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IDK, it seems almost transparent to me those in control of the US are doing a racketeering-like thing to solicit bribes, and doing whatever whoever bribes them the most wants. They aren't thinking on a national level, just personal; and would burn the US or any other country to the ground to gain more power and wealth.

I like superdeterminism. Or Three Body Problem's sophons :)

It pretty much is the same thing. In theory, shorting the ETF will drive the price of gold down (until the short needs to be covered; like all shorts), because all accounts must eventually be settled. The price of gold is literally set by the futures market, which people with the appropriate approval can also short. Gold dealers literally look up the price on the futures market and add/subtract a few percentage points to determine how much to buy/sell physical gold for.

I'm not involved in the "scene," so don't know the accuracy of the content, but I've heard they do it something like this before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene

Kagi is great, probably the best I've tried, but expensive. I just use DDG for now, until my financial situation improves.

You can short gold ETFs. Gold is highly speculative and has crashed taking decades to recover (~1980-2005). It's basically boomer-bitcoin.

The Fediverse is social media. Wouldn't instances be required to do age verification? I mean, I guess that'd only be enforceable on Australian instances, but it seems like the whole world is going in that direction.

Already exists (Ramble). It's just pretty dead.

It may be possible to federate with other i2p instances, if not, I'm guessing it would require fairly simple code changes to lemmy to be able to point to other .i2p addresses.

To federate with clearnet, I think an instance would need to kind of act like a bridge that uses both clearnet and i2p; so it wouldn't be "hidden." I see there is also an exit node network (ran by StormyCloud) on i2p now, but that may be too slow for federation.

Edit: I imagine most clearnet instances would not want to federate with a darknet instance due to the higher probability of illegal content being posted.

I think there are probably enough collectors, AV nerds, and people without consistent high bandwidth unlimited internet to keep physical going for a while. It'll just be niche, like vinyl, I suppose.

It is kinda weird that optical stopped advancing. You can fit more data on a MicroSD card than BluRay. You can fit something like 240 blurays on a consumer HDD (and much more if you further compress).

Hmm, I've never seen performing oral sex as being submissive, necessarily. It can be a quite active act; aggressive even.