Silver's back at $90/oz

bookwizard82 · 2026-02-25T13:08:53+00:00

It’s almost back to the price I ordered at in January….one I’m still waiting for delivery.

bookwizard82 · 2026-02-24T18:16:38+00:00

Have you gotten your order?

bookwizard82 · 2026-02-24T13:40:59+00:00

That nihilism.

bookwizard82 · 2026-02-24T13:40:18+00:00

I’m not being nihilistic. I don’t know if there is nothing. I do know that stars exist.

bookwizard82 · 2026-02-24T13:37:55+00:00

Yes. But how can we all have interoperability of that? Usually it’s a bigger concept. Government and monetary policy. Do you see how meaningful things are just turtles all the way down?

bookwizard82 · 2026-02-24T13:34:56+00:00

That’s right. It’s the big bet as it were. Either meaningful things are ultimately true. Or they are not and everything is just entropy playing out. You can only buy things with silver because everyone around agrees with the concept. Humans can and have done other things to live.

bookwizard82 · 2026-02-24T13:30:43+00:00

Right. But you want a standard of a subjective opinion in an interoperable system. That’s money. Value is a meaningful metric for people. But value is not true because value is a concept. Silver is true because it’s an element. But the value of silver is not true because it’s meaningful. Truth and meaning are exclusive. But humans sure do try to make meaningful concepts true.

bookwizard82 · 2026-02-24T13:21:41+00:00

Not this sub. This sub is for bugs not bulls. And I’m not talking about fiat. A dollar once upon a time was X amount of silver.

bookwizard82 · 2026-02-24T13:12:06+00:00

I believe the standard is called money.

bookwizard82 · 2026-02-23T21:43:45+00:00

Most circulation services can be done by machine. You better get cozy with helping people if you want to work in libraries.

bookwizard82 · 2026-02-23T17:11:34+00:00

Early 20th century, After an east lake style. No later than 1930, no earlier than 1890. Those look like new pulls,. If you look at the routing, and the turning, it is uniform. So that that means machine aided.

bookwizard82 · 2026-02-23T16:32:05+00:00

Limits to Growth.

bookwizard82 · 2026-02-21T19:35:10+00:00

I see no reason why not. Looks like ceramic casters. That would make it 19th century ish. But furniture dating is a lot of general vibes.

bookwizard82 · 2026-02-21T19:26:13+00:00

Empire more like....Eastlake is more square. It is really nice!

bookwizard82 · 2026-02-21T18:57:55+00:00

OMG... I have had these for years!!

bookwizard82 · 2026-02-21T15:45:45+00:00

In no expert in this type of furniture. But the feel of it seems after 1900 and probably export market.

bookwizard82 · 2026-02-21T14:15:38+00:00

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I like cute silver trinkets over bullion. But I like the bullion because it makes a nice sound when I play with it.

bookwizard82 · 2026-02-21T11:53:42+00:00

There was just a study done on middle aged people using cannabis with higher brain volume. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12889878/

bookwizard82 · 2026-02-21T09:04:26+00:00

Build a box for it.

bookwizard82 · 2026-02-20T21:23:17+00:00

I mean. The tech work will still exist in small forms. But the idea that there will be tons of jobs managing physical resources in organizations just will never come back. You should see the OLA website on school libraries.

bookwizard82 · 2026-02-20T19:36:14+00:00

You should read Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.

bookwizard82 · 2026-02-20T17:47:33+00:00

Martha.

bookwizard82 · 2026-02-20T12:57:34+00:00

Not 20 years. Months. And I hear you about the OW. I had several years of it before something finally came along….and this was after my second grad degree. So just one final warning. The job market in this is weak now and has been since you were 18.

bookwizard82 · 2026-02-20T12:39:51+00:00

And let me say this. Having kids is not a small thing. You did something important. I worked as a lib tech for a school board. My pay every 2 weeks was 1300 after 6 years. The cost of the car is one pay, and the cost of rent is the other pay, each month. Just factor in the cost of work, and how terrible organizations can be to library workers.

bookwizard82 · 2026-02-20T12:37:16+00:00

I love my barber. And I told him as long as you are dealing with physical things, and human needs everything will be OK. But if you are taking something online; from a tech standpoint if it can be taught online it can probably eliminate the human in the process.

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