...waiting for an authority, or the TV to tell them that bitcoin is a legit thing!

that sucks. The writing was on the wall back then. At first they will be passive, but after a while of no money / food etc things get desperate.

People are being used as weapons all over the world. They can be made to make moves on the grand chessboard due to lack of fiat money.

yeah, they were pretty harmless. Just an annoyance.

FIAT and government - the source of most problems!

last time I was in Tenerife over 10 years ago immigrants had appeared, trying to sell sunglasses when we were trying to have a meal or a drink, or sitting on the beach. Kinda ruined the holiday.

There was also a scam running, selling timeshares in a large rented building next to the beach! Police were around the beach a lot and must have been aware of it.

In Tenerife (the south side tourist area anyway) the locals have been sick of tourists for many years. Apartments there have been bought up by foreigners who either live there or rent them out to other foreigners.

If the opportunity arises to make a good amount of money by renting or selling an apartment which was bought for a lot less in the past then many people will take it., especially if the area already has a substantial amount of people from a different culture who do not speak much or any of the language as the erosion of the community had already begun.

So, maybe if the tourism had been mostly confined to hotels it could have been avoided. I'll bet the government saw an opportunity to tax the hotels, which raised the rates and caused people to seek out other ways to enjoy a holiday.

well put. Trump has this amazing ability to make the media react to something he said or did in such a way that makes them look petty and ridiculous. Very entertaining if nothing else.

Yes. The media are the ones to blame for that (mostly) I think. I remember news stories always used to present both sides (yes, I am that old)! Everything is presented as a binary choice nowadays with no nuance. Good guys and bad guys - it's very tedious and braindead.

That's one of the reasons I gave up watching TV years ago and just listened to podcasts instead. You will get far more valuable information and opinions from listening to comedians that the news or mostly anything on the TV.

People just love their 'convenient' centralized social media apps!

Sounds like more made up nonsense from the UN to me. "the IAEA stated that it 'cannot verify" this'" - no evidence then. When will Israel's nuclear weapons be inspected I wonder?

Fine by me if they want to stick with the fiat world. Gives me longer to stack sats!

One thing nobody ever tells you is that below the age of 3 (roughly) your child's ability to regulate temperature has not fully developed. Moving them from a hot to cold environment or vice-versa can make them go into spasms as their body struggles to cope with the change.

Not much fun when you are a new parent and this sort of shit happens I can tell you, but now you know and I hope that makes future parenting a bit easier!