This sounds so implausible, BitCoin owners using some gas station ATM machine

#9 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-12-31 03:35 PM | Reply | Flag:

They're not bitcoin owners. They're people trying to own bitcoin.

No, that is not a typo. $2.9 billion to roughly $7,400. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-31 02:04 PM | Reply | Flag:

Somewhere, a loan officer is being talked out of jumping.

The most simplified explanation I can come up with...

You're trading stuff. All the trades are kept in a notebook. The notebook is the blockchain. A block is a page in the notebook. The chain is the secret code on each page that links it to the next page. Everybody has the same notebook so cheating the notebook is instantly caught.

In this case, replace stuff being traded with digital coins. Now it's a race between "miners". Miners are trying to guess the page code to lock it to move on to the next one. The reward is coins for doing it. That prevents money printing and slows down the amount of coins introduced over time.

It's also a wild new frontier of social manipulation fraud.

For all the talk about US losses in a Taiwan conflict, the person with the shortest life expectancy is a Chinese sailor. US Jets come pouring out of Cebu and Mindanao and everything floating is dead.

Also, at this point in the conflict, anybody reasonable should question if a single fighter is a high value enough target for ATACMS. That fighter's theater impact is negligible compared to using them on command posts and force concentrations.

Those are missiles. FPV drones are for killing within 3-5 miles, maybe 10 on a great day. It's 160 miles to sevastopol. They fly over with more traditional fixed-wing drones and spot for missiles strikes.

" It's almost like rich people can hire an army of Danforth's that are experts in minimizing tax burden"
Sorry, I'm chuckling.
Most of my clients are starving artists.

#134 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-12-29 02:46 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Starving", lol. Starving people can't afford tax specialists.

It's almost like rich people can hire an army of Danforth's that are experts in minimizing tax burden, regardless of what rules the plebes want.

Not on their own citizens.

"Rich foreign nationals resident in Switzerland can be taxed on a lump-sum basis if they do not work in the country. Around 0.1% of taxpayers are taxed using lump-sum taxation " in 2018 that meant 4,557 people which paid in total CHF 821 million in tax."

"This taxation is based on estimated living expenses, rather than on real income and assets. This means that there is no need for reporting effective global earnings and assets. However, this amount is calculated using the regular tax rates in Switzerland."

"The full requirements for being eligible for lump-sum taxation are no Swiss citizenship, taking up residence in Switzerland and no gainful activity in Switzerland. In case of married couples, both people have to fulfil these requirements. The right to lump-sum taxation expires if a person takes up an employment in Switzerland or becomes a Swiss citizen."

So, using Elon Musk for example here, he actually lives in Boxabl Casita, a $50k home. You're getting nothing.

I don't know, they keep parking their planes outdoors in Crimea rather than in hangers. They go boom. Sounds kind of retarded to me.

#16 | Posted by dibblda at 2025-12-29 12:53 PM | Reply | Flag:

A hangar doesn't stop an ATACMS. It just means you lose the plane and the hangar. Hangars are for repairs, not so much storage.

1. The JCT calculation excluded the increased value of investments: Billionaires and other hyper-wealthy people can use their unrealized capital gains to pursue lives of luxury and buy key sectors of our economy without ever having to report it as taxable income.

#76 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-29 12:43 PM | Reply | Flag:

Then the JCT calc is realistic, because that's not income, it's debt.

Taxing unrealized gains.

2025 and people still beating that dead horse.

Russians are brutal and fatalist, but not retarded.

Moving it 180 miles closer is going to make a difference?
#5 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-12-27 10:37 PM | Reply

It's not a 180 mile move, it's much more, and yes.

If the bombers and their missiles sit in Russia they will be targeted by Ukrainian long range strikes.

Ukraine has not launched any long range strikes into Belarus with heavy drones. They can only attempt sabotage without directly drawing Belarus into the conflict.

On Christmas Day.

#31 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-26 12:06 PM | Reply

Surely somebody trained by the United States Marine Corp would think to attack an adversary on Christmas Day, after they've launched Christmas Day attacks year over year against civilians.

and Corky isn't wrong. If you're the wrong kind of Muslim, you're also dead. If you're Christian, you are definitely dead. If you're police, you're dead.

#24 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-12-26 11:41 AM | Reply | Flag:

You're being retarded too. This war is 16 years and 5 months old.

You're mad at Trump for continuing to fight with an ally in a civil war against a branch of Islamic State.

Don't be retarded just to be contrarian to Trump. The now 15 year old war unfolded across more Dem admins than Republican ones.

*AI Overview

The Nigerian militant group Boko Haram does not celebrate Christmas. As an extremist Islamic organization, its ideology is fundamentally opposed to Christian beliefs and Western traditions, which it considers "forbidden" or "haram". Instead of celebrating, Boko Haram and related militant groups like the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) have a history of specifically targeting Christian communities and churches with violent attacks during the Christmas season to disrupt celebrations and terrorize the population.

For all that -------- about a war on Christmas in America, there's an actual War on Christmas in Nigeria by Islamists. Bombings, kidnappings, refugee crisis, etc.

When was the last air strike?

#10 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-26 08:36 AM | Reply

2025. Most airstrikes are done by Nigerian pilots flying US supplied and maintained A-29 Super Tucanos, targeted by a combination of Nigerian forces trained by and working side by side with US special forces. We've been at war on Boko Haram, in Nigeria, since 2010 through 5 presidential administrations. Obama, Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump again. Some estimates put it around 4000 christians killed for being christian in Nigeria through 2024. The ethno-religious conflict kicked off in 2010, when Boko Haram joined Islamic State and launched a wave of bombings against Christians on Christmas.

We've been in Nigeria since 2010 battling Boko Haram.

Concepts of a plan.

#90 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-12-24 12:45 PM | Reply | Flag:

The best one still being the converted cargo container ship. 260,000 sq ft of missiles.

The "Arsenal Ship" concept revived. It's on its 3rd or 4th generation conceptually by now, always intended to be battleship scale or bigger, hauling around 500+ vertical launch tubes. Congress never funds it.

Big Gun Battleships are obsolete.

Guided Missile ships are not. The only debate is scale.

lol this thing already has a wikipedia entry.

The artist rendering. They have stealth lines, and then add railings all the way around lol. This has to be AI slop.

A Guided Missile Battleship. Some real Soviet-era thinking going on here.

The new frigate is a renamed version of the existing coast guard cutter.

Put a few VLS containers on deck and its a long range warship.