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Comment · 3 years ago
Please use the example of me spending $1 of cash to buy a bottle of water off of a street vendor. Can the government or regulatory body trace this transaction or block it? They can't? Then the premise is invalid.

They're trying to apply the same false premise to crypto.

Comment · 3 years ago
My apologies, I will attempt to clarify. Consider the example of cash with the quoted text above.

Since institutions lie with impunity, I am taking it upon myself to call out edititorializing lies like the clearly untrue text. Basically the media and fact checkers are asleep at the wheel and not holding institutions accountable.. so that responsibility now falls to the citizenry.

Or did you mean that its not an attempt to lie, it's an outright lie?

Comment · 3 years ago
"The text –which was provisionally agreed by Parliament and Council negotiators in June 2022- aims to ensure that crypto transfers, as is the case with any other financial operation, can always be traced and suspicious transactions blocked."

Stop lying, nobody believes you. Or are we planning for the future when cash is purposely eliminated?

Comment · 3 years ago
No thanks, no aluminum in my drinking water.

Epidemiological studies suggest that aluminium may not be as innocuous as was previously thought and that aluminium may actively promote the onset and progression of Alzheimer's disease. This condition is the most common form of dementia and may contribute to 60 –70 % of cases. In 2015, dementia affected 47 million people worldwide (or roughly 5% of the world's elderly population), a figure predicted to increase to 75 million in 2030 and 132 million by 2050. Recent reviews estimate that each year nearly 9.9 million people develop dementia globally; this figure translates into one new case every three seconds (5). Even prolonged exposure to low levels of aluminium leads to changes associated with brain ageing and neurodegeneration (6).

Furthermore, aluminium has been included among 200 neurotoxic chemicals that silently erode intelligence, disrupt behaviours, truncate future achievements, and damage societies, perhaps most seriously in developing countries. The latter is called the "Silent Pandemic of Neurodevelopmental Toxicity in Children" (7,8). Recently, the aluminium content of brain tissue in autism spectrum disorder was found to be consistently high (9), and the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder is increasing, last CDC estimated prevalence is 1 in 44 children (10).

5) World Health Organization. Global action plan on the public health response to dementia. 2017-2025.

6) Bondy SC. Prolonged exposure to low levels of aluminium leads to changes associated with brain ageing and neurodegeneration. Toxicology 315 (2014) 1-7.

7) Grandjean P, Landrigan PJ. Developmental neurotoxicity of industrial chemicals. Lancet. 2006 Dec 16;368(9553):2167-78.

8) Grandjean P, Landrigan PJ. Neurobehavioural effects of developmental toxicity. The Lancet Neurology, Volume 13, Issue 3, Pages 330 - 338, March 2014.

9) Mold M, et al. aluminium in brain tissue in autism. J Trace Elem Med Biol. 2018.

10) CDC. National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network. 31 March 2022. Accessed 8 April 2022.

Comment · 3 years ago
And your evidence for this completely made up fact is... ?
Comment · 3 years ago
Especially if there happens to be an Institute of Virology in close proximity
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks, I had never heard the follow up excuse that comes after

"but Twitter is a private company, they can censor whomever they want"

"well actually they were getting paid to censor whatever the government told them to"

And a pivot to capitalism at the end too, nice

Comment · 4 years ago
That seems reasonable. Would you also agree to discuss COVID vaccine complications when discussing COVID infection complications?
Comment · 4 years ago
This turned out to be incorrect. I think the actual number is closer to 1/10th of that. Solana's main Twitter page has the story.
Comment · 4 years ago
Gruvbox is pretty cool
Comment · 4 years ago
the principal's your pal

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