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  1. 9 minutes ago, burnt beanz said:

    On that note I did buy a nice steak n Shake burger combo last week with bitcoin. Paid from my cashapp. Scanned a QR code on the register. Done in seconds. @Captainant

    lulz that's conducting a transaction in the Cash App ecosystem, not happening live on the blockchain. It's being conducted in BTC valuation, but you're relying and trusting a third party financial institution. Which is diametrically opposite of the BTC whitepaper's core design principal of trustless payments.

    You don't even get a txid because it's not on any blockchain anywhere, it's on the same old """dinosaur slow and inefficent""" payment systems that dollars flow through as well. Which is what BTC was supposed to be innovating upon, not using to scale lmfao

    Correcting myself - they do appear to rectify the transaction on the blockchain eventually, however the instant nature of the transaction clearing is not BTC. That's the Cash App saying "trust us" while they wait for their BTC transactions to process through the blockchain.

  2. 8 hours ago, F250 said:

    More Iranians getting deported. 

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    Holy shit they may actually come for him 

    https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/nx-s1-5445398/denaturalization-trump-immigration-enforcement

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    Department leadership is directing its attorneys to prioritize denaturalization in cases involving naturalized citizens who commit certain crimes — and giving district attorneys wider discretion on when to pursue this tactic, according to a June 11 memo published online. The move is aimed at U.S. citizens who were not born in the country; according to data from 2023, close to 25 million immigrants were naturalized citizens.

    At least one person has already been denaturalized in recent weeks. On June 13, a judge ordered the revocation of the citizenship of Elliott Duke, who uses they/them pronouns. Duke is an American military veteran originally from the U.K. who was convicted for distributing child sexual abuse material — something they later admitted they were doing prior to becoming a U.S. citizen.

    Denaturalization is a tactic that was heavily used during the McCarthy era of the late 1940's and the early 1950's and one that was expanded during the Obama administration and grew further during President Trump's first term. It's meant to strip citizenship from those who may have lied about their criminal convictions or membership in illegal groups like the Nazi party, or communists during McCarthyism, on their citizenship applications.

    Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate wrote in the memo that pursuing denaturalization will be among the agency's top five enforcement priorities for the civil rights division.

    "The Civil Division shall prioritize and maximally pursue denaturalization proceedings in all cases permitted by law and supported by the evidence," he said.

     

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  3. 9 hours ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

    Yep, Filoni can craft great stories. Clone Wars and Rebels have poor animation and worse dialog, but are almost universally loved by the folks who spend the time to watch them because the stories they weave are done so well. 

    The early seasons have rough animation, but those shows have some of the best visuals and moments of grandness. The whole nebula chase in the 2nd season is gorgeous 

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  4. 11 minutes ago, Iceman said:

    If we were worried about the national debt, we could solve it on the spending side.

    Nobody wants to.

    The notion of selling land to remedy the debt is like the degenerate gambler who puts the rent money on black.  Actually, the gambler has a MUCH better shot at achieving a win.  The debt has ZERO weight in the discussion, IMHO.  It's lip service.

    Well it's not like the president has driven multiple casinos into bankruptcy or anything right? Maybe the ghost of Fred trump can bail out America like he did the trump taj mahal

  5. 23 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

    Restated for emphasis. How the fuck has Yarn somehow scooped up every gif on the internet, stuck it on their site, and made it impossible to copy and paste it elsewhere. Seriously wtf is going on? This is America!

    Are they served out of the gif picker or something?

  6. 27 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

    As someone who is not technical, I've found AI to be very liberating. It's not quite (and never will be) something that levels the playing field with someone like you who is very technical, but the number of semantic agents, vibe coding, and AI-enabling tools is very democratizing. 

    There are very few real transformational periods to live through. PC revolution and mobile were obviously in our lifetime. AI is happening now and it's messy and painful but also beautiful and glorious.

    It's pretty remarkable what you can accomplish now with an agent to help with implementation and limited troubleshooting. With that said, it's also going to lead to a massive explosion in orphaned and unexplainable code within organizations. I'm currently, right now, dealing with that problem with a customer - only they got their unmaintainable code thanks to south asian contracting firms. Most of the jobs that genAI is going to replace first is that tier of contracting job, since the work product is equivalent and there's much less needful that needs doing.

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  7. Pinging in here, curious if anyone has been tracking the launch site cleanup effort. I mean, aside from scattering polymers and powderized silica over a protected wetland environment I mean.

    They had a pretty big fkn crane fall over working the cleanup

     

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  8. 1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

    Bingo. Dems need to run on rainbow and unicorn shit, and then when it doesn’t work/happen, blame Trump.

    The rub is: establishment dems and the primary process guarantee this would never make it to the general. See: NYC mayoral race flipping the FUCK out over a progressive

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  9. I gotta say, yall have really successfully derailed this thread and moved the discussion off of the strategic failure of this strike, and how it's almost certainly going to result in either 1) a more expensive JCPOA, or 2) Iran with an accelerated nuke program.

     

    Great stuff, all around.

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  10. 12 minutes ago, Horn Dog said:

    How it started…

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    How its going..

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    Last time I flew into IAH, some batshit canadian lady was on the parking shuttle with me talking about how "the librulz ruined MY country!" and how she was sooooo happy to be in Texas now. I'd bet my bottom dollar she overstayed her visa and is just like this hypocritcal (and now dead) MAGAt

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  11. 3 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    I agree with you on principle, but to be fair Mamdani promised some very silly and fantastical things. 

    Well that strategy has certainly led donald trump to ruin, amirite?? 

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  12. 9 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:

    Kinda strange that “Islamist” is a term that trips the breaker for some when “Christofascist” is perfectly acceptable.  

    what the fuck even IS an "islamist"? That's really my issue lol. It's being used and thrown around like "woke" or "CRT" or "DEI" where someone shouts it and everyone nods along like useful idiots without bothering to wonder what they actually mean.

    A christofascist is someone who drapes themselves in Christianity and weaponizes faith to advance and further fascist policy and social moves. I'm happy to provide current examples past that generic definition if you'd like.  

     

    And further, it wasn't even really that phrase - it was that he was comparing posting on a message board to the nazi fucking occupation of France lol. That's just ridiculous, but don't let that stop you from defending it for some strange reason.

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  13. 45 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

    The islamists have taken over this like Paris.

    Wait are you comparing "islamists" (whatever that is lol) posting on a message board to the nazi occupation of Paris? 

    This is an all-time meltdown

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