not so far, it doesn’t look like there are any plans to integrate smart contracts yet.

they’re still focused on maintaining and further developing the best practical fungible cryptocurrency.

on-chain smart contracts are a big investment of time, effort and money that don’t seem high on the priority list next to maintaining and improving XMR.

smart contracts are nice, but they don’t seem functionally necessary or desirable for a currency and could be employed as requested by third parties as effectively as a native implementation.

haha yea. he looks great.

I never knew what he looked like.

he looks like a real cool nerd in his Hobbesian sweater

Thomas payne’s common sense didn’t change everyone’s mind.

and there are people today influencing how everybody thinks with tweets and memes.

language and information is evolving, and that is absolutely changing the landscape of how public opinion is affected.

Gaza is a great example.

Israeli has been bombing hospitals and schools and extrajudicially executing Palestinians for 50 years, but now that people can see that information and hear testimony from Palestinian journalists directly, they care.

I don’t know by what right? or legal process they would seize your monero unless you admitted to it being yours and personally sent them the XMR, but yeah, at the moment, xmr being entirely fungible means that it’s basically the same as cash.

it comes from where you say it comes from.

how is Blue sky?

is it pretty much a Twitter clone?

that’s correct!

different states and countries often have different laws, which determine their income tax regulations and necessarily all of their other ordinances.

yes.

fyi, mining cryptocurrency is usually subject to income tax and every year you mined xmr, you should have been paying tax on tye mined crypto.

If you simply bought it, then there would be no taxes until you exchange or sell the XMR.

chill.out bro, I answer the questions I’m asked.

it’s pretty much what I described earlier:

grassroots protests and activism, lots of political prisoners, corrupt Beijing officials being pushed into local offices,

No, it’s definitely not common chill, there’s a media blackout on any protests, like Beijing is literally replacing the heads of newspapers tv, radio stations, podcasts with party loyalists and trying to stem the news of the protests so that people think things have calmed down.

but people in Hong Kong are definitely fighting back.

I don’t really have a prediction on how it’s going to end.

xi collapsing, xi militarily invading and completely taking over Hong Kong by force, an extended guerilla war, a treaty that basically annexes Hong Kong, it’s pretty difficult to tell with the amount of wealth and influence Hong Kong has versus the simultaneous waning of xi but still significant power of Chinese nationalism, The support of external countries to make sure China doesn’t expand.

there are too many wildly potent variables to currently predict what’s going to happen with any on out to accuracy, any one of which could completely change the entire conflict.

“I’m the troll?”

Yes, we agree.

did he do any new moves, or was he just a little bit faster?

I’ve been looking forward to someone doing a carpetless rainbow road for a while since they discovered it was possible.

“can you elaborate on “daily protests”?”

sure, i can even give you the relevant quote from the comment you’re referencing.

“…almost daily protests and resistance actions…”

“…almost daily…” means something happening almost every day.

so if you were eating spaghetti Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, you’d be eating spaghetti every day.

but if you ate spaghetti Monday, Tuesday, skipped Wednesday, and then ate spaghetti Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, you’d be eating spaghetti almost every day.

now replace spaghetti with protests and resistance actions.

“protests” are public demonstrations of resistance against a policy (holding a sign, chanting, sitting on the roadway)

resistance actions don’t necessarily imply a public aspect (graffiti, coordinating a protest, wearing a mask)

HK is still being invaded, and everything I wrote above is still correct.

HK citizens are still resisting, they have almost daily protests and resistance actions; xi is in no way ruling with an iron fist.

he is actively losing his grip.

“I never said I don’t like Lemmy.”

cool?

nobody else did either.

“lemmy sucks”

you said “lemmy sucks” but that you don’t not like it.

so you like things that you think suck?

“If you want to take honest criticism of the platform as a troll”

this makes no sense.

I answered your comment with a question and thoughtful response.

what do you think a troll is?

“you can get fucked.”

there’s no reason for you to lash out.

you don’t like Lemmy?

I don’t use a lot of social media, but I vastly prefer it to Reddit.

I kind of want to try out tildes more.

I think this guy’s just a troll or a bandwagon Betty.

for context, this is entirely incorrect.

xi is not “brilliant”(he was very lucky to become PM when he did), and he is losing control.

not just xinjiang, but many provinces of China have been separating themselves from Beijing and trying to declare independence for years.

xi obviously have no control over Taiwan, although they’re trying to brute force the government.

Shanghai is very international and doesn’t want to be associated with Beijing.

Hong Kong obviously doesn’t consider itself as governed by Beijing.

and despite the constant violent dictator tactics, China has persistent protests in every province by brave Chinese citizens standing up and calling out the human rights abuses, the broken economic promises, the countless domestic and foreign political failures of China, the insane quarantine measures taken fruitlessly being a good recent example, the complete collapse of their housing market after the government encouraged everyone to invest all of their life savings in real estate being another.

xi’s “iron fist” is gripping sand, and it is falling through his fingers.

what are you talking about?

The first comment is condemning him and the second comment explicitly mentions that he shouldn’t be supporting genocide.

both comments happen before yours

do it.

there was a SEQUEL!?

oh hell yeah.

okay, that was obviously my first question.

thanks