{"id":82895,"date":"2023-06-15T23:25:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=82895"},"modified":"2023-06-15T23:25:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:25:58","slug":"thursday-tab-clearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/06\/15\/thursday-tab-clearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday tab-clearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few items that I didn&#8217;t feel required a full post of their own, but might be of interest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Justin Trudeau&#8217;s government is clearly interested in moving to a <strong>Central Bank Digital Currency<\/strong> (CBDC), but &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/theline.substack.com\/p\/aftab-ahmed-cash-is-a-lifeline-for\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canadians are not at peace with the idea of cash vanishing into thin air, with a consistent 80 per cent of respondents having no plans to go cashless<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s an ongoing shortage of Adderall in the United States &#8230; and <a href=\"https:\/\/knightonexperiment.substack.com\/p\/how-the-dea-is-behind-the-continued\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is behind it<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Alasdair Beckett-King explains what&#8217;s wrong with every time travel movie &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zI0aBzA2K9s\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/zI0aBzA2K9s<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The man who visited Lenin&#8217;s Soviet Union and said &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/lincoln-steffens-the-muckraking-journalist-who-exposed-corruption-in-us-cities-but-was-seduced-by-lenin-s-bloody-revolution\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I have been over into the future, and it works<\/a>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kimdutoit.com\/2023\/06\/15\/different-universe-part-17\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kim du Toit<\/a> isn&#8217;t a believer in the official inflation statistics: &#8220;When the history of this era comes to be written, one of the most egregious falsehoods to be exposed will be the &#8216;official&#8217; inflation rate.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Random meme of the day:<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Technology-Software-updates.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Technology-Software-updates.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"327\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Technology-Software-updates.jpg 470w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Technology-Software-updates-150x104.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few items that I didn&#8217;t feel required a full post of their own, but might be of interest: Justin Trudeau&#8217;s government is clearly interested in moving to a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), but &#8220;Canadians are not at peace with the idea of cash vanishing into thin air, with a consistent 80 per cent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25,84,66,13],"tags":[165,243,563,661,85,433],"class_list":["post-82895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-economics","category-government","category-health-science","category-usa","tag-inflation","tag-medicine","tag-money","tag-regulation","tag-sf","tag-sovietunion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-lz1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82895"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82900,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82895\/revisions\/82900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}