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... just peering out over the noise floor, looking for flukes ;-)

Opinions and thoughts are certainly mine and mine alone.

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@btckershi

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@MadAboutPaper @barkmycena @preta_6 Then you can GFY. You've no idea how important anonymity is online.

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@MadAboutPaper @preta_6 Yes.

[Amy Eileen Hamm @preta_6]

Yes - it’s great to keep kids off social media before 16.

However, that’s a parental responsibility.

Not a government one.

Parents are responsible for the safety and wellbeing of their children.

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@mikewmunz @mattkratter @DudeJLebowski They don't actually own any Bitcoin.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

It's the opposite.

Billionaires don't control jobs. They control their own property.

Anyone can create jobs: small business owners, entrepreneurs, investors, even self employed workers.

The irony is that "democratically deciding what we work on" would concentrate power in politics instead of dispersing it among millions of individuals.

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@emdextreme31 @mattkratter @thepowerfulHRV No. They literally don't. In fact, they have IOUs from Brian.

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Voyager 1 is 24 billion kilometers from Earth.

It communicates with us using a 23-watt transmitter.
Less than a refrigerator light bulb.

The signal takes 22 hours to reach us, traveling at the speed of light.

By the time it arrives, it's 20 billion times weaker than the power of a digital watch battery.

NASA's Deep Space Network picks it up using 70-meter dish antennas cooled to near absolute zero to reduce electronic noise.

The engineering required to hear a 23-watt signal from 24 billion km away is arguably more impressive than the spacecraft itself.

Launched 1977.
Still transmitting.
Still being heard.

We built something that works perfectly, 47 years later, in conditions no one has ever tested in.

That's what engineering for the long term looks like.

[Bitcoin Well @bitcoinwell]

Before Bitcoin existed, the U.S. government decided that strong encryption was a weapon.

In 1991 a man named Phil Zimmermann wrote a program called PGP and gave it away for free, so ordinary people, not just governments and banks, could send a message no one else could read. Soon after it spread beyond U.S. borders, the Customs Service opened a criminal investigation. The charge they were chasing: exporting munitions without a license. The munition was math.

The investigation lasted three years. Zimmermann's answer was perfect. He published PGP's entire source code as a book through MIT Press, because the government can restrict exporting a weapon, but it cannot restrict exporting a book. Code is speech. In early 1996 they dropped the case without filing a single charge.

That fight is why Bitcoin can exist. The right to run cryptographic software you control, to hold a key the state cannot pry open, was won by people like Zimmermann years before Satoshi wrote a line of code.

Self-custody is just encryption applied to your money. Same math. Same right. Same fight.

Hold a key no government can open, and you are standing exactly where he stood.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Principles don't stop existing because people violate them.

Property rights, free speech, and justice are principles, not descriptions of reality.

"If it isn't perfectly implemented, it isn't real" isn't an argument against capitalism.

It's an argument against having principles at all.

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@REM__BEN @georgecursor Relative to *what* exactly?

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@alistairmilne

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@Monkeys_nuts85 @alistairmilne Yup. It's all over. Pack it in everyone.

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@Flexperte @zaelefty Embarrassing.

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@MaryJeanAlias1 @zaelefty Cool beans, care to explain how these additional sexes reproduce?

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@iwelsh Enjoy your community note.

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@mentorstrophy @RockChartrand @grahamformaine The only way that power is "wielded by the private sector" is if the shitbag politicians that people keep electing *sell that power* that people were stupid enough to give them in the first place.

THE. PROBLEM. IS. THE. GOVERNMENT.

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@okaylot @zaelefty Genes.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

@ick_real A mortgage means you own a house and owe a debt.
Communism means the state decides whether you can own the house at all.
Those aren't remotely the same thing.

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

It’s really simple.

You are completely free to think some men are actually women, to shag whoever you want, and to use whatever words you think best describe your ‘movement’.

Others are completely free to counter that men aren’t ever women, that sexuality is not only personal but political, that words matter, and that “queer” is a slur.

You don’t have any ‘authority’ to try and exclude GOATS like @BevJacksonAuth from the gay rights movement.

Respect your elders, and leave lesbians alone.

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@AriDrennen @TullipR Absolutely no one is trying to stop you from getting medical treatment. Grow up.