For a C64 emulator, sure, but we can do better now.

Yes, this would be awesome, but for the love of all that is holy can it please not be BASIC?

I don’t think Ordinals really help here, they just turn Bitcoin into 2.1 quadrillion individual NFTs. But, my knowledge may be dated.

I sold all of my Apple stock because they wanted to make a phone and I thought that would end poorly, so I should take my profits while I could.

Not really. Bitcoin blocks are limited in size, originally to 1MB, now the limit is a bit fuzzy but the largest theoretical block is 4 MB. Transaction fees are (again, fuzzily) paid by transaction size, so if someone wanted to fill a block with a large transaction that contained a file they would have to pay an equally large fee.

Furthermore, the protocol is designed to find new blocks every 10 minutes. The actual rate is up to chance. Sometimes several blocks can be mined in quick succession, other times blocks may need 30+ minutes. But over the long term, the protocol ensures blocks are found every 10 minutes. Once the transaction is accepted into a block and that block propagated, it will be made immutable and the time of block creation will be fixed y multiple distributed mining nodex (assuming the block continues to remain in the longest chain, which it likely will be).

But even then, what do you have? All you have is proof that a file existed at a particular time. It says nothing about its provenance. If you want to vouch for the authenticity of a file on social media, you are much better off just posting a hash of the file, preferably signed with a known GPG key. I mean, that is basically what the Blockchain is doing, just with transactions attached.

The face of evil

ICE agents don’t feel they need to operate under the law, because they think they are the law.

There’s no reason for optimism as long as Republicans are too spineless to overturn a veto, or to force Trump to spend the money if he doesn’t want to.

They still have to establish proof beyond a reasonable doubt in order to convict. That includes investigating the source of each video, taking statements from whoever made them that they are authentic, and some analysis to further corroborate that the videos are authentic.

And then, even beyond that, they may need to further investigate the agent, to try and establish that this act goes beyond whatever qualified immunity he gets as a Federal agent.

There is a huge burden to prove this in a court of law. Unfortunately, this agent gets the benefit of all that process if he is ever a criminal defendant. His victim didn’t get that benefit, he just decided she needed to go and she was gone. But it’s the way our system works.

We live in an interesting time, where nearly everyone has the ability to record anything, at any time. It’s probably one of the worst time periods for a Fascist movement to start. They rely on controlling the narrative in order to deny the truth, and right now a citizen with a cell phone can seize control with the truth instead.

When AI figures out how to manipulate cell phone video to fit a narrative in real time, though, we’re all screwed .

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r/conservative is full of morons

He’s gonna grab 'em by the Parliament.

When you’re a star, they let you do it!

I think these people are so far down the rabbit hole that they don’t even realize that their narrative is bullshit. Nobody in the Administration looked at that video and said “shit, we have a problem” because they’re all True Believers and think they are right about everything.

This Mayor might just find himself on the wrong end of a military-assisted “law enforcement operation”…

Oh, they don’t have their toys yet. Because that would be a “bribe”, and super illegal.

No, they get their toys after the fact. Then it’s called a Gratuity, and totes legal.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

If the tariffs are unconstitutional then Trump will be sued for billions and billions from businesses and governments.

Oh, it’s worse than that. Very large companies might be able to afford to sue to get that revenue back, but others can’t afford the legal fees to do that.

But Wall St. has a solution! Firms have started buying tariff refund rights from importers, at a discount to reflect the uncertainty regarding whether those tariffs will ever be refunded.

One of the largest firms doing this is Cantor Fitzgerald, who was run by the Commerce Secretary before he took office and is now run by his sons.

See! They figured out how to grift, no matter the outcome!

I appreciate your insight here, all of your responses show how the legal system in the US is supposed to work, and apply to all citizens equally. But what this analysis ignores is that the Trump Administration is building up its own “in group”, to which these restraints no longer apply. Both sides are playing by different rules now, enforced by an Administration and DoJ which is taking sides.

Consider the case if someone (maybe even a sworn law officer with their own qualified immunity) steps in front of a car driven by an ICE agent and kills them in cold blood. The US justice system is supposed to work the same for that person as for the Minnesota ICE agent. But we all know what will happen. The surrounding ICE agents will render their own vengeful (and biblical) verdict on the spot, Kristi Noem will spout some bullshit, and nobody involved will ever see a courtroom.

That’s the problem. The rules are changing, and the courts can’t keep up.

Do any of their sources explicitly state the payment will be in cash? I bet Trump makes up another shitty crypto token and figures out a way to carve out a fee on each transaction for himself.