Good for you. I left when the API thing happened. And have not been back since.

I figure it’s a dick move to upload your videos here and so I don’t because I don’t want somebody to have to host all that data.

We had snow and ice for a couple of days this past week and it’s something I haven’t seen for several years since moving farther south. So it was quite frankly crazy to see what we got here.

I am excited because in the next couple of days I should be getting my meshtastic node and it’s the first time that I will be playing with meshtastic and so I’m really looking forward to it.

Can’t be kicked off of Nostr and PayPal and other services can’t freeze Monero.

I’ll be honest, I read the link fully expecting to completely disagree with it, and actually I don’t. There’s actually a decent amount of it I do agree with. Bitcoin has evolved and not in a good way from what it was meant to be which was peer-to-peer digital cash that anybody could use to send money around the world in an instant with no government oversight. That’s actually the big reason that I’m interested in Monero, because it still fulfills that vision while providing user privacy and low fees. It does use proof of work mining, so uses electricity for that, but it is much better than Bitcoin simply because it uses your general CPU that you find in your phone, your desktop, your laptop, etc. and does not require specialized hardware that costs a ton of money and burns a crap ton of power to only mine.

You may or may not find my arguments above compelling, but I appreciate the link. Because, as I said, I expected to fully disagree with it and found more agreement than I expected to.

That’s not something you hear about every day.

Nostr + monero = 🖕

I’m sorry you had to go through this but only ever by devices from the manufacturer and make sure that you buy them at full price and that they are not tied to a carrier when you buy them and you’ll be all right.

If you have to switch, give Thunder a try. It is a very well put together app. And I enjoy it, and you might as well.

I would actually be okay with us breaking up into 50 nations.

I’m surprised, you basically never hear sexual misconduct allegations against women. It’s always very one-sided.

In that case, they won’t lower it in February than it’s not illegal because they’re not offering it for a higher price for a short amount of time.

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I have no idea just how much was insured at Washington Mutual, and I have no idea what the position of the FDIC was at the time. I literally know nothing about that era.

But the asset of the house itself would go up in value. I guess you do have to worry about the sales extortion when you go to sell it though. Which would not help very much. So I guess you’d end up at break even.

I know wamu was a big failure but i dont know much about how it was handled. I heard a lot about Lehman Brothers, but that was an investment bank. So that’s different.

Small failures, yes. If a wells fargo or jpmorgan failed…

As the person said below, move your currency out of the US dollar into something like gold or buy a house with a 30-year mortgage because you are basically shorting the dollar for a hard, tangible asset.

I agree. Banks should never lend people’s money unless those people specifically agree to have their money lent out. A bank should not be legally allowed to lend out your money and then say that you can come get your money whenever you want because it’s not true. If the bank specifically tells you that this product will lend your money out and that you cannot retrieve your money for X amount of time, that’s fine. That tells you the consumer that your money will be unavailable for this amount of time. And that makes you make the decision as to whether you can deal with that or not. If you can’t, you don’t use that product and don’t lend out the money.

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