Topic: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion - page 3307. (Read 26715988 times)

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I firmly agree with much of what you say, but wanted to add the caveat, *Most Revolutionary Desires are quelled by 5he fact that the General Populace has Too Much to Lose.* In times of economic strife and worldwide political upheaval, Revolutionary Force has more leverage to work with if the organization and leadership is able to come together. This series of calculated disasters carry a significant risk of creating a momentum that can be harnessed by anyone with enough resources and influence to snap up the reigns. Whether the current planners designs succeed or fail, we could indeed be in for "interesting times" that no sane person should ever hope for...

An emergent outburst of popular resentment results only in a headless mob.  It rarely even happens; and when it does, it is trivial to suppress.  Quelling a riot is part of Rulership 101.

The masses are both inert and stupid.  Moreover, overthrowing an established government requires resources.  A revolution always needs organization, charismatic leadership, propaganda, and lots and lots of money.

Take, for example, your American Revolution.  The majority of the people were either favourable to the government (branded “Loyalists” as if loyalty were evil), or apathetic—the eighteenth-century equivalent of couch potatoes.  Around (IIRC) 30% of the British colonists got upset.  They were whipped into a frenzy, organized, and propagandized by what, from the government’s viewpoint, were traitors and criminals—what would nowadays be called “domestic terrorists”.  History otherwise remembers them, because history books are written by the winners.

Some of the revolutionary leaders were wealthy—for instance, Hancock; a bunch of rich men pledged “our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honour” to the cause of revolution.  And as anyone with even the slightest knowledge of such matters could predict, much of the revolution was a matter of logistics, raising resources, and also—obtaining external support via diplomacy.  The British insurrectionists (who, we must remember, were British subjects only anachronistically distinguished from other Brits) could never have violently overthrown the duly constituted, very stable government, if they had not timely obtained the military intervention of the French.

Popular resentment is what a computer programmer would call a necessary but insufficient prerequisite for revolution.  Wise governments conciliate the masses.  For instance, observe Stolypin.  Stolypin was a master statesman, one of the most talented of that historical epoch.  After a failed revolution, Stolypin authoritatively instituted genuine reforms that contented most people.  The Communist ideologues who were attempting to harness popular resentment needed to get rid of Stolypin; therefore, they assassinated him.  Without the wise and savvy Stolypin, a weak Tsar was simply lost.  A successful revolution was soon thereafter carried off when, a few years later, military defeat in the Great War made the government even weaker than usual.

Mass-communication does not turn a headless, mostly inert mass into anything but.  Do you see intelligent action emerging from mindless mass-chatter on Twitter—or in WO?

Rather, consistently with what you said at the end, modern mass-communications are a collar snapped onto the collective neck of the masses, with the leash being firmly held by the powers that be.  Let’s put it this way:  When popular resentment resulted in the election of an American President who very slightly crossed certain lines, Twitter blatantly manipulated the next election (ban of NY Post to suppress the Hunter Biden story).  Then, Twitter banned the sitting President from its mass-communications platform.  LOL.  Oh, do you suppose that the inert, unintelligent masses will somehow organize themselves with sophisticated, decentralized cypherpunk communications methods that >99.9% of people do not even know exist?

(Cue stupid arguments about Trump vs. Biden.    What I just said was not about Trump vs. Biden.  Twitter, et al. indisputably manipulated an election by suppressing information, to get rid of a president who indisputably rose on a wave of popular resentment against the status quo.  Those are the facts, whatever one’s opinion may be of whether the stupidly resentful masses picked an idiot in Trump, or whether Biden is absolutely the greatest, wisest, and most competent leader in the history of the universe.)

“It’s different this time”, yes:  Insofar as “first-world” types of places are concerned, revolution is as obsolete as the musket, the sword, and the carrier pigeon.  A fool’s errand—a one-way ticket to supermax prison, a CIA black site, or the morgue.  Since WO is doubtless watched, I should emphasize very clearly that I am only discussing some famous historical circumstances.  I don’t much care what is called “illegal”, but I would not urge anyone to do something so moronic as attempting to “rise” against the government.

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Maybe use SegPic

I really like this thing.  The setup and learning curve may be outside your comfort zone, but the basic idea is the tool can take an image on your phone and reduce the jpg quality to make it something smaller to text etc.  Just a thought.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.kaffeemitkoffein.imagepipe/

*edit* I am surprised you say it was bland!  It does look good!

Have to agree.

I drive in USA mostly.

On one Highway I use the speed limit is 65 MPH.
 I set cruise control to 79 MPH when the road is empty. It is an easy speed to maintain.

I get a driving score on my car's app it is usually a C due to speeding.
I know the road. I know my car 79 is a fine speed if the road in not crowded.
My car can do about 85-90 on a dry straight road and feels under my control.

At 95 it feels not in touch with the road.
At 79 it is solidly in touch with the road.

I resent the App telling me I am a C driver.

If the road was crowded and I set the cruise at 64 and weaved in and out I would rate okay on the app. So what the fuck does the app know.

More nanny-state government overreach.

old (used) cars would dramatically increase in price, perhaps.

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-10968909/New-EU-vehicles-fitted-speed-limiting-tech-6-July-Britain-follow-suit.html


"The speed-limiting systems use GPS, sat-nav and cameras to identify the legal limit and will warn drivers to slow down - and if they don't the car can restrict engine power"


Fuck this

Maybe the accidental discovery of psychoactive mushrooms in the Holy Roman Empire?

Michael Saylor keeps stressing the importance of backtesting the collateral against the loans like Microstrategy did.

Did all these fly-by-night VC-funded crypto shitcoin derivative companies not backtest anything?

Are they all fucking stupid, or what?

Like, "Hey let's go over-leverage loans against all of our bitcoin collateral we bought at $40K-50K/btc. What could possibly go wrong?"  

It's no wonder no one should trust them with anything.

Personally, I think all these shitty crypto companies were set up to cause a crash. Because they always magically show up during bull runs, only to get margin called, liquidate and go bankrupt literally every single bear market. They are designed to distract Average Joe away from bitcoin and steal noobs money. Just like the ICOs did.

OT
hmmm...
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/mystery-rocket-NASA-moon-crash-country-origin-17273903.php
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3543757-nasa-calls-mystery-rocket-crash-on-moon-highly-unusual/

Not making any connections, but if something like the ref. below occurred now, we would have a full blown panic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over_Nuremberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1566_celestial_phenomenon_over_Basel

Apparently, somewhere between 1561 and 1648 many such phenomena were observed and recorded.
Do I think that all of them were just 'sun dogs'? Unlikely, but to think that someone would come to Earth's vicinity for a space fight is also quite strange.

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 That's a bat slap.

  I put as much effort into my reply to ImThour as he put into his analysis of a situation he thought required investigation.  I brought the matter relating the the drop in value of LTC to his attention and I assumed he could take it from there.  The perils of sending your LTC to exchanges are best left to another thread.

I needed a new tap and a USB stick, they where out of the tap but I got the stick, and a burger.

The burger did look delicious, but it was pretty tasteless, it had all the right ingredients, good size meat, bacon, cheese, onion, that green stuff, tomatoes, dressing, but it all lacked in taste except for the tomato slices, I don't know how you manage to make bacon taste bland but they did it.

Thanks for fixing it, I don't know how to do these things, especially on a phone.

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