Having to find an ATM to be able to complete a transaction

Much like cash an ATM isn’t needed by a lot of people as they bank online and use cards. Crypto has all those options as well.

Point is here you either adapt or have to find a new job because old payment processors won’t let you sell your Giraffe bukkake art. It is what it is.

I didn’t “sell it for cash” I paid my VPS hosting bills with it. It’s simple for business to accept crypto these days, couple clicks and they’re set up.

If your business is making NSFW art than you better be willing to adapt.

What potato stays hot for 15 years?

Is it? The ATMs have been all over the place for half a decade at this point.

As for fees it cost me 3 cents to send a $50 Litecoin transaction a few days ago. If I did that with Bitcoin it would have cost me $8 in transaction fees so you’re right there.

Now days there’s a coin for every purpose.

• Bitcoin = gold bars

• Litecoin = mundane transactions

• Monero = digital cash

Crypto has been around for 15 years already. Time flys.

It’s an impressive FOSS project, scracthes the fast paced Quake itch but not a lot of people have that these days.

I use to play it’s predecessor Nexuiz for years, you might recognize a few maps as some were updated for Xonotic.

Shout out to the crew who played on the HOCTF server. Had well over a 1000 hours on there.

I’m just impressed you’ve maintained this quaint notion of how the world works at your age. You seem to have an honest belief in international law and humanity.

I have a belief system based in reality. One where winners dictate terms. No one from a nation with nukes will face the same fate as someone from an African or Balkan country.

I even drink beer and smoke shisha with one, even though it’s haram.

Funny how much better life starts to get the further one strays from religion. It’s almost like it’s holding us all back or something /s

Now, I could be wrong but you strike me as the sort who doesn’t put much weight behind international law.

I’m old enough to remember what happended in Rwanda. International laws may as well be printed on the back of a CVS receipt. It’s equally worthless.

Pretending “international law” or anything the UN says is worth mentioning is laughable at this point.

And I do agree the slow West Bank takeover over by Israel settlers is wrong. It needs to stop. However claims about Israel being on colonized land is bullshit rhetoric that doesn’t deserve respect.

your country’s history.

My point is it’s every countries history. No one exists on land orignally belonging to their tribe. Most land has been ‘stolen’ many times over.

At the end of the day my positions are this. Israel has a right to exist. Palestine never existed. Arabs lost every war ever fought. Losers don’t get to dictate terms.

Arabs refused every deal presented no matter how favorable throughout the decades. They want it all. They want to be free from the river to the sea AKA they want every Jew dead. They are always the one to initate attacks.

After Oct 7th Israel had the right to declare war and do the needful so to speak. Hamas will be eradicated. Gaza will suffer much more than they are now and theres not a hashtag in the world that will change whats coming. No international law will be enforced, no UN intervention.

Religion is a cancer on the world and the middle east is exhibit A as to why it belongs in the past. Forced to choose I’ll back Judism over Islam every time. Islam kills non believers like me and spawns death cults across the globe. It’s an abhorrent and barbaric religion that is incompatible with the modern world.

How many have they displaced?

Most respected the warning and moved to safer areas hence the lower civilian death toll. Would you rather they stay and die? Displacement isn’t always a bad thing.

How many hospitals have they destroyed?

You mean Hamas bases? As many as they need to.

Also, the fact that they’ve done 22,000 strikes sure doesn’t sound like a proportionate response.

The goal is to eliminate Hamas. Proportinality isn’t a thing here. This will take months and Israel will sweep up and down the entire Gaza strip as needed.

Having nukes that your enemies know you can’t use isn’t much of a deterrent.

I wouldn’t be so sure. Israel doesn’t acknowledge their nukes and plays by it’s own rules. A first strike option is on the table.

They’ve shown the world exactly how much Israel cares about Palestinians. The BDS movement will just get stronger and stronger the longer this goes on, to say nothing of the ‘less civil’ anti-Israel sentiment.

You sure about that? People are tiring of the protests now and turning on the protestors blocking traffic and invading areas of normal life.

colonies

Oh come the fuck on. Colony my ass, the Jews have been there for thousands of years. They have more claim to the area than you or I do from wherever we’re posting from. We are all colonizers compared to Israel.

My roots only go back on 150 years and I’m in fucking Wisconsin. If the Objibwa tribe mounted an attack on my people now they’d be eradicated and no one would balk. The moment passed for atacks, we are here now and not going anywhere.

It’s time Palestine accept that as well because if they can’t they’ll be living in refugee camps permanently.

Is the genocide in the room with you right now?

Come up with whatever hashtag you want nothings going to change.

But they aren’t

Pointless. I seen the Oct 7th videos I have no doubt they would if they could. Intent matters.

Israel is the one actually doing the genocide.

That word is quickly becoming meaningless. Israel has the means to kill everyone in Gaza. 79 days since Oct 7th and they’ve conducted more than 22,000 strikes and only managed to kill 20k out of 2 million people. Use your brain and play out why that is.

It’s almost like they’re trying not to kill civilans. Crazy.

And who is Israel going to nuke?

That’s the beauty, no one will be nuked. Israel just having them is enough to make sure no nation(s) move on them.

There will be no intervention no matter what happens in the UN or any other country. When you have nukes you can do whatever the hell you want to do. Look at China with the Uyghurs, it’s carte blanche.

So sure. Hate Israel all you want. It’s mostly misguided hate and has very little basis in reality but the good thing is no matter what you do it won’t stop Israel from doing what it needs to do.

Say the second part, “Palestine will be free.” But you don’t want to

You’re right I don’t want to ignore the call for genocide. The people in Gaza don’t want to share shit, they want it all and if they had the same means Israel has Jews would be wiped out by now.

Every day I grow more thankful Israel has 400 nukes. It becomes clearer everyday that they need them. Palestine will never be from the river to the sea.

Munye, who has worked at the college for seven years, told CBC the school did not specify to him which post needed removing. The last post on his account related to the war, made before he was put on paid leave, uses the phrase “From the river to the sea”

I mean I’d be worried for my job if I was calling for genocide. It’s just common sense. Chanting genocidal slogans like “from the river to the see” is one of the dumbest moves you can make.

Wow that was a great read. Leif comes across as very perceptive on multiple fronts here.

Unfortunately I think his warning about the internet ending up like “souped up TV” is looking more likely by the day.

Right now it’s quite easy to force a site or service to bend the knee to outside pressure. No matter how right or wrong that pressure is. People will go after hosting and ISPs, if that doesn’t work they’ll tie people up directly in the courts. You must provide real contact info and be willing to play ball if you operate on the old web.

Embracing encryption is the only thing I can think to do to avoid that. Which honestly kind of sucks, because while true anonymity would save sites like Omegle who act in good faith and police themsevles in a reasonable manner, others that don’t will also be protected. I think the pros out weigh the cons with anonymity but that is a hard pill to swallow for many.