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Driving murder machine
I do not murder any more nore can ai drive so I font appreciate this dialogue taserts.
Probably modern electric drums.
Play them like the wind winds them
Mixtape
Automatic sidewalk blocker
e-scooters?
Nah those food delivery bastards. They don’t even go home after they just sit together taking up half the side walk
But srsly to me it does feel like the future, because when I was a kid “by the year 2000” was synonymous with a glorious future of space hotels, undersea cities, moon bases… I can’t believe we’re a quarter of the way through the 21st Century and none of that has happened. On the plus side we did get really spiffy new ways to buy stuff we don’t need with money we don’t have, and fingertip access to pretty much all of human knowledge, which most of us ignore in our endless quest for entertainment. But oh well.
Yeah, because you were thinking of all the ways technology could have been awesome, while what they were working on was making it funnel all the world’s wealth to a handful of people.
Fucked up thing is some of that has happened, but you need to have been born into generational wealth to be a part of those things. Ritchie Ricn is just moralisticly better version of Musk. Or at least a version less hooked on coach K
I was or into a generational wealth, as all Americans are do is, as it be in the moder. Day As each rockers the splith, they know egar cons don’t say sme k and I know that’s how they control the hammock, so I swing it do is dee, that’s sby i’m like this.
you dont have to put the meat on the sheet but at least put the sheet on the shelf below it
“Fake money for criminals” is such a dumb, bootlicker thing to say.
Maybe most “1st world” people don’t undersrand it yet but crypto (although most of it is scam, but the good ones like Monero) really enables international transactions and freedom of money and brings so much freedom to the people.
Scammers have ruined the image of cryptocurrenvies but there are actually useful currencies out there like XMR,LTC that are being used frequently for actuall services and products. Not just trading.
Honestly I’d say the ones who ruined it were the cryptobros who only care about seeing number go up. Gave a bad rep to crypto right outta the gate, especially with causing the (first) GPU shortage. Now if you mention crypto to anyone, even with a legitimate interest, they instantly get a bad taste in their mouth.
It is always nice when some service allows payment in Monero though. The default of bitcoin is still prominent, but thankfully most people are realizing it ain’t private at all.
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CryptoBroBroligarch !Oh yes, because the US and co. Have decided to put sanctions on a bunch of countries, the “3rd world people” are not allowed to buy products or services or make monetary transactions with the “civilized world”? No, fuck governments and fuck their sanctions and rules. People who insist on doing things, especially monetary transactions only the way the governments and states want to are the definition of bootlicker. Free economy requires free money (free as in freedom)
Yes, much better to choose currencies supported by state violence instead of math and open source software. /s
The first two depend on centralized services and nonfree software, which are things I don’t like. The third doesn’t. The fourth doesn’t have to.
So by those metrics I like cryptocurrency the most. In fact I have invested a bit of my savings in Bitcoin. I have never used Uber or AirBnB meanwhile.
The illegal cab company made legal cabs cheaper and more competitive, after a decade of them charging high prices and pricing shitty service.
Same thing happened when the illegal hotel company came along.
Are you sure? Hotels are still fucking expensive and Airbnb is still cheaper in some US cities.
I’m experiencing the opposite, AirBnB has gotten ridiculous with their pricing. After all the fees and hassle it ends up cheaper staying at an actual hotel.
Where are you located? Just curious
In the Midwest U.S. but that’s been my experience visiting FL and NV as well. AirBnB just isn’t that competitive anymore.
Every time someone posts this meme, I feel compelled to add “forums for communists”.
You forgot femboys and linux users
Big Tech made Lemmy so that communists wouldn’t organize in real life
Nah, infighting always works best.
But then the poll would make little sense, because forums for communists would win with 99.97% of votes…
I wish the average person was as open minded as you’re giving them credit.
I think your priorities are in the wrong place if you think about “forums for communists” instead of “telegram channels with incel nazis”.
I interpreted it as them mentioning lemmy (since lots of lemmy users are communists or socialists of some flavor), but if they meant to complain I agree with you completely
The former. Being subversive doesn’t imply it’s bad.
Now I feel compelled to ask: Do you this meme is seriously asking for opinions on subversive innovations? Because I interpreted it as asking what is the most dystopian.
I took it as the poll itself, and the results, being entirely irrelevant. They just decided to use that as the format/delivery mechanism for their joke.
It appears to me that the meme is complaining about tech breaking laws, not soliciting opinions. In case this needs to be said, I’m using Lemmy because of its ability to resist (legal!) censorship, especially of long-overdue leftist speech.
And I hope you would agree nazis killing people are more dystopian than fucking larpers.
Why is everyone so toxic? If you wanna discuss something be nice. (Even if you think that the person you are discussing with is a complete idiot)
Hey we obey the law here sir
The exposure of hotels using surveillance pricing. A room should cost a hunnert bucks a night. Not $100 or $150 or $200 or $250 etc., depending on which “app” you pray to. Am I right Trivago?
Fake money for criminals helped me buy weed when I didn’t have a local dealer. It’s also how I pay for Mullvad. So fake money for criminals wins.
Fake money for criminals is unironically a decent addition to the world, although it’s coded in a really dumb way. Plagiarism machine is overhyped right now, but it also has some legit uses.
So, the poll actually seems about right.
Fake criminal money more legit than government money. One day I woke up to the news that all my deposits are frozen indefinitely, that I am not allowed to carry cash abroad, and that I am not allowed to get bank accounts or transfers from any foreign institutions. .Thank fuck for crypto and that I had some. It literally saved my life, so yeah, fake criminal money by a long shot for me.
Selfhost instance on .ru
Checks out. Hows the outlaw life?
I demand privacy, so I’m a criminal anyways
Crypto is not privacy.
depends. not universally, that’s right. don’t buy dogecoin for privacy.
Also depends on your definition of privacy. Some people confuse privacy (not seeing what you do) with anonimity (not knowing who you are).
Public blockchains (like BTC) have zero privacy, as everyone sees the transactions and balances, meanwhile private ones (like XMR) supposedly avoid anyone but two people in a transaction to know that transaction happened, or even to know each other’s balance.
In both cases, I would say you are as anonymous as your way to turn the coin from/into fiat is (P2P, KYC or non-KYC platforms, etc.).
Like with AI, I like crypto as a concept, but the practice… (specially the resources both consume for what little benefit they end up having)
I also do PCP and other Durango Morrison drugs as heist forbid
You can swap Monero with a more common coin on a decentralized exchange with no KYC, and then cash that out at your Coinbase or whatever.
Also, Monero is very efficient for a proof of work coin, partially because it’s designed to be mined on regular, consumer grade PCs.
According to Google, it uses somewhere between 645 and 650 GWh annually, compared to between 150 and 204.4 Terawatt-hours (TWh) for Bitcoin.
Bitcoin was the first, and as is usually the case, that makes it one of the worst.
According to Google, it uses somewhere between 645 and 650 GWh annually, compared to between 150 and 204.4 Terawatt-hours (TWh) for Bitcoin.
sure but it’s also a much smaller operation
I miss when that was what the fake money was for instead of the bullshit broligarch grift.
The fake money for criminals is the best because there’s a lot of people that aren’t criminals that have bought in on it and among those the concensus is “I think a bunch of IT neck beards can build a better financial system better than the one that evolved over centuries”.
The delusion is laughable.
Is a currency really that much better if it’s less stable than balancing two pyramods on their respective tips?
Bitcoin is the youngest currency around and u like all of the other currencies it isn’t mandated or controlled by governments. If inventions have to be 100% perfect out of the gate then you’ll never get anything new.
Bitcoin is the youngest currency around
No it’s not, it’s the oldest (and as such, the worst in almost every way) crypto.
Right, Bitcoin is older than gold, or the US dollar, or the British pound, France’s franc….
Uh maybe try reading my comment again?
Why? It doesn’t say anything different this time around.
Ok then I don’t know what to tell you.
Is your brain just skipping the last word because it comes after a parenthesis?
Hint: I said it’s the oldest and worst crypto.
Unless I’ve missed some huge news, none of the things you snarkily listed are cryptos.
You have to understand that I’m trying very hard to not be an asshole right now lol. Just read the entire goddamn comment
I think it had it’s time to cooldown from the extrme speculative volatility. It has lost it’s coolness factor in the mainstream after NFT and AI took over.
Still as volative as ever.
You can’t tell me a 11% drop in value can be considered a valid alternative.
You can’t be serious. Bitcoin is less than 20 years old and for most of that time almost everyone thought it was a joke. Most still do. Your timeframe for stabilization is disconnected from reality.
Honestly I think pretty much anyone could build a better financial system, and more people should try. What we have now is the result of centuries of unchecked power. This monetary policy was created by Richard Nixon and then we adopted a Keynesian rationale post facto. It didn’t evolve, it was stolen.
If you’ve got another idea (including moneyless systems) I’m down to try that too, but what we’ve got right now is pure garbage, and having no out before the modern era doesn’t imply that it’s good.
The modern banking system and monetary policy was created under FDR. Nixon just stoped pretending it was backed on gold and told de Gaulle to kick rocks when he asked for the gold back.
Realistically the changes under Nixon are peanuts compared to the digitization of it all since the introduction of systems like Swift.
You say that like Nixon wasn’t unilaterally breaking the Bretton Woods Agreement. No offense, but are you an American?
Yes I am an American and I know what he did, but I also know that the Breton woods agreement was only a small part of the financial system, and that realistically, the economic downturn of the 70s was far more heavily impacted by several oil shocks and the hangover from massive spending on Vietnam.
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