Same thing with knifes. Approximately 65% of young people who carry a knife are injured by their own weapon when it is turned against them during a confrontation.

So you might have a cool knife, but would you like to be stabbed with it?
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I feel guns have mostly no place in society. They cause too many needless deaths, and make society much scarier than it needs to be. I guess I am a bit of a pacifist.
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Of course I do like action films, and guns are a large part of that. And they wouldn't be as exciting without the guns. But I only like guns in films (or games I guess).
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Stunning shot Argen. 😍

You must be running through some really mean streets if you need to take that sort of protection with you!

Time to buy the dip? Or time to run away?

EXTRA INFO: This image was originally taken on slide film, as you can tell from the slight grain. I later digitised it, but unfortunately, on not such a good scanner.

(I didn't have enough good slides at the time to warrant getting a super good and expensive scanner.)

I asked the Google AI about this, and it looks like MicroStrategy has enough cash in hand to keep going until Sep 2027. They will be in paperloss, but do not need to sell anything, so would not crystalise those loses. So if BTC goes back up, #$MSTR will have ridden out this episode.

A really amazing artist. Very clever use of AI to create art.

Really cool video. The music is really nice too. Thanks for sharing, Loolek. 👍

Perhaps someone should inform the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. I am sure they would like to have a fire-side chat with these gentlemen and ladies...

Or is it a sculpture?...

So the debt interest payment is a lower percentage of the country's total GDP in Italy, making its debts more manageable.

I knew that Italy was in less trouble that the US, but forgot they had higher actual Debt to GDP.
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This mean that if the US was paying 4.227% on all its debt, it would be paying 5.25% of GDP in debt interest payments (i.e. percent of the whole economy). By comparison, Italy would be paying 'only' 4.68% of GDP in debt interest payments.
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P.S. Sorry, I seem to have made an incorrect statement above.

Italy does actually have a higher Debt to GDP ratio than the US. However, yields on that debt are lower. The 10yr US Treasury currently has a yield of 4.227%. An Italian 10yr bond has a yield of 3.468%.
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Agree, France and Italy are the biggest problem childs in Europe. But even they have lower Debt to GDP than the US, despite having free healthcare, etc. Greece is the only European nation with higher debts than the US.

Brings this to mind....