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“Meet the new boss. same as the old boss!”

So this was the place we just onboarded.

A Bitcoin hotel near #ElZonte which just opened up recently.

They had no idea what Nostr was but they have IG, X, and Google maps.

We pulled their location data from Google, and created a “location” on nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3 - which is a “location event type” on Nostr.

We then sat with the merchant to “claim” their location.

This claiming process creates a Nostr profile and then assumes the location as part of it (we swap a new location event in signed by their nsec).

Now they are on Nostr, they own their profile, which includes owning all the location data - which they’re now able to edit.

This means they now have a full merchant page with an audience, a profile, the ability to post, their location info, opening hours and so much more.

A new era begins!!

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Police officers stand guard outside the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts in Hong Kong on Tuesday. (Chan Long Hei/AP)
By Shibani Mahtani
November 18, 2024 at 10:18 p.m. ET
A Hong Kong court on Tuesday sentenced 45 pro-democracy leaders, the city’s most prominent activists among them, to prison terms ranging up to ten years. None received sentences of less than four years and two months.
The harsh penalties for a nonviolent offense underscore how the territory’s legal system has become an extension of the repression Hong Kong has faced since massive pro-democracy protests five years ago, and the authorities’ insistence on continuing to persecute longtime opposition leaders who they believe were at the forefront of the city’s resistance.
The sentences mark the end of a protracted legal drama for the activists, who were swept up and arrested over a single day in February 2021. All were Hongkongers who had committed themselves to fighting for greater democratic rights for the city and against Beijing’s legal and political encroachment. They were charged with “conspiracy to commit subversion” under the Beijing-imposed national security law for their participation in an unofficial primary election. The prosecution accused them of seeking to disrupt the functioning of the government if they were to be elected.

A total of 47 were charged, and most have remained in pretrial detention since. Of the group, 31 of them pleaded guilty, hoping for reduced sentences, while 14 were found guilty in May after trial. Two were acquitted.

Benny Tai, a 60-year old legal scholar who came up with the idea of the primary, received the harshest sentence of 10 years. Those who chose to push back against the charges by going to trial received longer sentences than those who pleaded guilty. Youth activist Joshua Wong, one of the most recognizable of the group, was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison.
The eventual time they will now serve in prison will be reduced, depending on the defendant. Judges said they would take into account their public service, and the time they had already spent in jail before Tuesday.

The landmark trial, involving the largest number of defendants for a national security case, was seen as a bellwether of how strictly authorities would enforce the new law, which came into effect in 2020. At every step, the case — from the arrests to the initial bail hearings, the years-long pretrial detention and the trial itself — has shown how Hong Kong’s once-lauded judicial system now resembles a more authoritarian system, according to legal experts. The trial was overseen by three judges handpicked by the government to try national security cases, departing from the tradition of trial by jury under Hong Kong’s common law system.
“The courts now are rarely departing from the government’s narrative,” said Eric Lai, a research fellow at the Georgetown Center for Asian law. “Judges have been working to further the government’s line, using their definition of pro-democracy protests, on the strategies of the [opposition] democrats, rather than putting weight on safeguarding rights and freedoms.”

Kidnapped and put in cages by thugs who define Chinese “rule of law.”

All of them are theft enforced by greedy, egotistical power mongers and their minions. But, property tax is the worst because it guarantees that “ownership” of property is not possible without regular protection payments to the mob.

I thought about applying for a Gemini credit card (pays rewards in bitcoin) and learned it’s necessary to have a Gemini exchange account first. This requires checking the box to agree to their canned and non-negotiable terms of use - most online businesses have these days.

I stopped reading at this page and left their website (not that they are worse than the others, but I’m doing much KYC hoop-jumping these days.

How many layers of horse shit do the Overlords need to enforce the largest money counterfeiting scheme the world has ever known? How much longer is the “Ignorance of the law is no excuse” Kool-aid going to keep the sheep happily grazing and oblivious?

Your short clear statements and great meme choices have been great. Anything that provides new or compelling insights that might be used to persuasively catch the attention and minds of otherwise good but clueless people would be welcome! 🙂

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### Enfrentemos alguns fatos.

Os burocratas sem rosto, determinados a desarmar os cidadãos que respeitam a lei, não estão fazendo isso porque são "boas pessoas" preocupadas com você ou comigo sendo vítimas de bandidos armados. Seus aliados na mídia, que não perdem a oportunidade de divulgar mentiras, mitos e desinformações, demonizam os proprietários de armas, não porque desejam desarmar criminosos locais, mas porque enxergam a propriedade privada de armas de fogo como uma ameaça à sua base de poder e um obstáculo à mentalidade da "Nova Ordem Mundial".

Esse conceito, associado a uma sociedade orwelliana, ao estado-babá ou à vigilância total, remonta às mesmas ideias despóticas que, apenas no século passado, levaram a Europa duas vezes à ditadura e à destruição. Uma sociedade armada é a última linha de defesa, uma "rede de segurança" contra o pesadelo do "Grande Irmão", que muitos enxergam sendo construído ao nosso redor. Não é de se admirar que aqueles com más intenções queiram desarmar a população.

Algumas pessoas podem achar essa retórica desagradável, mas é uma verdade difícil de engolir, especialmente diante das ideias reconfortantes que somos condicionados a acreditar. Essas ideias, promovidas por aqueles que desejam controlar o que pensamos, acreditamos e fazemos, nos fazem acreditar que o desarmamento torna a sociedade mais segura. Há, no entanto, indivíduos ingênuos que defendem que apenas a polícia e o exército devam ter acesso às armas de fogo. Eu chamo isso de "mentalidade de estado policial", uma visão perigosa.

A história está repleta de exemplos de regimes que desarmaram seus próprios cidadãos sob o pretexto de "lei e ordem", apenas para cometer atrocidades ou genocídios contra os desamparados. Nessas circunstâncias, a capacidade do indivíduo de construir sua própria arma caseira ou fomentar a fabricação de armas de forma clandestina é essencial.

Minha opinião é clara: as armas não pertencem apenas às mãos dos agentes do Estado (que nunca serão desarmados), mas também às mãos do povo como um todo. Esse é o caminho mais seguro para manter o equilíbrio de poder entre o Estado e o cidadão.

A corrida do governo para criar uma utopia "livre de armas" não terá qualquer efeito na taxa de criminalidade. O criminoso, por definição, não obedece à lei, sendo, portanto, imune à legislação antiarmas. Por outro lado, o controle de armas criará mais vítimas de crimes violentos, enquanto os cidadãos permanecem desarmados sob o pretexto de "controle do crime".

Essa é a verdade incômoda que você nunca lerá na mídia ou ouvirá de políticos alinhados ao politicamente correto. Enquanto permitirmos que a mídia antipropaganda continue espalhando suas mentiras, mitos e desinformações, testemunharemos a destruição das antigas liberdades "garantidas" pelas leis.

Quando qualquer governo priva um cidadão de sua liberdade ou propriedade, este deve tomar medidas para divulgar suas queixas. A futilidade do controle de armas e como nenhuma quantidade de legislação arbitrária pode impedir quem realmente deseja possuir uma arma de consegui-la.

O indivíduo que possui a capacidade de construir sua própria arma caseira jamais poderá ser desarmado permanentemente por qualquer nível de legislação.

Uma arma verdadeiramente caseira deve ser construída com ferramentas manuais e materiais que qualquer pessoa média possa adquirir com facilidade.

#Gun #Gunstr #homemade

Lógica sólida e verdade clara! Concordo com suas conclusões.

A reasonable next-world fate for all tyrants. Vlad, you getting psyched yet?

It’s an interesting problem. Glad your able to figure it out.

GM All!

A day of possibilities like all that came before - only different, somehow, yet to be determined. . .

The differences between reckless foolishness and insightful risk-taking may be estimated prospectively but can only be verified retrospectively.

Of Icarus one might ask, “Had you known your quest was destined to fail, would you have folded your wings and walked the well-worn paths?”