SatanLucy
That is illegal by international law


We all know great powers dont follow international law. US doesnt, China doesnt, Russia doesnt, North Korea doesnt, Israel doesnt.


International law only applies to countries which can be punished by international intervention. So international law doesnt apply to many countries.

SatanLucy
“Its stockpile of roughly 11,500 Bitcoins, purchased when the cryptocurrency’s price was about $115,000, means the company has accumulated a loss of about 25 [percent] on the position,” according to Bloomberg.


If they were smart, they would buy more bitcoin. Each thing which is traded has ups and downs. You buy when it goes down. But as long term investment, it will pay off almost certainly. Loss is temporary. tho diversity of investments would have probably been a smarter play.

SatanLucy

So all the talk about how trump was just "pretending" and acting unpredictable, was clearly proved false.


talking bad of Venezuela constantly and accusing it of drugs was of course just preparation for invasion. He needed to prepare people for this mentally. Same was true for Iraq, and every other US war. Each invasion comes with previous "bad mouthing" of what is being invaded to justify invasion.


Doing a literal blitzkrieg on a country to arrest its president right after new year celebration is probably one of most insane strategies.


But that is just short term gain, long term loss.


Why is it a long term loss? Well, the invasion achieved nothing important, actually. Maduro will just be replaced by one of his people in command, and the next leader will of course take US ships near his country more seriously.


But US reputation is of course permanently harmed after this, which is a long term loss in all future deals and actually makes countries more likely to turn to China than USA when it comes to trade and military alliance in future.


Another long term loss is "winner overconfidence". Now that trump has learned that he can just arrest leaders of other countries by surprise attacks, it is very unlikely that this is the last time trump will use this strategy.


In fact, trump did use attack on leadership of enemies before, but now he increased it to another level.


Will such strategy work long term? Very unlikely. Leaders will just place greater protection around themselves, because after this, they would be extremely stupid not to.

SatanLucy
Whenever terrorists or rioters are criticized for destroying property


Destroying any property is economical damage to whole society, because society must use resources to fix it, which reduces supply of resources for things society needs.


Now, protests are one thing. Going around breaking windows and burning cars is a crime, not a legal protest.

SatanLucy
So let's say you wanted to purchase goods from me valued at £1000 sterling, and all that you had was bitcoin


Bitcoin is bought and sold on online crypto trade market. If you have bitcoin, you sell it to someone, person pays you in dollars, and then you have actual dollars.


Also, if you are skilled in selling, you will track value of bitcoin and sell when it is at higher value.


A lot of people make mistake and start selling when bitcoin starts reducing in value greatly. No, when something starts losing value, you dont sell it, you buy more of it because its cheaper, and then when value rises again, you sell it.

SatanLucy
Is that a bitcoin billionaire or a dollar billionaire?


Dollar billionaire.


One bitcoin is worth 88000 dollars.


In past, bitcoin used to be cheap, and it would take 40 bitcoin to pay for ordinary meal. One bitcoin was very low in value.


Now, 40 bitcoins are worth over a million, as bitcoin saw quick rise in value over time, and whoever used his 40 bitcoin to pay for food 18 years ago is now in big disappointment and regret.


So likewise, buying a few bitcoin for few dollars 18 years ago, would make someone a millionaire today.


It is probably single highest return investment in history. I dont know if there ever was anything else in history which could be bought for few dollars and sold for millions of dollars 18 years later. thats like, serious inflation of one product.

SatanLucy
Unless you are a hardened wino, a litre of wine will easily make you drunk


Its not really about getting drunk as much as it is staying drunk.


You see, getting drunk is easy. One bigger glass of wine, and effect is felt.


But that effect only lasts an hour at most.


So I must drink a glass of wine about every hour just to keep effect, and because of that, one wine bottle isnt usually enough for one day.


Now, if I drank it all at once, I would be very drunk, but effect wouldnt last as long as it does when I drink one glass per hour.


Also, I have some strange immunity to alcohol. I cant get drunk from beer which has low alcohol content. Its not possible for me to drink amount of beer necessary to get drunk.


I stick to wine, and it must have above 11% alcohol, because even 11% is not good enough. Goal is to get drunk faster, and with lower alcohol content, you must drink much more.


I have tried vodka too when I was in high school, and some high alcohol percentage drinks. However, I like wine the most because taste is far better than anything else, and doesnt burn throat like vodka does.

SatanLucy
we all know part of meaning of single words is its use in context


No, words are defined by definition, not by context. In fact, context plays no role in definition of words in any dictionary anywhere.


What is definition of deceive?


Making people believe in something which isnt true.


So when Allah says he is best at making people believe what isnt true, any context around that could be just Allah making people believe what isnt true.

SatanLucy

Investors rarely choose 1. You actually want to invest in all things with consistent history of value gain.


So not just bitcoin, just gold, or just silver. But all: bitcoin, gold, silver, ethereum, desirable land...ect.


this basically guarantees profit, because its logically impossible for all these things to fail, and any which skyrockets gives huge returns.

SatanLucy

Silver increase in price in past 20 years can be said to be around 10x. (from 7$ in 2005 to 70$ in 2025)


Gold likewise has increased 10x over 20 years.


However, the crucial difference could be this: today, silver has potential to grow more in future than it did in past. So not investing some money in silver could easily result in missed opportunity.


Also, silver allows a more gradual selling. You logically only sell when you need money, and only in amount you need, which is a lot easier when there is greater number of individual pieces.


Lets say you need 70$ now. It is much better to have 2 silver coins, each of 70$ value (total 140$), than 1 gram of gold of 140$ value. While their value is equal, you only need 70$, and if you have silver coins, you can sell one, and keep other to keep gaining value. With 1 gram of gold, this isnt possible. You have to sell entire gram (140$) to get 70$ you need.

SatanLucy

Silver doesnt need to be equal price to gold per gram. Its the growth which counts. Its when you invest 100$ and later get 200$. It doesnt matter what the price per gram is. It matters what price per gram will be 20 years later. Gold could realistically grow less than silver in future.

SatanLucy
Not reproducing is not the same as abortion, it's more along the lines of not extending someone's lifespan


Hmm but then same question remains. Is abortion worse than murdering a 30 year old? Or an 80 year old? When we assume more lifespan is better?



I think I already mentioned earlier in the thread I'm not 100% utilitarian in all circumstances


I can understand that. While consequentialism-based morality is one of most popular ones, the problem lies in which goals are set to be achieved by it. For example, goal of maximum freedom isn't same as goal of maximum life. The latter implies a whole different set of laws than former, and you generally can't achieve maximum life without violating a lot of freedom, because individuals don't naturally follow goal of maximum life.


SatanLucy

He has a very particular set of skills. Skills he has acquired over a very long career. Skills that make him a nightmare for people like me. If I stop teasing him for being old, that will be the end of it. He wont look for me, he wont find me. But if I dont stop teasing him, he will look for me. He will find me. And he will expose me in another inconsistency because people from Bosnia cant talk about dollars.

SatanLucy
Those are a vast minority and not really what we were originally talking about though.


We were originally talking of 7 year old dying from cancer, would he prefer being aborted. Now, while we cant exactly predict which fetus will die from cancer, there are some cases which basically guarantee an extremely short and painful life of a fetus even if not aborted. Scientific pattern predictors use history to predict future (what repeated consistently in history, repeats consistently in future) , and give us the most likely scenario of life expectancy for a fetus.


We can talk about average fetus, but legal abortion is obviously gain for woman and for majority of society. It is a loss for fetus (when we assume equality of wants and accurate determination of wants), but loss in terms of not having a want, rather than having want and not achieving it (which is a greater loss).



I think the benefit of being born outweighs the convenience of not reproducing, typically speaking.


So should not reproducing be punished by extra taxes then, or treated as basically worse than murder? Because if we apply your so far reasoning, living for 30 years is better than living 0 years, so aborting a fetus is worse than killing a 30 year old.

SatanLucy

Allah, the Best cheater and best liar, my loving liar God Allah <3


I know many religions brag about their God being powerful and good and everything, but you will rarely find a religion which openly brags that their God is not only a cheater and liar, but the best cheater and actively cheats people and lies to them.



"and God cheated and deceived, and God is the best of the cheaters and deceivers."


"So no one trusts God's deceit except the nation the losers."


"God deceives and schemes"


"and God is best of the deceivers."



https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Allah,_the_Best_Deceiver_(Qur%27an_3:54)




I am muslim because Allah cheated me into becoming muslim.


Allah is the best of cheaters and he cheats people.


I believe in Allah, the lying deity.

SatanLucy
But only after they have been born and are guaranteed not to be aborted


Same applies to any other wish. You could say people who choose to not to give birth and not reproduce and who choose to keep lack of reproduction legal only do so after being born (so they are guaranteed not to be "not born").



Also it's pretty easy to measure the loss and gain from pregnancy vs. dying


If you asked a pregnant woman who wants abortion, would she rather die or keep pregnancy, she would most likely keep pregnancy. But likewise, if you asked a pregnant woman would she rather die or abort, she would most likely choose abortion.


this only tells you that her personal gain from "not dying and keeping pregnancy" is higher than "dying".


But it also tells you her personal gain from "abortion and not dying" is higher than "keeping pregnancy and not dying".


So abortion is a gain for a woman, and for majority of people who support abortion being legal.


And there are cases where abortion is obvious gain for fetus too, such as cases where fetus would live very short after birth, and in great pain so giving birth in that case is just doing torture.

SatanLucy
But you did not receive any therapy for your speech disorder.


Why would I want therapy from an abusive woman? Its like paying Hitler to fix your fence.