United Kingdom Travel Advisory – Special Considerations Regarding Currency

Did you know that in the UK for money they use pounds?

Well, I don’t think that’s fair because, you know, we all have different body types and body sizes and, you know, it’s not fair that just because some of us, like me, are shall we say obese, portly, fat, sedentary maybe?

Well, I’m sorry.

Now that I know that if I just go to the UK, those labels will be positive because I will be rich, filthy rich because I have more pounds than average.

In fact, I have more pounds than above average.

Now, I’m not in the elite class of people with the most pounds, but I’ve got a lot more pounds than most people.

And frankly, I like this system because it means that I don’t have to share my money because how am I going to share my pounds with someone?

Maybe I could get some surgery done and cut off a piece of my love handles or maybe I could buy something with my pounds and then re-gift it to someone.

Well, I don’t know.

You know, it’s not a just society.

Even in the UK, it’s not a just society.

Some people have lots of pounds and we’re able to use those pounds to get more pounds and then there’s more pounds and the other pounds to get more pounds.

Whereas other people, they just have fewer pounds and, you know, there’s nothing we can do about it.

You know, it’s like it’s built in.

So it’s not like I’m a better person because I have more pounds.

It just means that the system has situated itself in such a way that something that I have a lot of–pounds, is what is valued in that society.

Now, I know as an American that pounds are not considered valuable.

In fact, they’re considered shameful sometimes or maybe just unhealthy.

But in the UK, they look at someone like me and they say, you are worthy.

You’re worthy of great wealth because you have pounds.

And frankly, you know, I can’t turn it down.

You know, I can’t turn it down.

Again, it’s not like money or I could just give money away.

It’s pounds.

So it’s really a win-win.

It’s like I have the pounds and, you know, unless I got some kind of weird surgery, I can’t get them away.

So I’m pretty much stuck in a position in society that’s pretty comfortable, you know?

I mean, it’s not like somebody can come and steal my pounds.

Even if I did lots of work to maybe lose some pounds, they would just be gone.

They wouldn’t be something that I could give to other people, something that could be stolen.

You know, I guess somebody could take me to the CECOT prison in El Salvador and make me, you know, do lots of exercise and not eat enough.

Maybe then I would lose some pounds.

But, you know, again, it’s not something that can be changed.

It just is what it is.

It’s the way society shook out.

I don’t know why in the U.K. they decided to give honor and, you know, buying power to people that have lots of pounds.

I don’t know.

But that’s what they decided.

And frankly, they’ve been at this society thing for a lot longer than we have in the United States.

So, you know, Constitution and American civil religion notwithstanding, I think that we have to give this idea that pounds equals, you know, buying power, pounds equals status.

I think we need to give that a closer look.

And frankly, if you look at pounds in the U.S. in total versus pounds in the U.K. in total, I think that we might be on the higher end.

If nothing else, we just have more people, unless I’m wrong about the details.

And I bet that between Wall Street analysts and AI and, you know, trade agreements and, you know, just a general balance of trade, I bet there’s some kind of maneuver.

If U.K. likes pounds so much, you know, maybe there’s a way that we can get people to sign up to move to the U.K. and bring their pounds.

And I don’t know how the U.K. would integrate that.

I mean, that seems to be built into the system if your currency is pounds and pounds are not very transferable.

You know, I don’t know, I don’t know how that works, but, you know, again, not my circus, not my monkies.

They say it’s pounds?  Okay, pounds it is.

And so, you know, I think there’s a way that we could leverage our, you know, our national obesity issues, which, of course, will give, you know, the food manufacturers and the whole agricultural supply chain, you know, even more reason to make foods that are, I don’t want to say addictive, but, you know, certainly this idea that pounds equals buying power, you know, this really confirms this idea that food should be, you know, easily processed, easily prepared, that it should leave you wanting more.

This, you know, reasserts the role of the diet industry.  It’s an open secret, you know, that diet culture actually promotes obesity.

Everybody knows that.

And so I think that, you know, I think if you’re an elected official or you’re a, you know, a civil servant, such as at the FDA, for example, I think you want to be able to keep this in mind that, you know, that pounds equals money.

And anything we can do to give Americans more pounds, if we can somehow work with the State Department to create, I don’t know if the word is arbitrage, I don’t know what the word is, but somehow if we could continue to get Americans lots of pounds and if we could figure out how to get them to the UK in such a way that they could exercise the buying power of those pounds.

And of course, I don’t know, the UK may push back.  We’ll have to work that out, but, but again, they’re the ones that did it.  I didn’t say, I mean, again, it seems to me to be a little bit crazy, but, but for whatever reason, the UK likes pounds.

And I think that, I personally am going to try to figure out a way to benefit from that.

And then policymakers and legislators, and even local officials and state officials should be thinking about, how this poundage can help the country.

And maybe even, you know, in terms of national security, I think that we need to keep an eye on how this fits into the national security matrix, because if we were suddenly to lose a lot of pounds, even though that’s just one thing, if we’re losing a lot of something that a country like the UK values, then we need to be tracking that.

In fact, we may need to have an Apple watch, you know, to have Apple send their watches to everybody.

And maybe they can be permanently clasped on every citizen.

That might be too much, but maybe at least Monday through Friday, you know, at least Monday through Friday, we should probably look into checking the number of steps that every human in the United States has taken.

And we could track the data.

Obviously, AI makes it easier to analyze things.

And we could over time, and of course, it shouldn’t be too hard to get medical records from everyone.

I mean, I know there’s HIPAA, but, you know, there’s got to be a way around that.

And we can somehow pull in the weight data from every human in the United States.

And we could, we could pair that with the steps data that we are getting from the Apple watch.

And, and, and yeah, we could really dig into this.

And, you know, I think this is a pretty big opportunity.

It’s a pretty big opportunity, both for me to use my pounds as well as the country as a whole.

And if nothing else, we need to at least know what’s going on here and study this because we’re probably not the only country that’s thought of this.

I mean, the UK is using pounds for currency.

I’m sure that there are a lot of other countries that are saying, hey, you know, let’s look at the fat assets that we have.

And how do we want to use that?

How do we want to play that card?

So anyway, just some thoughts as the year wraps up.

We can put together a formal memo in early January and start investigating this.

And then pull in the appropriate stakeholders as we go forward.

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Moreover, LinkedIn has also been Facebooking its platform by using videos that were unexpected and not requested–usually displaying content from a young person who has no idea what they’re talking about.

However, the captions and video techniques give off the impression that the young adults have no idea what they’re talking about.

Privacy groups are raising concerns that having one’s family barbecue video and Christmas card pictures put on LinkedIn will give some people a competitive advantage in the job market, noting that barbecue sauce selection has been demonstrated by AI to predict longevity, loyalty, and willingness to tolerate poor managers. 

Likewise, concerns have been raised that Facebook will be permanently harmed by imposing LinkedIn’s orderly structure.

Medical experts and mental health practitioners have said that this would be a positive change given that Facebook is a complete trap and black hole that consumes everything that it touches and sees.

LinkedIn and Facebook executives cannot be reached for comment because they are at an off-site meeting about how few hours a company can reasonably give employees for holiday vacations. Location is not known, but some speculate that they are in El Salvador visiting the CECOT mega-prison. 

Other topics on the agenda for that meeting include reducing remote work, offloading more administrative costs to third-party vendors and employees, as well as binge watching Pinky and the Brain.  

Observers are waiting for an AI-generated joint press conference that ends in a brawl including footage of Mark Zuckerberg’s bloody nose and a cameo appearance by Reid Hoffman who broke down in tears to see what has become of his simple idea for trusted networks of people to connect with each other.

Rumors further indicate that the White House has gotten involved given the international impact of these platforms–expressing its desire to sell data from Truth Social to make sure that its political messages get favored status on the new platform.

No word yet about naming the new combined platform although artificial intelligence says that the likely name will be LinkedFace 

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