If the vital reason for creating #Bitcoin was to provide a database for monkey JPEGs, then Satoshi would have called it out as a use case in the White Paper.
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@omg21btc@Dennis_Porter_@goodguybiker That's not what I'm saying I'm for. I'm saying that the protocol has rules, and it was designed to serve a well defined mission, not an anarchist utopia to do whatever you want TO it, even if undermines the mission for which it was created: sound money, freedom from tyranny.
🇱🇧 Hezbollah's tunnels run too deep to bomb, and that single fact may be why this war has no clean ending
Matthew Hoh kept circling one idea: the things driving this conflict can't be shaken loose. Iran won't surrender Hezbollah, Hezbollah won't disarm while Israel sits in Lebanon, and the Lebanon framework hands every condition to Beirut while asking nothing of Israel.
To him, that's not a peace deal. It's the setup for a civil war.
On Hormuz, he's blunt: Iran controls it, full stop, and that's the weapon it holds for years, not weeks. Traffic has collapsed back to wartime levels.
One cheap drone strike makes the point, and he reads it as Tehran's way of grabbing the one thing that gets Trump's attention, the legacy he thinks Trump will spend the rest of his term protecting.
The line that stuck with me was about the root of all of it. Until the Palestinian question is answered, he says, every ceasefire is just another phony pause before the next round.
And his most provocative thought? That Trump, loyal to nothing but his own legacy, might break with Israel in a way no president before him ever could.
A slim chance. But a real one.
@MatthewPHoh
🇺🇸 America is quietly preparing to redraw its entire military map in the Middle East. And the new map points toward Israel.
Former Marine Corps officer Matthew Hoh says the old staging grounds are being phased out. Forces are moving deeper into alternative command centers across the region.
His read: local governments are about to face a level of instability they haven't dealt with before.
@MatthewPHoh
BREAKING: 🚨 RIOTS IN LEBANON OVER BETRAYAL
After the Lebanese government signed a “peace deal” that signed over a large swath of Lebanese land to Israel, indefinitely, the Lebanese people are RIGHTLY furious.
The sense of betrayal is widespread and many are calling it a puppet government.
They have failed to uphold the interests of the people and have bent the knee to a rogue invading terrorist state backed by the world’s (current) superpower.
A day of infamy for the history books.
I pray the resistance outsmarts the parasites and finds a way to come out on top. Call me crazy but despite how dire the situation looks. I see a way this could still happen.
Praying for the peace, safety and prosperity of Lebanon and the Lebanese people 🤲🏼
Public opinion turned against Israel so we’re seeing a full court institutional coup. ID requirements for internet usage, merger of U.S. and Israeli military. The committee to protect journalists declaring that Lebanese and Palestinians no longer count as journalists etc
BREAKING: The United States House has rejected Thomas Massie’s amendment to stop the integration of the United States military with Israel’s under Section 219 (formerly Section 224) of the NDAA.
97.5% of Israeli jews have absolutely no ancient Hebrew DNA, they're not Semites. Whereas 80% of Palestinians carry ancient Hebrew DNA. They are the real Semites.
Israelis go around calling everyone antisemitic.
(Source: Johns Hopkins genetic study)
@rowlandpayz@cenkuygur@RoKhanna A flat tax already achieves "higher taxes on the wealthy" in proportion to their higher incomes. Why should the tax rate keep sliding higher as income goes up? The result is diminishing returns for harder work. That's Socialism. People quit working before reaching full potential.
@rowlandpayz@cenkuygur@RoKhanna A flat tax already achieves "higher taxes on the wealthy" in proportion to their higher incomes. Why should the tax rate keep sliding higher as income goes up? The result is diminishing returns for harder work. That's Socialism. People quit working before reaching full potential.
@RealMAGAtard@cenkuygur@RoKhanna Israel is not a race. Anyone who lives by the Golden Rule and has seen what Israel does to innocent civilians is anti-Israel. If you're not anti-Israel yet, you either have no empathy, or you're living in a Zionist controlled media bubble.
@stack_toshi@FarsideUK Knots doesn't enforce BIP-110 automatically; it requires an opt-in. Maybe they're just adhering to current consensus rules and not prematurely road-blocking valid use cases ahead of the soft fork activation. They don't force users to signal BIP-110, either.
Tonight, I gave Notice of Intent to bring forth a Privileged Resolution to force a vote on releasing the names of Congressmen who used taxpayer funds for sexual misconduct settlements.
The Speaker has two legislative days to consider the timing of the vote. Stay tuned.
Crazy how the US government can track down a downed pilot in Iran using their heartbeat but they can’t find the 460,000 children that go missing every year…
Make it make sense…