Sometimes people have loyalty cards/discounts that make up at least part of that difference. I haven't seen differences of 20% except for a brief period recently when prices dipped to $1.30 at some gas stations and others held higher, around $2.00, but that's just pandemic panic. Normally the differences are within 5-10% and if you add a loyalty discount and a discounted car wash it becomes negligible or at least enough to make people think it's worth it (the cheaper gas station might have discounts too).

Me personally... cheapest gas from GasBuddy + 5% CC cashback is what I usually do.

"full serve" sounds like NJ, haven't seen that nonsense anywhere else LOL

Technically that is true. In reality, qualified immunity is used as almost a total shield from liability for law enforcement. As civil asset forfeiture was originally designed to confiscate proceeds from drug dealers and other criminals, it eventually became a "legal" method of robbing innocent people, much like qualified immunity has become almost a total shield from responsibility for police negligence.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, arguably the court's most liberal justice, has repeatedly dissented when her colleagues have excused police misconduct in police brutality cases. In one dissent, she said the court "displays an unflinching willingness" to reverse lower courts when they refuse to grant qualified immunity to police officers. In contrast, she said, the court "rarely intervenes" when lower courts wrongly grant qualified immunity to police officers. This "one-sided approach" transforms qualified immunity into "an absolute shield for law enforcement officers," she wrote.

Justice Clarence Thomas, the court's most conservative member, has also called for revisiting the doctrine of qualified immunity. He has written that the doctrine was simply invented by judges without any historical basis.

Are you brushing up on qualified immunity? I'm not immersed in legalese, only just learned of the term on Last Week tonight.

It sounds like you understand the legal system a lot better then most of us. Is qualified immunity just a cop thing? What if you're a chef at a restaurant and serve some old seafood, or some food contaminated with allergens, (when you knew the food was bad or contaminated) and someone dies. Do you get to claim qualified immunity?

And let's go with a nazi themed analogy since we're on the internet and think about the Nuremberg trials, if we applied our legal system, would they all get qualified immunity?

Qualified immunity is a judicially created doctrine that shields government officials from being held personally liable for constitutional violations—like the right to be free from excessive police force—for money damages under federal law so long as the officials did not violate “clearly established” law.

Please stop equating destruction of property with the destruction of human life. It comes off as being an apologist for white supremacy.  There is nothing more democratic than a large group of citizens, skipping bureaucracy and changing public property themselves.  People needing permission from an official about what is acceptable on public property is not democracy. 

Can't agree more.

Seems likely that things will change quickly several times between now and November.  Buckle up - if you haven't already.

I also disagree with the decision to tear down the statue without official permission. The more unauthorized decisions there are, the scarier the consequences. Tomorrow one of the protesters may decide that someone in the city behaves unworthyly and is lynched.

The actual big businesses are not being hurt-->Online retail, Silicon Valley, and banking.

People will not work for employers as much if employers can no longer pay wages. The money has to come from somewhere, and there will come a time where only the monopolies will be able to pay liveable wages.

The "side hustles" that satisfy basic necessities will become the main hustles for the most part.

But it's been argued for years that the statue should either be taken down or have an additional plaque added to it. It was ruled in favour of the additional plaque 2 years ago and nothing has come of it.

I'd agree vandalising the stature is criminal damage however if they merely moved it, it's public property and wouldn't have mattered.

And there were at least hundreds in that crowd, no police seemed to intervene either. I can't think anyone would stand on the side of a slave owner especially in this country...

Some Texas polls came out for Biden vs. Trump and they're not looking good. We're super early so polls aren't all that relevant but you cannot be a Republican incumbent and be within the margin of error for a state like Texas.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/tx/texas_trump_vs_biden-6818.html

Recent Quinnipiac poll has Trump 44, Biden 43; conducted 5/28 - 6/1.

Looks like people really don't like where things are with Trump right now and I imagine the George Floyd incident has a lot to do with it. His twitter feed was a bit more out of control than normal and there were advisors that urged Trump to deliver a unifying message from the oval office during the peak of the riots but he refused.

For reference, Romney vs. Obama polls had a RCP average of nearly 16 points: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/tx/texas_romney_vs_obama-1945.html

The actual results for the state turned out to be just about spot on.

The standard defense to that is "if you can breath, you can talk".  It's all fine if the restraint is temporary.  That officer is guilty of negligent homicide at the least and second degree murder at the worst.  The other officers will be charged for failing to stop a crime in progress, and they will defend with the unwritten rules of the brotherhood of the shield.  :/


That is how it's supposed to be.  A judge should sentence crime from a position of trust as repeat offenders.   This officer should be charged with two consecutive life sentences for second degree murder.  But they will take into account many other factors, such as his job duties vs that of a lawyer, for example.


If found guilty, he'll probably get life for 2nd degree, with parole in ten years.   They will take two years off for the year it took him to get his sentence.  Then he'll be a prime candidate for an ankle bracket and confinement at home, if the public loses interest in a few years.

Yes, our American justice system is fucked up. 

The mere fact that you have to "opt out" of them doing whatever they like with your data is bad enough as it is. They also have a clause which permits them to continue to hold and use your data subject to "regulatory retention or record keeping requirements", which is essentially carte blanche to do what they like. gentlemand also pointed out to me in another thread yesterday that even the EU's GDPR contains a similar clause to allow "financial institutions" to continue to hold your data.

You should assume that any data you give to a centralized exchange such as Coinbase will never be deleted from their servers, because in all likelihood, it won't be.

I've never used either, and have no problems exchanging bitcoin to fiat and vice versa using peer to peer trades or DEXs.

Small businesses are doomed. If they're not closed, they're being broken into. Wealth is being funnelled towards monopolies in a world economy that is anything but free. (If you want to work for a monopolistic organization, have fun selling your soul.)

If there is any hope of individual entrepreneurs making an honest living in this new era, they need:

1. TO SELL THEIR GOODS AND SERVICES ONLINE

2. Easy to use Decentralized platforms that let everyone with an internet exchange goods and services for any currency (such as the Virie Market-https://www.virieproject.com/) without centralized intervention. Basically an international, decentralized Craigslist with a built-in payment system that lets you use crypto, fiat or goods and services as payment (no bank accounts necessary-still billions of unbanked)

3. Inform themselves of the needs of people in other countries. Beggars are not choosers and this is great for business. You have something valuable that people elsewhere don't have.


Any other suggestions?


 

That's exactly what happened 2 years ago. Coinbase sent the details of over 13,000 of their customers directly to the IRS, and told the customers affected to "seek legal advice" - https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/taxes-reports-and-financial-services/taxes/irs-notification.html

And a year ago, one of Coinbase's executives Christine Sandler admitted user data was being sold to third parties: https://news.yahoo.com/coinbase-former-provider-sold-user-084900709.html. This was at the same time they partnered up with the surveillance company Neutrino/Hacking Team. There's a good write up here of just how immoral these people are: https://breakermag.com/coinbases-newest-team-members-helped-authoritarians-worldwide-monitor-journalists-and-dissidents/.

The most recent news (which I actually hadn't read yet when I made that last post), is just as concerning as the above. These same people inside Coinbase who made monitoring software for dictators are now working with the US government. Given their previous atrocious history, it's not exactly a huge leap to suspect that some user data is going to change hands here.

What? Which centralized exchanges are trustworthy? Even the biggest and most well known exchanges have been hacked and had coins stolen, been hacked and had private information and KYC documents stolen, been caught insider trading, sold customers' data to third parties, handed over customers' data to various governments, listed various scams and shitcoins to dump on their customers, locked and frozen accounts without warning, stolen funds, the list goes on, and on, and on. Centralized exchanges are anything buy trustworthy.

The vast majority of "small" exchanges which are hacked are centralized exchanges. This is not an argument against DEXs. Most of the time, when trading with DEXs, your funds are still under your control and so can't be hacked in the same way that a centralized exchange can be.

There are plenty of reasons to change exchanges. When Coinbase revealed that they sell your data to a variety of unknown third parties without your consent, and they formed a partnership with a company who develop and sell surveillance software to human rights abusing dictators, everyone with a shred of sense should have stopped using them immediately.

Is TOR needed for Bisq?

You can provide parameters for your TOR to work whenever its ban in your country.  The Socks, Proxy IP address, port, and authentication information are always in the manual and you can always find help, the internet is for all. Deeponion forum has great helpful users of TOR.

One thing that you should think of is that if you figured how to use Bitcoin exchanges and its wallets, it's never difficult for you to use any DEX GUI since they all work the same way. Its like learning the old 2010 phone and suddenly you have a new 2020 phone.

Like how it is into politics? WHO done what it is supposed to do. All economic and political choices were done by politicians, like closing for example USA borders based on one call from one broker. So blame politicians.
Trump is person who is making a call to random person (based on subscription amount of this person social media) about his beliefs and theories, asking if what he is saying is true, if person answers yes for Trump it is enough, seriously you trust such person?
And in some magic way we have again UK-USA institutions involved into economic and social situation. The ones that make wrong statistical assumptions and wrongly tested virus. Magic.

You want what? WHO to predict future? What do you expect? If WHO would act differently and virus would be actually seriously lethal, then Trump and you would have also full back of claims.


It is intermediary between science centers and governments, those science centers are paid and controlled by governments, those are driven by lobbies. Currently we have obvious situation how to make mistakes in papers so some people and insititutions can make their "big shorts" and longs.

Whole thing is rather on how one can make strategical influence on single persons and small units to shape global situation.

Some of the biggest reasons for this are the inadequate demand and the lack of a truly user-friendly decentralized exchange. Many exchanges, which claim to be decentralized, have been centralized on some tokens such as; Ethereum or Neo. In addition to this, there is no decentralized exchange that people can buy Bitcoin via FIAT money outside of Bisq exchange. Also, I cannot even use Bisq in my country because the Tor network is banned. Who would prefer a difficult way if there is an easier way? No one.

“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us,” Mattis writes. “We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society. This will not be easy, as the past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens; to past generations that bled to defend our promise; and to our children.”

“When I joined the military, some 50 years ago,” he writes, “I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens—much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in-chief, with military leadership standing alongside.”