Twitter/X has been banned in Pakistan for almost a year, but Nostr and Primal are working normally here, on desktop/laptop and mobile.

Pakistan needs Nostr and Primal. Gotta upgrade to Legend.

Tis written in a book, therefore it must be true!

- some impressionable bastard somewhere 🤣

My bet is it’s a big part IOU volume. Exit exchanges now. nostr:note145rmpj46ewkx0gy80kszqm3a3v9xf5m3amessm4zvx8gkufwz0vsrl9dqd

France imposes unrealized gains, Czech Republic passes no capital gains at all.

The nation state game theory is in play, and much of Europe and the west is on a suicidal path.

It’s always hubris. nostr:note13kzfe2qdr36dg6x6xtuuhz0a6mu9py6c9rd7gfuvkf9yfntsn84qx3rsn7

The text below is the complete reason why Elon and the ID Card fanatics are 100% wrong.

The UK ID card is not what you think it is. It is not a simple identity document like your passport or driving license. It is in fact, a database backed control grid and the fulfilment of Orwells nightmare.

You may have heard that legislation creating compulsory ID Cards passed a crucial stage in the House of Commons. You may feel that ID cards are not something to worry about, since we already have Photo ID for our Passport and Driving License and an ID Card will be no different to that. What you have not been told is the full scope of this proposed ID Card, and what it will mean to you personally.

The proposed ID Card will be different from any card you now hold. It will be connected to a database called the NIR, (National Identity Register)., where all of your personal details will be stored. This will include the unique number that will be issued to you, your fingerprints, a scan of the back of your eye, and your photograph. Your name, address and date of birth will also obviously be stored there.

There will be spaces on this database for your religion, residence status, and many other private and personal facts about you. There is unlimited space for every other details of your life on the NIR database, which can be expanded by the Government with or without further Acts of Parliament.

By itself, you might think that this register is harmless, but you would be wrong to come to this conclusion. This new card will be used to check your identity against your entry in the register in real time, whenever you present it to 'prove who you are'.

Every place that sells alcohol or cigarettes, every post office, every pharmacy, and every Bank will have an NIR Card Terminal, (very much like the Chip and Pin Readers that are everywhere now) into which your card can be 'swiped' to check your identity. Each time this happens, a record is made at the NIR of the time and place that the Card was presented. This means for example, that there will be a government record of every time you withdraw more than £99 at your branch of Nat West, who now demand ID for these transactions. Every time you have to prove that you are over 18, your card will be swiped, and a record made at the NIR. Restaurants and off licenses will demand that your card is swiped so that each receipt shows that they sold alcohol to someone over 18, and that this was proved by the access to the NIR, indemnifying them from prosecution.

Private businesses are going to be given access to the NIR Database. If you want to apply for a job, you will have to present your card for a swipe. If you want to apply for a London Underground Oyster Card,or a supermarket loyalty card, or a driving license you will have to present your ID Card for a swipe. The same goes for getting a telephone line or a mobile phone or an internet account.

Oyster, DVLA, BT and Nectar (for example) all run very detailed databases of their own. They will be allowed access to the NIR,just as every other business will be. This means that each of these entities will be able to store your unique number in their database, and place all your travel, phone records, driving activities and detailed shopping habits under your unique NIR number. These databases, which can easily fit on a storage device the size of your hand, will be sold to third parties either legally or illegally. It will then be possible for a non governmental entity to create a detailed dossier of all your activities. Certainly, the government will have clandestine access to all of them, meaning that they will have a complete record of all your movements, from how much and when you withdraw from your bank account to what medications you are taking, down to the level of what sort of bread you eat - all accessible via a single unique number in a central database.

This is quite a significant leap from a simple ID Card that shows your name and face.

Most people do not know that this is the true character and scope of the proposed ID Card. Whenever the details of how it will work are explained to them, they quickly change from being ambivalent towards it.

The Government is going to COMPEL you to enter your details into the NIR and to carry this card. If you and your children want to obtain or renew your passports, you will be forced to have your fingerprints taken and your eyes scanned for the NIR, and an ID Card will be issued to you whether you want one or not. If you refuse to be fingerprinted and eye scanned, you will not be able to get a passport. Your ID Card will, just like your passport, not be your property. The Home Secretary will have the right to revoke or suspend your ID at any time, meaning that you will not be able to withdraw money from your Bank Account, for example, or do anything that requires you to present your government issued ID Card.

The arguments that have been put forwarded in favour of ID Cards can be easily disproved. ID Cards WILL NOT stop terrorists; every Spaniard has a compulsory ID Card as did the Madrid Bombers. ID Cards will not 'eliminate benefit fraud', which in comparison, is small compared to the astronomical cost of this proposal, which will be measured in billions according to the LSE (London School of Economics). This scheme exists solely to exert total surveillance and control over the ordinary free British Citizen,and it will line the pockets of the companies that will create the computer systems at the expense of your freedom, privacy and money.

If you did not know the full scope of the proposed ID Card Scheme before and you are as unsettled as I am at what it really means to you, to this country and its way of life, I urge you to email or photocopy this and give it to your friends and colleagues and everyone else you think should know and who cares. The Bill has proceeded to this stage due to the lack of accurate and complete information on this proposal being made public. Together & Hand to hand, we can inform the entire nation if everyone who receives this passes it on.

Frances Stonor Saunders

First I was left. Then i was center. Then they told me I’m right. Then far right. And now paranoid anarchist.

Can we please leave the kat alone?

Kkthnx

If you've got to get up early for a commitment and don't want to get stuck somewhere away from home base with a restroom emergency, coffee + nicotine is a hack to get the bowels moving ASAP!

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Today I learned that the new Surat Diamond Bourse in India is the biggest office building in the world in terms of square meters of floor space.

Until this was built in 2023, the Pentagon was the world’s biggest office building. More floor space than any skyscraper. Now this one is bigger.

But my first thought is, “why the hell does a diamond exchange have to be so big!?” Like, I can’t imagine what they need so much space for.

I haven’t been very far. Reacting less to everything is beneficial

The craziest #physics things I learned that I can’t get out of my head is Wigner’s Classification. In some sense the way particles can be transformed in spacetime define the different types of particles that can exist.

The mathy way of saying this that “irreducible representations of the poincaré group” directly result in the quantum information we can observe and in some sense, the type of particle.

One piece of information about a particle we can know is something called spin. Spin can be understood as the angular momentum of an individual particle. Different types of particles have different spins. Light has integer spin (bosons) and matter has half integer spin (fermions).

Different spins changes the way particles behave. Integer spin particles can stack up on each other and can occupy the same quantum state (light), have integer spin particles can’t occupy the same state (fermi exclusion principle, fermions, get it?)

So just due to the way these particles infinitesimally transform in spacetime (poincaré group) defines the types of particles that exist. Pretty fuckin wild.