Especially when locals would happily hunt 80 deer for free if government would get out of the way.
Wonder how much of the wasted $$$ is graft, and how much is clueless busybodying?
Hierarchy be like: Mineral Keepers -> Politicians & UN -> Peacekeepers -> Local Population
Peacekeepers might take relationships with the locals more seriously if they were the ones keeping the minerals they're "securing" along with the population.
Instead they get fobbed off with lousy pay, worse food, and near-total impunity for whatever they might want to inflict on locals.
We call this "Democracy". Sometimes "Stability" or "Women's Rights".
I hear you!
I haven't voted FOR a politician in my life, but I vote AGAINST the worst one, every time.
And there's always a worst one.
In terms of slowing the slide into tyranny, voting is like throwing rocks at an advancing Main Battle Tank. Most probably useless, but you might get lucky and damage its sights, causing it to unexpectedly blue-screen and drive in maddened circles.
And what was the Trump Administration, if not the Establishment blue-screening and driving in maddened circles?
The solution needs to come from L2...
Fixed block size bro. Bitcoin was running straight at that wall before Ordinals tripped it.
Censoring ordinals won't "fix" block scarcity, it just kicks the can down the road.
Absent some drastic hard fork, the solution has to via L2.
My Pinephone power micro-switch failed within a month. I ordered a replacement from Pinephone, and after six weeks I received a parcel sent from a university dorm room in Shenzhen. The parcel was empty. Complaints went unanswered. Forum posts went ignored except by other customers.
If that's the service you dream of, buy a Pinephone.
Merchants do here in Australia.
Visa and MasterCard previously forbade surcharges, until that was ruled monopolistic in a court.
I feel if the card processor is charging the merchant a fee, its only fair to pass that on to card buyers, so that cash buyers don't have to pay the extra for a service they're not using.
The most entertaining, I think, and the least effective at doing evil (especially from a rest-of-the-world selfish viewpoint!).
Could be.
I also wonder if trolls are mostly low effort and low technical skill
1. Give some people the power of life and death over others.
2. Make it so the powerless are from a different culture, so that it is harder for them to predict, negotiate and build social relationships with the powerful (that might then socially restrain the powerful).
3. Make sure the powerful are bored, frustrated, pissed off, know their time in country is limited, and know accountability will be rare and minimal.
4. Perform shocked Picachu face when abuse happens.
5. Repeat as needed
6. ????
7. Profit!!!
I do wonder if the freewheeling yet tolerant, respectful culture of #nostr is BECAUSE of the challenging on-boarding and general obscurity of the protocol.
Eternal August?
Is he incoherent because he's really stoned, or is he an LLM? I keep changing my guess...
The beauty of Communism is that you get to starve OTHER people to death, to fund your Big Government Projects!
Thanks, I'll try them again. They were blocking Tor last time I checked, but I can try different exit nodes.
I am working on finding a way to do that while remaining entirely on Tor. Thanks though!
They had it better than other "white" people for two hundred years.
But now the kinds of power structures their ancestors fled Europe from have a strong grip on America too...
True.
Swap "Muslim" with "Christian", or with "White", and it is even more true.
Most muslims leaders are hypocrites and traitors, but that's "most", not "all".
"White" leaders don't care in the slightest about "white" civilian deaths. Not unless their masters tell them to leverage the deaths to commit a robbery somewhere.
Yemen always was desperately poor and overcrowded.
And north and south have completely different climates, economies and customs, the "official" government should really stop trying to reconquer the north...