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  • Except there are a lot of people like the first half of the parent I replied to that have a “Israel reaped what they sowed on October 6” attitude. But somehow don’t have a similar “they have reaped what they sowed” attitude towards Gaza right now.

    Which isn’t quite right.

    No one wants to share their toys since 1917. Both sides have alternatingly done ugly things that are, to our modern sensibilities, probably war crimes and ethnic cleansing. Previously, it was just war.

    We did the same/worse things to Native Americans. Spain and Portugal did the same/worse things to the Aztecs and Incas. Britain did the same/worse things to almost everyone.

    I just don’t think either side is justified but pretending like Palestine is any more or less of a victim than Israel in this whole mess doesn’t really seem to ring true if you look at the whole history.




  • What nonsense is this. The airline checks your ticket against your passport prior to departure. If airlines board anyone without the proper passport or visa and are rejected on arrival, it’s the airlines’ responsibility to fly you home on their dime.

    No airline lets you book an international ticket and board it without a valid passport and appropriate valid visas that match the name on the ticket.

    You can of course fly domestically without ID (even getting through TSA, it’s onerous but TSA has a process for that).

    Your information on that ticket is also electronically sent by the airlines to the next port of entry for a huge percentage of countries.

    If that doesn’t match the passport you have, you’re going to have problems at immigration wherever you’re going.

    You can see this is action on any boarding pass you get for international travel.

    It will say something like DOCUMENT CHECK REQD or DOCS OK right on your boarding pass.





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    11 months ago

    And most of them aren’t anonymous at all. You can correlate transactions pretty quickly, because every transaction is on the chain. You can track where every bitcoin went. As soon as you break one link you can follow the chain.

    Good luck doing that with cash.

    Blockchain has a few - really only a few - somewhat compelling use cases. Currency isn’t one of them.