N.b. that this discussion invokes some concepts from the common law of Great Little Britain and its whilom colonies.  Legal concepts and technicalities may significantly differ in non-common-law jurisdictions, such as in Continental Europe’s civil law jurisdictions.

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I take the position that Bitcoin is a bearer asset.  And though I can’t be sure without reading the opinion, from the short description in OP, it appears there is a legal nuance that others have missed here:


Bearer assets such as cash, gold bullion, or old-fashioned bearer bonds can be held in trust for the benefit (“beneficial ownership”) of another.  This neither changes the nature of the bearer asset, nor absolves the trustee of legally enforceable fiduciary duties to the beneficiary.  Much as I can tell from the above snippet, the judge in this case seems to have imposed a constructive trust on the coins.

The word “beneficial” is key here!  A beneficial owner is not necessarily the titular owner.  On my educated guess from reading between the lines, I think that the court in this case seems to have ruled (or at least strongly implied) that, in substantial effect, possession of the keys is titular ownership.  The gravamen of the ruling would thus concur with I have been saying all along:


My suggestion of a contract-law theory would be legally distinguishable from the apparent trust-law theory in this judge’s ruling; but it would have a similar practical effect.  It is fully compatible with the “not your keys, not your coins” Bitcoin Weltanschauung.

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To forum users, the nature of the argument may be more obvious if you consider the PGP-signed obligations of a forum escrow agent.  The escrow agent is holding the coins.  The coins are not, however, an “asset” of the escrow agent, but rather, a liability.  (It is why escrow agents get paid fees...)

If an escrow agent betrays his duties, then—well, good luck retrieving the coins with red-trust “judgments”!  —Similarly in different degree as for court judgments against insolvent exchanges.  That is the meaning of “not your keys, not your coins.”


Technical nitpick, because I am technical:  As you subsequently seem to imply, it is a judicial precedent, not statutory.

Much though I am sympathetic to this statement in principle, there will always be tension between the desires of those who would govern, and the practical limitations on their power.  Bitcoin directly exploits this tension.  In an era when governments and their owners, the banks have been attempting to replace all bearer assets with identity-based assets, Bitcoin’s nature as a bearer asset pushes us back toward the wiser, freer era of bullion, cash notes, and bearer bonds—with the added benefit that Bitcoin can be transferred around the world with the press of a button.

For better or for worse, courts will attempt to adjudicate disputes over the allegedly proper ownership of bearer assets.  As you say, it comes down to a question of enforceability.

Possession is nine-tenths of the law.  Always has been, always will be!  Possession of the keys equals possession of the coins.  Bearer asset.


I like.

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Context stripped, because it’s funnier this way:

Do you really want to ask me that question?  ;-)

Seriously, they are both property:  Both are owned by the banks.  “HM Queen” of Great Little Britain is property of the Bank of England, and the “President” of those whilom American colonies is property of the Federal Reserve.  Both nominal owners negotiate the finer details of global International governance through the BIS, IMF, et al.

Did you say “sovereign”?  Sorry, that concept is obsolete—not modern!  Anyway...

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* KYC = WTF

For the sake of argument, pretend that the judgment were about gold coins held in a depository that went bankrupt.  Of course, it is logical that the gold itself should be returned—unless it could not be recovered.  In the latter case, it would be better to attempt recovering some value than none at all.

I have been making long posts since December 2017; have you seen my post history?  Unlike cryptohunter’s posts, mine are cogent and legible, and express new thoughts rather than only repeating the same drivel ad maximam nauseam; to compare me to him says more about you than about me.

Anyway, I am here because this forum is not a total idiot-site like Reddit (or worse, Twitter).

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I never questioned the authenticity of efialtis’ screenshots, which I presume to be true copies of the evidence.  Perhaps you may try reading what I said:


I saw efialtis’ evidence as sufficiently important that I spent my time and effort reconstructing it in a more usable format.

Counterproductive use of screenshots is an ongoing problem on this forum.  It has long irritated me, my security sense, and my poor, tired eyes.  Therefore, obiter dictum, I have taken the opportunity to request that people use quotes, when a quote will suffice—and to explain why.

PSA:  Use crypto!

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Please help to support this timestamp server’s trustless blockchain timestamping.  (It is not mine; I do not benefit from this!)


See also Bob, Finney, and Catallaxy.

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What, does the forum (and especially, Democratic DT) consist of five-year-olds who prefer pictures to text?  (No, wait—don’t answer that.)

Screenshots are awful for:

• The imperfect eyesight of anyone over the age of forty.
• Copying and pasting text for further discussion.
• Mobile devices with small screens.
• Screen readers for the blind.
• ...USABILITY NIGHTMARE...

N.b. that not all of those use cases can be adequately served by right-clicking to view the image outside the forum’s CSS styling.


peloso’s opinion is always irrelevant.


This is what I am against, and why I am taking the screenshot issue so seriously:  Security theatre provides a false sense of security!

This forum is riddled with asinine security-theatre stupidity, especially the public “I verified this signature!” statements in key-staking threads.
Nullian Verification

If Bob and Alice play the little dance that you describe, then they are wrong—and you know better.  They should learn that a screenshot has no greater evidentiary value than a quote.  I am attempting to educate the users.

I myself only use screenshots of forum posts or PMs when I wish to illustrate a point that could not be adequately conveyed by plain text—for example, or for a contrary example.

It is for the greater good of the forum that SOON, I WILL BANE USERS WHO POST SCREENSHOTS WHEN A QUOTE WOULD SUFFICE!  MUAHAHAHA!
^^^ Alice and Bob, take notice:

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Back on topic:  peloso used *extremely* improper tactics to attempt to influence efialtis’ trust list.  I will let the PM exchange speak for itself.

Because trust system abuse is actually an important forum issue, I have reconstructed the PMs from efialtis’ screenshots, including compensation for his Greek timezone.  Timestamps should show in the timezone that you have in your local forum settings.  By the way, observe how peloso expects instant responses to his all-important demands.

I prefer to use this as the reference link for my own feedback.  For those who wish to do likewise, an anchor tag has been provided so that your reference link can skip the above discussion of screenshots.

Quote from: peloso on June 03, 2020, 02:37:48 PM

hii
recommend you to include me to your trust list

Quote from: peloso on June 04, 2020, 09:52:14 AM

Quote from: efialtis on June 04, 2020, 09:42:11 AM

Quote from: peloso on June 03, 2020, 02:37:48 PM

hii
recommend you to include me to your trust list

Hey

Why is that? I am not so much into the politics here to be honest but I didn’t like that continuous „war“ you guys are having.

this is not my war and not i began this
you distrusted me for their ( gangs )
but you must know i can answer
i not want distrust you cos i bot know you
but if i do it you will out from D1

Quote from: peloso on June 04, 2020, 09:57:08 AM

Quote from: efialtis on June 04, 2020, 09:42:11 AM

Quote from: peloso on June 03, 2020, 02:37:48 PM

hii
recommend you to include me to your trust list

Hey

Why is that? I am not so much into the politics here to be honest but I didn’t like that continuous „war“ you guys are having.

you not so much into the politics but you honestly distrusted me ((

Quote from: peloso on June 04, 2020, 10:04:16 AM

i see nothing changed  
ok i distrust you to and you out of from D1

it may change in the future anytime you want

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For the record:  I have been preparing an action against peloso since on or about 9 November.  That is the reason for my interest in this thread, and not vice versa.  (It has been competing for priority with three other cases, two of which are definitely more important than peloso.  “It’s done when it’s done.”)

^^^ THIS!!!

Discussion transplanted:  The Gresham’s Law of account rank and grandfathered merits.

Transplanted from the Wall Observer:


^^^ THIS!!!

I have been complaining about the “grandfathered” merits since February–March 2018.  Now, I look like some idiotic “Legendary” who has earned only 1045 merits.    Did theymos learn nothing from monetary policy, Gresham’s Law, etc.?


For me, it is especially bad because I registered my account 8 months before I started posting; and I have had a total of 23 months of major gaps in my post history.  I have zero grandfathered merits—all of my merits are earned—and yet, a naïve glance at my registration date would imply that I have at least 250 grandfathered merits, if not (after I reach higher activity) 500 or 1000.

The way the system is built, I am tempted to abandon this account after it reaches “Hero” activity (— because my signature PGP key fingerprint deserves background un-colours! —), and reboot with an alt account.  (If I don’t really retire altogether.)

Youthful accounts with high merit are glamorous.  Highly-ranked accounts don’t look like wise elders, thanks to the inflationary effect of grandfathered merits:  They look like people who have just been shitposting for a very long time.

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friends1980, congratulations on the new rank.  Though wouldn’t it be much sweeter if you could dispense with the 100 grandfathered merits, and celebrate self-made Hero bragging rights after you have earned 500 merits?  At the rate that you are now going, it will not take long!

Anyway, a toast with something other than Chianti:

It is sound thinking!  You avoid some deleterious illusions.

Most people think of buying Bitcoin as an “investment”, and selling Bitcoin as “cashing out” into what is not perceived as an investment.

Whereas I never perceived Bitcoin as an “investment”.  (I would be richer if I did.)  It’s just my savings.  I used to keep my savings primarily in paper cash; now, I keep my savings primarily in Bitcoin.  *shrug*




Sure, understood.

I could make one for the ECB and European states, too:

Point taken—as consistent with hard experience, personally.  My remark was tongue-in-cheek, wink-wink ;-), just because I am unavoidably amused at the notion of being “overinvested” in money.


The last time that I tried this, the response was dismissive:  “It may go to zero.”  The business proprietor knew what Bitcoin was.  He thought that it was a stupid idea.

That was when Bitcoin was in the doldrums around $4k–5k for a long time.  Maybe I should try it during a FOMO bull run, rather than a bear market.

I do think that business owners should immediately swap to Tethers^* the exact amount that they project they will need to cover their fiat-denominated Accounts Payable in the short term (approximately the marginal cost to them of the underlying merchant transaction), for the reason that you state to me personally:  Losses and potential insolvency are bad for business, too!

I have considered writing software to support this, but it got kicked down on the priorities list...  It is something that BTCPay Server should consider, to solve their weak point that keeps many businesses stuck on outsourced payment acceptance.  (Many ideas here, will omit for now.)

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* Much better than using Shitpay!

It’s funny.  I never hear people say, “overinvested in (dollars|euros|whatever)”.  ;-)

Can one be overinvested in money?  Is that like allocating too much cash in your portfolio?

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Firing at random, for I am now something like 20 pages behind WO.  ATH yet?

In approximately the past four days, I missed about a zillion pages of WO just because it is moving too fast, and I do not currently have time even to skim it.

Is that itself a market indicator?  ;-)

Idiots who think it’s cool to show some sort of petty defiance against a self-moderated thread’s clearly stated local rules:

Pro tip suchmoon:  Mentions of you may be intended primarily for others, not for you.  Although this mention was for you, so that you could take notice of my threads’ local rules, and obey them.


What, are the two of you eight years old?  Will you next blow me a raspberry and say, “nyah, nyah”?  You are as bad as cryptohunter, TECSHARE, hacker1001101001, and Vispilio.

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Anyone who considers posting in self-moderated threads run by these users should take notice:  suchmoon and nutildah trash posts that respect their threads’ local rules, but gleefully show off their total disrespect for the rules set by others.

Why does everyone use screenshots?

PSA:  Screenshots are trivial to fake.  A screenshot is no better proof than a quote; and a quote is much easier to read.  If your word can be trusted about the authenticity of a screenshot, then you can be trusted to provide a quote—whereas if a quote from you is untrustworthy, then so is a screenshot!

The above is a real screenshot, not “Photoshopped”.  I produced it with minimal effort by editing the actual webpage, using my browser’s developer tools.  Thus, it looks perfect; and nonexistent graphical modifications cannot be detected.  That is also how I conveniently crafted a parody of Jihan’s infamous “fuck your mother” tweet.

For the sake of ocular health and safety, and to avoid a false sense of security, please stop using screenshots in situations whereby a visual depiction is not required.  Thank you.

(If you see a questionable message alleged to be from theymos, check for digital signatures from theymos’ PGP key after verifying that the key’s PGP fingerprint is 5E6B 3F3B A961 193C 5C9B  4435 C655 5693 DAB5 91E7.)

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Quote from: peloso on November 19, 2020, 06:10:25 PM

i permit to post here PMs

As you are aware, your permission is not required.

Quote from: nullius on February 27, 2018, 10:17:00 AM

The purpose of this thread is to publish hate-mail, whines, threats, etc. I receive for spamfighting activity, in cases where no other pertinent thread exists.  If/where warranted, I may then use posts here as references for issuing negative trust feedback.

[— The above was from 2018; this was added in 2020: —]

N.b.:  Although I always handle my communications as a gentleman, and I would issue negative trust feedback for unreasonable or treacherous disclosure of personal communications, I publish unsolicited hostile communications as a matter of policy.  Be guided accordingly.

Quote from: nullius on March 05, 2020, 02:07:49 AM

Quote from: theymos on July 14, 2013, 06:34:48 PM

PM = Personal Message, not Private Message.

Quote from: theymos on July 14, 2013, 06:52:45 PM

Compare "private interview" to "personal interview" or "private locker" to "personal locker". Something private isn't expected to be made public, but something personal is only owned by or associated with a single person, not necessarily with a strong guarantee of privacy.

Quote from: nullius on March 08, 2020, 12:12:47 PM

It’s funny, the imbeciles and assorted trolls whining at Lauda and now at Vod forgot that I have a whole thread for this:

UNSOLICITED HOSTILE COMMUNICATION SEEKING TO INFLUENCE MY TRUST-RELATED DECISIONS

Quote from: peloso on March 08, 2020, 08:49:35 AM

Quote from: nullius on March 07, 2020, 11:10:32 PM

Quote from: peloso on March 07, 2020, 10:55:42 AM

hi

can you explane why you excluded me?

Yes, I can; but I do not wish to.

Please be advised that this PM discussion may be published at my discretion.

Please be advised i NOT PERMIT this discussion  be published

but i know
you from lauda gand and she's assliker
good luck

Nothing is new with me.  I have always published hostile unsolicited communications as well as (at my discretion) communications begging for merits, trust, and/or money.  And I have always left feedback consistently with my publicly stated trust feedback policy, q.v., which I should soon update with a policy on inclusions and exclusions.

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Quote from: suchmoon on November 22, 2020, 03:49:14 PM

Quote from: peloso on November 22, 2020, 03:43:11 PM

yes is right ) pugman aka atriz is your friend but atriz is scammer, atriz also suchkamun,s friend)
so i collect here a lot of fucking cult of lauda))

Damn right, with Lauda gone we need someone else to worship. Will you be our new cult leader? To qualify you need to hand out some bullshit ratings (check), call people names (check), and have some plagiarism in your post history (hurry up if you haven't done that yet).

Although your grammar and diction exceed the abilities of your kindred spirit cryptohunter, your post hereby so echoes him as to prove that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.  You are a gutless, two-faced manipulator who should not be trusted.

Quote from: suchmoon on October 24, 2020, 09:05:00 PM

Quote from: The Pharmacist on October 24, 2020, 07:33:58 PM

Quote from: Vispilio on October 21, 2020, 10:36:29 PM

she is too distraught at the moment because her notorious criminal buddy just pretended to self-destruct on that other infamous thread  ;

I haven't noticed suchmoon being all that distraught by Lauda's departure.  I think your perception of reality is a little bit askew, but I don't think there's anyone here who'd be able to help you with that.

You don't know that, I might have been secretly crying for days but this has nothing to do with the shitposter detective. This thread was started before Lauda's departure and didn't refer to Lauda in any way until one of the shitposters brought the cat up on page 5 or 6.

reserved

Reserved for moderation log:  I want to make a listing of posts that I have deleted, but haven’t had the time to gather and format the information.  I also question whether it is a good idea.  Arguable.

I have been intending to do this for awhile.  Writing a growing list of rules into the OP of each self-moderated thread is growing tiresome; and it is unmaintainable.  It is better to create one reference to link.

Edited 2020-12-07 with #4 below, and another edit soon to come.

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Current Ban List (last updated 2021-04-10)

If your name is here, do not post on any of my self-moderated threads (unless it is a Reputation accusation thread against you):

Vispilio, peloso, OgNasty^**, suchmoon^*, cryptohunter and his known or suspected alts, Timelord2067, hacker1001101001, KingScorpio, Hyena, nutildah^*, Dire“Wolf”M14 bin Kalb.

Note:  There is no appeal to this decision; and this hereby thread is not an “accusation thread”.  If your name is on this list, do not post on this thread!

* Liberals banned for deleting from a self-moderated thread either (a) my response to an accusation thread against me, or (b) an on-topic, reasonably civil post by me in Politics & Society.

** See update.

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Rules

0. Exception to these rules:  If I raise an accusation on a self-moderated Reputation thread, then the accused shall always be accorded a fair and reasonable right of reply.  The qualifier is only a precaution against the possibility of a troll using troll tactics to attempt to derail a thread.  I will always err to the side of letting the accused speak on his own behalf.  I think that my record speaks for me here, insofar as I have opened a number of self-moderated accusations, and never yet deleted a post by the accused—even posts that were personally insulting, or even defamatory towards me.

1. My self-moderated threads are moderated at my sound discretion.  I reserve the right to exercise authoritarian control over them (which I always say, but I never seem to do...).

2. Subject to #1 above and #3 below, I do not generally wield self-moderation on the basis simply of personal dislike for the author of a post.  (If I did, then the majority of all “people” would be forbidden from my self-moderated threads.)  Thus, even if you have had an argument with me, you should not be worried that I would axe your hard work if you make what (in my judgment) is a thoughtful, on-topic, reasonably civil post on one of my self-moderated threads.

3. If, simply from personal dislike for me, you ever delete from one of your self-moderated threads a post by me that is on-topic and reasonably civil, then subject to the above-stated exception, you shall be categorically permabanned from my self-moderated threads.  This ban may be applied retroactively, at my discretion.

4. If you have ever publicly announced that you have me on your ignore list, then you are banned from my self-moderated threads; and your posts will be deleted without comment.  You should know who you are; I need not provide a list.  I did not think to make this rule before, because it seems obvious:  If you have me ignore-listed, then how are you reading my OP, let alone replying thereto?  Logic error.  Anyway, a public announcement that you have punished me with the Almighty Ignore List is a conceit that overestimates the value of your readership.  I would ban you from reading my posts, if I could; I can’t, but I can ban you from replying to them in self-moderated threads.  Thus, you shall not post in my self-moderated threads; and I will try to avoid contributing to yours (even if not self-moderated), unless an overriding public interest is served by my making a post there, e.g., to protect others from potential harm.  Bye.

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This list of rules will be edited.

This thread is not really intended for discussion.

The world is wrong.


Yes, I can.  I can also make idiots miserable.  Such as yourself.

Everyone thought that the merit system cut the spam from its 2017 ATH.  Alas, it seems that the spammers were more demotivated by the onset of the 2018 bear market, which approximately coincided with the new merit system.

“Go, spam spam spam, go!” :-/

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By a magical coincidence, it is empirically CONFIRMED SCIENCE that this 30-day limiter expires after not more than a time of exactly 30 days (2592000 seconds):

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Quote from: LoyceV on November 11, 2020, 10:39:07 AM

I have them for everyone (and I did include the source link to find them),

Thanks.  Either I’m blind, or I was just being rhetorical. 

Quote from: nullius on November 11, 2020, 02:14:31 AM

Got one for me? 

It looks like the image hotlink will always load the current image, thus making any caption misleading after the passage of any significant time.  I suggest adding a caption to the image itself, and switching to PNG.

Tests on the current 976210_blue.gif:

Format	Bytes	Savings
GIF	1995
PNG (ImageMagick)	592	70%
PNG (OptiPNG)	402	80%

N.b. that the PNGs would fit into a single packet at most people’s path MTU to the server.  For the optimization of professionally run sites, cutting RTT latency of page loads is much more important than bandwidth savings.

ImageMagick can also easily add the caption with -annotate and related font settings (or, of course, the corresponding APIs for whatever you are using on the server).

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Quote from: Alamin1444 on November 23, 2020, 09:46:00 AM

I just start working to get merit.This post really helped me to understand merit distribution system.

If anyone reading my Replay please Suggest me where i need to post i mean good quality post to get Merit? 

Help me with that! 💓

I was about to direct this user to the appropriate forum, till I checked his post history and saw that he already has a thread in Beginners & Help:

Subject: Merit & Difficulties 😑

Quote from: Alamin1444 on November 23, 2020, 06:51:42 AM

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I needed merit so badly but i can't earn it i am trying to post in BTT with new topic but It's really not working .

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Love you guyes For the Replay💓.

Quote from: Alamin1444 on November 23, 2020, 09:55:20 AM

I know everything About crypto currency & i can post,no problem with that.

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I create my account 2 years ago but i never used it. So from few months i start joining bounty i thought this platform is just for Bounty then Day by day i try to Learn & understand about BTT.
now i know what mistake i did!  😢😢

Protip:  Shoot at it until it dies.  The merit system was created to get rid of idiots who treat this forum as a “platform just for Bounty”.

That is the purpose of the merit system!  For you see, a “platform just for Bounty” is a useless cesspool from which all of the legitimate users would flee.  Incidentally, that would cause the money to stop flowing here; so don’t whine about attempts to save the goose that lays the golden eggs.

If you truly “know everything About crypto currency”, then—the results shall speak for themselves.

*Weird flex*.  It reminds me of:
Have my last remaining sMerit.

If, even in a case whereby the facts are undisputed, a drug-addicted rapist and murderer with a record of an incorrigibly felonious character were to lack an all-star legal dream team for his final death-row appeal, then the liberals would scream!

Whereas if an attorney dares to represent aggrieved voters and/or the reëlection campaign for the President of the United States, then he is a “nutjob” who is ipso facto engaged in frivolous litigation and other unethical conduct—subject even to disbarment (!).


You are obviously not a lawyer.  You have no idea what the standards for disbarment are.  Please stop opining from total ignorance—or else hit up West/Lexis, and show some case law applicable to any circumstance even remotely similar.  Every state has mountains of published opinions about its rules of professional conduct for attorneys.  Have fun with that.

“TV era KYC/AML ID pox” is an anagram for “lack my private dox”.

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Your name checks out.  Just as long as you do not peddle Faketoshi’s gold.

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She serves the gourmet,
Whilst he whistles an old ode to our rude modern times:
Albaner Mädchen Türken Männer, modernd moderne Untreue,
Italiener Wein Amerikaner Whine und Internationale Sang...


A bank’s KYC/AML compliance officer once tried to test me.  I was critical of his discourteous intrusion.


Confirmed science in the hands of Americans will destroy the world!

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On a serious note, many of my posts are laced with much subtler (and less corny) hidden messages.