its ‘decentralized’ copium

Israel

Kallas has embraced the idea that at some point NATO countries may have to deploy troops in Ukraine to prevent Moscow from defeating Kiev, first put forward by French President Emmanuel Macron in February.

Do it yourself, you aren’t France or Germany, no one cares.

And Lebanon can send Israel back to stone age too unlike Hamas

Yea and why cryptocurrency isn’t money with its exchange rate being determined by how much fiat currencies are entering and exiting.

Sole legal tender.

money has to be backed by the state so if bitcoiners really want bitcoin to be used in everyday transactions, i would suggest running for President and replacing U.S. Dollar with Bitcoin for tax payments/legal tender.

how will the state obtain Bitcoins? by building massive resource wasting mining farms which itll have to issue bitcoin bonds to build, making the state subservient to the private bond markets and interest rate it demands, Greek style.

there is massive plague and the economy has collapsed? what will the state do? cant give people money or increase healthcare spending because the capacity of the state to mobilize resources is now limited by what the private sector is willing to give it or how much it can mine. oops mass death.

bitcoiners have to be dumbest creatures alive.

Ukraine’s allegations included unlawful detentions, ill-treatment of civilians, and the suppression of the Ukrainian media and the Ukrainian language in schools.

Yeah Ukraine never did that.

True, but atleast unlike the west, the commercial banks in China are all state owned. So, any default on debt by local Governments can be written down or written off.

India & Sri Lanka were both in the Non-Aligned Movement and had good ties with USSR/Eastern Bloc. India was the first country where a Communist Party was elected in a bourgeois democracy system. So, Communists had significant influence on the state even if the state itself was aligned mainly with the bourgeoisie. Communism/Socialism wasn’t considered a no-no word in these countries unlike the West.

and see

and also see this article on the resistance Israel faced trying to build ties with India

“There’s been a spate of different policies [to destock],” Macdonald said. “The policies sound good in principle, but it just depends on where the government is going to get the money.”

Like how they got the money for high speed rail. These pricks will never ask “where the government is going to get the money” when it comes to U.S. military spending, for that, money is always available.

the article i linked mentions this

Even if the service sector is included in GDP, there is a conceptual problem associated with measuring its output, since what constitutes the rendering of a service is difficult to distinguish from what constitutes mere transfer payment. After all, one may derive satisfaction from making a transfer payment exactly as one derives satisfaction from the performance of a musician; how then can we include the one and not the other within the ambit of GDP?

the question is whether service sector as a whole should be measured and included.

i also do not believe prostitution as a service creates no value. what is ‘value’ depends, sex does provide pleasure and it is being done for payment. one could argue art (Paintings, Movies, TV Shows, Games etc) shouldn’t be included either because there is no tangible value being created.

Отлично!

i think it would depend on how its laundered.

if a person pays a sex worker $100 and the sex worker (assuming no middlemen) reports it as just someone friendly giving them money for nothing in return (gift) then that transaction itself won’t be counted in GDP.

if a person pays sex worker $100 and the sex worker runs a nail salon as a front, then that $100 would be counted because the ‘customer’ paid to get their ‘nails done’.

it isnt completely ridiculous. eg. sex workers get paid, sex workers then spend their money elsewhere increasing total demand. its just that it is difficult to measure (double counting issues and all) as the article says.

other countries do it too

there can be ‘legal’ activities which may not be captured in official data too, the informal sector.

see

money can’t bring back all the dead Ukrainians to fight the Russians.

You can calculate the hash of your iso and compare it with Microsoft

https://files.rg-adguard.net/file/d803ac63-1065-4b09-c5b3-968ff4ceca6c

Only democracy in… former Soviet Union smthn

An anonymous US official said the military was moving it due to anticipated sea conditions.

Pier can’t handle shit

Adblockers can still mute and stop the user from seeing the ads with black screen (or fast forward). Advertisers will still be mad.

Yes ik they disable the video controls but the video is still served just like before, just that they inject ads into it.