MariaRomanov @ MariaRomanov @lemmy.sdf.org

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They could lose millions and third party payment processors would potentially cut ties with them. It could literally tank their entire business. Don't get me wrong. I wish weed was legal and I also wish there wasn't financial pressure from banks and lending institutions to blackball the weed industry, but if there is any industry that is going to stick strictly to federal law, it's the financial sector. I don't think they have anything against weed, I think they have something against loosing millions of dollars.

I'm not sure Mastercard can easily win a suit by the DOJ over enabling Schedule I drug transactions.

Exactly. Not sure why everyone is down-voting me to hell. I didn't say I like it, but it is a liability.

It's a very long read, but it was fantastic.

Not surprising. You can’t expect a company like Mastercard to open themselves up to that kind of liability.

Gone With The Wind from the Southern USA.

I was curious about the Musk experiment, but I think he's proven himself to be an idiot now. How did SpaceX do so well?

On the flip side I work with people who have been doing it for 20+ years and are "bad" programmers.

Some spoilers ahead.

It was fantastic, but very long -- seems to be a theme for his novels. I find myself thinking about it now even all this time later. It does feel like the whole science vs. anti-science theme kinda got slipped in towards the second half of the novel as a plot device and it felt weird at times tbh, but I did think it was poignant. The big climax with the Apollo 18 mission didn't hit me as hard as Pope sharing his memory of Claggett with his class afterwards.

I don't know that we're watching the internet collapse. I think we are witnessing tech companies respond to growing financial pressure by accelerating their monetization plans, and it's blowing up in their faces. The result will be the reinvention of the web. I don't necessarily know if decentralized apps are going to take off, but I do think the internet will shift towards smaller (possibly open source) sites in retaliation.

I agree with you.

It was! We added some crushed red pepper.

Alchemy of Souls has such a good soundtrack!

I haven't seen it yet! Was it actually good or just trendy?

I'm here for it. Kids these days have such short attention spans.

That's cool as fuck bro

A standout to me is my uncle once got me the ancient Japanese board game "Go". Totally unprompted but right up my ally. I just remember being touched about how thoughtful it was.

There is no war in Ba Sing Se

Remote definitely is not for everyone! I would just like the freedom to come and go as I choose, but I guess that's not economical from an overhead perspective.

You have IT manager experience, my dude. You'll definitely find some remote work either back on the dev side or still in management. My company tried to pull this too but joke's on them because I moved 200 miles away from the office during Covid. The Economist recently published an article which cites a study that says working from home is not as productive as previously thought, because of the aggregate value that unplanned micro-interactions in the office can provide. Not sure I agree...