https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60281129
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This just in! North Korea does completely unverifiable and unproveable thing!
More at 11.
Here's a lib in a travel blog buying a whole bag of weed openly in a marketplace, and smoking it in a restaurant in public
and then lamenting how surely everybody goes to prison for fourteen generations if they take one puff: http://www.thebohemianblog.com/2013/09/on-smoking-weed-in-north-korea.htmlOnce or twice the waitress came by to collect plates, and, coughing, made mock gestures of trying to sweep the clouds away with her hands. She didn’t mind at all, but rather seemed perplexed how something so commonplace could cause such unprecedented excitement.
I'll be honest, I skimmed the article and didn't pay too close attention, but I didn't see the author stating everyone goes to prison for fourteen generations if they take one puff
If anything the article came off as "literally no one cares"
Huh, you're right, it's not as I remembered it. I was sure it had a link that said weed is actually punished by death or whatever. I'm probably misremembering.
To expand cannabis is native to the Korean peninsula. For thousands of years Koreans have used it recreationally and medicinally. As ComradeSadge said it’s low THC. They often cut it with tobacco (or cut tobacco with non THC containing hemp) when there’s shortages.
That's how cannabis was around the world before colonial powers unilaterally bans it in the early 20th century and imposes it upon their subjects, who went on to continue the indoctrination because there was noone with the knowledge to oppose it until recently.
Literally thousand years of cultural culinary and medicinal history wiped out across the globe.
It makes a lot of sense for DPRK to put effort into things like this. It's a risk/benefit ratio that's very appealing. Steal untraceable money from capitalists and fund your own programs. It's like reverse imperialism? Leaching from capital to fund the people's survival.
I mean it's not untraceable there's literally a public ledger recording all transactions it could not be more traceable. it's just not regulated for some unknowable reason
You're right, all transactions are completely trackable, that is the point of blockchain, it's just that it seems to be extremely easy to be anonymous in transactions? How do crypto thefts occur otherwise?
well it's not regulated or recognised as an asset by the law so they can just get away with having robbed people although admittedly I agree with the law that what they stole is stupid and has no value
There are ways to anonymize the transactions that are varying levels of effective
some unknowable reason
Not enough rich people have been fucked over and the New Money created from the crypto boom doesn’t have enough influence to buy politicians and lock in their shit to turn it generational
yeah that'd be it North Korea stealing some might get them to change their mind on that though
still seems more traceable than cash which you could put through a similar process
Very interesting how quickly the DPRK got into the supersonic technology. Before Iran, for example, who got a very advanced rocket program. I don't want to underestimate them, that's the MSM business, but still, it's not out of the realm of possibility that either China, or even Russia via China, gave them a blueprint or two for the ongoing cold war v.2 leverage.
Imaginary computer money to nuke
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Did you not see the Rocket Power episode where they skate through Tony Hawk's death mansion and do a woogidy woogity woogity with Kim Jong Il?
how would that work exactly..do they trade the crypto to other countries for more useful currency?
Probably one of the most blatant points against it being true. Either it’s false or some jackass bought enough crypto to fund a government missile program from a super shady source
Edit: hilarious and terrifying third option is that there are weapons dealers accepting crypto as payment
definitely true. if you're using drug money, you obviously want weapons. if you are an arms dealer and your biggest customers start offering you a new currency that the feds won't track, you'd obviously take it.
Edit: hilarious and terrifying third option is that there are weapons dealers accepting crypto as payment
Money laundering through Crypto banks has been a thing for over a decade now. The whole thing is mobbed up, when it isn't six scams stacked on top of each other.
I imagine you keep passing monero around until somebody buys drugs with it and the drug dealer would spin it into shit that they sell on exchanges
you claim to oppose crypto yet you use it to fund your anti-imperialist weapons programs, curious
I'm a little fuzzy on the details because I'm not that big of a nerd but it apparently happens all the time because sites that end up getting popular have historically been written and owned by people who have no fucking clue what they're doing and leave barn door sized vulnerabilities in their code. Once someone has broken into these sites and stolen their shid cum coins they can't be tracked. One site for example was written by a 14-15 year old Chinese kid.
It is just a bunch of grifters trying to out grift the rest.
pretty easily, from what I hear. if you can get your hands on the code there's nothing they can do to get it back because the whole point is that there is no oversight or authority who can step in. Scamming cryptobros out of their apes means you don't even need to hack them, just pull a regular scam except there's no bank that can reverse the charges when they realise they've been scammed.
It's super common for random crypto sites to be a honeypot for theft. Or not even necessarily created as a honeypot but became successful enough that it would be massively lucrative to exit scam. especially if people deposited a sizeable amount of money and/or crypto. It's very easy to scam crypto from people because so many have no idea how any of this shit works.
Lots of sites work how they claim, a lot of people will test to see if a site is legit and do a very small transaction, see that it worked and then do a much larger one thinking its all good and bam the site jack's your shit
remember, crypto people are kind of fucking stupid
they'll probably just give you all their account info if you ask right
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