My thought process as well.

TNG? Hell no, it was the end of a Golden Era. SNW, all the way. By the time you get old enough that missions of science and explorations are thrown to the side in exchange for war, you’re 100 and living in some retirement holodeck.

Summer mode:

Front right pocket, phone. Left pocket keys and slimline wallet. Optional, pocket knife in little coin pocket.

Maybe he was dictating?

This is utter BS.

A foreign national on US soil doesn’t get the same protections as a US citizen would overseas.

What they’re saying is “fuck 'em all, let God sort 'em out!” for warrantless data searches and collection. And then waiting for the lawsuit 20 years from now about clear violation of the law to bother thinking about this.

People “find” religion for all sorts of reasons, not just being emotionally vulnerable.

The social infrastructure for many religions doesnt exist near a person and that doesnt prevent them from following what they want. Immigrants move to places where they’re the only whatever they are. Plenty of people convent to a religion where they’re the only practitioner. Online Buddhist Sanghas serve exactly that group.

I have a friend that is a Unitarian-Universalist because she wanted a chill social group that wasn’t about drinking and matched her ideals. They’re not exactly scooping up huddled masses these days, either.

While I take your point that Pastafarianism isn’t “legitimate” enough to pass muster in a court where religious exemptions might be a defense strategy, that doesnt prevent it from being something that speaks to people. It’s a “religion” highlighting how ridiculous religion can be.

Goat, human, sheep, horse, camel. Plenty of animals give us milk with less lactose than cows.

Cows seek revenge on humans through biological warfare.

WTF is this article? Browser extensions are standard browser fingerprinting data.

Yeah, but paganism, animism, and Pastafarianism are all valid end points, too.

Worship the sun, it gives us life. What have YOU done for 8 billion people today?

Rednecks. They would have started shooting at the orb, way before the gorilla showed up.

“Guys, I hacked a nuclear rector using the secret direct protocol!”

I love this idea, but whew, where I grew up this would have gotten someone shot.

Not sure if you saw my edit in the previous comment as it looks like you were responding at the same time. Back in the day, my guy made everyone that bought from him move to PayPal because, at the time, cops didn’t want to do the extra work to subpoena PayPal. Plus, it meant less cash at his house, so less robbery risk. Things change, and I’m not trying to mess with you or freak you out - I’m genuinely trying to let you know you’re holding onto an idea that stopped being low-risk 5 years ago and now using BTC is not a great idea. I’m trying to help you because I do, in fact, know what the fuck I’m talking about. FFS, you’re being rescued, please do not resist.

Don’t feel like reading? Here’s videos: Reviews of crypto forensics platforms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzxmvQO2INE Your wallet is a data point that companies monetize by selling the data to law enforcement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGvNfGu_dio

Because it’s not just you and D and John in the world - fraud cases are also adding pressure to law enforcement to track wallets. So you’re up against millions in software companies and AI tools and old people losing money pushing these tools to go anywhere and see everything. https://youtu.be/AjxA_xBjcxE?t=389

Let’s get personal. Here’s two scenarios that do play out all the time, and which federal, state, and local cops contract out to get network intel on this:

1. So there’s You, John, your guy D, Tom and Janet. You don’t know Tom and Janet at all. Tom wants to buy mollies and party favors from D and because Tom’s a dick, he gets $500 out of the ATM over 2 days and asks Janet to buy BTC from Coinbase, with KYC. $500 of BTC gets bought and goes to Tom’s wallet. Tom buys $300 in party favors and leaves $200 in the wallet. Seven months later Tom gets busted for DUI and in the process gets a possession charge because of a roach in his car’s ash tray that wasn’t even his. None of this touches, you, right?

It’s a public ledger, so all BTC transactions are visible, both wallet names and values. And at this point, BTC wallets are part of the typical asset investigation list because it’s so easy to track. KYC shows Janet bought BTC and immediately sent it. Tom is a bitch and for probation gives up D’s name. D is now associated with that wallet. Local PD sit on D for a month looking at who comes and goes. and seeing which wallets touch D’s wallet. That OSINT link I sent you is all about this. So the PD gets one pic of you walking up to D’s house - so they have your face, which goes into ClearviewAI and gets them your name, address, phone number, etc. They notice that one wallet connected to D also serves as a hub and making BTC purcahses and immediate payments to lots of wallets, Because John doesn’t take cash just from you, John takes cash from lots of people to buy BTC. That’s John and D both easily on the list for subpoenas for phone records. After sitting on John for 2 weeks and D for 4 weeks, PD picks them both up. John’s phone has Whatsapp messages, and the PD subpoenas Meta for those messages and Celebrite the rest. You accidentally called not on Whatsapp once, and you’re connected to John - but you’re also connected to D. You’re just one of a dozen or two nodes in the network map that get picked up over the next week because you’ve left a trail.

You use a mixer? Cute - guess who has flagged the use of mixers as probable cause? https://www.secretservice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2025-06/Public-Alert-Cryptocurrency-Mixing.pdf

2. D has a connect/supplier, right? D isn’t growing keys in the garden. Let’s call that supplier Mack. Mack supplies 5 people: D, R, T, B, and P. P gets busted 2 states away and has a trail leading to Mack. Mack has a trail that leads to D. D has to move what he gets paid around so he can buy groceries, right? So that’s a trail leading to someone else with KYC or red flags from mixers. And then we’re back in the same scenario as above - anything that touches D can come back to you and people who you’ve never met can bring it all down. A pattern can easily get established where you get out $300 cash and within a week, $300 or less goes to John into a new wallet. Those new payments happen within 24 hours of you going to visit D, in the same exact amounts.

Chainalysis LOVES that you think BTC is even slightly anonymous. “Senator, cash is, indeed, far less traceable than cryptocurrency.” - https://youtu.be/DSyGE3BDpVg?t=65

Here’s detectives talking up how easy it is to track you, across different coins, across mixers, there are methods Mostly that there’s no delay between a payment happening and going to another wallet… https://youtu.be/AjxA_xBjcxE?t=389

And they are willing to wait. And that data stays in play for YEARS. You been buying from D for 4 years? that’s 4 years of patterns. THAT is the data trail you and D and John have left, not what you do today. It’s what you’ve been doing.

I really don’t think you understand how deep KYC goes, and how patterns get established based on wallets. This is not “loony” stuff- OSINT people do this in their spare time. Your wallet is tracked and known and connected to your dealer already by people. But hey, you do you. Just remember that you have been warned three times.

First off, read the Privacy Guides recommendations for crypto: Monero only as it provides privacy by default. https://www.privacyguides.org/en/cryptocurrency/

Second, have you done KYC anywhere else? That CAN get connected indirectly to your wallet. How do you GET cash to pay Johnny Shadyshit? Did you pull out enough to also match that cash in the amounts paid by Shadyshit to a wallet within the same general time frame? Feds have this records, and if they roll Johnny, that’s classic data they use to build a case. Did someone stupid that your dealer sells to have their girlfriend deposit money from Coinbase and send the exact same amount to their boyfriend who send the same amount to the dealer? They’re connected to you, too. People you’ve never MET are making nodes on the network mapping. https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/my-journey-without-kyc/36366

Edit: And hey, I get it. Back in the day, my guy told no one to bring cash by their place ever again because he knew local PD were likely sitting across the street. So he made everyone pay him with PayPal. Park a couple blocks away, pay with what was, at the time, " less traceable" because it wasn’t a break-in robbery risk for him, and cash on hand is also something cops will get you for.

My guy, you might as well keep going with what you’re doing. Fighting with anyone about it is straight up foolish in the face of everything I’ve showing you. But remember, you’re taking a risk to maybe/maybe not be yet another example of someone ignoring all the warnings.

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/bitcoin-worth-35-million-tied-213110010.html https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-attorney-announces-historic-336-billion-cryptocurrency-seizure-and-conviction https://www.crimeworld.com/ireland/how-30m-bitcoin-seizure-from-dublin-drug-dealer-could-lead-to-360m-jackpot-for-state/a/144477652.html https://komonews.com/news/local/king-county-dealer-amassed-287k-in-crypto-selling-drugs-on-the-dark-web-meth-fentanyl-dealing-guns-weapons-handgun-rifle-ak-explosion-shot-crime-investigation-homeland-security-seattle-washington-money-thousands

Not quite.

Look, ask any serious privacy community, they’ll give you the same answer. It’s kind of a known standard.

The pointers are that a lot of people track crypto wallets, it’s not hard to do, and that any wallet ever tied to an ID is directly identified. So any other wallet that touches those wallets gets pulled into a network cluster. Network analysis tools are decades old. Patterns get established. So your wallet isn’t any safer than Johnny Shadyshit and his wallet once they connect. You think Johnny won’t ever get rolled? You trust them to be invincible?

Just use Monero or cash.

https://thecoinomist.com/learn/crypto-osint-how-crypto-and-iowners-are-tracked/

https://www.acfcs.org/acfcs-contributor-report-bitcoin-tracking-for-law-enforcement

No, just the one.

Now I need a second one! This is adorable.

I don’t think so, I think it’s a copycat.

The horniness is less refined, more just overt sex references. Not the self-confident horny of Violet08.

Are you in my house?

I have that cat. Both of them, actually. And that office chair.

Spend some time looking into how the FBI traces wallets. It’s pretty easy, and it’s that at some point, John Shadyman’s wallet gets tied to people tied to you. The entire Privacy community considers cash better than every crypto other than Monero.

No, you’re correct.

The only possible improvement would be a Special Edition where the right current cannon ships are on that wall.