My goodness, I hadn't even seen the fake hot Asian chick accounts shilling the scam in here. As if that alone wasn't sus enough. nostr:note1nx7uuppm3adxf0y7ttmtqpve2lnnsw8g5gvmwchsd7xe3yvcy7cs54yyy6

Many. Not always the government.

That's the beauty of true federalism and administrative decentralization.

If you're in the US, every person and business has the right to refuse cash payment, card payment, or any other payment. The USD being legal tender "only" means that all debts (including payments) must be denominated in USD, not that you must use coins or bills to represent that value.

I'm all for material acts of selfdefense, but in the end only a leigislative change would solve the issue. It would have to be very massive and lots more intense than bringing down a few cameras. So it's not happening that way. And the other way, convincing the voters that they're being fucked sideways doesn't seem to have a lot of potential. Even if you convince them, the policitians can simply ignore them.

I have ZERO idea of the technicals, but is the main problem storage?

If so, would it be reasonable to assume that there are several tiers of notes in terms of cost, like text-only (short), text-only (long), static images (however you classify them, if you do), audio, video, streaming...

... and in that case, would it be reasonable to have different specialized relays, or payment tiers, depending on what you want to post?

At the same time, how much of this storage can be just passed on to the users' devices? I would say, if you want permanent storage of your shit, you store it on your device.

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I have a distinct recollection, despite me being relatively young, of the time when the idea of installing traffic radars in Spain appeared. The dissenting voices among politicians were loud, but promptly quelled. "Safety" first.

For a while, angry victims took the machines down, and then the government installed cameras to watch over the radars. Then a few cameras were taken down, so they put the cameras on 10 metre tall poles, and cameras watching the cameras, and all adjacent roads, and people finally gave up.

Soon after, the idea of putting surveillance cameras on the street appeared, and the politician voices against it were a lot less loud this time, and no action by the people was taken once they started to put them everywhere -- because "terrorism", of course.

Now we have cameras at the entrance of my city that read the stickers on your windscreen and determine whether you're allowed in or not, and whether you're up to date with mandatory fees or not. They can know if it was you driving because they're filming your face (so no more saying it was the wife speeding, to save a couple of points on your licence).

We have "traffic" helicopters constantly flying over us, who watch if you're holding your phone in your hand while driving from hundreds of meters above you, while measuring the position and speed of all the vehicles in a 2 square kilometre are at the same time, streaming the data live.

The slippery slope if fucking real, and kudos to these freedom fighters, but I'm not optimistic.

As long as it doesn't have hands or feet or legs or arms, or ears or teeth or tongue or tail, yes, AI "art" is OK.

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Which I'm totally fine with, for real. I can take it.

As I hope they can take it if I then reply "Then don't be a bitch either, and procure your food for yourself", since that's what I do for a living.

Or we can all go back to the Paleolithic, when division of labor wasn't a thing.

Another "bitcoin app", another scam. We haven't even started, and we're already using the worst fucking fiat practices. And that's the games section. If you want to freak the fuck out for real, try the "take a survey" section.

All these bitcoin scams only reinforce by believe that the only legitimate use case is as a store of value -- and as it happens, nobody can beat BTC at that. So just leave it the fuck alone, scammers.

Just in a few minutes ago and it's already my favorite small blade ever 😍

I have big hands, and it fits and feels like a full sized tool.

Not a superfan of the "secure release" thing, and I would have made it a little bit thicker, even if it was heavier, because it's already beyond a "proper" neck knife.

But still, 4.5/5 for sure.

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The experimental data since Galileo is out there, publicly available for free. You can replicate the experiments yourself, if you so wish.

Have any of you looked into the Palau e-residence thing? I'm quite close to pulling the trigger.

The only thing that has prevented me from doing it so far is that they still haven't put in place a law allowing e-residents to set up corporations, which is a must for me, and to open bank accounts.

In fact, the second point is not so important because Wise accepts the Palau e-resident card as KYC, but it would still be better to have that option, just in case.

B... B... But muh BUREEEEEEECS!

B... B... But muh BUREEEEEEECS!

Wise, with a BE IBAN, DOES allow sending fiat to Binance dot com.

Gravity is a conspiracy by the Cabal.

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Worked like a charm :)

I like the moon shape design, to be honest.