Tell me more about the gem-based banking system of prewar rural China. - ThreadSky

nycsouthpaw.bsky.social • 17 days ago

Tell me more about the gem-based banking system of prewar rural China.

Reposted from Scythe of Saturn

Some of this is genuinely impressively insane. Where did some of this even come from?

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thejonrick.bsky.social•17 days ago

Dude has been hanging out too much with Sam Israel.

auntietiffa.bsky.social•17 days ago

These people aren't ever dancing back out of Crazytown

dimitridrekonja.bsky.social•17 days ago

He’s got a blue check. Must be legit 😂

idaclemens.bsky.social•17 days ago

The only explanation I can come up with is that he read The Good Earth while completely zonked on drugs and completely misunderstood the cache of gems

grungehamster.bsky.social•17 days ago

Never read Neal Stephenson while high.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon

fack.bsky.social•17 days ago

Idk about that part specifically, but everyone saying Neil Stephenson made this up is skipping over a lot https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamashita%27s_gold

yesbiscuit.bsky.social•17 days ago

Trying to fund an expedition to the Philippines to search for buried gem filled Buddhas.

bordelac.bsky.social•17 days ago

This reads like a LaRouche-style conspiracy.

webrant.bsky.social•17 days ago

They demand Greenland for its rare metals & minerals but THE CHINESE BUDDHA GEMS IN THE PHILIPPINES!!!!

FUN FACT: The Three Jewels of Buddhism are the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha.

https://bsky.app/profile/nycsouthpaw.bsky.social/post/3lhwaxhvvjk2z

dunwifit.bsky.social•17 days ago

Well idk about you but I keep all my gems in a golden Buddha buried in my backyard - I thought everyone did this 🤷🏻‍♀️

ikemakos.bsky.social•17 days ago

this is what The Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor was about, I think

cosmichomicide.bsky.social•17 days ago

I'm more fascinated by our national fetish with looking like gibbering fools.

joewv.bsky.social•17 days ago

Good thing Indiana Jones kept that that Buddha away from the Nazis

eddiestats.bsky.social•17 days ago

the first rule of Gem-Filled Gold Buddha club is that you *don't* tell me more about Gem-Filled Gold Buddha Club

jayslacks.bsky.social•17 days ago

Wait. All that isn't true?

convergence-zone.bsky.social•17 days ago

The world is now run on conspiracy theories. Should be fun

corypanshin.bsky.social•17 days ago

This sounds a lot like the Yamashita’s gold conspiracy theory, although the gem-filled Buddha’s seem like a recent addition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamashita%27s_gold

jimgoodale.bsky.social•17 days ago

Someone needs to call the psych ward. John stole a cell phone again.

wykstrad.bsky.social•16 days ago

Hijacking the United States government so I can divine the location of the stolen Chinese Gem Buddhas and invest them in the S&P 500.

themjl.bsky.social•17 days ago

BTW, "WW2 gold buried in the Philippines" was literally a plot point in a Stephenson novel.

themjl.bsky.social•17 days ago

ah yes, The Buddha. That famous icon of wealth, money and power.

osumarko.bsky.social•17 days ago

So crazy it sounds like a Nicholas Cage movie.

thesandwichman.bsky.social•17 days ago

If you meet a gem-filled gold buddha on the road, kill him.

teal.bsky.social•17 days ago

1) What

grungehamster.bsky.social•17 days ago

I promise people you can think colonialism was bad without thinking pre-colonial societies were utopias. It is possible.

napoleon-the-pig.bsky.social•17 days ago

And here I thought they were the first country with paper money and in fact Marco Polo wrote about it in his book, but I could be mis-remembering.

erikhendrickson.bsky.social•17 days ago

That guy - he's a Trump voter.

You can spot 'em a mile away.

leftwing123.bsky.social•17 days ago

I am more interested in the nazi gem mines in south Africa. Musk family mines that the full blown nazi grandparents migrated to in 1939. Which happens to be the same year ww2 started. I don't know but it seems coincidental