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I see. TIL. Tnx
A few more, maybe, but your point stands. Not enough, even though it's a great approach. The Canadian truckers would likely have benefited from this if it had been around.
Wow didn't know about those. I could have used it several times today instead of scp-ing a remote file before copying it locally into my clipboard. Will test it tomorrow.
No mention of lightning, even though that's the best way to preserve privacy in the BTC ecosystem, if done correctly. As far as I know.
I still question whether it would be written off as an exaggeration if the minority in question was not white.
Fair question.
Not defending the song, for sure. It is in very bad taste.
But the way this is being politicized in the US at this point feels a bit exaggerated.
The songs I sang included calls for rape, murder, etc. No one singing them was actually thinking of raping or murdering anyone. In our minds, it was just some folklore. I'm not sure I'd still sing them now.
All this to say I can imagine a world where that song does not equate an actual call for violence in the mind of the people singing it. I do not know the story; I only know what I read from your link and the link I shared, so this may be a completely different context.
“When Trump spoke about farmers being murdered in 2018, AfriForum was keen to dissociate itself from the idea that there was a white genocide,” said Simpson. “They are very aware that they are being accused of all sorts of disinformation, so they have to paint within the lines. Trump and Musk, however, have no such limitations.”
For Musk and Trump, though, the equation is simpler, suggested Grootes. “South Africa is the embodiment of DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion],” he said. “Of course, Trump hates us.”
Just adding this last quote for additional context. The true story is probably that for some people, the song is a call for violence, while for others, it isn't. No way for me to know the proportion.
From here:
And the facts bear this view out: there has never been anything close to an attempted genocide of white South Africans.
Trump and his supporters often claim that white South African farmers are being murdered in their thousands – but statistics provided by AfriForum and the Transvaal Agricultural Union (both groups sympathetic to white farmers) show that about 60 farmers, across all races, are killed every year. This is a country that sees 19,000 murders annually.
Anecdotal evidence points to the same conclusion.
Grootes was one of “about five whites” in the audience the very first time Malema sang the song in public in 2010: “When he sang it, I didn’t notice. It wasn’t in English, and no one around me thought it was a huge event at the time … as a whitey, with an Afrikaans-sounding surname, I did not feel threatened, harassed, scared … I didn’t get the feeling that the people around me were being incited to shoot me.”
Both Malema and AfriForum – the Afrikaner rights group which recently sent a delegation to the Trump White House to seek his support against South African government policies – have used the song as a rallying point for their (diametrically opposed) agendas.
That puts the more moderate ANC in a difficult situation. “Ramaphosa wouldn’t sing the song himself,” said Simpson. “But he hasn’t denounced it either, and his silence means something.”
This song is, of course, in very bad taste. I've sung many songs in very bad taste. Yet, they were just songs.
Makes sense. I also read they are working on allowing it to work for other wallets than Bitkeys, so indeed, might not be an evil ploy. But for now, it's what keeps me from activating the inheritance feature.
Dad's high cholesterol diagnosis recently has cut short my son's discovery of the occasional Macdonald's fun. His lifestyle has become transitively more healthy to make sure his dad is still around when he can make his own dietary choices~~
Here, take some sats to pay for your and @ekzyis future lawyer fees~~
Jk, i hope the pendulum will swing back by that time.
Don't know about best, but will nominate Interstellar for worst ending. After such a good movie, they really fucked that one up.
So they beneficiary needs their own Bitkey. That's a smart way to onboard more people and/or sell more devices. Even to people who might not use it for years until their benefactors die.
Two words: Anthropic Principle.
But I'm an atheist, so that's another strong bias at play.
Victor J. Stenger supposedly said in The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning on page 219 (can't check if it's true): “Rather than being fine-tuned for life, the universe is almost completely hostile to life.”
EDIT: pretty strong claims in the abstract for Stenger's book:
A number of authors have noted that if some physical parameters were slightly changed, the universe could no longer support life, as we know it. This implies that life depends sensitively on the physics of our universe. Does this "fine-tuning" of the universe suggest that a creator god intentionally calibrated the initial conditions of the universe such that life on earth and the evolution of humanity would eventually emerge? In his in-depth and highly accessible discussion of this fascinating and controversial topic, the author looks at the evidence and comes to the opposite conclusion. He finds that the observations of science and our naked senses not only show no evidence for God, they provide evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that God does not exist.
Very true. Sunk cost is incredibly strong.
Better to share a meal with the person one disagrees with: #925986
In the end, we think quite alike. People on both sides are not that different. Not good of me to think in terms of sides when i think of it.
Ok, thanks for clarifying the ScienceTM thing. I did not catch that sarcastic nuance.
Yeah, change usually happens with a next generation taking over. Few people are capable of change themselves. Not only in the context of science.