Roberto Bayardo (bayardo.eth)

Clumber spaniels love to carry things.

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"Let's make this seem like a big joke so they forget about the war crimes."

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Today I unfortunately learned the talking point used by the fascist right to dismiss any critics of this kind of activity is "toxic empathy". "The student, Any Lucia López Belloza, was brought by her parents from Honduras to the United States when she was 7." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/us/politics/college-student-deported-thanksgiving-texas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5U8.0WmS.F1e-zfCMkoh6&smid=url-share

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Regarding Base transaction fees: they are high because the chain is at its target capacity (2x the throughput of the L1), but demand has increased dramatically. Data fees remain insignificant thanks to EIP-4844 blobs which are still far from capacity! So while "it could be worse..." what can make it better? (cont)

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Hey Farcasters, @jesse.base.eth tells me people here are interested in hearing more about what the Base engineering team is up to. Let me tell you a bit about one aspect of this work, which is our contributions to the OP Stack. 1/

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1/ Last week I wrote I was pretty confident we could double Base's execution throughput without any issue, but also noted we wanted to more than "pretty confident" before making any moves. Well now are!

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