, but the people who are in control now would NEVER give up their power. Unfortunately, they are also blinded by power enough, to think they can control their creation. And if that fails, they would do anything to regain their power, no matter who they hurt in the process.
Divorce would simply be, Clic,back space,highlight,clic, done.
I watched a couple of the terminator movies but not the others.
You seem to forget i was learning in the field when programming a Apple 2 e was the thing to do.
So I have been in this for a long time. I was warned by a professor to never let tech control us.
AI will be a great asset, but it will only control us if WE LET IT.
Those people are exactly the type of people you shouldn't trust with that power.
There is no "WE", there is only a "THEM". And them are fucked-up in the head.
or even ChatGPT, but I don't like the type that is set on making us live in
a surveillance state or creating "the rapture".
AI trys to make a restoration video, And Screwed it all up!..
So many screw ups in this video,
When it doesn't screw up, it's very hard to tell that AI made it.
Soon, we will be living in a time when you cannot trust anything you see.
Easy to edit with cgi type programming.
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