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Watching WSB mania is way more fun than the covid plague. I'm still sitting on the couch watching things happen through a bright screen and trying to make sense of data I can't fully understand but this time it's just money and not people dying! So thumbs up for 2021, I guess. Strong start to season two of the Rolling 20's.
So I put that money in dogecoin and now I'm trying to guess if the price will go back up so I can redistribute funds without wasting my starting cash. I still like dogecoin, I'd like to be able to say I own some dogecoin because I think it's a hilarious multilayered joke, but now I am learning about other neat cryptocurrencies and wondering which one has the edge in widespread adoption and common use. Cause it's going to happen. I want to diversify, and I have, I bought like $10 worth of cosmos, but I'm too cheap to give myself more gambling money and too miserly to take a loss. Ha ha ha. Anyway I'm reading about this and that and learning how to read the graphed supply/demand feeds and such. It's good fun, it's really interesting, and now that I've gone through the initial frustration of making an account, not hard. I dunno if I will stick with this app (voyager) long term but it is n00b friendly.
Silver mania has hit to Qanon crowd, very unsurprising since conservative boomers have been targeted for precious metals investment since as long as foxnews has been broadcasting. Now they think they're going to break the banking system as a bonus, which has them in a tizzy and they have a lot of pent up energy since THE STORM didn't happen. Or maybe it did. Or maybe it didn't, but it will... soon. I have zero interest in buying either stocks or metals.
My first year in Alaska, I lived in a small cabin with no plumbing in Fairbanks and my nutty neighbor was one of those sovereign citizen types. Drove around in a pickup with SOVEREIGN marked on the side in big letters. He told me about his cabin off the grid where he had buried his life savings in gold and he gave me an old silver dollar and told me I was a "good woman". He was in town temporarily for heart surgery and he wanted me to check on him in case he died and his jack russel terrier was eating his corpse. He used to burn his trash in the driveway so nobody could steal it and use it to spy on him. Good times. So whenever I hear about people buying up physical precious metals, he's the person I picture.
It's not fun living without plumbing and electricity, especially if you have any sort of health problem. I wonder how that guy is doing sometimes. I wonder if he died and there's hidden cache of gold nobody knows about that will sit in the cold ground for decades or centuries or longer. I still have the old silver dollar.