Luke Dashjr @[email protected]

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Hmm, that was $20 in the 18th century, or 20 × 321.25 grains of silver. So you may want to use silver instead? (Valued about $235 today)

Silver is well-known for having medical value, so I wonder if it would actually be safe to implant somewhere...

Note this is not intended as a very serious suggestion.

Obviously your rights are worth more than $20 (I would say depriving you of them *inherently* makes the case criminal in nature!).

And considering how CPS act illegally anyway, they'd probably disregard

(That being said, if there's a non-invasive and reversible-only-by-you way to do it, it can't hurt to prepare just in case and try it if CPS attempts to attack your family...)

I wonder if there's a way to explicitly tie $21 to your children.

Would one need to surgically implant a few paper bills? Can that be done without medical risk?

Is there a less-invasive approach? Maybe setting up a legal entity in the child's benefit or something?

According to US "Child Protective Services", you have no right to a trial by jury or to remain silent because they're removing your parental rights without filing criminal charges.

Note you have the right to a trial by jury for civil cases >$20.

Having issues with updating the Ubuntu PPA, and Gentoo's added some new hurdles to work through, so those are delayed for the moment.

Most notable new feature (for GUI users) is an error if you try to send to an address you've already paid before.

It can be overridden, but hopefully helps informed users avoid accidentally doing so, and explains the situation to new users who aren't aware it's a bad idea.

#Bitcoin Knots 0.18.1.knots20190920 is released.

http://bitcoinknots.org/?20190920?mastodon

Ok Mastodon, HOW do I actually start a DM with someone???

@[email protected] Your employees and judiciary are breaking up families with an assumption of guilt and no evidence, much less proof. Uphold the constitution like you took an oath to, and put these kidnappers in jail!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3wl1sxx220ikb1n/DYFSsupervisorandworkertellingmethatImguiltyuntilproveninnocentinfamilycourt%281%29.mp3?dl=0

cc @[email protected]

Heard a possibly good solution to the #vaccine controversy:

Pay people for their service helping protect society, free market style, until the desired vaccination rate is achieved.

No forcing people against their will, and it seems pretty fair overall.

"In addition to open sourcing the #POWERISA, @IBM is also contributing a newly developed softcore to the community. ...also...reference designs for #OpenCAPI and Open Memory Interface (#OMI)"

https://twitter.com/OpenPOWERorg/status/1163844486788784128?s=19

A right is something which you can legitimately defend with violence.

If you're unable to use violence, you effectively have no rights.

By nominating absolutely absurd candidates, the #Democrats are sending Trump the message he can do whatever evil he wants (like red flag laws) and still win reelection.

The only way out of this race to the bottom is for BOTH parties to start nominating decent people.

“We've identified the 50 most important machines that we think it takes for modern life to exist...then we set out to create an open source, DIY, do it yourself version that anyone can build and maintain at a fraction of the cost.” https://t.co/WOgAOfjNpp

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1160421993948147712?s=19

Despite their claims, @[email protected]'s hosted mining services are absolutely a centralisation risk, just like any other hosted mining.

If you're going to buy hosted mining anyway, pick a small-hashrate company to provide it, but don't fool yourself into thinking it's comparable to actually mining yourself.

(BetterHash only helps when you physically control the hardware.)

The #SecondAmendment can't just be repealed. It grants no rights, merely clarifies that the US government will not attempt to infringe on the _fundamental_human_right_ to keep and bear firearms. That right cannot be abolished or repealed by anyone. It exists no matter what any constitution says or doesn't say.

You are justified in shooting someone if necessary to stop their violation of your fundamental rights, such as if they are trying to steal/confiscate your firearms.

Just figured I should point this out again, since #Twitter suspended me for saying so there.

When/if Twitter finally unsuspends me: Is there a good way to view Twitter content within Mastodon, and make replies to it etc without using Twitter's new crappy website?

Basically, treat @twitter.com as a non-standard federation (for my user alone, of course).