If you're unemployed it's hard to be legally in the UK as a non-citizen unless you qualify for some sort of refugee status (and thus aren't a migrant).
Anyway, my point is equally valid regardless of the exact legal situation. It's completely insane to spend enormous sums of money on foreigners who are on average, less productive and more violent than the people already in your country.
Nope. Russians make a big deal out of BRICS, as well as how "diverse" their fighting force is. Lots of far-left people buy that nonsense.
Also, lots of far left people like Russia because they think they'll somehow get a return to communism by supporting Russia. Even in battle Russian forces have often used hammer-and-sickle insignia.
I mention it because I know damn well that far left politics likes to hate on Ukraine because they're white. Equally, one reason why they support mass illegal immigration is because the illegals are almost all non-white. There absolutely is a racial component to this.
I went to art school. I got to see this insanity first hand.
The UK is spending £8billion/year on illegals, while in three years they've provided just £7.6 billion on military assistance to Ukraine.
Basically they'd rather waste billions on unproductive and violent non-whites (mostly) then help white people fighting to keep all of Europe safe.
We could compromise and give them all jobs demining Ukraine... It's not very difficult work. Just incredibly man power intensive to do safely, and dangerous if you get complacent.
Ukrainians putting on a show for nostr:nprofile1qqsve2jcud7fnjzmchn4gq52wx9agey9uhfukv69dy0v4wpuw4w53nqpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uk3h9ux to watch while sipping a cocktail.
It's not a "show". They were loading a ship with cargo containers. Ukraine manufactures and exports a lot of goods.
I’m running a private relay. I’m using nostr:npub1aghreq2dpz3h3799hrawev5gf5zc2kt4ch9ykhp9utt0jd3gdu2qtlmhct to do it.
I’m in control.
What exactly is that relay supposed to be doing? I'm certainly not able to connect to it.
Speaking of, footage from awhile back of a Ukrainian drone boat blowing up a Russian ship.
Looks like one of the drone boats enters the ship from the hole made by a previous drone boat. Likely that Russians died in that attack. Good.
https://video.nostr.build/0a5ccac83ab0fca45ed7cee81aba6862eb1f7bb8535a0710287c73db0a869771.mp4
Status: Having drinks at a fancy rooftop bar overlooking Odesa harbor, watching cranes loading a container ship.
Don't underestimate how remarkable this is. Officially Russia has closed the Black Sea to Ukrainian shipping, and they've tried to attack that port over and over again.
Ukraine said fuck you and blew up enough Russian ships that Russia has withdrawn from the Black Sea, and Odesa port is shipping more cargo than before the full scale invasion.
Killing evil people works.
Of course, keep in mind that at the front lines, Russia is rather literally turning entire towns into dust with relentless artillery bombardment... And where they have been able to capture areas with people still in them, they rape and murder Ukrainians by the thousands. In Mariupol it's quite possible that as much as 100,000 Ukrainians were killed. Russia is refusing to allow third parties access, and the number of people missing is enormous.
Not bad. I just had some excellent sushi on a rooftop restaurant with a great view. During a scheduled power outage because Russia has been trying to destroy the Ukrainian power grid and all generating plants – they launched one of the biggest missile/drone attacks in human history against Ukraine just the other day.
This building, and pretty much every other business, has installed generators to compensate. The elevators were even working fine.
It's more like being in WW2 Britain than the "war torn" countries you usually think of. Lots of stuff is running, and life is reasonable. But it's only possible because brave men are risking their lives on front lines to continually push Russia back.
It does AML/KYC nonsense that probably makes a lot of big companies lawyers happy.
Also, IIRC AirBaltic has been allowing Bitcoin payments for quite awhile. So back in the day it may have been the most reasonable option.
I didn't even do this on purpose. I noticed I could pay with Bitcoin after I selected my tickets both times. (and unexpectedly found out that another bitcoiner was taking the exact same route with me)
I was able to travel from Riga to Odesa entirely with Bitcoin, paying for the tickets with Bitcoin directly.
Riga → Moldova: AirBaltic accepts Bitcoin with BitPay (ugh).
Moldova → Odesa: LikeBus accepts onchain Bitcoin (and other coins) via some Ukrainian payment provider.
We already have the decentralized alternative to Liquid. We don't have the decentralized alternative to social media. We should be creating it.
It’s called NIP-05 verification. Here’s a quick walkthrough and list of registrars you can get verified from: https://nostr.how/en/guides/get-verified
Unless you are verifying to your own domain verifying is pretty much useless. It's not actually verifying anything beyond a domain name.
Presenting this as a Twitter-like checkmark is bad UI.
Sparkling water is awesome.
It reminds us that humanities domination over nature is so absolute we can force CO2 into trillions of litres of water simply to amuse ourselves.
Apple makes us declare that we are using standard encryption techniques before we push to the app store in france.
Kind of sus that they only have issues with non-standard encryption. It’s not clear if nip04 or nip44 quality for the exception.
https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/reference/export-compliance-documentation-for-encryption/ nostr:note169urahxw2l4t7rxrtljrs5acwk9jpj792tqsevy303ymxrhzumasq20w8x
Apple has probably already filed the paperwork for all encryption techniques implemented in common standard libraries.
“Imagine a parallel universe full of O'Reilly books, where every cover isn't an animal. It's a furry.”