I’m actually surprised they’d follow that kind of rule for conscripts. Though perhaps Russian-style conscription is more like “hey, if you value the health of your family, volunteer.”

Supposedly, drug sales have mostly moved to openly selling on social media like Telegram. No reason that couldn’t be done on Nostr even as-is.

Russians use a lot of recon-by-fire with their conscripts. Low experienced troops move forward first as literal cannon fodder to identify Ukrainian fire positions, then higher experienced troops and artillery hit the positions. Here’s a way to counter that even with plentiful ammo!

Just a new king, pretty much like the old king.

Yeah, not enough people care about having that kind of freedom. They just want a vehicle that functions and can be sent in for fixes if needed. Doesn’t matter if the company (as with Tesla) still effectively owns and controls it.

Right, but most people would have the company build the car for them. This is how the company would rely on to make money. Being open, however, would facilitate home repair and modification.

It would be pretty cool to see a fully open source, modular EV chassis that one could make a truck, SUV, van or whatever and have full control of the software. Probably a pipe dream though.

Would be nice but feels like a psyop.

You can also extrapolate it to AI. Funny that it’s China’s models facilitating open source keeping up though. 😂

This.

Nope. My personal preference would be to keep them and then face the music in a hypothetical unrealized capital gains tax or confiscation scenario rather than pay the government their cap gains taxes now by selling on a KYC exchange. To each their own. 🤙

There are oil fields in the “Wild East” part of the country that ,IIRC, were tapped by ISIS with makeshift refineries and everything that were bombed by the US a few years ago.

A privacy improvement that makes him ragequit/sell would be 🤌. More privacy, suits quitting and cheap BTC from the substantial dump.

If he drove it through the front doors before detonating it could have been much worse too. Explosion sent up into the floor above.

I’m no expert but it looks like Syria is shaping up to be similar to Afghanistan, where a religious fundamentalist government does not directly partake in terrorist attacks but condones groups’ operations on its territory. The US military will probably “bring freedom” there at a more significant scale sooner or later.

Not saying that’s a good approach. I agree that no-KYC purchasing is the way to go. Just stating that if given KYC BTC, I’d personally rather keep and mix it than concede the taxes to the government by selling it.

This is the unrealized gains tax or 6102 scenario. I would hope most people would give the middle finger over the requested addresses.

What address? One of the coinjoin outputs?

Nope, but you can lose your keys.

Hope the devs of Bisq and Robosats and similar DEXs don’t comply, but if they do it’s fork time.

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