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As this recent gold market perturbation was kicking off, gCaptain laid out a conjecture that follows Cryptonomicon: Can we talk about how, before WWII, nearly
by adolph 2y ago
As this recent gold market perturbation was kicking off, gCaptain laid out a conjecture that follows Cryptonomicon:
Can we talk about how, before WWII, nearly every village in China had a gold Buddha filled with gems, serving as the local bank?
Can we talk about how the Japanese looted them all and launched a massive sealift operation to stash them in the Philippines?
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Or how at least one of the CIA’s secret ship registries was accidentally exposed in the USAID data dump?
https://x.com/johnkonrad/status/1887856186231263285 https://x.com/johnkonrad/status/1887856186231263285
- Workaccount2 2y agoGetting news from people who wear "blacklisted from Wikipedia" as a badge of honor is probably not a good idea.
- adolph 2y agoI had no idea. There doesn't seem to be a way to verify that claim either. Strings "gcaptain" and "konrad" to not appear in the depreciated sources. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deprecated_sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deprecated_sources
- csomar 2y ago> Or how most of that gold is STILL buried in the Philippines— And how Taiwan is a distraction while China builds a massive Navy to take it back? That's enough X for me today.
- basementcat 2y agoWasn’t that part of the plot of Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon?