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Seems to good to be true, if there is no fees what is stopping people from spamming the system?

This is very nice, but supports only loopring.io users. Ideally I want to be able to send zk-rollup transaction to regular Ethereum accounts as well.

Who won‘t use Ethereum will be... out of the loop.

I suspect that when they do these exercises, there is a psychological operations team assessing the moral of our own future troops, students, and battlefield leadership. I would be interested in reading about their assessment of how our future military expects to handle telling its commanders to start targeting American citizens.

This seems like one of the worst mind fucks you can pull on any military member - to fire one your own people. The propaganda that would get unleashed would have to be straight out of 1984.

Rebellion? They seem to be most anti-gun and can barely get organized to vote.

So tough man is going to kill all the kids?

Back to the right normal, that is really a telling sentence. A return to the days when those in power can amass huge wealth and those at the bottom must pay. This is what we will be going back to unless these protests spread and expand to include many more social groups.

Think of occupy back in the day, a few weeks of action followed by a total collapse and a retreat back to exactly what was going on before. Unfortunately a half revolution is no revolution at all, unless we are prepared to take this a lot further we might as well give up now

Didn't Obama administration run crisis scenarios with an incoming Trump team that included a Global Pandemic? They still fucked THAT up... Just saying, maybe there is hope for BLM! And systemic change..

There's a reason you separate the military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.

William Adama, The Battlestar of Galactica

Will they rig it like the Millennium Challenge 2002?

txt from the doc:

NOTIONAL EXERCISE MATERIAL FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY JLASS-SP AY2018 WORLD SUMMARY the water treatment facility led to contamination of the base's water supply causing infection among nearly half of the base's population. The U.S. CAOC was non-mission capable for 96 hours at the end of the attack. The United States has not been able to attribute these actions and no organization has claimed responsibility. Further, although significant measures are in place to secure the U.S. transportation system infrastructure, the telecommunications system, energy production and distribution systems, and water supply infrastructure remain prime cyber targets for U.S. adversaries. In some respects, cyber warfare has evened the playing field for terrorist groups and developing nations, as they can field an equally effective cyber capability as established states with robust military and security systems. Over the years, the development of cyber "weaponry" has seen exponential growth, both in sophistication and potential to harm. Western governments have all reported incidents concerning the insertion of erroneous or misleading information into official websites intended to confuse citizens and create mistrust. Governments are not alone in suffering these information attacks. A handful of banks have also disclosed events where attackers altered checking account balances of hundreds of depositors. These malicious events have not resulted in a kinetic conflict, but ordinary citizens and businesses are panicked as they lose faith in the security of information networks. Politically, this insecurity has manifested in attempt to influence the outcome of elections, particularly in weaker nations that make up regional coalitions favorable to U. S. and European interests.

Zbellion

In the mid-2020s, the age demographic known as Generation Z, or Gen Z, began hitting their thirties. Like the Millennials who preceded them, Gen Z were characterized as even more comfortable — if not dependent upon — technology in nearly every aspect of their lives. Social scientists frequently characterize Gen Z as having grown up with cell phone and internet usage from a very young age, and interacting on social media websites for a significant portion of their socializing. Image and video-intensive media are more popular among this group than textual narratives, and many Gen Z self-identify by the social media communities to which they belong.

Both the September I I terrorist attacks and the Great Recession greatly influenced the attitudes of this generation in the United States, and resulted in a feeling of unsettlement and insecurity among Gen Z Although Millennials experienced these events during their coming of age, Gen Z lived through them as part of their childhood, affecting their realism and world-view. Although many Gen Z sought to avoid the financial stresses experienced by their parents, many found themselves stuck with excessive college debt when they discovered employment options did not meet their expectations. Gen Z are often described as seeking independence and opportunity but are also among the least likely to believe there is such a thing as the "American Dream," and that "the system is rigged" against them. Frequently seeing themselves as agents for social change, they crave fulfillment and excitement in their job to help "move the world forward." Despite the technological proficiency they possess, Gen Z actually prefer person-to-person contact as opposed to online interaction. Ihey describe themselves as being involved in their virtual and physical communities, and as having rejected excessive consumerism.

In early 2025, a group identifying itselfas "Zbellion" gained traction on the Dark Web. Zbellion capitalized on the fears and insecurities of Gen Z, and called for a global cyber campaign to expose injustice and corruption and to support various causes it deemed beneficial. It appears that Zbellion initially formed in small groups at parks, rallies, protests and coffee shops, and grew rapidly by promoting an agenda, which targets corporations, financial institutions, and political and non-profit organizations that support "the establishment." Recruitment appears focused in large cities via face-to-face contact, providing initial instructions for accessing Zbellion websites. These websites provide target lists (to include data needed for identity and credit card theft), payloads, and exploits to activists. Zbellion uses software programs to route any proceeds into laundering programs that ultimately convert national currencies into Bitcoin and make "small, below the threshold donations" to "worthy recipients" and, if Zbellion members claim financial need, to the member Who conducted the attack. Zbellion "leadership" assures its members that their cybercrimes are "ultimately justifiable" and untraceable, and that it selects its targets and beneficiaries based on secure polling of "network delegates." Zbellion provides its members with sophisticated adaptations of the latest malware, making it difficult for cyber security programs to keep pace with the threat. Computer Network Defense (CND) analysis indicates Zbellion appears to have originated in Seattle and spread rapidly to New York City, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Vegas, and Austin. Today, Zbellion activities has been noted in Vancouver, Toronto, most major European cities, St. Petersburg, Istanbul, Amman, Dubai, Cairo, Tunis, Rabat, Lagos, Nairobi, Johannesburg, New Delhi, Lahore, Tokyo, Osaka, Manila, Jakarta, Hanoi, Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei, Seoul, Rio de Janeiro, Bogota, Panama City, Havana, and Mexico City.

Military Conflicts

In addition to the constant threat of terrorism, world leaders remain concerned about the potential for conventional conflicts, particularly over natural resources. For example, perceived or actual water shortages could motivate state actors to take unilateral actions to assure access to adequate water flows. [n the worst case, this could result in interstate conflicts if government leaders deem assured access to such resources essential tar maintaining domestic stability and regime survival. However, even actions short 01' war could have important geopolitical consequences. Maritime security concerns provide a rationale for naval buildups and modernization efforts, such as the continued development of blue-water naval capabilities by India and China.

Black Market Trafficking

Following the end of the Cold War, Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) made enormous gains in the newly opened economies of the former Soviet Bloc states and Soviet clients globally). During the 1990's economic chaos in these countries produced opportunities for TCOs to open new markets in illegal drugs, weapons, WMD, technology, mineral trafficking, and human tramcking. During the first decade of this century, Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) flourished and aspiring terrorist organizations, such as AQ and Hezbollah, mimicked their business models. This bolstered terror networks revenues and providing them global reach through established "Black Market" shipping channels though led to confrontation with traditional TCOs with overlapping business interests. While occasionally coming into conflict, many of the TCOs

If shit really does go down... Not only we are going to go against military power and police, but also imposters, our family members who believe you have to stay home / cops are right, friends and so on... it's a 50/50 fight. Then if we lose, everything goes back to normal - corruption, innocent people murdered, injustice... shit, I'd even say full blown slavery. A simple power outage everywhere will get many people to beg for gov to turn it back on, because their mother is on life support... and how many people with guns will be able to pull the trigger when gov shoots first? Not to forget about false flags and shit.

“Ok, Zoomer...”

—My snotty grandkid. Probably.

Zoomers are highly trained in Fortnite

The Pentagon now views Zoomers as the revolutionary subject, Millennials tossed in the dustbin of history.

they still teenagers!

they've prepared for it, wouldn't want to let their war games go to waste now would we?

One thing that is so misunderstood is how violent my generation is. 9/11, Iraq and Afghanistan, BLM and police brutality, the political radicalization of the country, trump, coronavirus, and now the George Floyd protests and effective martial law has transformed many in my generation (including myself) into being extremely desensitized to violence. I suspect that when people my age become full adults (~25+), there will be far more protests that turn into riots, riots that turn into revolts, revolts that turn into rebellions. The youth culture is far more violent than it was in the 90s, 80s, 70s, and maybe even 60s.

u can included millenials in that and also lower income working class. that description of what people are feeling though is incredibly accurate and of course the response is how to return things to normal rather than address those inequalities

Reminder for anyone that thinks these people are our buddies because ex-officials are badmouthing Trump. They'd gladly turn each and every one of us "proud, free Americans" into fucking fertilizer if we ever rose up.

What would we do if they refuse wage slavery as a lifestyle, hmm.................

their still teenagers!

According to the scenario, many members of Gen Z — psychologically scarred in their youth by 9/11 and the Great Recession, crushed by college debt, and disenchanted with their employment options

This sounds more like Millennials then Gen Z tbh. I think you have to be old enough to remember watching the towers fall and dealing with the aftermath to have a generation wide trauma. Also, Gen Z were kids and were protected from the harsh realities of the 2008 recession while younger Millennials were just getting out of High School/college and into the fire.

Maybe older 1997 born Gen Z also fall in this group but this is far from the experience of core Gen Z (Not to say that they won't suffer from college debt and employment but we're in the early stages of seeing that now).

As terrible as this sounds - and it is - there's plans to repel an alien invasion buried in some file cabinet in the Pentagon. They have plans to bomb Omaha, Nebraska back into the Stone Age if the livestock gets out of control. They have plans for everything.

"When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

Sick

Terrified, old white men

...Are you challenging us?!

They know that the carrot is gone. They know millenials and zoomers know that the carrot is gone. They have no interest in doing anything about the carrot, so they are sharpening the stick.

A little secret not many people take advantage of with their unemployment KeyBank cards:

-You can walk into any MasterCard Bank (Chase, Bank of America, etc) and do a completely free withdrawal up to $7000 per day. You don’t need a bank account at the bank.

Wonder if that's why I've seen the line at TD Bank across from Grand Central going down the block.

You can withdraw from the keybank card to your bank account on their website.

!FREE NYC!<

They’re making the bank look bad. How about we just let people work again like the rest of the civilized world?

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I went here back in March before my DD thankfully kicked in. It was just me and one other guy, we both looked at each other with a mutual "wtf why would DOL choose a bank with literally one atm in the entire city" on our faces.

Apparently KeyBank is part of the Allpoint system which has 100+ locations all over the city (in a lot drugstores) but this was not communicated effectively at all. They tweeted about it on MAY 30TH, 2+ months after most people filed, and only after NY Post wrote an article about it:

https://twitter.com/NYSLabor/status/1266773873036492801?s=20

https://nypost.com/2020/05/30/hundreds-join-massive-line-at-nyc-atm-for-unemployment-benefits/

Fucking ridiculous all around.

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Thank God 2.5 millions jobs were added so hopefully that helps some of them and we see more job recovery in the coming weeks.

https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/unemployment-rate-unexpectedly-declined-in-may-as-employers-added-2-5m-jobs-including-13-2k-in-accounting

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There have been quite a few health experts that have been saying this is all nonsense, but the social media platforms have been silencing them.

Really makes you think

More than 100,000 dead in less than three months...

Amazing

Realistically, what happened is that public health officials whipped the world into a frenzy about how dangerous COVID is, and when it turned out that it's about as bad as a normal flu season, no one wanted to take the blame for destroying the world over nothing, but these protests gave them a face-saving way to start rolling back the lockdowns without looking like the incompetent, know-nothing tyrants they are.

So what happens when covid runs rampant through the black community killing thousands of them? Is that also "racism"?

What drives me mental is that hardly anyone cares about this. So we’ve just trashed the economy on a whim and now the supposed motivation for that has become irrelevant so we can complain about inequality, which frankly is more about economic conditions than anything else.

We’re living in the twilight zone

Of course we could also make the inverse argument as well. Last month everyone on the right was pro-protest and complaining about "Muh freedom!" A fringe group of armed protestors occupied the Capitol building in Michigan against the law and the police did nothing. Not only did Trump not threaten to send in the army, not only did Trump not complain about Whitmer not "dominating" the protestors, but he said Whitmer should cut a deal with them.

But fast-forward a couple of months and we see a popular movement fighting for people of color and not being astroturfed by boogaloo boys, and suddenly the same people are pro-law-and-order. We're seeing new scenes of police violence every day. Where is the love of free speech now?

Also, let's not forget that the social distancing protests very explicitly did not follow social distancing guidance. That's what they were protesting. Not a mask in sight. They didn't give each other 6 ft of distance. Most of them didn't even believe that Coronavirus was a real thing.

The BLM protests certainly aren't perfect, but at least the people participating in them are weighing the consequences of exposing themselves to Coronavirus. At least the events are suggesting proper distancing and masks.

Well then it seems that millennials hate their elders because they think they are racist and I don’t see how that makes any sense these social justice warriors don’t understand how social distancing works even though they have a safe space!

Rioting and looting is a cure for COVID-19.

I can sort of see where they’re coming from, but they really should have shut up about the protests. Or at least said they supported the cause, but still recommend flowing social distancing guidelines.

Ive been saying this to everyone who will listen.

Is covid done? Are we no longer on that wagon? Wtf is going on here?

Im all for peaceful gatherings, sit-ins, demonstrations... but not when "DONT LEAVE YOUR HOUSE!!!!" has been hammered into our heads for 3 months.

My own fucking mayor was posting videos and pictures of the "protest" in my city, on IG. I messaged him... "Are we not social distancing anymore?" as we was VERY vocal about it before. He saw the message, but never responded.

No virus should infringe on people's right to assembly.

Did anyone see the clip of the medical workers in PPE clapping the protesters in NYC?

WTF

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Covid knows when people are outside for a good cause

O vírus é real e a gente deve tomar precauções, mas é claro que foi utilizado para fazer as pessoas temerem. Já a CNN fala pouco do vírus, como se ele não existisse mais.

People have all but abandoned most safety practices before George Floyd was murdered.

And it's funny seeing people equating 'you don't need a fucking haircut, stay indoors' to 'people are getting murdered in the street, we have to do something.'

Not this public health official.

You won’t catch me at one damn protest. I’ve had friends get sick, end up in the ICU, and patients die because of COVID-19. I will not be complicit in more death.

If people don't start getting sick in a week can we sue our cities, counties and state? Any lawyers wanna chime?

Say that after it kills a few hundred thousand

BAMN

Something like 40% of the country is made up of hardcore rightoids. During the next pandemic, what possible reason will these people have to trust the word of the medical establishment?

I only see acceleration of natural selection

What is the idea as to why the earlier sites were bigger in size? I also do not get the logic that building massive complexes is not indicative of a settled community.

LiDAR works wonders, gotta love it!

Beautiful Thunderbird!

Amazing discovery! The connection between Olmec and Maya continue to fascinate me, especially the evolution from Middle Formative to Late Formative in places like Tabasco and Chiapas.

Here's the text for those of you who, like me were meter paywalled from reading it:

An enormous 3,000-year-old earthen platform topped with a series of structures, including a 13-foot-high pyramid, has been identified as the oldest and largest monumental construction discovered in the Maya region, according to a paper published today in the journal Nature. It’s the latest discovery to support the emerging view that some of the earliest structures built in the Maya region were significantly larger than those built more than a millennium later during the Classic Maya period (250-900 A.D.), when the empire was at its peak.

The discovery took place in Mexico’s Tabasco State at the site of Aguada Fénix, about 850 miles east of Mexico City. It is in a region known as the Maya lowlands, from which the Maya civilization began to emerge.

In 2017, researchers conducted a LiDAR survey that detected the platform and at least nine causeways leading up to it. The groundbreaking laser technology typically is used from aircraft to “see” structures beneath dense tree canopy below, but in this case it revealed a stunning discovery sitting unnoticed in plain sight in Tabasco’s largely deforested ranch lands for centuries, if not millennia.

So why was such a big monument at Aguada Fénix not identified earlier? “It’s fairly hard to explain, but when you walk on the site, you don’t quite realise the enormity of the structure,” says archaeologist Takeshi Inomata of the University of Arizona, the lead author of the paper. “It’s over 30 feet high, but the horizontal dimensions are so large that you don’t realise the height.”

An aerial view of&nbsp;Aguada Fénix without LiDAR shows how the monument "hides" in semi-forested ranch land.&nbsp; An aerial view of Aguada Fénix without LiDAR shows how the monument "hides" in semi-forested ranch land.

“It’s over 30 feet high, but the horizontal dimensions are so large that you don’t realise the height.”

The initial construction of the platform is believed to have began around 1,000 B.C. based on radiocarbon dating of charcoal inside the complex.

But the absence of any known earlier buildings at Aguada Fénix suggests that at least up until that period, the people living in the region—likely the precursors of the Classic Maya—moved between temporary camps to hunt and gather food. That has researchers speculating over how and why they suddenly decided to build such a massive, permanent structure.

Inomata estimates that the total volume of the platform and the buildings on top is at least 130 million cubic feet, meaning it is bigger even than the largest Egyptian pyramid. He also calculated that it would have taken 5,000 people more than six years of full-time work to build.

“We think this was a ceremonial centre,” Inomata says. “[It’s] a place of gathering, possibly involving processions and other rituals we can only imagine.”

No residential buildings have been found on or around the structure, so it is unclear how many people may have lived nearby. But the large size of the platform leads Inomata to think that the builders of Aguada Fénix gradually were leaving their hunter-gatherer lifestyle behind, likely aided by the cultivation of corn—evidence of which also has been found at the site.

“The sheer size is astonishing,” says Jon Lohse, an archaeologist with Terracon Consultants Inc. who studies the early history of the area and was not involved in the report. He does not think, however, that the structure itself is evidence of a settled lifestyle. “Monumental constructions by pre-sedentary people are not uncommon globally.”

What it does unmistakably show, Lohse adds, is an advanced ability for people to collaborate, probably in the strongly egalitarian fashion that he believes was typical of early societies in the Maya region. Inomata agrees, and thinks the platform was built by a community without a strong social hierarchy.

As potential evidence, Inomata points to the even older ceremonial site of San Lorenzo, 240 miles to the west in a region that was settled at the time by the Olmec people. Built at least 400 years earlier than Aguada Fénix, San Lorenzo features an artificial terraced hill that may have had a similar function. But it also has colossal human statues that may indicate that some people held higher status in society than others.

It may seem likely that the people who built Aguada Fénix were inspired by San Lorenzo, but archaeologist Ann Cyphers of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, who has worked at San Lorenzo, considers the sites “quite distinct,” adding that the pottery found there is also very different from that found at Aguada Fénix.

So what might have been the purpose for undertaking such a massive communal building project? Study coauthor Verónica Vázquez López of the University of Calgary believes that it might have been a statement of intent: a formal collaboration designed to bring different groups of people together over the course of several generations.

Some features at Aguada Fénix could suggest this collaboration, such as a cache of precious jade axes that may have symbolized the end of the collaborative construction project. Archaeologists also have noted that some of the layers of soil used to build the platform were laid down in a checkerboard pattern of different soil colors, which may have symbolized the contribution of different groups.

“Even today, people who live in different quarters of some Mexican towns each clean their part of the central church plaza,” Vázquez López observes.

By 750 B.C., the monumental structure at Aguada Fénix was abandoned, and by the Classic Maya period more than 1,000 years later, people in the region were building higher pyramids that became accessible only to the elite atop much smaller platforms with less space for broader communities to gather.

“In the early period, people got very excited,” Inomata says. “Later on, they became a bit less enthusiastic.”

I wonder if it's one of those things that are so big you don't quite comprehend what you're standing next to when you're on the ground

kudos to the devs, your product works :)

All this privacy tech is going to change the equation.

Regulators have been more or less tolerant of Bitcoin because of the narrative that they can track activity and find the trail of money from a crime.

Eventually that narrative will have to be invalidated for bitcoin to achieve its potential and regulators won’t like it.

has he been fired yet??

Trump ordered this to happen. He needs a fall guy. There is too much heat on Trump and he delegated Esper to direct the military to back down. And then we find out that Esper ordered the units back to DC.

Trump having his tank parade in Washington for the Fourth of July might actually happen.

Press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said the president was still willing to deploy federal troops despite Esper’s comments.

“If needed, he will use it,” she told reporters. “But at this time he’s relying on surging the streets with National Guard. It’s worked with great effect.”

Hmm. Where have I heard the term "surge" before? Wasn't that a war?

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Donald Dipshit should be impeached and thrown in prison for simply threatening to use US military forces against American citizens. We are his fucking boss and this motherfucker better hope getting fired is the most that he gets.

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Fired by late Friday night.

sounds like daddy trump isnt gonna like that and will fire his ass. sad.

Even if this was invoked, how many soldiers would willingly open fire on their own civilians???

Just remember Esper said this a couple days ago on the conference call with Trump and governors.

Problem is he keep replacing these voids with even more deeply morally bankrupt skinbags.

You mean former Defense Secretary

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Y'all gone stop believing anyone involved in this administration one day. I don't know when, but one day.

Democratic run cities are being destroyed by activists, what the fuck do we do to protect people being killed by activists and entire city blocks going up in flames??

The local officials seem to not be interested in doing anything

Hopefully.....Jebus willing, this will be tRumps undoing.

Why not use troops to police the police? If brutality, real soldiers go in and break up the cops. Just need clear orders.

and he'll be fired by a tweet in 3....2.....1

Incoming him getting fired and replaced by Eric Trump.

"I don't support" != "I oppose"

He opposes it now but Trump can just fire him and put someone in position who will agree with it. This seems to be the way things go.

25 million plus 1 unemployed.

Did Trump actually congratulate himself for the protests being more peaceful?

If the Insurrection Act is enacted I fear that the American experiment will be over. Trump loyalists vs. America loyalists vs. right wing vs. left wing.... all in our cities. For years we speculated as to whether or not US troops will fire on their own citizens and the ramifications that would cause. We do NOT want to test out that theory in real time. There has already been rumblings that active service members would renounce their duty if they were ordered to attack Americans. I don't even want to think about military infighting on the streets.

The government simply cannot let this happen.

However, dispersing peaceful protesters for an authoritarian-religious photo op, totally cool with that

Adam and co must love it, hence the shitposting against ETH recently

Twas just a matter of time!