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Executive Order 6102

If it can be taken from you with the stroke of a pen, then it isn’t yours. Gold financial products are useful speculative assets but not for calamity insurance.

Do you have the a comparable stat from Russia?

longer missions

The length of missions is not currently and will not in the short or medium term be limited by the lifespan of plutonium.

We’re not in a recession because imports are subtracted from GDP. Since Imports have plummeted with tariffs, gdp data gives the false impression of a growing economy. Had imports been unchanged we would’ve had negative GDP reported.

All valid concerns. I’d argue all also manageable with some education, experience, and common sense.

Selectively. If there are enough laws on the books that everyone is in violation all the time you can justify taking down anyone at any time.

crypto bullshit

Boom! Thats what I was going for. Lemmy seems so anti-crypto when it has real use cases like this. Even here stumbling into where it’s useful you call it bullshit, why?

What about the face scans through TSA and customs? I assumed those were going into every 3 letter agencies databases.

See reply to another poster - I meant to point out that if governments move to censor sites the payment processors will move in lockstep to the govt in censoring payments.

You have a good point but may not have an appreciation for what that means for the individual soldiers. I recommend this legal eagle vid. Even if they were clearly in the right in refusing the order (which they obviously are in this case) - do you think there is any chance they would get a fair trial with this regime in power?

Imo the check on this is impeachment and prosecution of the president and officials.

What about payments?