Do you think they ship them out to be spy trophy wives?
I believe I heard that fruit based sugar, like grapes, comes with other nutrients which help your body handle the sugar healthfully. Probably a more widely applicable paradigm for your consideration.
Remember when I told you that under the Trump administration financial surveillance would go up, and you all called me a FUDster?
The IRS now plans on sharing confidential tax information with ICE and DHS to carry out deportations.
This practice is *not* unprecedented:
The systemic use of tax information and financial records is one of the practices majorly credited with enabling H*tler’s mass deportations of Jews beginning in 1938, enabling the 'industrialization' of the Holocaust.
If you think this is fine because you are legally in the US, remember that Trump is currently attempting to deport and revoke a student’s green card for organizing protests at Columbia University.
Last week, the administration deported at least two Venezuelan asylum seekers legally in the US to El Salvador’s terrorist detention center, known for torture and inmate deaths. Neither had a criminal record – the basis for their deportation were allegedly misidentified tattoos.
If you think this is fine because you are a US citizen, remember that last week, the Treasury announced that it would lower the currency reporting threshold in 30 counties along the Mexican border from $10,000 down to $200 in attempts to fight gang activity – affecting anyone living in the area.
Over the past weeks, we have additionally seen a drastic increase in using deportations to prosecute political speech. Four days ago, a French space researcher was denied entry to the US for messages critical of Trump, which the administration allegedly described as ‘terrorism’.
This is the *second* major increase in financial surveillance in the US in the last two weeks.
If history has taught us anything, it should be that fascism does not stop at the people you don’t like.
Please zap/share this post as wide and far as you can – It was shadow banned on the free speech LARP for using banned words.
https://www.therage.co/irs-shares-tax-data-with-ice-dhs-deportations/
Lutnick's repeated use of vaccines as examples of good programs, and their goal to make the IRS 'more efficient,' really have me questioning Team Trump.
Not particularly helpful tool
https://www.hfpappexternal.fda.gov/scripts/fdcc/index.cfm?set=contaminant-levels
Maybe with Bitcoin and Nostr
I agree with Alan, the Catholic church has too much dogma. It is antithetical to the questioning, seeking mindset of a mystic.
Why didn't Alan Watts join the Catholic church?
TBF IMO very many repugnicans are not on board with the second halves.
Yeah, they permabanned me from all associated internets for advising against the covid vaccine
Did you see how USAID was funding transgender operas in Columbia? What if you don't go see something like that, or protest against it?
I see something fitting this description regularly in meditation.
combine 2 and 3
Yeah, I know what you mean 👍
Me neither. There are lots of people on Nostr I don't get along with. That's the beauty of it-- you don't have to. Bitcoin and Nostr is for everyone. It's for enemies. It's for degens, and that's okay. Most pioneers are pioneers because they're desperate.
But we have to separate out preferences from what the world needs, IMO. The buy-sell of human activity is as old as time, has many good aspects, and it needs a system like this one to replace fiat centralization.
Good :) Especially as a woman, you probably don't like the idea of being "for sale." Personally I don't send zaps to influence people's choices, except perhaps to say "I liked what you post and would like to see more of it." Kind of like a 'super-like' button.
But we should acknowledge that many influential people are still trying to put food on their table and clothes on their kids, and it would be much better to do that from 1,000 zaps from your friends than 1 payment from a soulless corporation.
Agreed, but you could say having friends on the internet is desperate too. Lots of things probably seem desperate to someone living in luxury, but sats as value is not too much different from the time and energy invested.
What I find really interesting is once it matures and scales, it can provide an incentive to influencers which is much healthier than biased ad revenue. "Brought to you by Pfizer" killed millions.
True, but to a degree this can still be good. Capitalism is basically bribing people to make your life better. It's what brought us out of the caves.