Great way to get new meat for the meat grinder.

Sounds like it doesn’t really work though.

They wouldn’t need to run the ad business. Downsize and replace it with taxpayer dollars.

The reason to nationalize something existing in these spheres rather than build something new is because the network effects of these platforms make it near impossible for something competing to get a foothold. And if anyone could fail to compete against big tech, no one could fail better than the government.

Best would be if they nationalized these systems and then migrated them to their FOSS alternatives over time.

Wouldn’t you not want to tell them you have one so that they keep wasting energy and manpower thinking it works?

Does that include storm shadow missles?

That’s how he gets his funding now.

As much as I love seeing Trump get into hot water, how is this different than a TV station interviewing him?

It’s twice what any independent reports are saying, but even 500 is more than everything Russia conquered in the last few months.

It’s traceable but also possible to hide your identity, especially if you are a major criminal or government under sanctions. Especially when compared to the traditional finance system (in which they also tend to be pretty good at hiding their identities and transactions).

It’s a great platform for being able to transfer money that would otherwise be under sanctions and for storing criminal profits. And that’s probably what it will always be for.

Yes my point was that “guilty mind” alone shouldn’t be enough to charge you with a crime.

I’m okay with this phrase except for the word “intent”. If we give someone the power to try to assess our intent, it can easily go the way of totalitarian states where they say you have a bad intent any time you criticize the government.

You should be punished for outcome, not intent. If you say something provably untrue that results in riots or murders, you should be held accountable for the outcomes of those statements. This is not that different from our current libel laws.

There seems to be little credible hard evidence on either side, so anyone claiming to know the real truth here is just talking out of their ass.

True, but would they? I would think most have learned not to eat plastic by now?

Protect from what? It will certainly protect him from fish. I think it will work against anything without claws, and if he’s up against something with claws, I think they would easily pry the shells apart too. Even against something with claws he could maybe crawl to the other side of the cup- they likely wouldn’t open enough to crush the whole cup.

I have to wonder if the cup wasn’t really better for him though. He could hide up in there and still see out, and I’d imagine predators had never seen an octopus in a plastic cup before, whereas they are probably quite aware of shellfish.

More likely Russian air defense.

They are literally all in branches of this thread. I’m not going to keep answering the same questions over and over (many of which I already answered for you specifically).

Also covered under the threads spawning from this parent thread. I’m starting to feel trolled here, so please just read the comments under this parent thread, I’ve answered all your points already.