CryptoJoe
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CryptoJoe
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Increasingly bullish on bitcoin, for a whole bunch of dystopian reasons. Exploring whole space with an open mind, except XRP.
Say what you want about Europe but our electrical outlets are far superior and that is a fact
🚨 Liverpool make it 4 and eliminate Galatasaray! #LFC fly into UCL quarter finals. 4️⃣✨ Who’s been your Man of the Match?
It was a tale of two cities and two very different football grounds for an @FCBarcelona fan who turned up at the wrong St James Park last night 🏟️ The Spanish supporter, who made the journey to Devon from London, turned up at the turnstiles of Exeter City’s Adam Stansfield stand last night, expecting to see his team take on @NUFC. It was only when he showed his ticket to staff that he realised his mistake. But he got to see a got to see a game of football – Exeter City staff sorted him out a ticket for the game against Lincoln under the lights of the real St James Park! Adam Spencer, Supporter Experience Officer at Exeter City, said: “One of our volunteers came to the office to let us know that this guy had turned up expecting to see FC Barcelona. His English wasn’t great, but from what we could gather, he’d come from London. My guess is he’d put St James Park in his phone and then just followed the directions from there. “He was pretty gutted and a bit embarrassed. So, we sorted him out a ticket and he got to watch a game at the real St James Park. He’d be welcome back any time.” #ECFC #SemperFidelis
Ok, I need to level up my AI skills. This is just amazing.
Dubai intercepted an Iranian drone near the Burj Khalifa. Read that sentence again and understand what almost happened. The Burj Khalifa is 828 meters tall. It is the tallest structure ever built by human civilization. It contains 900 residences, a hotel, corporate offices, observation decks, and on any given day thousands of people from dozens of countries inside its walls. It is the architectural thesis statement of the entire Gulf development model: that human ambition can overcome geography, gravity, and the geopolitics of the neighborhood. Iran sent a drone toward it. The UAE intercepted it. No injuries. No damage. No impact. The system worked. But the Burj Khalifa was evacuated. Thousands of residents and guests walked down emergency stairwells from the tallest building on earth because an Iranian suicide drone was flying toward their tower and nobody could guarantee the interception would succeed until it did. One failure. One drone getting through. One Shahed-136 carrying a 40-kilogram warhead striking the glass facade of the tallest building on earth. The footage alone would have been the most consequential thirty seconds of video since September 11, 2001. Every government on earth knows this. Iran knows this. And Iran launched the drone anyway. The interception succeeded by whatever margin interceptions succeed by. Meters. Seconds. The distance between the drone’s trajectory and the point where the defensive missile reached it. That margin is the distance between a contained geopolitical crisis and the single most devastating symbolic attack on civilian infrastructure since the Twin Towers fell. Iran gambled that margin against the most recognizable building on the planet. It does not matter that the system worked. What matters is that it had to work. What matters is that 12,000 people who live and work inside that building now know that an Iranian drone was inbound toward their tower and their survival depended on a missile defense system performing flawlessly at the last possible second. That knowledge does not go away when the all-clear sounds. That knowledge follows them into every decision about whether to renew a lease, whether to keep an office, whether to raise children in a building that has now been a confirmed drone target. The Burj Khalifa was built to be the tallest. Tonight it became the largest target. The tallest structure on earth is also the most visible object on radar for a thousand kilometers in every direction. It cannot hide. It cannot move. It cannot be hardened. It can only be defended. And tonight defense meant intercepting a 50,000 dollar drone seconds before it reached a building worth 1.5 billion dollars containing thousands of human lives. Iran did not hit the Burj Khalifa. Iran did something that no amount of successful interceptions can undo. Iran made the world picture it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…