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[serveria.com]

After a massive surgery last year…. 8 March 2022 will remembered when losing my best friend.

Condolences, man. That must be a huge loss. 

[serveria.com]

I was expecting more out of you.

Dammit, latest events and statements make me think there's very little reason in the modern world. Like this one for example:

In Brussels, Frans Timmermans, the European commission first vice-president, has said that Europeans can help in the fight against Vladimir Putin by turning down the heating in their homes.

Is he retarded or what? Let them freeze to death and blame it on Putin afterwards? 

[BlackHatCoiner]

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That's one of the worst feelings. Take heart!

[...]

Lots of altcoin "advocates" haven't understood that Bitcoin is such another thing; it's like a black-hole phenomenon where you're sooner or later gonna get sucked by one way or another. That's how I view it.

It's not ideal in terms of privacy, even though it could be. It was created to seek decentralization and that's where it distinguishes. Perhaps the former's improvement might sacrifice the latter. Scarcity is another thing of the game, but not the main part. The greatest significance is when you combine this kind of uniqueness with this level of decentralization.

Just imagine the term Decentralized was actually used properly.

Could you describe how you would want it to be used?

[d_eddie]

Does anyone have experience with smuggling ppl out of Russia during wartime? I have a friend and an uncle (and his family) who are Russian, living in Russia now.
They want to gtfo asap and don't know of any possibilities. Because the world is unfairly against all Russians, I doubt they will get refugee status and they might get arrested if found trying to cross the border.

Get passports and fly to Armenia or some other country that doesn't require visas. Some allow staying up to 6-12 months, some (Georgia IIRC) will reset the counter if you leave just for a day, so basically indefinitely.

Georgia might be less than enthusiastic about Russian "refugees". They have been fearing Russia since 2008, and recent developments haven't improved things a bit.

[serveria.com]

We are unlucky to witness the dawn of democracy and privacy fading away right before our eyes. Blocking the Russian state media outlets is lesser harm (perhaps?) but I hear people reporting some news websites blocking comments (from everyone) and visitors (from Russia specifically). Many news agencies are just re-posting Ukrainian propaganda fake news without even fact-checking them first. Don't get me wrong, I don't support war or Putin, I condemn any action leading to loss of precious life (especially civilians, especially children). But if they're trying to make me believe Russian casualties are increasing by 1k daily every single day and not publishing Ukrainian casualties at all... well DYOR... I was following the previous conflict back in 2014 rather closely and came to a conclusion 70-80% of all news are fake. Both sides actually.

All of a sudden, we found ourselves right in the middle of the cold war (cold for now).  

[serveria.com]

Damn, they're even ready to ban crypto: https://decrypt.co/94601/estonia-calls-restrict-crypto-fears-russian-sanctions-evasion

[Arriemoller]

.....
....even a stopped clock can be correct from time to time - a couple times a day to be more precise.

Indeed....
However, there is no way for one to determine when it is correct, unless one has a working clock next to it, in which case, surely the stopped clock is not only useless, but also irrelevant....Perhaps?

I recall an old saying that went something like: You never take two clocks with you when you travel, you either take one or three.

Was the person saying that wearing an onion in his belt?

[g-uid]

Senators look to lock down Russia's gold reserves

A bipartisan group of senators is introducing a bill to prevent Russia from liquidating gold to withstand biting sanctions.

Why it matters: The sanctions against Russia have frozen the country's foreign exchange assets, but its stockpile of gold could be a lifeline. A measure to close the loophole is yet another indication Congress is looking to get ahead of the Biden administration on punitive measures against Russia.

Is this really necessary?

Who will buy "physical" gold from Russia? Who would trust them with the delivery?

What if the play is not to sell gold, but simply increase demand for it? And in doing so make its cache far more valuable.

Will sanctions extend to China? Probably not.

https://en.sge.com.cn/

How does Russia recoup losses incurred thus far and inflict some pain of its own?

-> Reprice oil & LNG in terms of gold with a price that works in Russia's favor.

[Arriemoller]

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Fuck shitcoins

You ok jay?

[ChartBuddy]

Explanation

[Arriemoller]

I like CBuddy posts...He is so informing and apolitical.  (sorry Arrie, I know you find him them very irritating...)

edit... sorry snowflakes folks....I fixed that offensive pronoun.

Pronouns are beep/boop.

If I ever would have to choose a pronoun I would choose "your majesty" I always wanted to be called that.

[Arriemoller]

Are we so brainwashed we support local censorship but condemn Russians for doing the same?  Are we so brainwashed we call Putin's acts inhumane but we support hatred against average Russians who have nothing to do with this?  I have no idea.  One thing is sure, we are being lied one way or another.  Orwell was right.  We are currently living in his world without a doubt.  If someone has a contradictory argument, please come up and write it down.  I am really too confused by what is going on to understand what is good and bad anymore.

You've fallen into the trap of false equivalence.

Putin's regime attacked an independent country, lied about "military exercises" / no intention to attack Ukraine / "special operation" / not targeting civilians; threatened with nuclear weapons; persecutes, beats up, arrests people for merely saying "no to war", and that's just off the top of my head for the last couple of weeks.

Ukrainian government possibly lied about their losses in the war.

Same thing?

Surely some kremlintroll will be around soon to tell me that some Ukrainian lied about something else too. Also the US invaded countries. Et cetera. Whataboutism is a favorite tool of Soviet propaganda, very easy to use and quite effective on a mass scale.

Then there is this whole "average Russians" thing. I don't know who's telling you to hate them but you shouldn't. Average Russians are victims of the regime too.

I struggle with the whataboutism, sure, ethically you cannot justify littering just because you saw someone else do it. But in a competitive environment that simply doesn't work, and the appropriate term for such action is preferential treatment/discrimination, and it just gives an unfair advantage to one side. For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law e.g. Coworker comes in late all the time, but the first time you come in 15min late to work you get written up/reprimanded. Or your team gets a fault for doing exactly the same thing that the opposing team was allowed to do the whole game. Or your kids test gets marked down for the same mistakes that all of the other kids got away with ...

As to your other angle, it all comes down to perspectives or frames of reference if you wish. One side tries to frame the conflict in terms of a separate, individual localized incident where Russia out of the blue attacks small Ukraine for a land grab. Very easy to argue for Ukraine as a victim and dismiss Russia with crazy Putin as a big bad aggressor, pretty clear cut whats good and bad.

But taking a step back and looking at a bigger picture you realize that suddenly things are not so simple, and some things don't make sense at all. Clearly by officially providing live intel and 17,000 anti-tank missiles and 2,000 stinger anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine makes it a proxy war for superpowers with Ukraine stuck in the middle. Now this is where things get very nuanced, not so black and white, and now whats good and whats bad isn't so clear anymore. Just because things are complicated doesn't make Russia right, but people start thinking, and this is not the field mass media and people with agenda, want to play on.

It's not a proxy war if one of the partys takes an active part in the fighting.

Ukraine is not "stuck in the middle" It's being invaded and actively begging the world to send weapons and soldiers. And the world is responding, you can add 5000 AT-4s from Sweden to the list.

Ukrainian soldier trying to figure out what the heck it says on one of those AT-4s

[suchmoon]

Refugees fleeing Ukraine (since 24 February 2022)
Russian Federation       8 Mar 2022    99,300

My apologies, there were 96000 other people that fled before the war plus the 99000 after the war started. Sorry this one word was such a hard trigger for you. My excuse is that your link doesn't open in Tor and the numbers I was thinking about were from a few days ago.

My point still stands, Putin is not being accused of bombing people in DNR/LNR or Russia, he's being accused of bombing people in the parts of Ukraine that aren't under his control.

And while I deserve the ridicule for getting one fact wrong in the post where I told you to get your facts right, this...

Why do you hold people in this thread for imbeciles, you deceive, manipulate, and now straight out lie? Is it because 100.000 Ukrainians illegally fleeing to Russia since February 24th during a Martial Law undercuts your whole narrative that evil Putin indiscriminately killing Ukrainians? And justifies keeping 200.000 civilian without food water and power from evacuating a besieged city? I was expecting more out of you. I hold this place to higher regard, back up your claims or GTFO, this is not the place for hive minds go to social network with your trolling.

... is fucking mad. Get help before it's too late.

[Arriemoller]

Don't they have connections to China/Kazakhstan, as long as blocks can get through China/Kazakhstan BTC should be fine. It only takes one synced node to share the blocks with the rest.

Dipsh!t..You forgot Mongolia, Finland, North Korea, Georgia, Letonia, Estonia, Azerbaijan, Norway and Ukraine.

Where exactly is Letonia on the map?

 OPsec alert:
 Letonia occupies the same spacetime as Latvia but in Romania or Spanish... maybe Turkish.

edit: Greek

I should have said : Austro-Hungarian Empire  and the border was much more simple.

You're digging yourself deeper into the hole.

[Arriemoller]

As to your other angle, it all comes down to perspectives or frames of reference if you wish. One side tries to frame the conflict in terms of a separate, individual localized incident where Russia out of the blue attacks small Ukraine for a land grab. Very easy to argue for Ukraine as a victim and dismiss Russia with crazy Putin as a big bad aggressor, pretty clear cut whats good and bad.

Georgia 2008, Ukraine 2014, no, it's not "individual localized", it follows the pattern of Putin attempting to resurrect a totalitarian dictatorship, collapse of which he not-so-subtly called the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.

But taking a step back and looking at a bigger picture you realize that suddenly things are not so simple, and some things don't make sense at all. Clearly by officially providing live intel and 17,000 anti-tank missiles and 2,000 stinger anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine makes it a proxy war for superpowers with Ukraine stuck in the middle.

How does it not "make sense at all" for Ukraine to acquire defensive capabilities after the aforementioned aggressions? Surely it makes at least some sense if you really want to step back and take a look at the whole picture and not just Putin's "interests".

Now this is where things get very nuanced, not so black and white, and now whats good and whats bad isn't so clear anymore. Just because things are complicated doesn't make Russia right, but people start thinking, and this is not the field mass media and people with agenda, want to play on.

No, it's still actually quite clear, no need to muddy the waters here. If Alice robs Bob's house and Carol's house and Carol buys a baseball bat and Alice comes back to rob Carol 8 years later, no sane person would think that this is complicated or nuanced.

After Saudis double tap a Yemen funeral with a 500 pound laser-guided bombs manufactured by the United States resulting in 155 killed, US sells $110 billion in weapons in 2017 and $350 billion over 10 years to Saudi Arabia while Saudis are still involved in the Yemeni war causing (8,672 civilians killed and 9,741 injured by coalition's airstrikes) and no one bats an eye, the war is still ongoing. Russia starts a conflict in Ukraine with 406 civilians killed and everyone looses it, Russian funds are stolen, every mass media is covering the war almost 24/7, major cities light up their buildings in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, online warriors are activated and put Ukrainian flags in the profile, and people want to start WW3 by asking NATO to start shooting down Russian planes ("no fly zone"). Clearly all due to the loss of human life and because Saudis are not a dictatorship

So in your twisted world selling weapons and using weapons is the same thing?

[Arriemoller]

This morning's western propaganda trying to get us into WW3 by the end of today:

Daily Mail

It's no longer if but WHEN Nato has to fight Putin, says retired UK general: Russians are 'hell-bent on escalation' so West should consider imposing no-fly zone and to backing it up with boots on the ground - despite Kremlin's 'meaningless' nuke threats

NORMAN BAKER: Everything Vladimir Putin is doing echoes Adolf Hitler. That's why the West has no choice but to enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine

(In)dependent

Occupying Ukraine an ‘ impossible task’ and will mark ‘Putin’s end’, Ben Wallace insists

Ukraine’s president says Putin is living in an ‘informational bubble’

Sky News

Warning NATO may have to fight Russia sooner or later; 12,000 Russian troops dead and some deserting, Ukraine says

Evening Standard

OPINION - There’s no reasoning with Russia. It can only be stopped by force

Meanwhile the RT website no longer loads.

BuT tHeY aRe ThE pRoPaGaNdA gUyS, nOt Us...

And this concludes todays Russian propaganda from BitcoinBunny.

[Arriemoller]

After a massive surgery last year…. 8 March 2022 will remembered when losing my best friend.

I'm so sorry for your loss, I know how much it hurts.

[Arriemoller]

Meanwhile the RT website no longer loads.
BuT tHeY aRe ThE pRoPaGaNdA gUyS, nOt Us...

https://www.italy24news.com/world/393470.html

Basically, Russia has a China-style intranet now, so...

Yes, but they are not using it, it's just there in case they get cut of the internet by the west (and not to cut of Russia from the internet as is often reported).

[Arriemoller]

Oil price rising again in the wake of this disgusting news from this lunatic imbecile aimed at another lunatic imbecile.
"Everyone else can pay" is their motto it seems to me.

Biden to ban US imports of Russian oil in bid to punish Putin
https://www.ft.com/content/2e0b1d84-e595-4c5a-be4e-928417b9c7cc

This will not make a dent of difference to Russia or Putin btw, in fact they will just get even more money as the oil price rises.
They have China. A far bigger growing market than Europe and the US combined whilst we will struggle to get fuel elsewhere at greater cost.

Utter lunacy.

This is good, it hastens our independence from Russia.

[HI-TEC99]

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You ok jay?

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