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by mothballed 2mo ago
It would be easier to shoot it out of the sky than try and jam a whole country from starlink
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by mothballed 2mo ago
I'm aware of stories of people who've had their flights unexpectedly grounded in New York (, New York) so they just abandoned their checked pistol and refused to collect it. I'd imagine something similar. If you never take
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by mothballed 2mo ago
Someone is always hungry and willing to ignore international norms for a greenback. Vanuatu will sell citizenship to any hoodwinking criminal for a paltry sum. Comoros will sell internet "gaming licenses" to any money launderer
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by mothballed 2mo ago
It's nice to have the option either way, but if merchants offer irreversible methods I usually pick them rather than pay a 1+% premium to cover chargebacks from scammer customers. For some customers irreversible is a big plus, if they
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by mothballed 2mo ago
There is no requirement to use the tradfi ramps. It is merely offered as an option. But as it pertains to banking in the USA, a couple differentiating qualities I will offer before the goalposts will inevitably be shifted yet again to dam
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by mothballed 2mo ago
This has tradfi banking ramps. You don't need to hold it. You can treat BTC as basically a payment network instead of something like the visa/mastercard cartel.
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by mothballed 2mo ago
If they don't swoop in with random check-ins hassling you for docs for " muh KYC " and " muh AML compliance " the moment you do anything outside of the boring middle ground then they're ahead of basically 99+%
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by mothballed 2mo ago
Ballot initiative. Californians tried that to stop "gay marriage" (Prop 8) so the courts just told the people to fuck themselves and overturned it. Again in South Dakota for legalizing marijuana, the voters voted in favor by spe
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by mothballed 2mo ago
Reddit will delete anything remotely controversial if it contains referenced facts. They banned and deleted my account for simply stating the 5th amendment prohibits requiring incriminating yourself to exercise a right. An Ivy League educ
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by mothballed 2mo ago
I used to have a good friend that was a stripper (I promise, I wasn't the client...). Some of her biggest customers were people that wanted therapy without the paper trail of going to a licensed therapist. This is a big thing for pil
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by mothballed 2mo ago
Banks are probably the most Orwellian surveillance apparatus of all. Almost every time I read an arrest warrant there is a whole section where banking records are used to damn someone. The equivalent level of banking privacy to graphene i
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by mothballed 2mo ago
They are mandated to report child abuse. It is the same story with doctors, if an abusive parent brings in a child for care they learn never to give the kid healthcare again after the doctor reports it. It is rooted in good intentions but
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by mothballed 2mo ago
The age of consent in the PI was like 14 until a couple years ago when they changed it to roughly match international norms, in their culture it was considered consensual rather than abuse until very recently.
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by mothballed 2mo ago
There is no check on leaving, and our neighbor Mexico not only usually doesn't check, it's constitution* explicitly prohibits requiring passports for entry. And when you return US has to take you back, if citizen, passport or not
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by mothballed 2mo ago
It's a thing in all of Africa. Even a bunch of the crazy Liberian warlord guys were US educated. Maybe less so today but anybody with money in Africa used to migrate to the US to study and then come back with the prestige of the cred
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by mothballed 2mo ago
President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu was literally a US-migrated Nigerian, studying here for college and then working. Maybe you are not familiar with Nigeria, but a surprisingly large amount of those with legislative power have li
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by mothballed 2mo ago
What's really interesting is the extreme hypocrites like Nigerians that will show up and buy US property but then outlawing you from doing the same thing in their country because they don't want Americans or others doing the thing
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by mothballed 2mo ago
Passport card can be revoked over fairly small amounts of late child support which applies to a surprisingly large portion of America, particularly historically oppressed minorities. It would be quite foolish to rely on that for identifica
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by mothballed 2mo ago
Hedging events with poor or no insurance penetration. For instance, suppose you had to pre-pay in advance for a venue for Spanish soccer finals game party before you know if they go to finals, you might hedge your position by betting again
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by mothballed 2mo ago
The government is very efficient at redistributing your SS money from young broke workers to old more well off SS recipients. And at converting $ into guided missiles that blow up Iranian girls' schools. It's just that it's
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by mothballed 2mo ago
I did that for much of my 20s and very glad I did. You are basically used parasitically by the Obamacare system as it caps the differential between young and elderly to the point it's well into the expected negative value, and you&#x2
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by mothballed 2mo ago
There are levels of depression (or other circumstances) at which people are actual drains on their family. While I would never recommend suicide, it is a rational personal choice for some of those with severe health problems that for whate
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by mothballed 2mo ago
I would characterize Belize as part of the Anglosphere instead of Latin America. Last colonized by Britain as their last European influence on governance and only English as the official language. The anglosphere has the nastiest border c
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by mothballed 2mo ago
Airlines are fined for inadmissible passengers. Whether they have a visa or not. If they have no visa but are admitted there is no such fine. The visa is immaterial to the fine unless it conveys something beyond merely allowing you to pre
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by mothballed 2mo ago
>The average US border official is just like the average official(and non-official) anywhere; False. CBP is well known as bottom rung in terms of hiring of federal LEO and an employer of last resorts. For example, one of the most prest
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by mothballed 2mo ago
The EU is very sporadic. I walked straight into Sweden from a flight from Iraq and customs was not even there , and passport control waved everyone through with the most cursory of glances.
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by mothballed 2mo ago
The average US border official is a (angry) moron (with a badge and a gun). They've literally fingerprinted me on entry with a US passport because they were too stupid to figure out US citizens don't have to do that. I have be
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by mothballed 2mo ago
It is legal to show up at a port of entry without any sort of anything. If all it allows you to do is show up at the port of entry it's a worthless scrap of paper.
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by mothballed 2mo ago
That's interesting. In blue collar parts of USA it is not too bad to get a truck stop in. Truckers are a constant flow of money into town that is welcomed, and more importantly they just stop at the highway exit area and then get the
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by mothballed 2mo ago
4 trips a year picking up a heavy excavator or tractor so you dont have to pay a tradesman a gazillion dollars and it pays for itself. "But just pay someone to haul it or rent a truck" lmao good fucking luck down my dirt roads

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