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What I want to know is, why does Rumble have to block Brazil?? China doesn't need to ask any centralized to block China - they block them in their national firewall. If Brazil considers Rumble a threat to the nation - just block their ips already. This is not rocket science for a centralized platform (even an "alt" one like Rumble).
You don't have to be a tech giant either. Uganda successfully implemented a paywall in front of all centralized social media sites - in order to collect a tax from users. The stated motive was to get a cut of the revenue enjoyed by these companies. But the move had tremendous social benefits as well as citizens dropped Facebook and explored more decentralized protocols.
In this case yes. But ICANN (also controlled by WEF) can remove the rumble.com domain any time they please. And all the CAs in the the shadowy TLS cabal can forge rumble.com or any domain at all for the clueless masses that trust them.
The Nostr infrastructure so far has no real mitigation for this. Need more global mesh vpns and private TLDs and DNS servers. (See opennic.org for normie accessible alt DNS.)
It has limited use elsewhere. Easily forged, easily canceled/censored, the main advantage is operation with very faint signal. There are newer very low bandwidth protocols that should replace it.
However, to play around with things that require an SMS, you can use a bridge service. E.g. https://jmp.chat bridges XMMS,SIP, or Matrix to SMS. I recommend XMMS as that keeps minimal server state and a server is very easy to operate, even on less reliable devices such rPi.
Need a telco account it appears. Seems pointless (telco is easy to cancel / forge).
If you don't like Russia (too cold), India seems to be doing well, with a space program, moon probes, and other impressive achievements. Still seems to be some color based caste system, from what I hear though. Christianity is a minority religion in India - which often makes it more authentic.
Also, that's when real income of the poorest in the US began going down. Until then, it had gone up fairly consistently on average.
Nixon took the USD off the gold standard for international transactions. This removed the last restraint on money printing by the unconstitutional "Federal Reserve".
I claim that the US was not always an evil tyrant. And while the CIA assassinated JFK, and many undeclared wars fought since WW2, the real evil began in the late 1990s by my reckoning. That was when they began centralizing the internet with ICANN, TLS cabal, and SaS, and when the Neocons plotted their conquest of the Middle East in 1998.
Russia since 2000. They are in danger of falling into the same trap as the US did after WW2, however. Their economy and "Military Industrial Complex" are growing by leaps and bounds from the idiotic and unconstitutional wars brought against them through proxies by US neocons and Deep State. ("So what if 500K Ukrainians died, they weren't Americans. Best money we ever spent.")
Also, it is not clear what will happen when Putin leaves office. I would study their Constitution, and whether they are likely to adhere to it for long.
The US was never a democracy. It was founded as a Republic. Democracy is an awful form of government, recognized as such since at least Plato, and explicitly rejected by the American founders. God set up several forms of government of Israel, beginning with the Patriarchy (the real thing in Genesis), then servitude (Egypt after Joseph), then Constitutional Anarchy (Law of Moses), then Constitutional Monarchy (Moses provided for an eventual king), and the final Kingdom will be Christ as absolute ruler of the world. All other wanna be world rulers (including US neocons) are anti-christs.
Democracy: two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for dinner
Except ye repent, ye shall likewise perish!
Like Assyria in Ezekiel 31, the US is a tree in the garden of nations.
It was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its limbs, for its roots extended to abundant waters.
The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it; the cypressesa could not compare with its branches, nor the plane treesb match its boughs. No tree in the garden of God could compare with its beauty.
I made it beautiful with its many branches, the envy of all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God. Ezekiel 31:7-9
The last Assyrian aqueduct was decommissioned in 1996 after 4000 years continuous operation. It was truly a great empire.
Like Assyria, the US has aspired to global hegemony, extending the American empire to the entire globe.
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Since it became great in height and set its top among the clouds, and it grew proud on account of its height,
I
delivered it into the hand of the ruler of the nations, for him to deal
with it according to its wickedness. I have banished it.
Foreigners,
the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches
have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken
in all the earth’s ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its
shade and abandoned it.'
Ezekiel 31:10-12
Also read Habakkuk 2 with the Five Woes against Babylon. God appointed the Chaldeans to bring down the Assyrian empire, and calls Nebuchadnezzar son of Nabopolassar "My servant". God calls Nebuchadnezzar to discipline his people in Judah, which he does with fairness and impartiality. "Thus saith the Lord, Nebuchadnezzar has the same complaint against Judah that I do - they have made a covenant with Me and have broken it." See also Ezekiel 17
But in the 4th generation, Babylon becomes utterly corrupt, and falls to Cyrus of Persia. Some of the 5 woes:
Woe to them that amass wealth based on debt! (sound familiar?)
Woe to them that gain wealth by violence (sound familiar?)
Woe to him that gives his neighbor drink, to uncover his nakedness (how most US politicians and officials are blackmailed - a party, a drugged drink, awaken in a hotel room with a photo on their chest).
The problem here is that protections of the US Constitution were suspended for the "Civil War" (war of Secession), suspended again for WW2 - and never restored. Since WW2, rhetorical "wars" have justified removing more and more of the constitution. War on poverty (nullify 14th amendment), War on drugs (nullify 4th amendment), War on terror (nullify 1st amendment and innocent until proven guilty).
The US Constitution is the rightful ruler of the US. But the people have given their allegiance to other rulers.
TIL - US code is not actually the law, but a summary/application written by unelected bureaucrats. A good lawyer will find the actual law behind any US code cited as justification for injustice.
Kinda like Singapore where you acrule a health spending account. You are forced to save but they have no rules how you spend.
https://www.statnews.com/2022/10/03/better-use-of-health-savings-accounts-lessons-from-singapore/
HSA is already available in the US. But Big Pharma pushes HMO because that incentivizes a medicated lifestyle. Spend same $$/mo on HSA plan, stay healthy, and keep the HSA into retirement.
"resolving is slow" doesn't really apply to Namecoin - that complaint must refer to some other software interfacing Namecoin to DNS or a browser.
Normally, I use DNS for resolving (no browser mods required). Namecoin is a database. Your DNS backend can query your local Namecoin node and cache, or just batch convert all current names to a BIT zone periodically. I do the latter - although it means my snapshot doesn't include the very latest (has never affected me).
I have also heard of browser extensions that query a namecoin node directly. I do not like that approach at all. Just use a DNS proxy.
By "socialized healthcare", do you mean:
1) everyone has to contribute to funding care for those otherwise not provided for or just wanting to save some money
2) A UK like system where regular people are prohibited from obtaining care on their own and unwanted treatments (e.g. mRNA injections) are forced on people at gunpoint (except for the politically connected elite, of course)
BTW, the canon is which books are authentic. "Texts" refers to different manuscripts. OT manuscripts are very consistent. NT manuscripts all have errors (not typos, but "scribals"?). But there are thousands of them, so you can make a tree out of all the versions, and get the original reading with only a few passages in question (none very important).
Satoshi expostulated, "Do you not realize I’m speaking about church leaders who expound such differences to their followers?"
At high enough temperatures, distinctions in physics disappear. Electrons, protons, neutrons, etc all become quarks. Einstein showed that E = mc², but matter and energy become not only equivalent, but indistinguishable and inseperable at temperatures like the early universe.
Similarly, with severe enough persecution, distinctions between Christian groups disappear. In a prison camp, rules about communion between Catholic/Protestant are suspended. My high school chemistry teacher had a poster, "In the event of nuclear attack, all rules against praying in school are temporarily suspended." It is said that there are no atheists in foxholes. (I haven't served, myself.)