Honestly with the Trump government right now and the pending trade war, this might be good for Bitcoin. It’s supposed to be a store or wealth that you use to buy other cryptos like monero to spend.

This is not good for the environment because crypto mining is second only to AI model training in useless expendenture of natural resources and pollution.

But ironically, and I say this with no joy. This could be good for Bitcoin and that’s bad for us all.

Plus actors and actresses can choose an additional stage name when registering with the SAG.

Then you might want to state that in an international forum, especially when you reference SAG a US Union. Or might be talking about a trans person who works and lives in that country.

it cost like 300 bucks plus the fees for new passports and the drivers license.

Also the use of dollars might have alluded to it as well. Regardless of the denomination that is a good chunk of change for any person in the world. What an international comment you made.

I’m wondering if you talk to people face to face about these things. Do their eyes tend to glass over? Do they say uh huh alot?

These statements have the energy of a guy in a coffee shop asking a women to take one of her airpods out just to tell her that Elliot Page picked the wrong name.

Not everyone has 300 dollars or the confidence to make any gender affirming documents right now that would alert the state to their presence.

https://news.yahoo.com/news/state-department-blocking-passports-trans-085646164.html.

Also they’re probably feeling unsafe interacting with the government where there are police present depending on what state they’re in, or which country they were born in.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/are-cities-ice-raids-are-taking-place-rcna189390

Or in the case of a few Navaho people anywhere off the res. (However first nations people are 100% capable to have any fucking name they want on the res. So to them name changes might not be a problem.)

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2025/01/24/navajo-nation-leaders-address-reports-of-ice-detaining-tribal-citizens/77911978007/

So no, right now at this minute not everyone can change their name in the US to whatever they want.

Merci

Trump te faire encule

Trump mon ostie de tache de marde va donc jouer sua ligne jaune une petite heure câlisse de Crisse d’imbécile. Pis crisse nous patience tabarnak.

so is it slurry with oil products, or oil with crap in it?

It’s slurry with oil products in it, separating it into different products is what refining is. For those unfamiliar you can think of it as liquid ore and the gasoline is 18k Gold you get from rocks you dig out of a mountain. The distinction is that we’re not putting any work into what we’re pumping out of the ground and shipping it across the ocean. It’d be like if you owned a mine and shipped truckloads of dirt somewhere else for the gold to be pulled out. It’s exceedingly inefficient and wasteful.

refinement of the slurry as “modern processes”

It is modern, however if there seemed to be a positive spin to that, that’s my fault in not properly couching that term. Modern processes for me has become a negative term. I’m inherently suspicious of anything sold or marketed as modern as it tends to be a shittier version of what we already have. But that’s a topic for another time. The modern processing we could do locally would not make the gasoline, plastic, diesel, or other manufacturer distillates cleaner. It would atleast lessen the further pollution from shipping. In that it would be an “improvement”. Under no circumstances is domestic oil a net positive for anyone. I think the only ethical act is to sabotage oil infrastructure in America and make it too expensive to drill. But that also is a different topic for a different discussion.

Thank you for being so patient with my pedantry.

I partially think that an impending surge in renewables is a factor in their unwillingness to add the capability here. I guess we’ll see if there is any truth to that now that we are Trumpland and renewables will probably be set back at least a decade.

On this we absolutely agree.

We don’t ship any oil, we ship an unrefined slurry, it’s not even crude as that has to be treated to become a homogeneous product. We then have other countries refine that slurry and take on all of the environmental impacts that has to their local groundwater, and then reimport those same deposits here locally. Inefficient? Absolutely. Profitable? Depends on who you ask. The transport and pumping of oil and gas deposits are subsidized by the US government so that oil companies can do this at a profit while ignoring local infrastructure.

Landman is a television show and is apparently irrelevant to the conversation as I thought that’s where you were picking up these talking points. Oil production in the US is outdated, unneeded if we want to keep gas cheap at the pump, and should only be done to fill our internal oil reserves for national defense. It’s also an infrastructure issue as there are leaking and degrading pipelines all over the US that are contaminating ground water and releasing methane into the air. Secondly since we have to ship what we pump out of the ground we then burn the fuel to transport through pipelines to tankers that then burn bunker fuel, to be refined elsewhere, further fucking the environment, to burn more bunker fuel in the tanker trip back to the US where it’s then further refined into different distillates.

It’s so much worse than crappy oil.

Also what’s with your combative tone? Every response I’ve posted to your comments agrees with the thrust of your argument.

We’re unwilling to invest in local modern refineries as it’s more profitable to ship the shale oil to other countries with more modern refinery processes. Don’t believe everything you see on Landman.

Canada refines their own shale and tar sands deposits and ships us crude in a composition that’s easy for our old infrastructure to transport and process.

Trump isn’t the problem, he’s a symptom. He’s following directions from people that are telling him he’ll profit from this. Vance would be pulling the same shit as he’s just Peter Thiel’s mouthpiece, and likely the reason Musk was able to slide into the Trump admin so quickly.

However I will throw a party when Trump dies. Everyone is invited.

If you think the US insurgancy would be bad if they were invaded; you’ve no idea of Canada’s war record.

@remindme@mstdn.social 30 minutes. “How many comments say remind me?”

He no longer has use for pumping Tesla stock with that talking point now that he has his army of chuds to buy into any pump and dump crypto scheme.

They’re obviously trying so hard for regulatory capture in the states it’s embarrassing.

https://www.smartprix.com/bytes/how-to-run-deepseek-ai-locally-on-your-phone-2-methods/

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Rss is the way

Proton has a business model where they want the user to put their eggs all in one basket. If you want that kind of userbase you need to leave your personal politics out of it. The problem isn’t that the CEO is right wing. It’s that he is very publicly right wing. Supports a known huckster. And lastly could be vying for a role in the administration. All of this calls into question just for how long Proton will be secure before they are selling user info to the state.

Politics are very fucking important in terms of security for whistleblowers and dissidents. They are the canaries in the coalmine as far as personal liberties go.

https://tpo.pages.torproject.net/core/arti/

Lighter weight and more performant. Should be a drop in replacement

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/blob/main/README.md#hidden-service-onion-service-client-support