Where Do Things End With Vlad? (h/t romad1)

[romad1]

2 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

the article goes into depth mostly about the local gang feud. The Russian connection stuff is this:
 

 

Blockchain currency is really just about freedom. 

[romad1]

I like this

We need to put more pressure on these weird Russian enclaves.  They are the ones committing war crimes.

[gehringer_2]

1 minute ago, romad1 said:

I like this

We need to put more pressure on these weird Russian enclaves.  They are the ones committing war crimes.

the only person I've ever met from Kaliningrad was an ethnic German. 🤷‍♂️

[gehringer_2]

15 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Blockchain currency is really just about freedom. 

I always like the explanation about crypto being the Millennial whiz kids revenge for having missed the tech revolution that made the lucky boomer whiz kids there at its beginnings into billionaires. That from the beginning cyptos were designed primarily as a vehicle to make its launchers rich, any other objectives/functions being secondary.  

Edited June 20, 2022 by gehringer_2

[romad1]

9 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

I always like the explanation about crypto being the Millennial whiz kids revenge for having missed the tech revolution that made the lucky boomer whiz kids there at its beginnings into billionaires. That from the beginning cyptos were designed primarily as a vehicle to make its launchers rich, any other objectives/functions being secondary.  

Launchers, launderers its just a couple different blocks of code difference

[gehringer_2]

Confused twitter reports about Ukrainian attacks in the Black sea - either on Snake Island, or nearby off shore gas production platforms that the Russians seized in 2104, or both; plus reports of Russian missile retaliation against Odessa.

[romad1]

The crank UK press has some insane report of a poll in which 8 in 10 UK citizens would take Vladdie up on his offer of free land in Russia and move to Russia.  

Ok, then...  lets see them do that. 

[gehringer_2]

Ukranian drone hit on a unit inside a refinery in Rostov. Can't tell from the supplied video much about what kind of unit it was other than that it appeared to go up in flames rapidly, but not explode, so it was likely a process unit that did not operate under pressure. For instance, more likely a crude still than a ''cat" cracker. 

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1539523104443092992

 

[gehringer_2]

 

 

 

[romad1]

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

Ukranian drone hit on a unit inside a refinery in Rostov. Can't tell from the supplied video much about what kind of unit it was other than that it appeared to go up in flames rapidly, but not explode, so it was likely a process unit that did not operate under pressure. For instance, more likely a crude still than a ''cat" cracker. 

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1539523104443092992

 

My colleague was watching that and the Russians he overheard were like "welp, I guess we should break out the clear liquids because our day is over"

[romad1]

This is the difference in our styles of war and of our cultures

 

[pfife]

On 6/20/2022 at 2:19 PM, romad1 said:

Blockchain currency is really just about freedom. 

HFSP

[romad1]

10 minutes ago, pfife said:

HFSP

The use of blockchain is frowned upon among people who have financial disclosure reporting to comply with every year.   I don't think its not allowed but it sure enough complicates matters.   Or at least those who answer honestly to the questions and are not making sweetheart deals with bone-saw wielding Saudis. 

My wife really has the headachy compliance.  She has to list individual stocks in her portfolio.

[pfife]

7 minutes ago, romad1 said:

The use of blockchain is frowned upon among people who have financial disclosure reporting to comply with every year.   I don't think its not allowed but it sure enough complicates matters.   Or at least those who answer honestly to the questions and are not making sweetheart deals with bone-saw wielding Saudis. 

My wife really has the headachy compliance.  She has to list individual stocks in her portfolio.

The ironic thing is that's an alleged benefit of blockchain, it's single source of truth ledger is supposedly supposed to make audits & compliance easier!

I'm definitely having fun staying poor on the currencification (my new word) of blockchain, which might explain why I'm asking this question, but if you have a single source ledger of truth as the basis of the entire technology, how the hell do people's apes get stolen? 

[romad1]

Oh man

 

[gehringer_2]

36 minutes ago, pfife said:

The ironic thing is that's an alleged benefit of blockchain, it's single source of truth ledger is supposedly supposed to make audits & compliance easier!

I'm definitely having fun staying poor on the currencification (my new word) of blockchain, which might explain why I'm asking this question, but if you have a single source ledger of truth as the basis of the entire technology, how the hell do people's apes get stolen? 

The 'security' of Crypto is illusory. The tech does make it secure against one kind of attack - man-in-the-middle attack of transmitted data. But there are many other kinds of attack on assets and for those it's often worse than a conventional bank account. 

One of the issues with Crypto is that it actually offers no identity based security. IOW, if I go to the bank tomorrow and the bank says I am not me, I have some recourse to prove my identity to the bank, or ultimately to a judge who can rule that I am who I say I am. Crypto accounts are like numbered Swiss accounts, only the number(well -a crypto key) of the account # is recognized by the system, - you have no other provable identity. Thus any fraud against that number - which is prone to all the kinds of fraud and theft any other piece of information is,  is absolute and there is generally no recourse, because there is no identity backstop in the system.

 

[pfife]

32 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Oh man

 

Not a great look for Zelenskyy but this is no time for unqualified cronyism

[romad1]

15 minutes ago, pfife said:

Not a great look for Zelenskyy but this is no time for unqualified cronyism

I hope Chris Illitch is paying attention to your comment

[Jim Cowan]

2 hours ago, romad1 said:

This is the difference in our styles of war and of our cultures

 

Those WWII news videos have always amazed me, when you see a truck with a big mattress box full of rockets pull up, and then the rockets go off...how the heck did they have any idea where those were landing?

[romad1]

 

 

[1984Echoes]

32 minutes ago, romad1 said:

 

 

Good for them.

Need to know what they were able to take out.

[romad1]

56 minutes ago, 1984Echoes said:

Good for them.

Need to know what they were able to take out.

You "need" to know?

[romad1]

a friend sends this and I lol'd hard because of the levels of comedy this works on

[1984Echoes]

1 minute ago, romad1 said:

You "need" to know?

Yes, I do.

I am emotionally tied to this so... it is a need.

[romad1]

1 minute ago, 1984Echoes said:

Yes, I do.

I am emotionally tied to this so... it is a need.

aye. I can understand that.