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1141  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Can Israeli - Palestinian conflict worsen the crisis? on: October 10, 2023, 02:53:54 PM
Hamas claims to have launched 5000, but other sources say 2000 unguided rockets. There was no way to stop that many, which is why they launched all at once. They knew it would overpower the defense system.
They use a combination of a couple of tactics to overwhelm the enemy, apart from the launching of large number of projectiles, drones are also used to hunt down the defense batteries and radars directly and at the same time a large scale cyber attack is perform against the entire cyber infrastructure of the Zionist regime that includes the air defense (radars, Iron Dome, David's sling, etc) to disable or disrupt them.

Gone are the days that all Palestinians had against the heavily armored enemies were stones.
1142  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Can Israeli - Palestinian conflict worsen the crisis? on: October 10, 2023, 08:06:43 AM
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We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.
FWIW this is the Zionist ideology, and they don't think this way only about Palestinians. They believe that their bloodline is pure and everyone else is an animal that needs to be put down to "cleanse the earth". This is why unlike other religions or even cults and ideologies you can not become a Zionist, you must be born one and only from your mother side!!!

Not true, for pure logistical reasons...Gaza is so small and overpopulated that anywhere you shoot from, its "civilian area", there's very few open spaces and surely not any "jungle"
That is easily debunkable.

* There is population concentration but if you look up Gaza on google maps you'll see that there is also large unpopulated areas. Many of which are covered with trees (inaccurate use of the word "jungle" by me) like this screenshot from North Eastern Gaza without any tall apartments in sight for the terrorists to bomb:


* You can compare google maps with some of the videos I mentioned above from all these years where there is a face off and see that every time there is a rocket launch, it clearly is from an open area without any tall buildings in sight. You can also see the cover of trees used to hide the positions in some videos. Examples:
Rocket barrage system Rojum in the middle of "jungle":

Palestinian "air defense" brigade shooting down an Israeli helicopter from the middle of "jungle":


* The past 4 days has been mainly a land attack not a rocket attack like previous battles; this means majority of Palestinian forces are already on the front line and inside the occupied land, not in Gaza itself to be hit by any air raids when the terrorists bomb apartments!

* Israeli terrorists are mainly using precision strikes so even claiming or inferring it is a "mistake" is outright false.

* The targets which these terrorist are hitting with their fighter jets are civilian, many of which are too obvious to be civilian like the schools built and controlled by United Nations (UNRWA), hospitals as I mentioned earlier too, the press building, even ambulances in middle of the roads!
1143  Other / Meta / Re: How many people use Tor to access TalkImg? on: October 10, 2023, 06:19:35 AM
Appreciate your feedback.
I have never encountered any significant problem whilst uploading images to TalkImg.com through Tor. Only small annoyances like not uploading fully, which was easily fixed by doing a simple Tor Circuit change that is only two clicks.
1144  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: 100% of Bitcoin Pre-mimed In the first block- 21m in circulation. on: October 10, 2023, 06:07:59 AM
I came across another interesting argument
I am more curious as to where you came across such a strange FUD about Bitcoin which doesn't take any effort to debunk?

Is all of Bitcoin pre-mimed? Or simply another falsehood.
Start running a full node and you'll see your UTXO database (a database containing any spendable coins) is empty. As you sync and download the first block (block #1) it remains empty because reward of Genesis block (block #0) is not spendable and the reward for first block needs to mature 100 blocks. As you continue downloading blocks you can clearly see how the UTXO database grows as new coins are created, all of which is timestamped and is unchangeable so you can literally see how each and every single satoshi was created by miners one block at a time.
1145  Economy / Economics / Re: Bitcoin Is Better Than Digital Gold on: October 10, 2023, 05:51:22 AM
That is a weird comparison in your title.

Gold is by nature physical and if you turn it into digital, it stops being gold and becomes IOUs which can not even be compared with bitcoin.
Similarly Bitcoin is designed to be digital and if you convert that to physical (some have tried in the past), it also stops being Bitcoin and becomes IOUs which again can not even be compared with gold.

So if you want to compare, the comparison should be between Bitcoin and Gold (not digital gold). And in that comparison both of them are good for different purposes and each have its own advantages and disadvantages.
For example unlike gold, bitcoin is used as a currency but at the same time bitcoin price is still volatile whereas gold is more stable in comparison.
1146  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: F U D: Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubts on: October 10, 2023, 05:37:29 AM
Fear always stems from lack of knowledge and understanding, specially in the context of Bitcoin and the related FUDs. For example we see people panic sell because they never educated themselves about Bitcoin and its market, so at the first sight of some lies on the internet about an upcoming dump, they jump at selling themselves. Same with panic buyers, they act irrationally too. Like when they wait until price has recovered from a dip and has already gone up then start panic buying at a higher price and at a loss.

Obviously when this characteristic exists amongst market participants, there will be some others who would love to exploit it for their own gain. This is where FUD comes in, that includes lies created to intensify the irrational behavior in the market and cause higher volatility so that the FUDsters can make a better profit from the swings.
1147  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Block 811273/74 mined before block 811272 on: October 10, 2023, 04:55:43 AM
My node received block 811272 4 minutes earlier than 811273 and 9 minutes earlier than 811274. That confirms they were mined in sequential order.
To be clear in the blockchain blocks can only be mined in sequential order because block (n+1) must have a reference to block (n) (the 32 byte previous block hash field in each block header) that can only be known if block (n) is already mined.
1148  Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Will my private key be seen by everyone on the network? on: October 10, 2023, 04:49:29 AM
I read that the private key is a collection of letters and numbers
A private key is a big number and numbers can be represented in different ways. For example: ten, 10, 0b1010, 0xA are four different ways to represent the same number, 10.
In bitcoin we represent this number using a special encoding called Base58 which means what you see is a combination of letters and numbers.

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are used to verify transactions and prove ownership of a bitcoin address
In bitcoin we use mathematics and an algorithm called Elliptic Curve Algorithm and use what's called Digital Signatures.
You create a "signature" mathematically using your private key and publish that alongside your public key that is also mathematically computed from the private key. Both of these processes are one way (meaning they are irreversible).
Others can verify the authenticity of the signature with your public key while not be able to know your private key because of how the algorithms work.
1149  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Can Israeli - Palestinian conflict worsen the crisis? on: October 10, 2023, 03:14:41 AM
I saw it on BBC that US are sending what would help Isreal in defense.
There isn't really anything new here though. US has been sending billions of dollars of American taxpayers money to Israel for as long as it existed (ie. after its artificial creation in post WW2).

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The influence that Palestine will have would be from Muslim countries like Iran:
I wouldn't call it "influence", it is more like assistance and it is sadly only Iran that assists Palestinians in their struggle to regain their occupied country and battle the genocide that is set to eliminate any sign of them from this world.

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Russians are main Christians and Isreal will have more influence in Christian countries. Although, Isreal are Jews but in reality, the Christian countries will prefer to support them.
No offense but they must be a special type of stupid! One of the things Zionists love to do is to go to Bethlehem and the birthplace of Jesus Christ and urinate on its wall for fun.

This is a pointless conflict. Hamas can never win, and Israel can only kill more innocents just to try to hit a few combatants.
Sometimes the choices you have are to either sit back and let the genocide continue until nothing is left of you, your family and your race or you try something and hope to win.
BTW Israel doesn't murder women and children to "hit a few combatants", the armed Palestinians aren't even in their vicinity to be killed in such airstrikes. The Zionist terrorists murder children to discourage the resistance at the front from advancing.

This is also clear from the videos where we see the Palestinian resistance launching their rockets. The locations are always an open space, jungle, desert, etc. You never see any buildings anywhere close.
However when Israel uses the US donated bombers, they are always bombing civilian buildings and schools like the UN school they bombed murdering dozens of children and hospitals like the International Eye Hospital in Gaza 2 days ago.

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Iron Dome was probably designed for hundreds but not thousands of missiles.
More like dozens and it is a rocket defense not a missile defense.
This was also mainly a ground assault not like before which was solely a rocket attack from afar. This is why Gaza size is now doubled as they have already liberated nearly the same size around the strip and last I checked they are close to opening a route to the West Bank (the remaining Palestine) which would effectively surround the occupiers from 3 sides.
1150  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Can Israeli - Palestinian conflict worsen the crisis? on: October 09, 2023, 06:58:17 PM
Even funnier fact - Zelensky himself is a jew.  Grin
Technically and officially he is a Zionist.

In other news the Zionist terrorists cut off Gaza strip's water and electricity before they started carpet bombing civilians. Meanwhile the Lebanon #resistance seems to have entered this war from the Northern front and has already attacked a handful of Zionist positions in northmost parts of occupied Palestine.

On the other hand the only involvement US has had so far in this conflict was a C-17 sent to the terrorist organization with arms and the USS Liberty, I mean USS Ford Cheesy just "hanging around"...


As I was typing the most interesting thing popped up on my screen. Yemenis #resistance just threatened United States that if they enter this conflict they will attack all Israeli and US positions. You know what the significance of it is? Yemen is the poorest Arab country that has been under a full scale invasion by the US-Arab coalition for the past 9 years and it is located at a 2000 km distance!!! 'nough said Wink

So let me paint a little picture about your title even though everything is changing real fast and predictions at times like this is tough:
If US regime decides not to heed the threat and goes rogue, the entire Middle East will turn into a hellhole for all US assets and anybody who stands near them. As the former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer captain Ritter once said "[US military] is going to be dominated in a way they've never been dominated before".
That also means oil and gas prices to the moon.
That means Suez canal shuts down.
That means Europe's main trade route is shut down for at least a year
That means all import/exports will have to go around the entire African continent, face attacks from #resistance (the African branch) and face the worse sea conditions all of which would skyrocket price of everything across EU...
1151  Economy / Economics / Re: The world continues dumping US dollar (Gold, New World Order, World War III) on: October 09, 2023, 05:54:38 PM
The war between these two countries
It's not two "countries" though. Just as Ukraine and Donesk, Donbas aren't 2-3 countries. It is one country called Palestine that has majority of it under occupation. Gaza can not even be categorized as a country! It is more like a large prison.

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What is happening in this war is because of the fight over the promised land and the heritage of their ancestors, not on politics or economics like other things. and as far as I can notice this war does not affect global politics and economic polarization so it is very unlikely to trigger a world war.
Only on paper. In truth this is actually tied to the World Order, the old and the new.
You see the fake country of Israel was created artificially a little more than 70 years ago after WW2 so that the Western hegemonies (basically United States) could have a wild dog in the most energy rich region of the world that not only controls the balance of power to be always tipping towards US to help US control the energy but also has access to East Mediterranean sea and one of the most strategic and economical chokepoints on earth called the Suez Canal controlling European economy (ie a rabid dog for both West Asia and Europe).

As the organization weakens and as the resistance takes back the occupied places (which may take a long time) US continues losing its power and the New World Order is solidified even more.
1152  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Can Israeli - Palestinian conflict worsen the crisis? on: October 09, 2023, 04:18:57 PM
I find it interesting that Russia, who itself is an invader murdering civilians and bombing cities, supports another country that is currently being oppressed. When we lay siege, that's fine, but when another country does the same, we're against it. Freedom for the oppressed! Cheesy
Russia is just trying to play the field, putting pressure on US proxy in the region to put pressure on US. This caricature shows how Russia is seeing the situation better than I can explain: https://www.talkimg.com/image/RZ5Vv

We have to wait and see if the Zionist lobby infestation in United States ~
Mentioning a Jewish lobby in the US is called antisemitism by Jews.
That's becaue majority of the people in the world do not know the difference between Semites, Jews and Zionists. If I wanted to put it in one sentence while simplifying it: the relationship between Semites > Jews > Zionists is like the relationship between Middle Easterners > Muslims > ISIS.

The biggest crimes the Zionist fraction has committed is actually against Semites and Jews. This is why many Jews are against Israel and burn its flag. Examples from London and New York.

Thanks for raising this matter BTW.
1153  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: In Case of Global Conflict, Is BTC The Best Alternative? on: October 09, 2023, 03:46:23 PM
The example you used is such a localized and small conflict that doesn't have any global impact. At least so far and until no third parties get involved. But to answer your question, it depends on the scale of the conflict and the type of the battlefield. For example in a worse case scenario which is a global nuclear war, something like bitcoin is absolutely useless. So is fiat and any other assets and most probably even gold and other precious materials. But in a WW2-type conflict things could be very different to the point where something like bitcoin that can not be seized and can be carried across borders very easily and undetectably has the potential to shoot to the moon due to the massive increase in demand.

In short whenever the world is disrupted for any reason (COVID, energy crisis, economic crisis, war, etc.) things become too complicated to predict. We also have to consider dozens of factors affecting bitcoin and the economy to be able to make any kind of prediction.
1154  Economy / Economics / Re: The world continues dumping US dollar (Gold, New World Order, World War III) on: October 09, 2023, 03:31:00 PM
It is possible that today the world has become even closer to the Third World War. Yesterday, October 7, the Islamist group Hamas launched its biggest attack on Israel in many years.
The terrorist organization commonly known as Israel has been falling apart from inside for about 4 years now where no "government" can remain in office for long and the back to back protests across the occupied land for 40+ weeks against the radical Zionist is another indication of how this terrorist organization is coming to its end of life.

Palestinians are now using this opportunity, specially as the armed IDF terrorist have been abandoning their posts for the past months, to attack the occupiers and try to take back as much of their occupied country as they can.

However, this is all too small and too localized to lead to a World War. Not to mention that United States has not dared to enter this conflict so far which would be the only reason why this war could expand. And I don't think they have the capability or courage to enter it at this point either. The warning US regime received was too serious for them to do anything but stand back and watch their dog burn.
1155  Economy / Economics / Re: What US can do with its dept? Genuine question. on: October 09, 2023, 03:22:59 PM
We all know that US borrowing heavily. There are a lot of information on US debt on the Internet. Just to make it short, I will ask few questions:

What do you think, how this situation will be resolved? What did happen to any other nations who had huge dept in history? Is there any ways offered by economists to resolve the situation?

1.Solution number 1: The Federal Reserve keeps printing more dollars, which leads to devaluing the US dollar, which devalues the US debt.
2.Solution number 2: The USA defaults and stops paying the debt. All the creditors lose money. The financial markets crash. The economy crashes and we will be witnessing another Great Depression for 10 years or more.
I think that the US central bankers and politicians will choose solution number 1.
There's also solution number 3:The US government cuts 2 trillion dollars government costs and raises taxes in order to achieve a balanced federal budget and get rid of the budget deficit. This is close to impossible.
This is exactly why dedollarisation is mandatory for every nation around the world, that is if they want to survive the upcoming economic crash. The more they decouple themselves from the US economy and the US dollar the less affected they will be.

BTW they tried the solution #3 by cutting the cost from certain sectors like the healthcare, etc. but they increased the military budget and the military spending for overseas wars that not only negated that but also increased the US national debt by over a trillion dollar,... so far....
1156  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Can Israeli - Palestinian conflict worsen the crisis? on: October 09, 2023, 07:00:23 AM
Meanwhile, oil prices reacted to the news exactly as I predicted:
Some analysts are starting to compare things with the 1970's situation (1973-ish) where the oil price went from about $3-$4 up to $12-$15 which is about 4x rise!

Meanwhile United States has not yet dared enter this conflict despite having a large force in the region (like the Ford Carrier Strike Group in Eastern Mediterranean or baes in Syria, Jordan, Iraq, etc.) simply because the Resistance threatened to wipe out all their bases in Middle East.
We have to wait and see if the Zionist lobby infestation in United States is going to be able to push them into making this stupid mistake and the scale of the response so we can see if there is a possibility to say hello to $400-$500 per oil barrel... Grin

P.S. I wonder if Israel is going to sink another US Navy ship like USS Liberty in '67 lol
1157  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Can Israeli - Palestinian conflict worsen the crisis? on: October 09, 2023, 06:21:36 AM
Plot twist: Saudi Arabia and UAE as Arab states take the side of Palestine and start to actively participate in the conflict. Taking into account they're cutting their ties to the US and leaning towards Russia it's entirely possible. What is going to happen then?
What do you mean by "participate"? Just because they made a statement out of fear it doesn't mean they are participating in anything. Both Saudi and UAE dictators know very well that the country they invaded in the past 9 years called Yemen is now capable of bombing them back to stone age and Yemen supports Palestinian struggle for freedom. They have to make these statements because they know that Yemen has legitimate cause to attack them (as they are the invaders and haven't yet fully left the Yemeni's soil).

the Palestine terrorist.
I wonder if anybody dares call people of Ukraine terrorists?
After all Ukrainians are doing the same thing as Palestinians do, they've picked up arms and are attacking the invaders who are occupying their homes.
Although the difference is that Russia is only occupying Ukraine while Zionists are committing genocide in Palestine...
1158  Economy / Economics / Re: What US can do with its dept? Genuine question. on: October 08, 2023, 04:45:46 PM
The US producing money, accumulating debt, and exporting inflation is significant, right? As the world's reserve currency, the dollar has long been unique to the US. What happens when more nations abandon the dollar? As you noted, exported inflation could return to the US, raising prices and possibly causing a recession. A tricky balance, right? Managing the economic effects of such transformations demands a strong and flexible economic strategy. How will the US and others handle global economic changes? Only time and policy will tell.
Abandoning dollar is the definition of the New World Order. Each time the World Order changes, there will be a lot of "chaos" in the world. In other words it is expected in all aspects including economy, energy, food, security, etc. Many countries were already prepared for it, some got prepared for it over the past year and a handful will continue to remain unprepared.

How will they handle this significant global change?
How each country will handle it depends on the countries considering their preparedness, their people, their strengths and weaknesses, their infrastructure, most important of all their resources and their relations (which side they stand with).
For example both Pakistan and Germany have been facing an energy crisis over the past 1.5 years but the effects and how they handle things are vastly different!
India is another vastly different situation as they are transitioning into China's role as a massive "production factory" and has been setting record high economic growths despite being an energy importer too.
Iran is another example but as an energy exporter that despite being in the midst of the longest and largest cold war in history, has the most battle hardened economy and despite all this has been setting record high economic growths from 5% last year to the 7.9% from the first quarter of this year (that is Spring).

As for US itself, they too have plans to prevent hyper super-ultra inflation inside United States as the world dumps the dollar. I haven't done extensive research to fully explain it, just read some articles here and there. For example one way is the laws they have that would practically "block" the dollars from coming back to US mainland! Basically turning any dollar outside of US soil into garbage to keep the "domestic supply" low.
1159  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Can Israeli - Palestinian conflict worsen the crisis? on: October 08, 2023, 04:23:07 PM
I was not aware of this incident, but I think it might not be the main reason or might be I can not say for confirmation because many incidents occurred at Al-Aqsa Mosque, and many Muslims were assaulted there for no reason.
Past week alone was filled with assaults such as the one I explained and the Arabic media is filled with news of it and the anger of people's from different countries condemning these atrocities and the Palestinian resistance warning the Zionist extremists of a retaliation. But of course the heavily censored Western media only covers the story from right after the retaliation portraying it as if the Palestinian resistance is the starter and the extremist occupiers are the oppressed!

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I have watched many videos of the attacks from both sides on TikTok because such videos are deleted by the media in no time, I when read the title of this topic, I thought it would also be deleted from here, but I came here to know what members of this forum have to say about this incident.
One good thing about this forum is that despite being US based it does not follow the US censorship enforcements. Possibly because discussions here do not get the same amount of traffic like other places such as reddit, twitter, etc. get. Like this topic that has only gotten 90+ views. So the "choke acts" that US regime tends to issue in cases like this do not apply here Roll Eyes
1160  Economy / Economics / Re: What US can do with its dept? Genuine question. on: October 08, 2023, 10:59:31 AM
My country is in huge dept especially after they took several loans form other countries that includes China,
There is a huge difference between foreign debt and national debt. What your country (and a lot of others have) is foreign debt which is where they borrow money from elsewhere.
The national debt which is what US is suffering from is where you print more money than you should by practically borrowing money from every single citizen creating inflation. Another way to look at it is the government spending more money than they actually have. This is a simplification but I hope you get the difference.

What's gonna happen depends on how dedollarisation goes. You see unlike other countries and other fiats, when US prints money and creates debt, they export that inflation to others. But as more countries dump more dollars, this inflation goes back to United States.
So a period of very high inflation and shrinking economy and even recession is on the horizon.
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