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Well, in the US you have a major problem with the tuna you eat in 99% of the supermarket sushi, which is the main channel for sushi, for example.

It's mostly dog shit grade tuna that has been in the hold of a wooden boat in a tropical country for two weeks before being offloaded. The tuna is not toxic yet, but it's on the verge. It's also, let's say, not red in color. Rather grey-brown-green. The sort of color that you would immediately reject if you were told to eat it, especially raw.

But decades ago some enterprising people figured out that if you gas the tuna with carbon monoxide, you can turn it some sort of extremely unnatural fluorescent bright pink hue. It's a purely chemical reaction that does not "revert" anything. The fish is still going bad -- but it will not ever change color again. So you can literally be eating rotten, toxin-laden tuna, and lack the visual cue to tell you that (the color).

There have been deaths due to this worldwide, so the practice has been banned in the EU, Japan, even China for the last twenty years... But not in the US. I could tell you a lot of dirty little details about how this story went down, but I won't. In short: your beef is gassed as well.

Now, good for the EU, you'll say. Well, no. After all this cracking down (which continues today), the EU turns around and allows ANOTHER type of manipulation (that's coming to the US now, by the way), that has exactly the same risks. It's just a different set of chemicals from the ascorbic acid family ("vitamin C", but not it) that are added "to preserve the color" of tuna, exactly the same that CO does, but even worse, because these are chemicals that are literally injected into the tuna flesh (plus a lot of water, so there's double fraud).

This tuna has become absolutely prevalent in Europe now. It's the default in all supermarkets, both in the frozen section, at the fish counter and in sushi. And yet, the EU doesn't ban it. Why?

Well, it's 2024, and I guess just as the US has its beef lobby, Europe has other lobbies, including the large fishing and seafood trading and processing companies in Spain, France and the Netherlands, who sell literally tens of thousands of tons of this crap continent-wide.

My point being, fiat food is everywhere and it's a strategy against the people. The process may be more advanced in the US, for local reasons. But in Europe it's progressing as well.

Whenever you hear about such and such new "protection" by EU authorities, rest assure what they mean is protection of some agri-food lobby pushed by one of the member States (especially France). Not the consumer.

The ability to move your money and identity globally offers some protection due to escapism via Bitcoin and Nostr, in the really rough scenarios. Like Venezuela.

Locally, we should note that it’s not like Telegram users are arrested. That would be unworkable. Only the CEO was. The more individual a policy gets, the more expensive and unpopular it is to enforce. There is no CEO of Bitcoin or Nostr.

The1930s gold ban was brutal, but hardly ever enforced. Going after individuals was both expensive and unpopular. That applies today as well. And information travels faster now. We should use it.

Structural debasement requires obfuscation in order to secure unaware seigniorage from its public. The more that it’s brought to public awareness, the weaker it is.

What you can do: make money honest again.

Make them tell us our laws.

Make them tell us we can’t hold sound money.

Make them tell us we can’t transmit digital money to our friends like we would with cash. And then ask why.

Make them tell us they need to tax us, because they can’t quietly debase us.

Make it more transparent. Shine a light on it and ask people if it’s just.

That's both sides with the continuation of printing dollars.

It’s either Tump pro btc or Harris coming for all your possessions. Pick wisely

I haven't heard one say it.

"Strategic reserve" blah blah blah etc etc isn't " bitcoin is now money for the country."

It's fairy dust to get your vote.

wait what? They removed Greene from the movie? Entirely or only the scene with the girl?

Anybody will say anything to get power.

Will he end the corporate lobbying of government?

No.

Will he nuke the printers?

No.

Why has no candidate just said "with me as president, America will recognize bitcoin as money"

It's main feature is to have a fixed supply. But if want to find out more about it send sats to monero and hold only monero, you will find out in practice.

Waste of a vote tbh

Trump wins - money printer still prints.

Harris wins - money printer still prints.

It's a lose lose.

Even as a dasher who relies on tips, I'm still not voting. Never have never will.

Voting for someone to rule over you and others isn't freedom, it's actually giving it up.

What is monero?

I don't see many seventy year olds running a lightning node over Tor and managing liquidity to keep their transactions private. Also the necessity of a 2nd and 3rd layer increases your attack surface.