KT-TOT @ KAtieTot @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Lol. Lmao.

Accountability is for the people that design, build, maintain, use, and moderate the program just like every other program. That's just bullshit for the devs and their backers to weasel out of responsibility. Clearly they're able to fork out transactions they don't want to happen, if it benefits them.

Saying the system has no accountability for the way it allows anonymous actors to commit virtual financial crimes without fear of consequences is again, laughable. It's a program, it should be judged on how it's used. If a website allows people to post child porn, it's just "a tool that's being used and could be used to post art as well" oh well.

It's purpose is what it does. I've never seen an "oppressed person" protect their money with crypto. By what mechanism would that happen? Wishful thinking?

The drug trade issue is soaked in capitalist libertarianism and any more socially libertarian / anarchist effects are purely derivative. Bypassing the capitalists government by going directly into the unregulated market.

When the "innovations" are made by people who claim to see themselves as liberators, but structure and use the technology only as a vehicle for scams, grifts, and other unregulated financial shenanigans, it's kinda hard to see it in any other frame than who it helps and who it hurts. Overwhelmingly, crypto has shoveled money into the hands of those already wealthy.

Also being complicated & convoluted doesn't make it good. It drains massive amounts of electricity for a heavily redundant proof of work system that has simple flaws like not handshaking wallet transactions. (You can just drop something into a wallet without the owner's consent or approval, on ether.)

Also of course there is a political narrative. It's a technology that's trying to embed itself into society, it's inherently political as a core goal. Lmao.

Don't even need to cycle an original thought into something this dumb.

Bill Hicks - Gays in the Military

Y'all can look around and see how little human life is valued. It's not about humans, it's about them and only them.

He isn't considering it. He's already made the decision

What is the relation between someone speeding in their car and a professor using a bad set of course materials?

Your analogy doesn't really establish any causal or relational links. Both subjects are victims of America's capital-dominated power structure?

Sure better decisions can be made, but how much can you blame the subject under duress? How much blood can you reasonably expect the parent or teacher to draw from the stone? At what cost of their health?

In my experience professors are heavily overworked and heavily underpaid. Offloading work onto other systems to get a better work-life balance seems like a natural response.

"died in custody" is one thing, it happens, people die.

But when it happens to dozens, hundreds, thousands of people a year? That's America.

Lmao. What an unbelievably stupid rule. "Just pretend everyone is cool even if they're a total loser or whatever"