Comment Comment by adolph 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?[...]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 parent adolph 1 year ago
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?
[...]
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