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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
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update to this, all the charges from this event have been dismissed with prejudice, following DOJ (the prosecution) submitting a motion for dismissal https://abcnews.go.com/US/doj-drops-charges-2-people-accused-ramming-vehicles/story?id=127714651 -
Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
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ICE doesn't give a single fuck, and is eager to flex their thuggery https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/ri-judge-intervenes-after-ice-mistakenly-detains-superior-court-intern/ Multiple sources told Target 12 that Rhode Island sheriffs earlier noticed someone taking photos of the intern inside the courthouse and in Superior Court Judge McBurney’s courtroom. When approached, the individual identified himself as an ICE agent and was told to abide by standard courthouse rules, and to stop taking pictures. The intern was reportedly shaken, so McBurney offered to drive him home. ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply. Dana Smith, Head of Security Operations for R.I. Superior Court, confronted the agents and told both the judge and the intern to stay inside the car. After an argument, ICE confirmed they had misidentified the teen and left. The intern was released once his ID was checked. “This egregious incident underscores both the community’s and the Judiciary’s concerns about how ICE is conducting its operations in Rhode Island,” R.I. Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul A. Suttell said. -
Markets still falling like whoa
Captainant replied to Llano Estacado's topic in Business and Markets
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One side is special because they keep lobbying for the release of pedophiles and sexual abusers and human traffickers. It's the side that lobbied for Tates release.
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Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.)
Captainant replied to surlybevo's topic in Business and Markets
I am curious to see if quantum computing ends up being a systemic threat to proof of work algorithms, and BTC in particular. This is a good defcon talk on the topic of quantum attacks in general, timestamped to the brief blurb on how it impacts cryptocurrencies -
Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
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Rafales are no joke, especially if Ukraine is getting them with Meteor missiles. Meteros are damn near a cheat code for air to air engagements, not to mention the built-in EW suite and low obseravability. That's a big BIG deal that will effectively make Ukraine's airforce superior in theatre if they're able to activate the fighters quickly
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Hey now, it could have been Ghislane's horse and not Billy Cee
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Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.)
Captainant replied to surlybevo's topic in Business and Markets
Getting emotional and calling someone a dog is an interesting way to cede that you don't have a meaningful response or counter position for why a ledger entry is a commodity or security -
Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.)
Captainant replied to surlybevo's topic in Business and Markets
What do they use it for? Aside from hoping to sell to a greater fool later? -
Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.)
Captainant replied to surlybevo's topic in Business and Markets
What makes it a security? What thing does it secure for you? There is no other side to the transaction of a Bitcoin sale that the Bitcoin is securing for you. There is no promise of goods to be bought or sold with it, and no utility to gain with it by your own acknowledgement. Buying a stock gives you a vote in the company's decisions. Buying a bond gives you a contractual obligation to get paid back by the bond issuer. There's another side to those transactions that the asset is securing for the buyer. There is no such thing for Bitcoin. And applying the asset lense, what asset does it represent? There is not anything that it represents aside from an entry on a distributed ledger. Again, there's nothing wrong with buying and selling cryptos, but it's definitionally NOT a security and is explicitly a currency in name and architecture and implementation -
Pretty good breakdown from DefCon 33 on SignalGate and the kakistocracy were all enjoying The biggest thing I didn't realize is that they weren't even using signal! They were using an Israeli fork of the app that sniffed all their messages and exposed them unencrypted with exposed heapdump endpoints left online
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well he needs to hire a fucking offensive coordinator because his playcalling is more cooked than Lincoln Riley's brisket
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