“Matt and tray so loved America they were willing to burn $1.5 billion to save it.”

Two wallets. 10k BTC each. These wallets were created back when BTC was 78¢. When you spend $10k the IRS might ask questions. If you are “structuring” correctly you avoid spending $9,999 and $1 within a short time span or even in the same reporting period. 10k BTC back then was something you could buy that looked like it wasn’t $10k but was really close. Spend it twice in two different wallets and if there are enough other transactions no one will notice.

Anytime you see a transaction or set of transactions that add up to or are just shy of 10k USD, BTC or pretty much anything, there should be a little bell that dings in your head and causes you to think “this person is clearly thinking about US tax reporting laws and trying to dodge them.”

Who had all that money back in 2011 that decided that now was the time to tap those wallets that are worth a billion each? Obviously someone that hasn’t needed the money until now. Someone that is planning on spending up to 2 billion. But not right away because if you try to sell 20k BTC in a hurry it will draw attention and potentially destabilize the currency. But you could sell it all off over the next year or longer without flooding the market.

Who wants to spend up to $2 billion in the next year? What could you buy with that kind of money? Elon musk spent ~$250 million getting Trump elected. That’s just an eighth of $2B. You could buy a lot of super PAC power with $2B. You could bankroll the primarying of every Republican that voted for OBBB. Weird that these wallets were dusted off so close to Elon saying he would primary anyone that voted for OBBB, and he has a strong affinity for crypto, and he had enough money in 2011 to buy that much BCT on a whim, and that he wouldn’t have had to touch it to pay other bills as BTC went from 78¢ to more than $100,000 over the last 14 years.

I wonder who these wallets belong to and what they will be used for?

This is what conspiracy thinking looks like. It’s me. I’m the one conspiracy thinking.

Star Trek fans.

NCC-1701

Species 8472 is under represented.

I’m number one!

Ideally an empty atheist group is the platonic ideal. Nothing about nothing. No arguments. No exclusion. No evangelicals. No conversion attempts.

It’s too early for the Butlerian Jihad to start.

At your next job interview ask them if they are results driven or methodology driven. “If I were to take twice as long to do something by using a poorly designed tool will I be rewarded or punished?”

Good to know. As my posting history on Lemmy will show I definitely watch bread recipes videos. In fact I became a mod for c/cooking today.

You watch one ContraPoints video about Jordan B Peterson and the next thing you know … Still not any JBP video recommendations. So I guess there is an upside to the failure of big data.

Each day I go to the YouTube app on Roku to my subscriptions tab and watch whatever is new. Then I go to Recommend and it’s 90% or more previous videos from those same subscriptions and very little new creators it hasn’t showed me.

After almost a year of this it figured out last week I might like AronRa, a person I’m very familiar with. And after countless videos on anthropology, evolution and paleontology he should have come up so much sooner. So much for big data.

But what is completely lacking is a “show me completely random stuff, old, new, not in my algorithm, short, long, completely against my algorithm, etc.” it lacks almost any way to discover new stuff that isn’t 100% related to content you already have.

YouTube gets more uploads than any one person can possibly watch and yet it’s almost incapable of showing me something unless I explicitly tell it to find it for me.

It capitalized Wash because spell checker is the leaf on the wind.

A lot of people who try to dismiss racism as a factor in things don’t understand the scale of history.

The Equal Opportunity Act is only two years older than I am. The Equal Rights Act is just 10 years older than I am. Anyone you know that is older than 70 definitely went to a segregated school. But odds are most of the people you know that are older than 60 probably went to one as well because things don’t change overnight even when the national guard is called.

Parents today will do everything they can to get their kid into a good school district because they know every early advantage counts. Red Lining officially ended in 1968 but was still very much alive for another full generation or two after that. Kids in the 80s were still going to schools built before separate but equal was overturned. They were still going to schools underfunded because property taxes from segregated neighborhoods that weren’t going to reach income parity until gentrification hit in the 90s or 00s prevented those kids from getting a good education.

The people that were dumping milkshakes on people during the lunch counter sit-ins were the bosses making hiring decisions for the next 40 years.

People have this rosy view that “well that was a problem and then we passed a law that fixed it” while ignoring that things don’t change overnight and it takes a full generation or two to get everything through the courts and actually see the fruits of the fix.

But some generations last longer than others. John Tyler, president of the country from 1841 to 1845 had kids. Those kids had kids. Until today one of those kids was still alive. 180 years for just three generations . Did he directly benefit from generational wealth gathered before the end of slavery? You know he did. The occasional “This was your grandfather’s” hand-me-down was something that existed while slavery was still a thing.

Things echo through history and sometimes the echo is louder for some than others. Here is a guy who was a kid during the Great Depression and had a grand dad that was over 35 years old two decades before the Civil War.

Don’t let people tell you “that was a long time ago. They should have got over it by now” when the only asset the family has was a predatory loan made for a redlined house that determined what school they went to and how the rest of their life was statistically not just determined but designed. Things like redlining didn’t just take advantage of poverty. It was designed to perpetuate it. And in the timeline of things it was outlawed less than a lifetime ago.

Remember what they took from us.

Reminder that there is an ASCII art community.

https://lemmy.world/c/ascii_art

It simply has too many bits. I know that scene doesn’t quite work here. But it’s the first thing I thought of. This is just way over complicated for finding if a number is divisible by two.

This was figured out more than a decade ago.

https://www.livescience.com/15611-physics-coffee-stains-explained.html

They should probably reread Romans 13 1-7

What an unfortunate thing to happen on free dozen eggs night.

Yeah. Yeah. The time cube. We’ve all seen it.