It’s my personal belief that btc has been the currency of foreign influence operations ie for paying media figures to influence popular opinion and sentiments. I believe this can be most readily seen in the US right and maga. The messaging is all very consistent across YouTube, x, fox, news nation etc across weeks, months and years.
Brexit was a proof of concept, certainly it has spread.
The Bitcoin genesis is certainly unclear; a FLOSS project is proudly published by those who create it and certainly don't want to remain anonymous, but the super-value of BTC over time has been driven by substantial criminal activities, not exactly US nor pro-US. The first ones were indeed US "ally", the D-Company that sold drugs for BTC to arm Al-Qaeda by selling BTC for weapons and explosives, which the sellers were happy to accept because they could sell them for various nations' fiat currencies to D-Company customers, laundering it well and without having to carry around pallets of unmarked bills, which are easy to seize during travel. Yes, Al-Qaeda was pro-US kleptocracy, certainly not pro-American people, see https://css.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/gess/c...
But then China also used them to smuggle Fentanyl into the US, and this late revenge against the East India companies that invaded it with opium so long ago, on the wrong subject (since it was the UK that started the Opium War and the US helped and was largely helped by China, which paid for e.g. the development of the railway networks in the US, a history forgotten by most), it proved that BTC as a tool is neutral. Its use by Venezuela, Iran, and North Korea confirms this.
So I suspend judgment, I don't trust the genesis, I read and encounter various problems https://blog.dshr.org/2025/09/the-gaslit-asset-class.html but I am not completely convinced by your analysis and honestly, I am very much in favor of the end of the banking system and the current financial model for the development of humanity, and it matters little who brings about this event; they are the enemy of my enemy in any case.
My milage does vary. I swore off caffeine for a decade. Then I discovered that stims restore some cognitive function that I had written off.
The difference is that my anxiety is more interesting (to me) than distressing. I can sometimes leverage it as a mechanism for change.
Granted - this also possible because my anxiety (currently) falls within a range. Turn it up a ½doz notches and I probably won't be mining it for usefulness.
When I was moonlighting LinkedIn didn’t affect me. Every time I applied/interviewed and got hired for a w2 job, I just left my last non moonlighting employer on there, and checked the “please don’t contact current employer” checkbox. I hadn’t worked there in over a year.
Didn’t my new employer want me to update my LinkedIn? That never came up, but if it would have I would have delayed. Why should I support their business model.
Nice effort but this isn’t interesting at all. You skipped the most interesting part; parsing http. This is beejs networking tutorial with writing a file to a socket.
Harsh? Maybe, but you’re posting this to a site with some of the most talented developers on planet. Real talk, sorry.
I swear that the only thing that draws people to this industry is the desire to escape their home village. It certainly isn't the quality of conversation with like-minded tinkerers. It's just losers like you who think a big paycheck for playing with Jira means you're the smartest boy in the world. God help us.
Even simple implementations serve as valuable learning exercises, and proper HTTP parsing could be the natural next step in the author's learning journey.
Until science can offer an explanation of "why am I here? what is meaning?" other than random chance, there will always be religion. Some may find random chance comforting and meaningful, but most don't. Belief in God can never be proven or disproven, it's a question of faith. Faith is not logical. Nor is the reality that terrible things happen to random people; good or bad. The challenge for any of us individually is to not participate in tribalism and hate. But to act in the best spirit of whatever faith (or belief system) we do hold, for the benefit of all, and ourselves.
This is why I became catholic as an adult. I was raised baptist, and became agnostic. Then started attending mass with my now wife. Imo Protestants border on bible (the physical book) worship over all else, and ignore the reality of Jesus sacrifice. Plus the Catholic Church doesn’t require that I lobotomize myself to be a believer.
The catholic church likes to pretend it's all enlightened and reformed but don't be tricked: In Maine we had a ballot measure to legalize gay marriage a long time ago and the state's branch of the church had no problem forcing every single church to show their congregation a video from the Bishop talking about how we should love gay people but letting them get married would be evil. Even the current Pope, as "woke" as conservatives seem to think he is (these are the people livid that we do mass in english nowadays, because how dare the proles know what we are praying), occasionally espouses old guard opinions.
Also look what the catholic church does in Africa. They are NOT reformed.
Let him go build his rockets in Russia or China. If he wants to support anti democratic folks he’ll be right at home somewhere else. Musk and his troll farm can piss right off imo.
The point is there is no world in which Musk survives under Putin or Xi. He’d get Prighozin’d or Jack Ma’d because he represents a threat to the sort of authoritarian power that prefers folks like him far away.
As someone who witnessed A-10 CAS fuck some stuff up in a combat zone ie the real “brrrrt” I’ve been mystified by the meme and current useage. No one knows where it comes from nor the slaughter it represents.
as intense as a a10 might be, it's short lived and only affects a few dudes on the receiving end. When the federal reserve goes brrr, it has far reaching impact that affects every single person in the global economy.
Whenever people say about someone “they would never kill themselves” it reminds me of a deeply disturbing depression episode I had, thankfully only once, that lasted about 8 hours. It was the blackest morass of misery, I couldn’t bear to be in my own skin. After experiencing that I came to understand how people can do it, and the sudden onset also made me understand how inexplicable it can be.
Brexit was a proof of concept, certainly it has spread.
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