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Netherlands moves 86 tonnes of gold from US and Canada to UK (www.euronews.com)
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The transfer was carried out partially by buying and selling and partly by physically transferring gold, the Dutch national bank said.

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[–] 15 points 4 days ago (1 child)

I hope they tested the gold bars for e.g. tungsten rods.

And i hope our national bank gets smart enough to follow that move.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Here are your 50 tons of depleted uranium bars.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    They do have a nice and close weight, but their radioactivity gives them away.

    Tungsten has a density of 19.25g/cm3. Compared to Gold with 19.32g/cm3, they are rather close. Uranium is a little less dense at 19.16g/cm3.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    idk, i'd rather have the tungsten than the gold

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    WTF! We can do that? Just post gifs on the internet?!

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    No but seriously how did you do that? Did you upload a .gif as an image? This will open up an ocean of... Good use for me!

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  • [–] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 child)

    there should be a button to view the source of my comments, but basically:

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    for those of y'all who would like to skip the tutorial, skip itif you include the ! it renders the image or gif (the link needs to be a direct path to the image, not just the page it's on. it might take a little experimenting. it did for me) and if you don't it just has the text and a link to the image.

    without the !

    first image: I NEED TUNGSTEN TO LIVE

    with the !

    first image: I NEED TUNGSTEN TO LIVE

    i have been told if we add "hovertext" after the link (but still in the parens) we can add hovertext, but i haven't experimented with nor figured it out yet so i can't really advise you on it, sorry. there's always bigger fish.

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