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Jeroen Ubbink
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Software developer, bitcoin enthusiast

I'm sorry you feel mistreated and/or traumatized about what was done to you but i don't think communicating it in this way helps you or anybody reading it.

If you feel people need to be more aware of the possible consequences a small note with clear text would suffice and help more people.

Having said that, the erotic act of "hawk tuah" is to me, as an uncircumcised person, just as erotic an idea as it is to anybody else, even if it serves no actual purpose in the form of lubrication.

Where did the awesome steaks go? Feeling too healthy? 🫣

Replying to Avatar L0la L33tz

As the democrats are jumping on the bitcoin train, let's look at the relationship between AML and social justice.

Power asymmetries emerge more easily where consent is easiest to coerce. As long as we can manufacture opinion to an extent that serves our needs – such as the widely held belief that dragnet financial surveillance is necessary to maintain liberal democracy – dominance is imminent, particularly when it goes unnoticed.

This ignorance is AML’s superpower - so much so that a party vowing to end inequality can reconcile its commitments to policies that exacerbate the divide it allegedly aims to overcome.

AML is the systematic rounding up of entire groups of people for collective punishment for the doings of a few; in political philosophy, we call this fascism. AML is the opposite of social – and it definitely isn’t just.

84% of people view homelessness a very or fairly serious problem - but if you don’t have a home, you can’t get a bank account, and if you can’t get a bank account, you can’t get a home. Yet democrats continue to rally behind increasing AML/CFT regulations.

Last year, US financial institutions reported compliance costs of $85 Billion. Eight in ten democrats believe that efforts to ensure racial equality have not gone far enough, but the reason for racial inequality in banking – and therefore much of the rest of life – are increasingly exorbitant compliance costs raising minimum account requirements, keeping millions of households unbanked.

Politicians talking about Bitcoin may excite you, but we shouldn’t lose track of why we’re excited about Bitcoin.

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I feel like, since we're paying taxes, it is good to have everybody do this without exceptions.

However to me it stops making sense the moment you spend more money on AML and enforcing it than the money collected from it.

Recently i heard that in the US for every $200 spend on AML they collect $1. Pardon me if this is false, i currently have no source for it.

What other motives can there be that allows spending more than receiving? Who is benefitting here?

Literally me at my daughter's horseback riding lessons where i just sit there reading a book while overhearing some loud mouth at the bar telling 3 other people and the barkeeper what shitcoins will go up and which will go down and how much money he made.

The bitcoin or shitcoin talks i overhear from stragangers occasionally are still always about trading...

It is! I have been there on holiday for 6 times now. I keep going to different countries and most of the time i'm like: "This is really nice, but it's not Norway."

Last year during the summer i visited about 12 waterfalls, only 3 of them i had seen before, for some i was there for half an hour with zero other people. I went to the snow, i swam in a fjord, in a mountain lake and some really odd pools with natural slides up in the mountains. I hiked for hours while never seeing a person.

For me it's the best country for a great holiday. So much stuff to do and 99% is free.

A one-way street into enshittification. First you subscribe to a mouse and soon they have a display on it showing you ads that you can remove by taking the more expensive subscription.

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Healthy amounts of sleep!

Those 8 hours were probably spend on the toilet on nostr.

But seriously, i think 60 hours a week of work is quite insane. Even if you love it you will get burned out if you do not moderate.

I agree with this 100% though i tend to lean towards helping others more than i probably should.

If somebody is blocked on their work i prefer to drop my own and help them. Partially because i hope they can return the favour but also because i just really like helping other people.

Occasionally this means i cannot get done what i set out to do, and sometimes i use it as a brief escape from some problem i am unable to solve quickly enough myself.

What i find fascinating is how early Trey Parker detected this shit and put it in South Park. I rebinged everything and noticed that PC Principal was introduced almost a decade ago (2015).