I know there’s a lot of old internet vs modern internet discourse. Lemme summarize the differences:
The old internet you might have seen a lady pooping on her own face or a guy stretching out his own anus.
The modern internet is a propaganda factory where you are the product that is tracked, bought, sold, traded, and divided from your peers over things you wouldn’t normally care about, so that people can sell things that are hopefully not poisonous, and you might see pictures that are worse than a lady pooping on her own face or a guy stretching out his own anus with the added effect of whoever is on the other side being misled by the same propaganda factory into genuinely believing it’d really help their side of the internet if you’d kill yourself.
It used to be that paper currency was backed by gold and silver for its value. A 10$ paper note would be redeemable for 10$ worth of gold or silver following the gold or silver standard. Currently our bills are fiat money which means they are not backed by any tangible item. They’re just based on the strength of the economy. The economy can fluctuate so it makes the actual value of a bill unstable. These Mcdonalds coins, however, would be a currency that are redeemable for a Big Mac. This would make them a technically more stable currency as they are always have the value of a Big Mac they can be redeemed for.
This is NOT what makes for a stable currency.
One of the problems with specie currency is that it is unstable as hell. Gold rush? Hyper inflation. Ship full of gold sinks? Deflation. No gold is discovered? Lol buddy. I hope your economy doesn’t need to pay for things like food.
The boom/bust cycle happened ALL THE TIME with specie currency. Literally we have records of the Roman Republic dealing with this bullshit.
Fiat currency is the solution to that instability. Fiat currency is based on the “full faith and credit” of the issuing authority. Which means that your money is good as long as your government doesn’t collapse. (if your government collapses, you have other problems)
This is exactly the reason you don’t see any sort of US dime or quarter from before 1964 in circulation, but you can, with patience, find nickles all the back to the first year they were made – the price of silver went up enough that there was more silver in the coins than the face value of the coin, that there were actual shortages of coins because there wasn’t enough silver to mint more, and the government had to change the composition to copper and nickel.
The article says that the guidelines have been updated. Instead of asking if you’re a man that’s had sex with another man in the past 3 months it asks everyone regardless of gender if they’ve had anal sex with a new partner or if they’ve had anal sex with multiple partners in the past 3 months.
This both opens up blood donation to msm in exclusive relationships or who don’t have anal sex and more accurately identifies hiv risk from people who aren’t msm. This is exactly the sort of guidelines we’ve been fighting for for years. This is a major win for both gay rights and blood donation in the US. Now a bunch of people who couldn’t donate before can donate now.
