TBF, most Western countries do this too, just more carefully and selectively.

French operatives once openly bombed a Greenpeace vessel lol but that was shocking because it was so blatant and aimed at middleclass+ white people.

Usually its more like my old mentor, who had a background in EOD and became a bomb-making instructor hired to teach the clandestine services of several South American governments. At the time he thought he was saving the world from communism but really he was helping to terrorise poor communities for fascism...

IIRC, in the 80s there was a Palestinian terrorist leader hiding in Lebanon so paranoid he would only communicate from public pay-telephones.

Israeli operatives started rigging the public telephone handsets with small bombs and eventually got him. No idea how many local civilians died, of course, and the locals had no certain knowledge of who was booby-trapping their public phones.

If something equivalent happened in a Western country tomorrow people would blame anything from space aliens to Trump, and only half would believe the official story even if officials figured it out.

Its not like the movies. IRL, anyone likely to agonise over (non-attributable) collateral damage will not rise to a position where they will be making such decisions...

Anyone know where to get explosion proof phone cases?

Actually, Israel has a long history of planting bombs in phones and radios.

Hizb Allah really should have known better.

I am suprised they are so comfy as a terrorist group to not be more opsec.

Just watched "The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin"

My Takeaway:

- It's amazing how much is still the same

- Everyone thought we were further along then and would be further along in 10 yrs (today)

Maybe that last part changes quickly in the next year or maybe things continue slowly

They achieved an incredible blow. Max pain, confusion, fear, disbelief and lack of trust in anything. Population probably throwing everything out. This isn't even AI, drone, robot war yet.

Another niche: cooking for elderly shutins. There are "personal assistant" services for the elderly that could pair well with your service.

#asknostr

My wife wants to start working as a private chef and deliver fully cooked meals to clients. We live in an area that does have quite a bit of reasonably affluent folks so there is money here.

I would like to crowd-source how to get this off the ground. Marketing advice is probably 99% of any potential lift off.

The main question is: How do you get a first client?

Seriously, how do you even go about this? Hang a flier? That seems weak. I'd call people but I don't know who to call. Newspaper ads are dead on arrival (maybe not?). Getting a booth at a farmer's market might work but what the hell do you put out on the table? Samples?

It's sourcing that first client that, I think, everything hangs on. Do one and you can do two. Do two and you can do four. That sort of thing.

She asked me to ask y'all for help on how to do this and many of you have seen pics of the food she cooks so you know she ain't just blowing smoke up her own ass on this.

#cooking #marketing #clientWrangling

Bloody hell I wish businesses accepted bitcoin, I’d spend happily

you know what comes next.

1. gratitude

2. stuff face

you just had to be there

So both an ak47 & ar15 have been used to try and kill our former president…

Seems like a push to get them banned…

Still looking for info, but IMO its just that leftists aren't skilled with weapons. Thank God for that. Saw something saying "an AK style weapon" - not a good choice, if correct.

There has to come a time where you quit and play other games man

What’s the best book you read in the past year? #bookstr

What’s everyone’s game of choice these days? #gamestr

what am i missing? the germans have experienced everything lol but they’re so boring