Back in April, when the Covid death spike was the highest among the elderly, there was an age group that was actually going down in deaths. This age group was the infants under 1-y-o. The area where their deaths was reducing was Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). It seems that there are a certain number of babies who simply die for no determinable reason at all - SIDS. But the death rate went down during the spike in Covid deaths among the elderly. Why? This was during some of the first major lockdowns, when nobody was going to the clinics and hospitals for any reason. These babies were missing out on many of their normally scheduled vaccination shots. And they lived because of it. What does that tell you about vaccines.  Kids not dying of SIDS while elderly are dying. The only logical conclusion...elderly are sucking the life out of babies to live. |
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^ That made me go and check my own profile, to find that I've been here for over 7 years  I'm not sure how I should feel about that... Interesting...10 years last week for me. July 21, 2010 6 years in September for me, nobody likes a show off, Elwar  #kidding The forum was much different in the early days. People actually all working toward wanting to make Bitcoin successful. Everyone pitching in with ideas and supporting people that were starting businesses and advances for the technology. The major debate was about the depreciation aspect of the currency (from outsiders that did not support Bitcoin). The final answer being..."so you're saying that if I own bitcoin the price will continue to go up. If you truly believe that, why are you not buying bitcoin right now?" Another controversy was SatoshiDice and the flood of transactions on the blockchain for a single gambling website. |
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^ That made me go and check my own profile, to find that I've been here for over 7 years I'm not sure how I should feel about that... Interesting...10 years last week for me. July 21, 2010 |
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For our Italian friends. "I talenti visionari non mancano, ma nemmeno il senso degli affari fa difetto. Il sito dei Sea Builders offre numerose opzioni di acquisto, affitto o multiproprietà (i Bitcoin sono il mezzo di pagamento preferito, «ma accettiamo anche versamenti via Paypal, e puntiamo, dopo i primi tempi, ad abbattere i costi fino a 195 mila dollari per un modulo, un prezzo alla portata dell’americano medio» spiega Grant)." https://www.iodonna.it/attualita/storie-e-reportage/2020/07/25/seasteading-case-del-futuro-in-mare/ |
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Just remember that as things get harder for people they will tend toward seeking support from their "group" or collective. Whatever that may be, it is easy to stand strong as an individual when things are going well but when times are tough you need to feel like there are others out there providing whatever you feel you are missing.
In the US this appears to be falling into the categories of race as the groups people are choosing. Nationalism tends to be a very significant group that people will fall back on. Or people will trend toward their socioeconomic class if there is some sort of movement or prevalence of it.
Their enemies will be anyone outside of their group. The best way to solidify yourself within that group is to attack someone outside of that group, the more publicly the better, the more unlike your group the better.
It is a symptom, not a cause. It will become worse. Lines will be drawn. Groups defined more solidly. I've even noticed this with libertarian folks online that are supposed to be individualists, falling into the comfort of attacking "statists" among their libertarian peers.
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So I have tried a few times to download the Coinbase app needed to sign up for the Coinbase debit card. Each time I get "This is not supported in your country".
I use a VPN to set my IP in the US so is it not supported in the US? Or is it somehow detecting that I'm really in Panama?
Also, I finally got around to filing my extortion papers for the IRS.
Getting married helped keep me from needing to pay any taxes.
Land of the free...where you have to file your taxes even if you haven't stepped foot in the country all year.
You could renounce your citizenship, but you may well be anticipating getting some income such as social security or maybe you are receiving some other pension, which makes it a BIGGER trade off to renounce. I am not saying that I agree with world-wide income taxation, and surely there are trade-offs with any system whether we are referring to taxation or other matters of figuring out if you get benefits or will get benefits in the future. Sure, you likely subscribe to one of those libertarian views, and you have already admitted to it, and sure I have issues with libertarians trying to spin matters with out accounting for how to deal with various public goods, but you surely did not start your propounding of libertarian ideas in your teenage years, so you have some issues with your having had made too many USA connections in terms of either prior employment or your desires to return to the USA or to travel around the world with a USA passport causing you to be unwilling to renounce your citizenship.. because it will likely cost you more than what you are willing to admit to because you want to spin the taxation matter in one direction (sure we all have concerns about taxation how their spent and from whom they are collected). To renounce my citizenship would require paying taxes on the total value of all of my bitcoin holdings as if I sold them the day I renounced. The thought of the amount of brown skinned people in far off lands who's skin will be burned off using my money does not sit well with me. My thought is that the US will collapse in the next few years so it is not necessary to renounce my citizenship. US citizenship will cease to exist. Then I can just not sign onto the America 2 (the electric boogaloo) citizenship. But not to worry. I filed this year so when you leave your house in the morning there will be roads. |
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So I have tried a few times to download the Coinbase app needed to sign up for the Coinbase debit card. Each time I get "This is not supported in your country".
I use a VPN to set my IP in the US so is it not supported in the US? Or is it somehow detecting that I'm really in Panama?
Also, I finally got around to filing my extortion papers for the IRS.
Getting married helped keep me from needing to pay any taxes.
Land of the free...where you have to file your taxes even if you haven't stepped foot in the country all year.
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Do the math.
When I put the numbers in my calculator it makes a happy face. I put the numbers in my calculator and came up with 58008 |
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Zap’s Strike Moves To Public Beta.Strike is an application that allows you to transact with Lightning payments with just a debit card or bank account. But, here’s the secret sauce: instead of having to buy bitcoin to load up your Lightning channels, users on Strike never touch BTC. According to Mallers, “This is important as Strike users are not exposed to any volatility, tax consequences, custody challenges, node management, channel management, etc. When a user makes a Lightning payment with Strike, their balance is debited. When a user receives a payment into Strike, their balance is credited.”
In other words, you pay in fiat, but use Lightning. If you want to convert fiat into bitcoin, then create a Lightning invoice and pay yourself through Strike.
Here’s my favorite part: to use Strike, all you’ll need is your name and a phone number.
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Mallers continues, “The user can custody fiat currency with us, but it is FDIC insured through our banking partner, so there is never a risk to having any customer funds lost. Yes, the set of nodes performing Lightning functionality are hosted and maintained by us, but we don’t ever host or maintain any keys or BTC on behalf of our users. If the BTC is hacked, I’m fucked, nobody else. That’s the way it should be.”
Interesting. My needs are the opposite (need to be able to spend my BTC) but this is a good way for people to onboard to LN with ease. Maybe their debit card could allow for that. I tried to link my bank account but it did not accept my credentials. Hopefully it is not farming my bank login/password. Not that I put much in the bank. |
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I do have a bidet actually. Or as we call them in Thailand...a bum gun. People using pants as an example of why wearing masks is normal. They don't understand that I have never fully accepted that wearing pants should be required either.
Also...leprosy exists. If a leper touches you, you will catch it. That is why everyone in ancient times walked around in full plate mail.
If you are not walking around in a full suit of armor you can catch leprosy and eventually die. Let that little fact sink in.
I question your facts.  OK, went back and see you are making a horrible analogy because you think the pants one is horrible. got it. Exactly. |
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I do have a bidet actually. Or as we call them in Thailand...a bum gun. People using pants as an example of why wearing masks is normal. They don't understand that I have never fully accepted that wearing pants should be required either.
Also...leprosy exists. If a leper touches you, you will catch it. That is why everyone in ancient times walked around in full plate mail.
If you are not walking around in a full suit of armor you can catch leprosy and eventually die. Let that little fact sink in.
I question your facts. Fact: Leprosy exists (about 200,000 people as of 2016). Fact: Leprosy is transmitted via touch. Fact: If you are walking around in a full suit of armor, nobody can touch you. Fact: If you are not walking around in a full suit of armor, somebody can touch you (and thus, you could potentially catch leprosy). Fact: You will eventually die. |
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Cite your sources Do Fox News and Daily Stormer count?  They would be sources, but with a pretty low impact factor. Anyway, here's a nice image that explains it in simple terms.  People using pants as an example of why wearing masks is normal. They don't understand that I have never fully accepted that wearing pants should be required either. Also...leprosy exists. If a leper touches you, you will catch it. That is why everyone in ancient times walked around in full plate mail. If you are not walking around in a full suit of armor you can catch leprosy and eventually die. Let that little fact sink in. |
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Last I looked at the price (a few hours ago) the price was $9689...now the price is $9691...
Any reason for the $2 jump?
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Perhaps Social Security could be paid our depending upon the amount of years you were voting age and the debt went up. Pay first toward paying down that debt, anything left over can be distributed in social security checks.
Win win for everyone I'd say.
"But I paid into that my whole life!"
Ya, you also took more than you paid in your whole life as well. Time to pay back.
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Pay off most things like mortgage and be a free man... let the rest mature further
Nothing free about having to pay taxes. New poll suggestion. Do you say yes or no to the taxman? Is it better to be a slave or a prisoner? I keep my capital gains under the level required to have a tax rate of 0%. It used to be $35k which was fine living in Thailand. Now I am married so that is now just over $70k. Plenty of income for me per year. It's fairly cheap living here in Panama. Speaking of, we are considering eventually moving to somewhere in the US. Does anyone know of which state has the lowest/almost zero property taxes? |
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It's not like they need to stage a cop killing a black guy for any sort of false flag. That stuff happens so often you may as well stage a false flag of a liquor store getting robbed.
The key is to prepare the hype. Just like Corona virus...take something that is common, hype it up to make it seem like something huge, make sure people are scared...more government.
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Come on.. the guy was smart enough to cover so much of his face that you can't recognize him. If many of us have twins "from another mother" (lookalikes) that share an >80% identical facial features, imagine how easy it is to find lookalikes from a picture of only some eyes and almost invisible eyebrows. You could be recorded in a constant face expression different to your natural one (say frowning) and you'd get very different results.
It's quite useless imo to try recognizing the Autozone guy by matching his eyes with someone else's unless there is a VERY close match and you have at least one detail like if the guy really is a disguised cop as many say. A very close match of a police officer could be helpful then, but with the information we currently have.. I'd think it's a waste of time.
Yes, the cop did well to try to hide himself. He likely didn't think someone would get as close to him as they did. And when they did he said "do you want to get arrested?". And when someone screams "Are you a cop?" he responds "does it matter?". Certainly there is not any "proof" at this point, all speculation. We know that the police will not be investigating this guy. If they were trying to find who it is then that would lend some credibility to the fact that this guy is likely not a cop. But they aren't. The two points here that would provide the proof would be the guy on twitter who received the girl's text messages getting proof of whom it was and having her verify that it was her and that she knows it was him. A freedom of information act release of the body camera for Pederson at the time of the window breaking would provide the proof that he was not involved as the police department stated. There were two quick investigations into this. The first one being the guy releasing the video, someone took a still of the video to show the guy close up, someone else sees it and sends a text to the girl asking if it was "Jake" (not Jacob as a lazy scammer trying to set someone up would do), this person getting confirmation then posting the text on twitter as a follow up to the picture posted. Occam's razor puts this as the simplest explanation for those chain of events. The scam version would be. Guy puts the video up, someone puts up a still picture. Someone else searches to find someone in the St Paul police department that could possibly look like the guy in the close up knowing that if they get a better image their little scam will be destroyed, they come up with some fake text messages coming up with a new story about how those are her gloves, her mask, throws in the nickname of "Jake" on the assumption that this guy goes by the name "Jake" with friends, which would also destroy his scam if people close to the guy verify that nobody calls him that. They then send it to the twitter guy who has many followers and would be able to easily verify the identity of the person sending the text messages. The second investigation was from the police department. They see some posts about one of their own being outted as the window smasher. They spend about 30 minutes figuring out what to say. They post an announcement that the guy was not Jacob Pederson. End of investigation. |
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