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If I understand it correctly, it’s “federated” in the sense that you can create similar infrastructure to Bluesky’s using ATProto and have your posts show up there, but that reality seems pretty academic because not many people are doing that compared to Mastodon.

At the very least the Scots know that deep-frying stuff makes it better even it was kinda dire to begin with.

Microstrategy is an analytics company that buys bitcoin to pump bitcoin - they own something like 1% of the total supply.

Tether is a cryptocurrency that lets you do tax fraud by being pegged 1:1 to the US dollar, but can be exchanged in-kind for bitcoin so you don’t actually trigger a taxable event. It’s run by iFinex, a company that also runs the Bitfinex exchange. I’m not really sure that they actually have 120 billion in cash

I have no clue who actually runs these companies tho

The timing of the click captcha loading is randomized and it probably is looking for human-ish cursor movement? (Like you’re probably moving your hand in imperceptibly small ways that are difficult to replicate). Clicking before it loads and doing it repeatedly probably triggers detection.

IIRC in Norway they have “Taco Friday”

Marx: “Societies develop their economies in stages and industrialization is necessary to achieve socialism.”

China: Develops the economy through industrialization, which means a controlled capitalist economy run by socialists

Western Leftists: “ No not like that socialism is supposed to happen through some spontaneous magic!”

Western Libs:“We’ll need to make electric vehicles widespread to prevent climate change!”

China: “Say no more brah!” *Produces affordable electric cars".

Western Libs: “No not like that”