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I would argue cynicism is a mental prison that have people give up before trying. The freedom lovers need hope and faith in thier ideas being good in and of themselves. Go out talk about them and activate people, help the ideas get more traction.

Sovereign 1y ago

This is not cynicism, this is realism. I have spent countless hours educating people/friends on psyOps. Later to see them outraged we still didn’t vaccinate or escaped the confinement to the mountains. This is mass formation. We couldn’t stop it in early XX century we won’t be able to do it now.

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corndalorian

Sovereign 1y ago

Barlow, “Thinking Locally, Acting Globally” 1996: “What the Net offers is the promise of the new social space, global and anti-sovereign, within which anybody, anywhere can express to the rest of humanity whatever he or she believes without fear. There is in this new media a foreshadowing of the intellectual and economic liberty that might undo all the authoritarian powers on earth”

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Peter Todd

Net contribution of immigrants to the Netherlands, by country of origin:

It's idiotic to bring in hordes of unintelligent, unproductive, black and brown immigrants to try to fix our demographics problems. Finding ways to get intelligent, productive, people to have more kids is the only solution.

Also, if your government's statistics department has been hiding this information, or preventing it from being collected, the people responsible should be thrown in jail for fraud.

https://x.com/james_akw/status/1874894273063330177

Sovereign 1y ago

Ironically immigration pushes up housing/renting pricing out young couples.

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Moon

Why tho? Lol

Sovereign 1y ago

They bought at 100k

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VictorieeMan

cynicism doesn't matter, never has.

Also there are more to democratic processes than voting, and those tings matter a lot to be engaged in.

Sovereign 1y ago

An average European is a mental prisoner of the welfare state. Most see Swedish "third way" as heaven. Ageing society, pacified by walfare

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L0la L33tz

Good morning! It's January 3rd, which means its not your keys, not your coins day.

Unfortunately, this year the EU has decided to make withdrawing from exchanges a hell of a lot harder by extending FATF's Travel Rule to digital assets.

The FATF Travel Rule is not just a remarkable shitshow for your financial privacy and security – it's also a law to which authorities appear to have no data on its effectiveness to prevent financial crime.

What this means for you: If you want to withdraw funds exceeding €1.000, you'll need to prove that you own the address you are intending to withdraw to to your custodian.

It also means that exchanges are required to forward your personal information, including things like your name and address, to any custodian you are transacting with, and that an exchange may collect information on whom you are sending funds to and whom you are receiving funds from.

The Travel Rule does not just make withdrawing from exchanges harder, as custodians will need to employ third party software, employ a signing protocol like AOPP, or have you conduct a micro transaction to the custodian before making your transfer.

It also poses an incredible risk to your financial privacy and security, as your KYC info will not just be stored with a custodian you trust, but with any custodian you transact with – increasing the risks of hacks and identity theft.

In its current form, the Travel Rule has been mandatory in tradfi in the EU since 2012 – But nobody seems to know whether it actually works to prevent money laundering or not.

That's why I filed a FOIA request with German authorities last month, requesting data on all money laundering convictions in Germany since 2008.

Interestingly, the Ministry of the Interior responsible for national security and overseeing Germany's law enforcement, responded that it had no such information - instead asking me to file FOIA Requests with the German Ministry of Finance, the German Customs Authority, as well as with every public prosecutors office...

...which means that the updated Travel Rule is the extension of a law to whichs effectiveness law enforcement appears to have no data.

(FOIA Response in picture translated with ChatGPT)

Full Story:

https://www.therage.co/travel-rule-crypto-surveillance/

Sovereign 1y ago

Does it mean withdrawing less than 1000€ won’t get me flagged? In such case I can just stack them back again at the destination?

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VictorieeMan

If anything this just implies that bitcoiners in EU member states, must involve themselves politically.

Suggestions:

1. Vote, vote, vote - for privacy & decentralization

2. Get involved in political orgs & affect them

3. Write articles & talk about privacy online and IRL

IRL

4. Find & promote suitable candidates to public office

5. Run yourself for public office if it's your kind of thing.*

*maybe we need a bitcoin fidaz social media influencer parliamentarian.

These are counter to what many bitcoiners are interested in, I know, I know... but it's not good if the political system don't have any reflection of our interests. Since nostr we also have our own social media to coordinate & rally on so... why not?

Sovereign 1y ago

Voting in EU doesn’t matter. The bureaucrats follow the rule of the greatest theorist of democracy Josef Stalin: more than who count the votes matters presenting the right alternative. Look what happened in Italy then now Romania.

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paul keating

Just absolutely scored in Italy surfing. 62 hours into my fast.

No photo evidence, just a baby shaka. Pv.

Sovereign 1y ago

Managed to go 62 before Christmas with 72 hrs target. I wasn’t prepared and got really dizzy. I do 36 hrs weekly Friday fasts. Getting used to. I realized more important is to break the fats properly with small but frequent meals. Fasting and then stuffing oneself is for the body like pressing the pedal of the racing car to the floor.

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