no idea. Given it’s US, it’s probably bloated crap.

C++ or Ada, I believe

or would I . . . . ?

Because they were tied to the hippies and gays, people don’t seem to realize that Kerouac was a conservative.

And hippies in a large way. In The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test (also featuring Cassidy) they describe how Kesey basically equates left-wing political movements as Mussolini and helps castrate the American Left.

do not be a good german. You have more in common with the Iranian workers than you ever do with the owning class.

Sanchez was already polling ahead of the PP and Vox prior to the Iran War - https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2026/02/19/surprise-polling-reveals-left-wing-pedro-sanchezs-psoe-holds-10-point-lead-over-pp/.

And his opposition to Trump, while Vox was eager to lick his boots, is a big plus here.

The US and Israel have made it pretty plain they won’t stop attacking Iran by doing this after the 12 day war - so it’s obvious Iran can’t do a ceasefire till they’ve inflicted enough pain on the US to ensure this doesn’t happen again.

Hot pies, motherfucker

Japan was already ready to surrender actually. The fire bombings had done the job.

That’s just FOREX with extra steps?

If Russia controls the entire supply of Bitcoin (which is what you’re saying) then why would anyone with USD want to buy it? At that point, being owned by Russia entirely, it’s just a Russian currency.

The whole supposed attraction of Bitcoin is that it’s not a government currency, and the supply isn’t controlled by a central bank. Ethereum has additional uses to that, but that’s still one of the prime factors as well.

The government you’re talking about can print money at will.

Spain has entered the chat, at least symbolically

Pastries made out of people?

Again, why?

wait, you mean like people made out of pastries, or . . . ?

Bodegas are our friends

Sure, there’s a large network advantage.

But here you’re talking about a hypothetical where, for some reason, a major government has bought up all blockchain tokens and won’t release them. So nobody’s on the original one anyways.

and they’re massively against the US, especially as Trump has tried to attack Spain