Yours too!

Yeah, but I think I would prefer that to giving a border guard an excuse…

Edit: or I guess it could accidentally go through the washer.

I saw that too and found it very surprising. Even Canadian border guards might give you a hard time for that damage.

https://travel.gc.ca/travelling/publications/bon-voyage-but#1

“If you damage your passport, apply for a new one. A damaged passport can lead to long delays at passport checkpoints. You may also be unable to cross the border or board a plane.”

Edit: thinking about this some more… They buried the lede on this. This is the real headline here. Service Canada needs to replace damaged passports, full stop. If they won’t, turn around and say, “oops, I lost my passport! I need a new one, thanks!”

Yeah, this can happen pretty much everywhere, unfortunately. If your passport is damaged, get it replaced before you travel. If it gets damaged while you’re travelling? Good luck… There’s a good chance you’ll run into a border guard who will give you a hard time.

Well they’re calling them narcoterrorists, so you’re still bang on.

Fucking click bait. He changed his name. Leave him be.

Okay yeah. I don’t think I use that as often or that it would catch me the same way.

Having this on by default with a “never ask again” option (which can then be turned back on in settings) would be ideal.

This gets me all the time. And to be clear, it’s not just swipe to go back, it’s the back button as well.

Look I’m sorry, i wasn’t meaning to upset you with my original comment. But I also wasn’t the only person to call out the inaccuracies.

And storing your own crypto has its own issues, also.

I’ve seen some horror stories!

If you want to be able to convert back to fiat currency quickly leaving it on coinbase might make sense.

I see, cool. I think my goal right now is just to hold the crypto, but I like that clarity.

After that you can access your btc via ANY btc wallet by typing in the passphrase (you’re not tied to the wallet software you use to access it).

Oh that’s interesting. It makes sense, but the concept never clicked like that for me. Thanks!

I didn’t think of that one. Good point.

Oh I didn’t realize you had the dates of firework and firearm inventions memorized, I figured you had been looking something up.

In any case, you can consider my comment directed at anyone else who comes along and thinks that people didn’t use gunpowder for killing people for over a millenia after it was invented, based on reading your post.

Thanks so much for your feedback. I’ll look at setting up a separate wallet. The fact that I didn’t have a passcode for my “wallet” in Coinbase is what made me start looking into what was going on, and whether it was a wallet or not. Thanks for the clarification.

I’ll also test it out and see what I lose on the transaction.

You don’t need Coinbase at all. Your wallet can send a receive directly.

The service I’m receiving from specifically asks for a Coinbase account, not a wallet. I’m not sure why - maybe it’s a deal with Coinbase, or it might be a Canadian regulations thing. They give way more options for U.S. users.

If vaccines were given in Pop-Tart form there wouldn’t be an antivax movement.

From XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2975

10th century starts at 900 CE, so you’re actually talking about 1100 years from 200 BCE.

However, you’re also using a very loose definition of fireworks. They (the Han dynasty) were throwing bamboo tubes into fire to make them go BANG in 200 BCE. Those weren’t even related (most likely) to the invention of gunpowder. The best theories suggest alchemist were looking for the elixir of life when they stumbled on something pretty flammable.

Gunpowder in a reasonably effective form wasn’t invented until about 800 CE (9th century) by the Tang dynasty. That was refined for the next 100 years to be more effective and around 900CE they got close to what we have today. They (the Song dynasty) used it pretty much immediately to make weapons (fire arrows).

why did the U.S. invade Iraq when Venezuela is so close?

2/3 of Venezuela’s reserves were discovered/confirmed in the last 20 years.

20 years ago, Venezuela was one of the U.S.'s biggest oil suppliers. 10ish years ago the oil price crashed and sent Venezuela spiralling into chaos. Trump has been grinding them down since then (mostly through sanctions). Biden let them breathe for 4 years.

Is that what’s going to happen soon?

Ummm, yeah. You think they’re posturing over drugs? Trump doesn’t care if the poors die of drug overdoses. He wants that sweet, sweet crude and has been gearing up to pacify invade Venezuela to get it. That’s why he wants Ukraine to surrender. He needs Russia to cool its jets so that Europe/NATO doesn’t drag the U.S. into a war over there. Troops will be on the ground in Venezuela soon, after an indiscriminate blitzkrieg bombing campaign for a few weeks - they will say they’re bombing gangs/cartels. It should start any day now since he “closed the air space” over Venezuela. He’s just waiting for Venezuela to launch one of its fighters (or for Ukraine to capitulate) and the game is on. This is all ramping up because the CIA has failed to eliminate Maduro and install a new leader.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump ultimately hopes to take over the whole country and rename it.

I mean if you had a full data set of known allergies and millions of DNA of people that have and don’t have allergies, you may find a genetic correlation of people susceptible. But there’s too many environmental factors that would alter that anyway.

Wasn’t there a huge announcement this year about exposure to allergens at a (very) young age preventing allergies? That would suggest genetics is a very small part of it and environmental factors being much more important.

However, checking hair samples doesn’t necessarily mean checking DNA. They could be checking for certain markers like antibodies your body produces. Still sounds like bunk science or it would be much bigger though.

I don’t believe this one. Links, or it didn’t happen.