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6801  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Are you ready to fight for your rights? on: September 22, 2018, 06:39:40 PM
Everyone be sure to post your names, locations, and social security numbers so you can all be rounded u.... I mean thanked for your support of Bitcoin later.
6802  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh on: September 22, 2018, 06:38:12 PM
In more awesome news for the GOP, Senator Collins was "appalled" by Trumps latest tweet about Dr. Ford and that it was "inappropriate and wrong".

You can rest assured when Collins was answering that question she was speaking directly to the women in Maine who voted for her!

I wonder how far Trump will push Collins and Murkowski lol.

Your optimism is cute, but misplaced. This may succeed in delaying the confirmation, but it is going to cost the Democratic party far more. This is why the left is dying and people are flooding to the right. You cut off your own feet to stack them on your head because you think it makes you look taller.
6803  Other / Politics & Society / Re: a new era of democracy on: September 22, 2018, 06:34:44 PM
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!

― Benjamin Franklin

Interesting how the underlined part magically got cropped off of the end of this popular quote...
6804  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Decrease Population on: September 21, 2018, 09:22:05 AM
The overpopulation trend, for the most part has already been reversed. So much so now a lot of nations are not even meeting replacement levels of reproduction.
6805  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Is marriage a kind of punishment? on: September 21, 2018, 09:03:48 AM
In the West many people would argue the roles the OP describes are reversed and they feel like the women get to relax while the men work. Of course this is a generalization, but it does not make it inaccurate. There are many social and economic differences that cause these results in both places.

I agree with that this used to be the case, but luckily attitudes have changed very fast over the past few decades and now men and women are mostly equal on this front (at least in my country), though obviously some women do choose to stay at home and be 'housewives' and look after the children and so on. I have no issue with that as long as it's their choice and there's no expectation on them. I have no issue with a man staying at home and doing this role instead either.


IMO marriage was originally conceived of to build society, and a lot of evidence supports this premise.

I don't agree with this. Marriage was essentially created for men to claim ownership of "their" property ie wives, not for the betterment of society. I think marriage is born out of male insecurity and wanting some kind of contract that legally ties the women to them forever. I think a lot of oppression of women is born out of male insecurity and them not being able to handle the thought of anyone 'messing' with "their" property/wife. Why do women in some Muslim countries wear burka or niqabs? Those were rules imposed by the men of society because they want to keep "their" women covered so no other men get any ideas and are enticed by a bit of skin and try have their way with their wife. Once that women is married then they become the property of that man and the only person who should lay eyes on them are their husbands and that's a very sad state of affairs

Yes, yes. I have been hearing my whole life and reading about even before that, where everyone is so self confident and ready to reassure themselves that we are superior to societies of the past, and have shed the stagnation of tradition with only improvement in the state of society. Also about how "equal" men are to women, but some genders are "more equal" than others depending on the prevailing socioeconomic status of the host culture.

In the Western nations women are are literally a protected class with special privileges above men. There is LITERALLY not one right for example in the USA that men have and women don't. However I could build quite a list of rights women have that men don't in the US as well as many other Western nations, not only in law but in practice.

Your opinions are little more than poorly informed knee-jerk reactions based upon standard neo-feminist indoctrination. Women can do no wrong under your rubric, and any cause in their name is a good cause no matter how destructive. Comparing all marriage to Muslim treatment of women is an intellectually dishonest comparison and little more than an attempt to smear by association.

Marriage is a compromise for both men and women. Traditionally men were responsible for their wife and children. This included providing for them and protecting them. In exchange the husband was to be provided with children, have them tended to, and be treated with deference. Honestly it is not that much to ask in exchange but Western women are conditioned by people like you that marriage is equivalent to their ownership by a man. Also, marriage ensures women, that once their reproductive years were over, they would not just be cast aside to be alone in her old age in favor of a younger and still actively reproductive woman. What a coincidence that we also have a flood of discontent aging single women in the West with men in their same age bracket not at all interested in them as relationship prospects.

Also, now days if a woman can not provide for or protect herself, the state will do so. Of course this is still paid for by men, by other men holding them at a point of a gun to collect that revenue to pay for those women to live.

So as you see men in the West now have all of the responsibility of marriage but none of the benefits. Women still get the benefits of marriage through the state while having less responsibility for themselves. It is little wonder men in the West are checking out en-mass, as divorce rates skyrocket, and reproductive rates drop like a rock, but who needs a family unit right?

However, please do enlighten me on how well things have been going since post modernism rolled out this sociological hellhole.
6806  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh on: September 21, 2018, 08:12:03 AM

If she truly wants this she should testify and present her information. If she chooses not to testify the Senate should proceed to a vote without her information.
She will testify to the FBI if they demand it.  Anyone actually wanting the truth should be doing whatever they can to get the information from here, if only the president could make an agency do some digging to find out the truth, gee that would be sweet.

That's not how the criminal justice system works. You file a criminal report (ideally not 30 years late), and you provide the appropriate law enforcement agency with as much information and evidence as you can provide. The standard protocol for filing a criminal report is making an official statement. If there is no report, no statement, no evidence, there is no investigation. You don't get to demand the FBI go dig through some ones life just based on statements alone. That is their discretion, and right now, because of the lack of any substantial evidence or an official report they would be doing little more than interfering with the confirmation process.

Of course interference is what some people are seeking. Also filing a false report is a crime. So naturally anyone making false accusations would avoid making an official report to authorities. Considering the accusation itself would achieve the goals intended by making a false accusation, it matters little and she will never be held accountable. Women who are proven to make false accusations of sexual assault or rape rarely are.
6807  Other / Serious discussion / Re: [@Theymos] List of viable ideas to clean up the forum. on: September 21, 2018, 07:30:41 AM
I would like to see Bitcointalk ported to some kind of platform like Steem. I know application layers for forums already exist. I am not sure about scalability though. It would be pretty amazing for privacy and distribution though.
6808  Economy / Goods / Re: Trezor model One selling for 99Cad (75 USD) on: September 21, 2018, 03:32:03 AM
Site says product no longer available.
6809  Economy / Goods / Re: ONE-OF-A-KIND Beautiful & Unique Handmade Wood Art Inlay Panel 40.5in x 30.75in on: September 19, 2018, 08:08:44 PM
Beautiful piece! If you really want to research the artist from that illegible signature this service might give some provenance.

Thank you! Also thank you for the suggestion I might do that.
6810  Economy / Collectibles / Re: A Young Adult's Bitcoin Art Project on: September 19, 2018, 08:06:58 PM
Thank you very much for that feedback, it's all learning from here onwards so really appreciate the pointers!

I'll admit I'm totally clueless about how artists should go about it but I'll definitely have a look at physical prints, never printed anything more than a photo, so yes, I think we'll experiment with how they look like on paper and see if it looks better than on a computer. Now the BTC address and signature is of course doable but this COA... definitely new to me. Looking online seems to suggest it's something that can be done easily, is it also normally given to the purchaser even for digital art, and would that typically be a physical copy?

I would suggest a high quality laser printer, you can keep the costs pretty low and the results can be quite nice if the colors are balanced right. Don't overthink the COA too much. Find a few examples online and try to reproduce it. Basically it is just a piece of physical paperwork you will issue to go along with the work so some one has one document that lists all the relevant details to a potential future buyer, raising its resale value, and therefore your original sale value Wink
6811  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh on: September 19, 2018, 07:57:58 PM
This whole #metoo movement from day one was a political ploy. First to distract from the worst (and most connected) offenders to political opponents. If you notice this all started happening when a bunch of pedo rings started getting busted.

It is going to backfire. Some how people resent lying about rape in an attempt to sandbag your political opponents while covering up for actual child abusers, and it is getting pretty transparent. IMO we could maybe do better than Kavanugh, but we could also do A LOT worse very easily.
6812  Other / Off-topic / Re: Transgenderism is a mental illness. on: September 19, 2018, 07:47:21 PM
Who decides what is a normal mental state versus an illness?

I'm fairly certain there are zero "normal people" on this planet... everyone is a unique snowflake

Why demonize people for being different than you?

I hope you realize you also have personality traits which could be deemed abnormal, everyone does... you cannot condemn a mental illness without condemning yourself


More to the point... if you claim transgenderism is a mental illness... you are misinformed, because it was removed from that category:

Being transgender no longer classified as mental illness. Here's why
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/06/20/transgender-not-mental-illness-world-health-organization/717758002/

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"It was taken out from the mental health disorders because we had a better understanding that this wasn't actually a mental health condition and leaving it there was causing stigma," said Dr. Lale Say, coordinator of WHO's Adolescents and at-Risk Populations team. "So in order to reduce the stigma while also ensuring access to necessary health interventions, this was placed in a different chapter."

If you still claim it is a mental illness, then you are simply a bigot who doesn't care what the science says, and you just hate people who are different for no reason other than you want to hate people who are different

Declaring a condition a mental illness is not equivalent to "demonizing" it. People suggesting medical treatment (other than reassignment surgery which has a horrible rate of success improving anything), are actually attempting to help these people live a healthy, happy, stable life.

However people such as yourself would rather lie to them, encourage the conditions causing them discontent and pain, and use them as cover to push your bullshit Marxist ideologies. You don't give a FUCK about transgender people, they are simply a convenient tool for you to use much like other minority groups.
6813  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Is marriage a kind of punishment? on: September 19, 2018, 07:42:18 PM
In the West many people would argue the roles the OP describes are reversed and they feel like the women get to relax while the men work. Of course this is a generalization, but it does not make it inaccurate. There are many social and economic differences that cause these results in both places.

IMO marriage was originally conceived of to build society, and a lot of evidence supports this premise. Human beings left without societal norms will often instead of building families, which are the fuel that builds economies and societies, will tend to fall into less constructive rolls. What tends to happen is the women gravitate towards the top 20% of men, and those men form sort of "harems" of women and the rest of the 80% of men do not form family units which are critical for a society's development. This is often referred to as the Pareto principle, and is also supported by numerous peer reviewed studies as well as internal analysis of dating sites.

As a result of this problem, the concept of marriage was implemented to balance the natural tendencies evolved in women for hypergamy, searching for the best conditions for themselves and their children, with the need to build society we all benefit from.

Obviously the intent of marriage was to create a balance from the natural order, but like any human system it is imperfect and often does fall out of balance.
6814  Other / Ivory Tower / Re: Donald Trump has been ordered not to meet Nigel Farage. on: September 19, 2018, 04:24:34 PM
Insane Communist jibbering

You are out of your fucking mind. You are supporting totalitarians. Corruption in the West doesn't make the East innocent by default. Also I find it hilarious you support Infowars when they are quite virulently anti-communist Chinese.
6815  Other / Serious discussion / Re: Black Mirror and the "Chinese new social credit system" on: September 19, 2018, 04:05:19 PM
resistresistresist

I will never participate in such a system, no matter the consequences. 

You already do.
6816  Economy / Goods / [WTB] BULK empty SD card plastic cases on: September 17, 2018, 04:47:34 PM
Looking for a few hundred to 1000 empty SD card plastic cases. You know the ones, the ones that come from the factory that has the adapter and the mini SD card in it that end up stacked in a corner and never used. I just want the empty cases. Prefer new and unused but will also accept used ones in good condition. Looking for best price per unit. PM me please. Thanks.
6817  Other / Ivory Tower / Re: A 9 bitcoin coin (apparently) on: September 17, 2018, 12:16:02 AM
Volume is more important than price.
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6819  Other / Ivory Tower / Re: Donald Trump has been ordered not to meet Nigel Farage. on: September 09, 2018, 11:07:14 AM
I’m a fan of Farage, think he’s fantastic to be honest. Jet Cash, I don’t know where you’re from but are you familiar with Tommy Robinson? If so what do you think of him?

I'm English, and I support traditional English values, and I'm anti-globalist. I oppose the Eton/Oxford deep state that created the EU, and I support Brexit. Also, I believe that countries should get rid of the unicorn politicians who seek to strip sovereign nations of their assets, and lead their citizens into debt slavery,

On one hand, I think you guys are coming from the right place. On the other, I think you're being set up.


This whole alt-right movement is simply doing what traditional Conservative politics always has: used the ideas of classical liberalism as the positive selling point, but then gently twists it to represent an apologia for intolerance of any liberalism at all. They convince their adherents that giving everyone freedom means everyone must be very strictly monitored to make sure you're behaving freely!

The major irony here is that you guys are reacting to the left style governments doing exactly the same thing: restricting everything, then calling it freedom. No politician is ever going to sell you the reality: real freedom cannot be given to you, you have to take it.

Your narrative here does not exclude the possibility that "liberalism" is being used in exactly the same way or in even more destructive ways. The elite try to create trends, often competing with each other, and then back or subvert the prominent ideology. Any ideological system can be subverted this way.

Now, that we are done with the sad and cliche false equivalence argument, "liberalism" has been the dominant ideology for AT LEAST the last generation if not 2 in the West. This whole turn towards conservatism is a referendum in clear rejection of the documented failures of this ideology, true to name or not. The pendulum has swung too far to the left and the people are pulling it back. There may be many layers of deception and diversion, but nothing you concoct will negate these previously stated facts.
6820  Other / Ivory Tower / Re: What would it take to delete all banking records? on: September 09, 2018, 10:54:46 AM
This all is a perfectly great anarchy fantasy... you think you want this but you don't. Within days you would be eating your pets. Within weeks there would be no bark on the trees or a blade of grass in the ground. The economy most certainly does need (and inevitably will) be reset. The WORST POSSIBLE way to do it is with some shit out of Die Hard or Fight Club and would cause the most suffering.
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