Russian attack on an apartment building in Ternopil, Ukraine, 150km from Poland. They used a cruise missile to destroy the top of an apartment building, 25 dead so far including 3 children: They're just psychopaths. The sooner we exterminate Russian culture the better.

But that's the sun. The sun is a sphere. It's the Earth that is flat.

Merchants should be required to pass on credit card fees. It's ridiculous that we have cards giving 3% cashback, charging merchants 4%. There's cases where these fees even result in merchants losing money on every sale. The whole thing is a scam only made possible by the duopoly position credit card companies are in.

Everyone is Craig Wright. Except Satoshi Nakamoto.

There was a ton of small lightning nodes turned on that apparently we're supporting taproot assets in some way. I'm not sure what's going on there.

That was a legitimately useful ad.

I vaguely remember that kind of trade-off being mentioned in a technical talk on chia "farming". But I don't remember the details.

And? Gaza is the sgressor there. Not Israel. It would not be surprising if Ukraine's defense against Russia eventually kills lots of Russian "civilians" as well. That's totally ok. Russia is the aggressor. We killed millions of Germans in WW2, including roughly a million German "civilians". That was totally ok. Germany was the aggressor.

I actually went to a Chia conference a few months ago. I just happened to be in the same city and figured why not? They had a lot of focus on making NFTs happen...

At the moment I've gotten 12 different Bitcoin donations via Ark (https://arkade.wallet) totaling ~$60... and one guy on Twitter asked to donate via Chia and sent $150. Bitcoiners are falling behind. 😂

Note how that's a Kh-101 cruise missile. It's flying under controlled flight, and throwing off flares at the last moment to ensure it hits the apartment building without being taken out by air defense. The Russian solders who programmed this missile knew exactly what they were doing: mass murder.

Russians sneaking into Pokrovsk, Ukraine, under cover of fog. Due to enormous numbers of Ukrainian drones, and their depleted reserves of actual military vehicles, they're riding to battle on the same crap you'd expect from Jihadis in the middle east.

https://ottawacitizen.com/public-service/defence-watch/canadian-military-public-servants ...and guess which way public servants lean? Hard left. The real goal of this is most likely to ensure that the Canadian military can put down an internal civil war if needed.

Some friends of mine have bought a used Ford 4x4 for Wild Division, of the 82nd Air Assault Brigade of Ukraine. I visited them earlier this summer: They already have the vehicle, and a volunteer driver. We're just trying to get another ~500€ to pay for the ferry and gas to Eastern Ukraine. So I thought it'd be fun to raise the funds with Arkade's new Ark wallet, arkade.money All you need to do is send funds to the Ark address I've setup: ark1qq4hfssprtcgnjzf8qlw2f78yvjau5kldfugg29k34y7j96q2w4t5pnjjnnvr9f46x3j6v2dmx64lqgqy87rf8y37z759esvv2rexj6crhdp5d You can fund your Ark wallet with either lightning or on-chain funds. I'm in control of that wallet, and I'll forward the funds to the people who need it. Civilian 4x4's are used by all the front line units. Unfortunately, due to funding constraints, there's nowhere near enough proper armored vehicles. So most of the smaller vehicles used for transportation tasks are unarmored civilian vehicles, painted with camo. It's frankly totally nuts that full scale warfare is being done this way... But Ukrainians have to make do. I've done a bunch of economic transactions with Ark myself, and haven't managed to lose any money yet. It's an interesting alternative to Lightning; most of my L2 paper last year was about Ark: petertodd.org/2024/covenant-… This will probably be the first fundraiser anyone has ever done with Ark! If we get more than needed for this task, I'll find more uses for it – they certainly can use more vehicles for example.