So someone that is involved in a motor vehicle accident and becomes braindead ceases to be human and merely becomes a clump of cells and tissues from that point? Human life begins at conception, scientifically indisputable. You might assign value to human life at cortex formation, just like pro-lifers might assign value to human life at conception. Whether the tragedy of aborting a zygote exists or not, the tragedy of aborting a fetus with any brain development surely exists. Any perceptible changes in development just become clearer as development goes on.


Damn right wingers, already rioting.

https://www.foxla.com/news/lapd-officer-hurt-downtown-la

Hopefully it isn't as bad as the 2020 Summer of Love.

https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a455-4067-b06a-66f9db4cea9c.html


If a parent, man or woman, decides they don't want a child 1 month into it's life citing they're "unwanted" or that raising a child might be "lengthy," would it be acceptable for that man or woman to end the child's life for their own convenience?

I'm rather indifferent on abortion because we assign arbitrary value to people's lives all the time, and that includes the unborn. The pro-choice crowd doesn't use the appropriate argument by circling around the central issue of ending human life based on convenience. Really, convenience should not even enter the conversation.

Bill Clinton was the last sensible pro-abortion politician that coined "safe, legal, and rare." He attached morality to the issue. Now, it's supposed to be empowering.

Surely he could have saved 44 billion dollars and offered the kid 50k instead, no?

He's already said he hopes his critics stay on Twitter. It's not much of a profitable enterprise anyways, so he'd be better off not arbitrarily banning people like the current model the executives have in place. He probably bought Twitter out of boredom and because he can afford it.

With the supply chain issues underlying the war related cost increases, it just means that the developed war will pay more of their income for food, while under developed nations will experience food shortages. Usually the developed world will come out on top because they have the resources to invest into alternatives. Poor people in developed nations don't have access to that luxury.

There are studies of depression rates across various cultures, and what's often reported is that westerners have higher rates of depression than those in lower developed countries such as those in Africa.

How's it possible in the most prosperous time in human history, the westerners with extreme luxuries have higher depression rates than those without such luxuries? My guess is the propensity of those with internet access to be informed about matters that lead to unhappiness. The predisposition of depression from a westerner tells you ignorance is bliss.

You might pay attention to society's problems, but shouldn't experience mental anguish from it. If you do, it's time to go outside.

Humans are inherently greedy by nature. Acting within one's self interest is how humans were able to evolutionarily survive and become the dominant species on the planet over some hundreds of thousands of years. There can't be one nation, there are too many culturally divergent societies with different value systems. For that reason, there would not be a single currency either but for a decentralized currency system like Bitcoin. Bitcoin could take the place of USD as the world's reserve currency because it acts independently of politics and culture and I anticipate that process happening over the next decades as countries act negligently with their own currencies.

I would say, humans could get a lot done if they put down the weapons of war and worked together to innovate for the betterment of mankind,. Unfortunately that's rather a fanciful hope.

Binance is a private company so I don't personally see an issue with their selective denial of service to Russian affiliated accounts. I would just not the blatant hypocrisy of private entities seemingly caring so much about Russian human rights violations with the war in Ukraine while simultaneously denying human rights violations that occur in places elsewhere, like China and Uyghur muslims. It'd be nice if there was a consistent standard.


The problem is we don't know the daughter's affiliation with the direct war effort or Russian government. I don't think guilt by association is anything productive.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing. Drug dealers and criminals have their assets seized all the time. Those assets might be sold or auctioned off, and any fiat currency that they have stashed away is confiscated to use as the government's direction. Don't see why Bitcoin would be any different -- a criminal is liable to forfeit of any assets associated or gained with their unlawful conduct. This should include any crypto earned unlawfully. At least least seized funds are being used for a worthy cause.

Probably because El Salvador is an impoverished country where the means of survival include having enough to eat with sustainable shelter. People don't recognize the luxury of living in a developed nation where law and order is maintained, and the economy is healthy enough to diversify into currencies aside from the government backed fiat. Though I wouldn't call it a complete failure -- these types of adoptions and overhauls of financial systems can take years, if not decades. But understand that a poor population can't reasonably be expected to immediately adopt a digitalized currency with no understanding of how it works. It takes time.

As far as I'm concerned, stable coins are extraordinarily risky and whatever assets they claim to be supported by require that you trust them to maintain the value of those assets. I understand people have their reasons for using them, fine - one portion this bill seemingly would force stable coin providers to register as fixed-value digital commodity operators and that would force stable coin providers to have disclosure documents registered with the federal government which provide info on the assets backing the coin. Good. Stable coins are already centralized so it doesn't matter to me what type of regulation that would exist on a centralized stable coin. They're not "true" crypto currencies anyways.

Russia might be offing some of their business executives connected to energy firm Gazprom: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/29/europe/russian-oligarchs-suicides-intl/index.html






Some of these include alleged murder suicides. Russian hitmen will not spare women and children apparently.

As you all know, Gazprom is involved in cutting off energy supplies to Poland. Maybe these business executives were obstacles. Their deaths all occurring within some suspicious circumstances in different countries with many connected to Russian energy. Coincidence?

I recognize two names from this list only due to circulating media headlines, Greene and Gaetz. They can't seem to stay out of controversy. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a deranged nut job and anti-semite who blamed California wild fires on Jewish space lasers. She hates the jews, might even be a supporter of the alleged "denazification." by Russia. I believe she's been outspoken about remaining out of the Ukrainian conflict. Matt Gaetz is a Trumpian isolationist Republican, fairly typical. Both slightly unhinged.

Moderna seeks emergency use authorization for COVID-19 vaccine in children ages 6 months - 5 years: https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/28/health/moderna-vaccine-eua-young-children/index.html

Dosing at 25 micrograms produces a similar immune response to a 100 microgram dose in adults and according to Moderna. Only 37 percent vaccine efficacy in the vaccinated cohort in children aged 2-5.

FDA could grant them EUA for such nonsensical testing and data analysis, out of their own hypochondria.

According to the CDC, <400 deaths associated with COVID-19 in ~2.5 years: https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-Focus-on-Ages-0-18-Yea/nr4s-juj3 This data does not differentiate between deaths *due* to COVID or *with* COVID.

Does this sound like something that needs EUA?

This is why limited government and democracy is important. If you believe humans are inherently corrupt, limit their scope and curtail their political influence. Democracy doesn't actually exist in Russia so limited governance doesn't apply.

Russia would have been smart to adopt Bitcoin some number of years ago when they began clearing out USD from their reserves, but as I've long said, they were too late in their execution.

Putin knew he was going to invade Ukraine presumably for some number of years and was waiting for an opportunity. I don't think he anticipated so much economic isolation in response to his invasion but he knew the U.S. would try to freeze assets in their sanction attempts against Russia, hence emptying out their USD reserves. They swapped it out for Yuan, but the Chinese economy is facing some issues of their own. Doesn't seem like any fiat currency is safe anymore.

Elon Musk in no way supports Bitcoin. He sees it as an environmental hazard more than anything and isn't shy to trash BTC while promoting worthless altcoins for the "memes." He doesn't seem to understand the energy burden fiat currency systems require along with the type of infrastructure they use. This isn't surprising for a billionaire, but for someone that is familiar with green energy, you'd think he'd be more willing to reduce the strain financial systems put on energy consumption.

When Trump appointed Devin Nunes to be the CEO it was clear that the entire platform would end in a dumpster fire. This was the issue with Trump's administration when he was in office; he would surround himself with incompetent people, fire them, then trash them on Twitter as if he did not make the mistake in selecting them. He only selects loyalists to be part of his business or political dealings. I didn't think Truth Social would ever come close to competing with Twitter because the only user base it would attract are the far right Trump supporting absolutists. It was inevitable that it'd turn into an even more toxic cesspool than Twitter ever was, but we never even saw it lift off the ground.

Some angry people tried to bring the FCC into the mix and demand they block Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter: https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1519452741206425600/photo/1

Their response is rather candid.

The shareholders of Twitter prior to Elon Musk's acquisition were Saudi Princes and other large financial firms. Something tells me the Saudi's and and investment corporations don't have any concern to "democracy" anymore than an eccentric billionaire would.

I care about the global economy more than I do the environment, and so does India and China. Both are the top two polluters in the world with large populations that are still developing. Sacrificing economic growth for the negligible reduction in the total increase of global temperatures isn't a good trade considering global temperatures have fluctuated for thousands of years. If the proposition of having increased food prices and energy prices in order to save a few habitats or costal regions instead of adapting, as humans have always done throughout existence, sounds good to you, then I'd argue that you should at least provide demonstrable figures of the human effect on climate change.

I've yet to see anything conclusive, the projections keep changing to fuel the hysteria.

Poland is taking in Ukrainian refugees and were ready to provide jets to Ukraine if the U.S. were to swap out any military equipment they donated (the deal ended up falling through, though). To the extent Poland plays a role in geopolitics with Ukraine as a border country, Russia seems to be willing to sacrifice whatever business they were doing with Poland in order to punish them for assisting Ukraine. I don't recall what miniscule amount of energy production relies on raw materials supplied from Russia, but I don't imagine there are a lack of suppliers. Logistics and infrastructure are the issues, and Russia knows that.

NY is full of hippies that congregate towards the NYC area and influence the politics of the entire state. Extreme far left urban living individuals disconnected from reality with the upper elite living in the central city. NYC had the chance to elect a pro-BTC candidate, Andrew Yang, but they declined. The current governor, Eric Adams, accepted his first couple of checks in the form of BTC. Mostly just virtue signaling. I don't imagine he has much to say on this mining ban. Green energy isn't efficient enough for it to swap out traditional energy forms so this is effectively a BTC mine ban outright.