It’s the Euro coins that are nice, and even that only for those from some countries (one side of Euro coins varies depending on the country that issued them).

How else would the plebes know who their betters are?!

Could’ve just said “The 1000 rufiyaa banknote” on the title.

It’s right there on the note in latin characters (on the left picture, below the top-right “1000”).

Mind you maybe it’s just me who finds it wierd to talk about a currency and not actually saying its name.

Thank you.

Also thanks for mentioning NymVPN - it looks an interesting replacement for Mullvad.

Two points:

• Danegeld refers to paying the Vikings not to raid your lands, something that has nothing to do with Colonization
• Groups of have been invading other groups of people’s land and taking their shit long before Europe had enough technological dominance for it’s nations to do it to other people outside Europe.

Tribalism and all the shit that comes with it (including the whole “steal from and kill the other tribe for the good of your own tribe”) is way older than “Europe” as a collection of nations and seems to be and inherent human trait.

That’s exactly what concerns me.

I would love to find a No Logs VPN with anonymous payments outside the legal jurisdiction of at least the US, UK and EU.

I mean, even the fucking Nederland which used to be pretty pro-personal rights is now a member of the 14-eyes.

You clearly have never owned a business if you think the very legal system which makes that company a legal entity with all the rights it entails (i.e. they’re registered there) can’t force them to do whatever the local laws say they have to do.

They can literally strike that company down of the Company Register and seize its assets because a company did not obey a lawful court order there (such as one from an Information Court).

The rest of your post is even more ignorant bollocks. This is not Privacy Legislation, this is Surveillance Legislation: the stuff that enables and backs the giant civil society surveillance systems revealed by Snowden, not the stuff that makes it a bit harder for Google to know what kinds of Porn you watch.

I’m seriously worried about what’s going on around this.

There is quite the push here for people to move to VPNs under the legals jurisdiction of surveillance heavy states, not just the US and UK but also places like Gibraltar and the British Virgin Islands which are British Overseas Territories with the same laws as Britain except were they passed specific local legislation that overrides British Law.

We’re talking about places with Information Courts which issue secret mass surveillance orders to companies based in or operating there and it doesn’t mater if that VPN is no logs because for all you know they’ve been forced to install realtime surveillance equipment/software and they can’t even tell you because BY THE LAW OF WERE THEY OPERATE if they did so they would end up in jail.

I would expect that the kind of people who would leave Mullvad because one of it’s owners is a far-right nutter are also the kind of people who don’t want everything they do and say tracked by the likes of the US or UK.

Further, the push is pervasive. For example https://vpn.techlore.tech/ is supposed to help you choose a good VPN, only if you look at those VPNs based in British Overseas Territories (Gibraltar, BVI) they’re listed as “Not 14-eyes” which that’s bullshit - I was actually curious and went and look at how Legislation works in Gibraltar and, as I wrote above, they have the same as in Britain except were they wrote their own legislation that overrides British legislation, which means that (unless somebody can point me out the legislation in Gibraltar that overrides it), the very same legislation that support the mass surveillance activities in Britain as a member of not only the “14-eyes” international surveillance agreements but the actual “5-eyes” one, applies to Gibraltar and hence to the likes of IVPN.

Frankly, looking for a replacement for Mullvad whilst having some awareness of the mass surveillance shit in supposedly democratic nations is scary as fuck, since most VPNs, for all their (possibly theatrical) “No logs” and whatnot, are actually in places with Information Courts which can issue secret court orders forcing them to install mass surveillance equipment.

Absolutely, if all you care about is avoiding lawyer letters because of pirating stuff, any “No Logs” VPN will probably do, but if you’re worried about the rise of the Far-Right then it makes sense that you’re not into there being a real risk that all you’re doing over your supposedly “No logs” VPN is in fact being logged directly into NSA or GCHQ systems (in the kind of country whose governments think being a leftwinger is “extremism” or even “terrorism”),

IVPN is based in Gibraltar, which is a British Overseas Territory and whose laws are the same as Britain except were Gribraltar passed their own laws to override it.

Unless proven otherwise (by finding actual laws passed in Gibraltar to block it) treat any VPN based in Gibraltar as being subjected to the same kind of secret mass surveillance orders from Information Courts as those based in Britain.

Lets not deflect the blame away from the political forces which have been subverting Democracy for decades.

Go look at the Chat Control vote in the EU Parliament: it wasn’t the Far-Right that voted for that shit (well, at least not in my country), it was the big “moderate” “center” parties that voted for it whilst the rest voted against it.

The push for authoritarianism is coming from the well-entrenched, big, mainstream, neoliberal parties, the very people who believed the Power of Money should not have to obey the Power of the Democratically Elected State (using slogans like “Do not interfere in the Free Market” to justify having Money as as the top Power).

(Notice how in the US the Democrats are and have been for decades just as much into widespread civil society surveillance and zero privacy as the Republicans)

Mainstream, Neoliberal parties are the people who have shifted Democracy in most of the West towards Oligarchy, with billionaires and even trillionaires holding immense real power.

In most of the West the return of Fascists to politics is still pretty recent and as they’re not the ones entrenched in power, it’s not actually in their interests for widespread civil society surveillance to be in place since such mechanisms are meant to detect and stop challenges to those in power, not to put fringe movements in power.

In simple terms, a Voltage is the difference in the electric potential between two points or in other words, a difference in how much electrons are attracted to one point by comparison to how much electrons are attracted to another (and, depending on said different, they will move in towards one of those points or not move at all is the difference is 0)

So technically you can’t actually have a Voltage with just one point.

So why do you hear Voltage mentioned as being a characteristic that can be measured at one point of a circuit?

Well, what it’s done in practice in Electronics is for example to treat one side of the power source as being the reference to measure voltage (say, the negative side of the battery) - which we the call Ground - and then we can say there is a “voltage” at any point in the circuit as a shortcut for the difference in electric potential between that point of the circuit and the one we conventioned as being the reference one.

(Notice how when using a Voltimeter or a Multimeter in Voltage mode to measure the voltage you need to used TWO probes and are told to put the black probe on a Ground line)

So because this reference point when measuring the different in electric potentials between two points is a convention, it’s perfectly possible to use a different convention so that some or even all “voltage” values we negative.

To put things in perspective:

• What a father and a mother feel when their 3 year old who was playing at home dies in their arms after he was purposefully shot through the window by an IDF sniper.
• What a Zionist living in Berlin (who actually supports that more of what’s above happens) feels seeing Greta Thunberberg (who supports the opposite) in an “yalla intifada” shirt.

This post of “MrsKenedi” reeks of entitlement, narcissism, extremely racist supremacism and sociopathy.

You can get infinite Revenue by giving everybody $2 if they give you $1 dollar.

Such a company could proudly claim to have 1 billion sales and $1 billion dollars in revenue whilst not mentioning the “small detail” that they took $1 billion in losses to make those sales - which is pretty much what you’re doing there for SpaceX.

When judging an investment, which is what we’re doing here when talking about their IPO, what maters is profit, not revenue.

Literally almost the entire infrastructure of Starlink has to be “rebuilt” every 8 -10 years, because that’s how long their latest generation (v3) satellites last in average before they deorbit due to the air drag at low orbit or their electronics fail due to the higher radiation in Earth’s orbit

Their business model hasn’t even been proven to be profitable outside niche markets where they’re the only solution for Internet and there are enough people/companies who can afford and are willing to pay a big enough premium for that service that it offsets Starlink’s costs of having to manufacture and launching replacement for their satellites, all of which invariably die after about 10 years.

You can kinda do some managing of when the shutters are open, half-open or closed as well as when the windows behind them are open or closed, to keep heating from sunlight outside and tilt air-circulation in favor of the colder hours but, yeah, eventually even that is fighting the wall of the building itself having warmed up.

Here in Portugal (were that kind of shutters are also very common) I did manage to, for most days of the one 40C+ heatwave we had, keep the indoor temperature below 30C, though it still creeped up (no doubt due to exactly that effect you mentioned of the building walls heating up) and after some days I actually had to use a fan to help air-circulation with the outside during early-morning and night when the air outside was colder.

In my own experience, you can do some amount of heat management with those shutters and the window by chosing when you have them open and when you have them closed - whilst without aircon the appartment tends towards the average temperature of the whole day, you can push it a bit more one way or the other by managing sun exposure and air circulation in favor of the hours when the temperature is more towards the end you want.

What I did were I live during the last heat wave (which around here had max temps above 40C) was to during most of the day keep the shutters down and the windows closed, and then during the night and in the early morning having the window open and just the holes of the shutters open (the shutters are made of strips and the are some holes between them, so when you pull them up they first just open the holes and only after all the holes parts of the strips are exposed if you keep pulling them up wil the shutters lift up - example)

In simple terms, during the hours when the sunlight would hit my windows it was hitting the shutters instead and either being reflected or converted to heat outside rather than inside (as those shutters are installed outside), and air was allowed to circulate between the outside and inside only when it was colder outside.

That said, for a couple of days I had to help the air circulation during the colder hours a bit with a fan, since just passive circulation through the half-open shutters wasn’t enough.

This way I managed to keep the inside temperature mostly below 30C, with no aircon.

Why whould anybody who wants the original vote for a lesser copy?

I never really understood the political “strategy” of aping the opposition by offering an milder version of their policies.

Exactly.

I was an immigrant myself at one point (not in the US, but elsewhere in Europe than were I was born) and immigrants are no inherently better than the locals, just less powerful and hence the nasty ones amongst them less likely to show their nastiness (as they’re more likely to have to suffer payback for it). This is painfully obvious if you’re in any way familiar with the politicial situation in their countries of origin - plently of cold calous selfish assholes there and plenty of them emigrate.

I firmly believe that the US-style Identity Politics with the whole hypersimplified and hypergeneralized (and even discriminatory, though the practicioners of it think it’s “positive”) idea that “all immigrants are victims” was an invention of some Neoliberal Think Tank and in my experience of actually being involved in Politics in a couple of countries, it’s pretty much only that out of touch layer of middle class scions of the middle class who haven’t ever really had to fight just to stay afloat that believed such simplistic bollocks.

Climbed the stairs.

Voted to have the stairs pulled up behind them.

Turned out they also voted to get kicked down from the platform themselves.

Frankly, such immigrant rightwingers are the only bunch that actually deserve the tender mercies of the likes of ICE.

(And for any knee-jerking “identity warriors” out there, never forget that immigrants are like everybody else and thus amongst them, plenty of people when they think they themselves are safe from it (“I’m alright Jack”) are just as nasty hearthless and selfish “conservative” and even fascist as the Republicans)

I do know how the SMTP protocol works.

Just because the envelope is not sealed doesn’t mean that the state should be allowed to get a photocopy of what’s inside to be perused by some apparatchik if they feel like it WITH NOT EVEN A SUSPICION OF A CRIME MUCH LESS JUDICIAL OVERSIGHT

Is this shit Democracy or is Autocracy with a bit of Theater of Democracy on top?