Goodbye Blogger. Hello X

I have far more reach on X than here.   I receive far more course correction for my thinking on X than here.   This is my last blog post.   I used to read blogs and drill down to useful news stories from there, although they would take a day or two to show up in the legacy media.   Now I read X (but call it Twitter!) and drill down from there, usually several hours ahead of any breaking news and always linking thence to a spectrum of original sources.  A scan of the comment threads is the heads up for more research.  Bye bye.  @alphakenmoore

Can you buy crypto currency directly with a TD Canada Trust credit card? Mostly no.

The answer is mostly "no".    TD's answer isnt posted where you can find it easily.  You have to go through hoops and phone calls for every transaction but it is possible.  I asked for help.  See copy of their letter to me below.  The link to the Cardholder Agreement has many pages but only one reference to cryptocurrency, noting that it will be charged interest on the same basis as a cash advance.

Thank you for reaching out to us at TD. I appreciate you taking the time to write in regarding an issue you've experienced with a transaction made with your TD Aeroplan Visa Infinite Card recently. I can certainly understand how inconvenient this can be. My name is Jose, and I'm happy to provide some guidance.

At TD, we regularly evaluate our policies and security measures to serve and protect our customers, as well as TD. We recently made the decision to permit crypto currency purchases with our Credit Cards, however each transaction will be approved or declined in accordance with our bank policy, to allow us to review this evolving industry.

This decision to block these types of transactions is not about the service or currency, it's about TD needing to ensure we know who we are doing business with, for our own protection and the protection of our cardholders. In many cases it is difficult to determine the actual operator of a website and where they are located, which raises fraud and loss risks for both TD and cardholders. I apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause.

If you'd like to discuss this in greater detail, we encourage you to call our Credit Card Experts at 1-800-983-8472/416-307-7722 (collect), available 7am-12am EST. As a tip, you can save time when calling through the TD App. Your call will be received as ?authenticated? which allows us to answer your call sooner. To do so, log in to the TD App, scroll to the bottom, and select the "Contact Us" option, then select "Call Us", and then select TD Credit Cards. If you do not currently have the TD Mobile App downloaded to your device, instructions to download the TD App can be found Here. For your convenience, I have included your Cardholder Agreement for more information here: TD Aeroplan Visa Infinite - Cardholder Agreement.

I understand this may not have been the answer you were looking for, Kenneth. I would like to again apologize for any inconvenience caused. Please do not hesitate to reach out with any further questions on this matter. I hope you have a great rest of your day!

Kind regards,

Jose | Digital Communications I TD Bank Group - TD Canada Trust 1-866-222-3456 / TDD (Telephone Device for the Hearing Impaired) 1-800-361-1180 (toll free)

WORD TRIP - THE APP Stuff you can't find explained anywhere else.

 I looked everywhere and found next to nothing explaining how to use the Word Trip app.
There's a web page that lists the word answers to every single puzzle though!
What I put together below are three screen shots with notes explaining most of word page, the completed puzzle page and the map page.  Also I've added a mini dictionary of the most common short words that start with vowels.  Every word has vowels.

I've only played for a month and done so as a guest. I know almost nothing about the clubs and chats and side competitions but what you see below will help you for a first time orientation.

Wordtrip WordTrip  Word Trip

Explain "knowing stuff" with Starlings

I think about word models to explain "knowing stuff".

My best vision is a murmuration of brain memes, mimicking the motions of starlings.

Like the murmuration, we can entertain contradictory motions and messages and let them play out against each other.

20 year map of cyclone paths worldwide

 

Posted by Massimo.   Hurricanes are north of the equator, typhoons south.  From 1985 to 2005.

https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1661978786903015424

Cameras were once rare!!

 

Asimov: Scientific knowledge has fractal properties

«I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties, that no matter how much we learn, whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just as infinitely complex as the whole was to start with»

— Isaac Asimov (I Asimov, 1995)

https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1661043642687971328?t=DsH9YwwluM98kou6kZFuAw&s=03

 

 

 

CBC fake posts its government funding.

The artwork on this CBC financial bar graph is fabulous, is a fable.   The step from 600 million to 700 million income and the next step from 700 million to 1700 million  are the same size.  They snipped 900 million out of the visual display but left it on the text display, knowing most of us will fall for the visual.  How can they be this crazily duplicitous when public attention is upon them?  (Source: Powerline)

Supplement from Twitter:  

Leonard Roxon

More of us die as seniors but the end point scarcely moved.

 

You don't have to be the Buddha