can't believe that it danced around in front of my eyes for the last 3 weeks without me making the connection.

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After mulling it over for 18 hours, I decided that I am not leaving, I am just changing my focus here. Certainly, no more cat-throwing, that's for sure. If you want to continue to debate with me about how the rules of self voting and witness voting have led to a corrupt, incumbent inner circle, versus the rest of the users, and you are one of that inner circle, my first response will be to post a special type of follow transaction which has a field "what":"ignore" in it.

Witnesses are supposed to represent an opposition to the free and arbitrary reign of Steemit upon all of our stakes.

@timcliff was answering issues on the Condenser github as though he had the authority of a Steemit Employee.

Anyone can look at the witness schedule and also see that once @dan was in a similar position, from the other side.

How can this possibly not be a conflict of interest?

This is a unified wall of opposition to the interests of users in general, and quite frankly, It has been fun trolling you for a while, provoking you to show your colours a bit more brightly, but I'm done.

I'm not getting paid well enough to deal with such a bunch of psychiatric patients any further. Cognitive dissonance doesn't come close to describing the Doublethink going on here.

I am making enough to pay my rent, easily, with just my mining rigs, and I can easily deploy another card on my system here with my remaining surplus. I have over $3000 worth of Steem Power powering down over the next 13 weeks, at a rate of about 220 steem per week.

I don't need to continue to waste my energy here. I can watch my wallet just fine with @jesta's fine Vessel wallet and never read or post another thing here, and instead, do what I really want to do, in the circumstance of remaining here in Sofia over the next 6 months:

Resuming development work on a genuine competitor to Steem, build it up from scratch with no begging to anyone for funding.

I have a week's course of Semax to go through, which I think is going to be tremendously beneficial to my ability to code and system-architect, and 20 doses of Bromantane, enough to kick some serious code out there.

I am completely clean, and now, almost fully back to normal. I am getting my appetite back again, today I have been, frankly, eating like a horse. If I am going to migrate to Russia, it's not going to be in the next 6 months, that's impossible.

One must do such moves in springtime, so the winter is prepared for, not in late summer as autumn approaches. That gives me also more time to practise my language skills, develop my baseline fitness, and so on.

This is never going to happen while I continue to divert so much energy towards trying to demonstrate to people what an absurdly corrupt system this is, and how far it has gone past the point of no return.

And I can always go get a "real job" working at HP or IBM or Microsoft here, just walk straight in, pretty much. It is a pretty handy way to get the address registration without needing to save up 2500 euros all at once in the bank, which is pretty unlikely just at the moment. Bulgarian outsource operations management pretty much 99% all suck, and never offer to do night shifts, or extra hours. The contracts oblige them to pay you no more.

Doesn't matter if I quit a month after I start, and already have my Bulgarian ID card. Suddenly everything gets easier when I can show them my "Lichna Karta". It makes it easy to open bank accounts, to import things (and jesus fuck what a cunt it is to receive anything from outside of europe, or, oddly enough, Russia).

So long, and thanks for all the fish. I'll still be in the telegram, in the slav chat at Discord, hangouts with my gmail, and facebook account, which I won't be stupid enough to start blogging at again. Good luck and don't forget to jump in the life-rafts before the deck tilts to 45 degrees or it will get hard to save anything you have stuck in it.