I have family in Austin and grew up there. The Texan spirit won't roll over, so it's on the Feds to make the determination about how kinetic it gets.
It is true. Every generation will have its great men and weak men, and at times the weak outnumber the great by small and great margins, but we must do what we can and hold out hope.
The Catholic Church itself is far to wide an organization, just from a mere organizational view, for the whole to be in on the deal. It has a sixth of the global population, or thereabouts in its membership. I am the first to say there's corruption needing to be carved out like cancer, and you might be able to point to dioceses, maybe bishop's conferences, to be in on it, but you can't say the whole of the global Church is.
I would also rather cold over hot law- or warfare, but I also see that path toward escalation even through lawfare, like the arrests I suggested might be a "next step".
At some point, the adding versus cutting wire will come to an end. I don't see it becoming a ceremonial quasi-offence like the dispute over the little island between Canada and Greenland (Hans Island, if you're wondering). Someone will put the foot down and begin making arrests (I see either party doing this), or will give up and comply (I really don't see Texas rolling over for the Feds).
I am very sure the Catholic Church itself is not trafficking, but I would not be surprised to hear some crazy Susan from the Parish Council has been misappropriating parish funds to help smuggle humans. I can't speak for Protestant organizations, though.
We can hope so. Similar to how one almost longs to vomit when ill, I almost long to get this over with.
True. The pushes to embrace sexually perverse lifestyles was definitely a ploy to break down the strength of the military by discouraging strong men from enlisting. I don't know how socal it was, but I hope not too successful.
Great men raise great men who raise great men. That's my hope. Call me a naïve optimist, but I choose to believe that is possible.
Just one component in the vicious offense against the American people.
The physical goods manufacturing industry leaving domestic companies, fractional reserve banking, obscene taxation, regulation induced expense increases for small businesses, regulation induced price hiking for healthcare, subsidization induced price hiking for education, a bloated welfare system open to illegal immigrants, and never ending printing to oblivion the currency, are responsible for basically all our economic woes.
The rub is that much of the federal military would be on Texas' side. They might not need to "take" if it came to that.
True, it's not exactly a point of no return yet, but my point is that this particular exchange could become the catalyst. However, bold defiance of the SCOTUS and federal efforts in a state's own self defense is cold lawfare heating up.
A politically costly move may be to begin making arrests by either side, or rather the order to do so.
The biggest difference between THC and nicotine is how productive you can be while on it. The dems would like you to be a zombie.
I'm with Texas.
Is this the official beginning? Will things get kinetic?
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Hey! My UTXO consolidation went through! I was a little worried for a little there.
https://x.com/nvk/status/1749865557841563857 terrible comparison. Visa is not settled after like a month where as bitcoin is almost instant
Essentially, we need a way to reduce the number of transactions that recorded on-chain and increase the number of actual transactions. That's the basics of a scaling.
I think it might be lightning on drive chains, the more I thing on it. I don't exactly want an update to the consensus method, but I feel something has to be done.
As for LN, it makes two on-chain transactions and an arbitrary number of off-chain between two parties. Routing makes this expandable, but a network is still needed to do the routing, which becomes hard to navigate as we inevitably go into the millions of nodes territory, and getting to the millions of channels territory means millions of transactions to establish and maintain those channels. On top of it, this means non-custodial for the vast majority of people.
If people within drive chains could setup lightning channels between themselves, having your own drive chain lightning channels might actually be feasible for the average person as we venture into the hundreds of millions and eventually billions of users territory. Obviously, we would have cross-chain nodes that would route across drivechains, so that becomes an engineering problem, not a philosophical one.
10k chains × 100k users per chain = 1B users.
Every medium sized city could have its own drivechain! That could be quite feasible. (No, I do not mean government run, just that a chain could be associated with a city.)
There's also the idea of nested drive chains. I could imagine 1k drive chains with 100 sub-chains and 10k users apiece to get to that billion person mark.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1749682244195889294 orange pillers be like, she is strong and brave! Quit being a misogynist
Infanticide is such an empowering experience! Exhilarating!
Ooh! I have a great idea! ... no, no more side projects 😭 why must I be plagued by interesting ideas that I ought not pursue?
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Okay, I'll at least share. I could create a new number system type with arbitrary (or just really big) precision and mixed base with support for complex numbers and common irrational numbers. For example, a PreciseFloat would be something like...
type PreciseComplexFloatingPoint = (
[u32; 64], // real mantissa, 2048 bit precision
[u32; 64], // imaginary mantissa, 2048 bit precision
[i16; 64], // prime factors, first 64 primes, raised to the
[i16; 32], // common irrational factors, such as pi, e, etc., raised to the
i32, // binary exponent
);
This could be really interesting for niche mathematical research type applications. The idea would be to make rounding errors basically impossible.
This would be such an interesting problem to work on ...
#rust #rustLang #learnRust