@Timcast To use lethal force in self defense requires reasonable belief you are in danger of death or serious bodily injury in a circumstance where you are not the aggressor or provocateur.
Hard to reasonable belief of death or serious injury.
@WebbAdventures @daily_cowboy Fancy blockchains with defi, tokens, NFTs ect. have their place, but their native tokens won’t ever beat bitcoin. Platinum is more rare than gold but has never and will never have the same monetary premium because gold has the network effect.
@WebbAdventures @daily_cowboy Bitcoin is an asset with a simple, secure and decentralized blockchain. The L1 blockchains capabilities don’t need to be extravagant. Layer 2 solutions can handle transaction scaling. The utility is owning a digital asset you can trust.
@WebbAdventures @daily_cowboy I don’t understand the cult following XRP has. Bitcoin stands alone in its use case and stable coins on ethereum or solana make way more sense for anything else XRP claims to do. It’s only purpose is Ripple labs dumping on retail investors.
@liedsuddenly@benshapiro Why would a sovereign state agree to be part of a union where they will effectively have no influence in how that union governs them?
@dan16191927@Cyril_Engineer@jeremykauffman 1/1000 will have the sickness, but if you test 1,000 people with a 5% false positive rate you will have 50 false positives and 1 real positive. So the odds are person that tests positive actually has the sickness is 1/51 or 1.96%.
@UnofficialUWyo DEI in practice is making decisions based on race, gender, or sexuality rather than merit. It is accurate to classify Kamala as a DEI hire. If she was the same person but white, or Asian she wouldn’t be where she is. Sorry if the truth isn’t nice.
Bitcoin's primary function is not "store of value" - that's a result of its primary function.
Bitcoin is "fuck you money."
For example:
You want to seize my accounts? Fuck you.
You don't want me to buy ______? Fuck you.
You want to steal my wealth via inflation? Fuck you.
@szaboandras87@johnjoe@gmcgovern128@DBlack_Mountain Without the EC the president will represent California and east coast. The president is technically not a dictator but both republicans and democrats think he is when the president is from the other party.
@szaboandras87@johnjoe@gmcgovern128@DBlack_Mountain Military leadership, all executive power, DOJ, and judicial appointments are all things small states would have no influence on if the EC was gone. The executive branch would absolutely use its power to crush a small state that is causing them issues and can’t vote them out.
@johnjoe@gmcgovern128@DBlack_Mountain Different areas have unique needs and values. Without the EC small states would be subjects of big states. That is a recipe for tyranny and rebellion. California says do X, Idaho says no and California sends the military to make them do it at gun point.
You mean the currency financial system is so corrupt and shitty that using tons of energy to secure a block chain is a worth while insurance policy for millions of people? Thank your corrupt politicians and banking lobby for Bitcoin. If banks and politicians were honest we wouldn’t need bitcoin.
@WYWolfe Why is protecting women and being open minded on crypto a bad thing? Having sensible crypto regulation that allows innovation and the market to pick winners and losers is a good thing. Democrats hate crypto because it empowers individuals to resist their communist agenda.
@themaingrubber@arielhelwani@moicanoufc A simple middle school understanding of economics leads to better policy than what over confident PHD economists produce. The economy is an incredibly complex system and humans trying to play god with money will always end it tears.