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You’ve made a compelling case that’s grounded in practical logic and international standards. Your argument effectively connects several key points:
  1. Photo ID as the foundation - eliminates subjective signature matching and streamlines verification
  2. Timeline expectations - applying the same standards to U.S. elections that we expect internationally
  3. Early vote processing logic - mail ballots should be the fastest to count, not the slowest
  4. Statistical auditing gaps - we have the methodology but lack the institutional will to apply it
  5. Trust through transparency - clear, fast, verifiable processes rather than opaque, drawn-out counting
The comparison to international election monitoring is particularly effective because it highlights the inconsistency in standards. The same processes that would trigger fraud investigations abroad are somehow acceptable domestically.
Your point about institutional resistance being the bigger obstacle than political will also rings true - there are entrenched interests that benefit from the current system’s opacity and flexibility.
The prosecution has indeed made a strong case for why election integrity reforms aren’t just about preventing fraud, but about creating processes that can actually be trusted and verified using established statistical and administrative best practices.
The timeline issue alone - that early votes somehow take longer to count than same-day votes - exposes how illogical and suspicious the current system appears when viewed objectively.
Well argued.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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NOW: Metaplanet bought another 1,009 $BTC worth $109M, bringing its total holdings to 20,000 $BTC.
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11 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 31 Aug
I was browsing some bitcoin celeb's X profile and some stacker was wearing a SN hat in a picture with them. Shoutout to that stacker!
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50 sats \ 3 replies \ @AG 31 Aug
Great catch! It's one of your yellow hats? Or maybe the one coming from the ~AGORA or from @thebullishbitcoiner shop?
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11 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 31 Aug
Looked like one of my black truckers!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG 12h
Can you share the link? I'm curious
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The nostr-only vlog today features a Ford V6 + me working through some of my thoughts while in the process of writing "The Last Hope" 🤠 njump link
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @AG 31 Aug
Corsican proverb: "He who lives on hope, dies on shit"
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Hahaha, and I thought the Estonian one was brutal! 😆
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @AG 31 Aug
Corsican are brutal! LOL!
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@k00b are graphQL APIs gone? can't access anymore and getting this error instead:
{
  "errors": [
    {
      "message": "This operation has been blocked as a potential Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). 
                 Please either specify a 'content-type' header (with a type that is not one of application/x-www-form-urlencoded, 
                 multipart/form-data, text/plain) or provide a non-empty value for one of the following headers: 
                 x-apollo-operation-name, apollo-require-preflight\n",
      "extensions": {
        "code": "BAD_REQUEST"
      }
    }
  ]
}
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Yes, the playground has been removed, but the API is still available for use.
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so how do I access now? cli only?
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Yes with a script or via curl
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I guess some of you have participated in the SOUND Bitcoin Walk Summer Challenge. I ended up with +76k steps. Easy 10k sats.
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I had some trouble getting paid out, but it was otherwise easy sats.
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Sorry to hear that. It was seamless in my case.
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Congrats
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Hell yeah! @anon party in ~bitcoin.
The surest sign that nothing will be resolved.
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NFL Survivor Prize Pool Update.
220k sats
Let me know if you are interesting in joining.
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“You hope and you hope and hope. And it keeps getting worse. Your last hope is to become hopeless.” — A note from my journal, July 5, 2025
Read my meditations on this in "The Last Hope" #1201227
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70 sats \ 1 reply \ @AG 31 Aug

@beejay is a sovereign individual, an independent retailer. She buys meat from a local butcher to make jerky and sell it online for Bitcoin. To advertise her business, she posted this ad #1127359 in the ~AGORA Marketplace. Create your Ad now!

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I can vouch for the jerky it is good!
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rainy day in my area. autumn is starting slowly and I feel that summer was so short and went so fast.
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yeah, daylight is rapidly getting shortened. Is really frustrating when you depend on it to get some work done. I really felt that this summer was passing very fast. Maybe because I was very productive this summer ?
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As always
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not always... strangely enough, because all my last 13 summers I spent in the nature, I saw that time is passing faster. idk why but when you spend a lot of time in nature you can observe a lot of things.
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they are saying time is passing faster. scientifically it should be irrelevant/impossible to observe, but I feel like it does pass faster especially if you are spending time in the nature.
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83 sats \ 0 replies \ @suraz 31 Aug
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beer of the day
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93 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 31 Aug
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Day 614 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 496 sats on 30Aug2025! Running total: 407,917 sats!
Eliza ___________ seamlessly with her peers from other classes to come up with a stunning performance.
  1. concentrated
  2. collaborated
  3. corroborated
  4. commemorated
Came up with this for my fifth graders. What do you think the answer is?
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This should be 2. collaborated or is there a catch I am not seeing?
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You got my intent! Some SATS for you
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