Tell #POTUS to issue executive order to stop doing business with convicted monopolists.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/get-involved/write-or-call/
If you're not American, write a similar request to your top political leaders.
Seriously. Governments are VERY LARGE buyers of goods and services. If the government can't do business with monopolies, they'll buy from other companies. And those other companies will spring up like weeds to compete in the market.
#activism #antitrust
#fuckthemegacorps
Nothing about BTC is private. All transactions are on the public ledger. It is, at best, temporarily pseudonomous.
And censorship resistance? Not even close. Because each sat is individually traceable for its entire history, anyone can set up their payment gateway to refuse acceptance of 'tainted' sats; or be compelled to by a powerful entity, such as a government.
Not so in AK. Up there CAP pilots are known make short field bush-landings with skis, balloon tyres, or floats with SAR passengers or resupplying wilderness firefighters. And not all of them fly fixed wings.
That's partly true. What is the estimated amount of "lost" and unrecoverable BTC due to sat-dust on wallet purge, or from lost keys, or even simple abandonment? Let's call this value LOST_BTC.
I think 1BTC = (2.1*10^7 - LOST_BTC). Thus 1BTC is worth more than 1/21,000,000.
If the constitutionality of women's sufferage were called to question before the current #SCOTUS, would it survive?
Every decision they make brings us closer to becoming "Gilead" of Atwood's _The Handmaid's Tale_.
Google is a convicted monopoly (Epic Games v. Google.) The judge in that case has not yet handed out the penalty.
How long will it take the internet to recover if he orders complete dissolution of the company?
#antitrust
1820s. The Frankenstein and Dracula novels, both resulting from the Luddite revolts, set the tone for all horror stories since. Are they movies? No, but multiple film adaptations have been made of each. Their influence can be seen and felt in horror stories even now, 200 years after first publication. And the core stories, wealthy elites first preying upon (Dracula) and then abandoning (Frankenstein) the newly impoverished working classes, are also modern contemporary reality; just as it was for the Luddites at the dawn of the industrial revolution.
I fear that Margaret Atwood did a disservice to the world when she wrote The Handmaid's Tale. I think she put too many ideas into the heads of monied polical-influencers like the #federalistsociety.
Or
Was it a warning for the rest of us and, therefore, did she do a good deed by writing it?
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