How is Israel, England, Australia or Canada assaulting US first amendment? Even if they wanted, they couldn't. It's US internal thing. Only US citizens can change it from inside.

And those countries proved that are not "supposed" allies. They proved it when US called for help. They came, helped, bled and died for US.

Yeeeee that’s a stacked platter!! Enjoy my friend report back!! ❤️🫡

It didn’t get kinetic enough for that just silly drunken fun. But yes. Being short has never been a problem for me. Lol

In the sense that my dignity remained in tact and his was marginally diminished, yes. He’s a sweet kid but he was waaaaay to drunk be martial. The fact that I’m only 5’7’’ made it even more hilarious. My low center of gravity was an intractable obstacle. It was a brief encounter lol.

The biggest problem I see with dog owners is that they get the dog they like or think is cute, and don't consider if the breed fits their lifestyle, can be the biggest factor. People will get a border collie or a retreiver living in a condo, and barely walk it.. Of course it will be misbehaved and high strung, its a working dog that isn't being worked. Most people still don't consider this,

100x Nick Shirley copycats just to feel something.

Uhhhhh sir that was our job

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I cant begrudge a person for settling out their case when they face a real personal threat, but the lack of support for their case up to the point where the plea deal was reached is curious to me, thats all. “Facts and evidence” are like 25% of what cases are about most of the time. The story and how it’s told is the bulk of it.

I’m admittedly someone who likes conspiracies, but this is also my area of expertise—high stakes litigation. With all the rabble out there and the podcast circuit that guy just went on which he seemed to effortlessly secure but only after he failed to secure funding for his defense, just doesn’t smell right to me.

I have seen small businesses spend millions of dollars on litigation just to demonstrate to the public that they will enforce their contracts if they are challenged, regardless of whether they can collect on those

It just doesn’t pass that smell test that the world seems uniformly in agreement that the Samurai case is a serious danger to speech, coding, etc.etc., but these guys couldn’t sure defense funding, or just pro bono lawyers, to help.

If you have practiced federal litigation you know that when an industry sees a threat in a given lawsuit, lawyers come from all over out of the woodwork to help and make sure the precedent set is good for the industry, yet here there was a mediocre campaign for funds and then a plea deal ostensibly due to lack of funding.

There is definitely more to this story.

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I wouldn’t because I don’t have access to the information that his lawyers did, I wouldn’t even begin to pretend how to do that, but the problem is they apparently couldn’t generate money to defend themselves which is curious to me.

My instinct is that this is closer to the truth than we know and it could be far more insidious, e.g., maybe they got a different deal to _not_ fight this case. That is a super scandalous allegation and I’m not saying its true, I’m just saying that I don’t buy that a case that everyone seems uniformly convinced was so constitutionally important couldn’t get sufficient funding for it, I just don’t buy that.

The funding issue is one side, and you raise some good questions.

The more significant issue is how to present an understandable (& compelling) defense to a jury. Money doesn’t solve that outright.

Prosecution has the easy arguments; defense has to explain COINJOIN to mega normies? Fight was over before it started.

Not to mention that this is was SDNY so the deck was already stacked against them.

I’m not going to try to weed through the semantic and rhetorical positions a lot of you want to take on that other thread but I am very curious what you all have to think about the following:

It seems like a lot of you believe (and I agree) that the samurai prosecution is a serious threat to speech and privacy and the space generally. Yet no one seemed to give a shit enough to fund a single lawsuit. There are actual bitcoin billionaires and millionaire who we actually know without having to say names. They didn’t give a shit. There are serious public figure venture capitalists in this space. I’m sure they gave money they certainly asked us to on their various pod casts. And had Keonne on all the podcasts after the plea. Where was all the money?

I watch what people do not what people say. You all rightly point out they could not afford their defense, and I believe they. So where was the money and why couldn’t they get it if this was all so important? I don’t know the answers to any of this but I think we should all think about it a little. This isn’t me trying to imply anything at all. I genuinely wonder if this was such an important case where was all the fucking money when they needed it. Rando victims of police violence have no problem generating millions of dollars from random idiots so what really happened here?

A real investigator should ask that question but there might be something important that we aren’t talking about.

Extremely good workout today

Sprints, bounds

Box jumps (v good, 40" jumps with like a 90 degree knee angle, the old folks were calling me athletic)

Power cleans (first time in years, horrible but better than expected)

Back squats

Front squats

And my new favorite: Jefferson deadlifts

I did Jeffersons 3 days ago and already feel my back is way stronger

And then some sauna