duped

I mean it's not hard to have an annoying KYC experience. When I opened an LLC there were some dumb hoops to get a bank account opened with Chase.

But I also appreciate that bankers should be liable for supporting terrorists and criminals so I live with it

Niche luxury products aren't exactly mainstream either

I guess preserving the freedoms under the Constitution against ICE is a racial or religious motivation

I think missing from your context is the racial and religious motivations of people that back ICE's current actions. They don't care about the law or reasonable expectations on visa policies.

I mean the insurrectionist Republicans attempted a coup on Jan 6. You think that's an "idea?"

And you think there wasn't some legal process involved in the investigation and conviction? There was and it didn't go far enough.

> So what is the government's sole purpose?

To establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty.

> Also this is not the sole purpose of companies.

Friedman disagrees.

> The free market has created everything you use the more we turn the keys over to government's the worse things get.

Which is why we have never needed government regulation of things like food, air, water, shelter, work safety, accessibility, or anything else. The free market provides.

> The government can get infinite power and control though

Which is why in a free society the government is answerable to the people.

beIN also sued the VPNs

> Not more dangerous than rice stir‑frying

It's a lot easier to deal with a small grease fire than vaporized ethanol around an open flame.

> Ethanol is antidot. So again, your chances to severely poison yourself not much higher than if you instead of alcohol were doing Japanese cuisine.

Uh huh that's why all people blinded by bad moonshine are living healthy with full eyesight and no other negative affects, just like people that ate some bad fish

Are you disagreeing that distilling several liters of cask strength grain alcohol around an open flame is more dangerous than sealed containers of propane and gasoline?

It's about as dangerous as eating foraged mushrooms. You know it's a danger before you try it so you go to lengths to avoid it.

> ethanol is incredibly explosive

My friend is a chemist and we both like whiskey so we thought experimented this.

You can speed up the aging of whiskey by increasing the surface area of charred wood. It takes 3 years in a barrel, a couple days (hours? maybe? I'm an engineer not a scientist) if you splinter it into wood chips and char them first and agitate the solution.

What you can't really speed up is the oxidation of the tannins which for all we know (barring experimentation) are a key part of the flavor profile. What you could do is mix in oxidizers like bubbling oxygen through it.

The combination of oxygen and ethanol has a name though: "liquid rocket fuel." The idea of combining heat, ethanol, oxygen, and agitating at bottling volumes sounded kinda scary.

I hope people don't try it at home without knowing what they're doing.

More realistically though, the biggest danger comes from leaky apparatus and an open flame. The horror stories come from home distillation over gas burners. Electric heat is plentiful and home stills would most likely be basically kettles.

I mean whiskey was the first consumer good taxed by the nascent Constitutional republic during his administration and he had to put down a rebellion and federal regulation of distillation was a response to the long-tail impact of that rebellion and failure to enforce the taxation of whiskey and spirits.

Now I think it's dumb to prohibit home distillers and it actually inhibits industry evolution. There is a lot of experimentation that happens in grey areas of the law with homemade spirits and it would be interesting to see how things adapt if the law was lifted.

All that said home distillation is dangerous. Ethanol at volumes sufficient for bottling is explosive, methanol poisoning is real, and even if the techniques for safely distilling it from a mash are learned in a high school chemistry class most people aren't great at it.

I'm a big whiskey enjoyer and home cook and have done a few "dangerous" things myself w/ food and beverages. If the law goes away I know I'm going to do some stuff in the basement and accept the risk myself. But I'm a little wary of laws being lifted that definitely protect people, even if it's a side effect of taxation.

> If you've seen their rocket landing videos the technology is quite similar in nature.

Sure but Tesla is not SpaceX.

I just want to know how they faked it. Because I actually have zero trust that this is a realistic demonstration.