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Airbnb is very optimistic about how quickly Putin will fold.

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Never forget that Biden was deploying the National Guard to stop a convoy of truckers while the Russians were taking Ukraine.

@lucash_dev If key industrial capacity was targeted I wouldn't be so sure about civilization surviving. Our supply chains to make critical things - like oil - are long and fragile.

@lucash_dev Hmm? That's just the market saying the risk of ruin is in the single digit percentage, basically. Which feels about right.

A sharp BTC price decline makes sense: there's a genuine risk the Russia/Ukraine war results in significant effort to shutdown Bitcoin under the guise it is supporting Russia.

Don't think Bitcoin's ability to resist government pressure is infinite. Both Russia and the US have the technical capability to destroy civilization itself... This is a question of how the politics evolves.

Business brisk at Kyiv gun shops as Ukrainians rush to buy arms | Ukraine | The Guardian
theguardian.com/world/2022/feb

The Guardian reporting on how gun ownership protects freedoms. 😂

@sneak @k9mail I actually buy mp3's for all the music I listen too. Same thing there: payment with card is annoying.

@sneak @k9mail God damn I wish news sites would just put their articles behind Bitcoin Lightning paywalls charging $0.10... I bypass them with the archive.org trick all the time. But I'd rather just pay a fair rate.

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@k9mail i strongly recommend publishing bitcoin and ethereum addresses if you are soliciting donations for free software. it costs you nothing to support and removes friction for many potential donors.

@lucash_dev It'd be hilarious if Trudeau bribes them to drop it by dropping the federal level mandates in return.

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@lucash_dev apparently not: twitter.com/jobearon/status/14

Canadian Constitutional Foundation wants to continue their lawsuit to make courts address these issues for next time.

@waxwing Huh, seems that the ending param Twitter ads causes it to 404.

Here's the full article, screenshotted.

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