Overall it's safe and stable.

There is always the threat of China, our resources, low population and political opposition to them make us a target. But that shows itself as cyber attacks and trade wars.

Politically we are very stable, we don't have any real threat of riots or unrest at all, a few lefty protests and tiny, but loud, groups of neo-nazis.

Economically we are on a bad place, inflation is still high, 33% of Australians are skipping meals, 25% of South Australians, where I live, have reported their household has run out of food and they don't have the money to buy more.

Crime and homelessness is certainly up, stabbings, home invasions, arson, car jacking, which we don't see a lot of usually are increasing.

I saw this meme used "in combat" today. I want all equally armed but this one is a serious weapon, do not use without discretion. 😂

#memestr #grownostr

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We used to piss of CB nerds, basically turn channels into radio stations, they'd get furious and try and find us, but we'd keep moving in our cars. Fun times.

Pretty much sums it up, but the sun's up and starting to burn it back. Should be a pleasent day 👍🏻

That's why creative hiding places were invented... 🤣

101 on how gold was confiscated:

You had to turn it in for dollars by a deadline prior to dollar devaluation, and there were massive prison consequences for not turning it in, but little resources in terms of investigating who didn’t turn it in. That would be expensive. So it was fear based. Focusing on illegality and tail risks on edge cases more than enforcement on average.

Institutions had to comply immediately, since it’s all visible. So the government broke liquidity in the domestic gold market, which was enough for their purposes. Gold became a hard-to-trade illegal relic for those that held it.

If a small family hodled some extra bars for 40 years until it became legal again, they did okay.

But can the government track bitcoin in the 2020s better or worse than gold in 1930s for enforcement purposes? That’s the right question.

And don’t just think of confiscation. Think of 70% selective taxes and things like that. Far more within the current rule of law. That’s the sophisticated approach. Don’t take it. Selectively tax it by a lot.

Those are the politics to push against from a bitcoin perspective.

Heh, double edged sword & the establishments edge is sharper...

I'd be considering devolving most things back to offline...

Heh, double edged sword & the establishments edge is sharper...

I'd be considering devolving most things back to offline...

I just listened in on a IEEE presentation on innovations in 5G/6G networks. Networking is not my profession, so some of it was over my head, but it was very interesting nonetheless.

The industry is also trying to secure new spectrum in the 7.1-8.5Ghz range to increase bandwidth.

They described the cellular network as dynamically reconfigurable and running on a distributed computing platform. Interaction with the computing platform is done via API. Some API's are open, some are closed, but there is a push to open them.

There are plans to natively run AI on the network and allow it to dynamically reconfigure and optimize the network. This is being to done to minimize labor costs; most the most use of equipment, spectrum and energy; and allow operators to rent out AI compute power during times of low demand as a new revenue stream.

There is conflict between allowing innovation and maintaining critical inrastructure.

Wild stuff, interesting times.

#5G #6G #networking

No one's probably going to come looking, unlike in the 'free' West.

No one's probably going to come looking, unlike in the 'free' West.

I'm surprised to see so many people pissed off at tump making fries at mcdonalds.

He's just doing work that other americans don't want to do!!

Cool, great skills to have.

#grownostr