The only reason anyone thinks "Romeo and Juliet" is romantic is they don't spend enough time together to discover each other's horrible character defects before they die.
If they had actually succeeded in running away together it would have been like the last scene from "The Graduate"
The bitcoin community is fighting over an upcoming software change that one developer has warned will be the end of bitcoin. He has reportedly discussed creating a trusted group of censors with the authority to alter data recorded on chain.
I think the ‘problem’, as such, with pounding the table about “oh, someone is calling for their political opponents to be jailed” is that Trump’s political opponents should have been doing exactly that from at *least* 2PM on January 6, 2021.
There’s definitely not a CSS-only way to do this, but the WordPress (Gutenberg) `core/cover` block uses the `fast-average-color` library to grab the dominant color of an image and assess it as ‘light’ or ‘dark’.
““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+
I think reading the rest of Schatz’s responses precludes this reading, though. His perspective appears to be, “I’d do it again,” and attempting to talk him out of that seems like a valuable use of time to me!
If the grievance is, “the US Senate is one of the few places that an elected official can wield power to slow down the very thing you’re upset about,” then probably! Is there any criticism that would motivate Lindsay Graham to oppose the next ICE funding increase? Probably not, but Schatz might!
this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight.
![Bitcoiners have been embroiled in a battle surrounding an impending update to Bitcoin Core, the reference implementation for bitcoin nodes, which will increase the amount of data that can be included in bitcoin transactions beyond simple payment information. Supporters argue this provides a better method for storing arbitrary data on the bitcoin chain than existing approaches like the controversial Ordinals [I46] or Runes [I56] projects, while reducing the resource burden on node operators. Opponents contend that bitcoin developers should discourage such activity, and have raised concerns about network spam and potential legal liability for node operators, since each bitcoin node must download all transaction data. Some worry that bad actors could upload illicit data, like copyrighted content or child sexual abuse material, to the chain, creating legal problems for anyone running a node. Supporters have pushed back on these concerns, noting that node operators can “prune” (discard) the added data after validation, and that illicit content already exists on the bitcoin chain but hasn’t resulted in legal issues.39](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:exrxvyu6bpoym6mbnctke5tn/bafkreidin34z4wacssxcltg2n3ugd4u42udsv6xcon23ffv5p4qouv4iya@jpeg)
![Opponents have framed the update in dire terms. Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr — a longtime critic of bitcoin “spam” [I20, 46] and maintainer of the alternative Knots node software — has claimed that bitcoin “will cease to exist when Core30 changes it into a CSAM file sharing platform” and that “Bitcoin doesn’t survive if v30 gets widespread adoption.”4041 Dashjr has reportedly discussed creating a trusted group of censors with the authority to alter illicit data recorded on chain —a controversial proposal in an ecosystem that prides itself on being trustless, uncensorable, and immutable. “Right now the only options would be Bitcoin dies or we have to trust someone,” Dashjr wrote in leaked messages published by The Rage.42](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:exrxvyu6bpoym6mbnctke5tn/bafkreierhkot4yegdz3u73kdyaj34le5gqv6w6dkv3x6kybeswetkftb3e@jpeg)
