Wrong forum for this type of question.

But No. Its also not nearly as big of a deal as your making it out to be. No one cares you're topping off your mulvad subscription using xmr. Just use cash or buy crypto on a CEX/atm/local and swap to xmr. Especially on an old, less power efficient computer. You need to use Ryzen CPU, folks usually buy minisforum pcs for this.

just ran the numbers, if you get one of these newer amd ryzen pc's you actually might be able break even if your electric is less than 12 cents USD / kwh

use xmrrig.com for benchmark for cpus use miniforum pcs or build your own use https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/monero/calculator use monerica for swap services

Also, if your this concerned with your privacy you should run your own node. See monero.fail

We need to add Dubai to the boycott list.

Its blatantly obvious they are both funding the genocide in Sudan and co-signing the genocide in Palestine. Its a shame the fall of El-Fashir did not lead to greater outrage in the West, like it has for Gaza. These conversations are taking place within activist circles, however at least in the USA, were not doing enough.

imo I think most people aren't connecting the dots between the UAE's crucial role in supporting the genocidal Zionist state.

The potential indictment of the 94-year-old former ​president of Cuba and brother of Fidel is expected to focus ​on the downing of aircraft, the official said on condition ⁠of anonymity. CBS previously reported that the case relates to Cuba's deadly ​1996 shootdown of planes operated by humanitarian group Brothers to the Rescue.

Jeez they are really fishing for literally anything.

Can we indict Donald J Trump on triple tapping 175 school girls and parents with tomahawk missiles? What about allowing a white supremacist biker gang operate a concentration camp in Gaza? What about all those little girls he raped with Epstein?

In my experience, the bigger issue is folks just completely ignore OPSEC once they get on signal.

The centralized component is pretty concerning. Imagine if protests like in Iran earlier this year were to occur in the States. The Feds would immediately seize or DDOS those servers during nationwide unrest, before cutting the internet which is basically an inside out panopticon.

EOD it depends on your threat model. You're probably not on Signal if your life depends on it anyway.

Plus, its always useful to not have my texts immediately read and sent to advertisers.

Monero XMR is the last bastion of "anonymous" transactions. The issue is actually obtaining it privately.

They're going to tax/fine you however they want. This is already reality. Its no different from having a bank account or making transfers via Paypal or Zelle. Our currency is already heavily digitized and centralized by governments. Transitioning to CBDCs would just be making the back-end more robust, which I'm personally in favor for. The technology for this has been worked on for about a decade now.

There haven't been nearly as many internal Mossad operations in Iran since those protests early in the year. Iran has been surprisingly secure since. Perhaps this internal Mossad network has been crippled severely at this point.

in the space of 3000 years three different social systems have been successively superseded in Europe: the primitive communal system, the slave system and the feudal system.

this is talking about the romans right?

His own subreddit seems to share this take

I wonder if hes the equivalent of Joe Rogan for the athiest community, where none of his original fans support his current views.

Either way, fuck Sam Harris.

I think we need to stop the “both sides are the same” stuff until we’ve actually given the Democrats a big margin in both houses for an extended period so that we give the left leaning members an opportunity to get some things moving.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH LOLLLLLL XDDDD

"How many times do we gotta teach you this lesson old man?"

Can someone post the actual text of Section 224?

thanks.

good post

non-x link: https://nitter.net/...

Also sub to jasper nathaniel's substack, he gives great English-Language coverage on the West-Bank: https://www.infinitejaz.com/

why?

I associate the words "oppression" and "repression" with actions performed by states or non-government authorities.

I'm not going to continue this discussion, since its off-topic.

The light blue thing your seeing that looks like the West Bank is the Dead Sea, so it seems like they are claiming all of the West Bank here.

Excluding Gaza (by particularly demarcating its border) is interesting though. Seems like these Kahanists intend to keep their ghetto turned concentration camp.

I wish Ben Gvir burns and burns and burns in hell.

You mean 48 during the Nakba?

FYI 1967 was when Israel occupied the West Bank during the Naksa.

The Jewish people remain an oppressed minority...

Can we really count Jews as "oppressed" in 2026?

IMO, they are arguably the most privileged minority in the west with their proximity to whiteness, specific codified anti-hate-crime/"antisemitism" laws, and a literal ethnostate guaranteed by imperialist hegemony.

I meant payment processors like zelle or paypal, or banking apps. Obviously you can just use crypto. That's not going away.

You're already giving up your privacy by having a banking account. There's already no privacy if you're using paypal, cashapp, zelle, etc or any tap-to-pay. You have to go really out of your way to avoid KYC in 2026.