Serinus @ Serinus @lemmy.world

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Why not? We all know Vance is pretending for the position. If he sees a real shot, he might take it.

Nobody likes Trump as a person. They're all just grifting.

The trick is getting enough to turn at once, and getting them all to know that there's enough. A dumb one might rat it out because of greed, but they should know that doesn't work. If they're in that position, there's no further loyalty rewards. The best they can hope for is avoiding retribution, and that's not even guaranteed.

I wouldn't go after individual Tesla owners. It wasn't always like this. They adopted the earliest and cheapest (in the US) EV. I won't buy one now, but I would have three years ago.

I understand the dealership thing. Are most of them directly corporate?

You know what a normal database is.

The Blockchain is a distributed database instead of a centralized one where normally people can verify that each other part of the database is correct.

Generally anything a distributed database can do, a centralized database in good hands can do better. Except for crimes. It's more difficult to get away with crimes when they can be shut down in one place.

Also it's harder to undo Blockchain/crypto stuff. They sell this as a benefit while the primary use is scams and rug pulls.

"The government can't get your money back." Yeah, gonna be hard to get back thr money you were scammed out of with a court order, isn't it.

They also try to sell it as anonymous, but it's very much not. Everything is on the record, so if they link you to an address (and they generally can), they can see every transaction you've ever made. There used to be services to obfuscate this, but the government has well and truly broken through those. They can find you of they want to.

Crypto is a an MLM for guys. You can make money, if you're lucky enough to be the scammer and not the scammee.

You've been appointed as a mod to !virginia . Good luck! I should send a welcome message later this evening with more info.

The perfect example is the paranoid ethnostate in the middle east.

You say that, but are they wrong?

The independent Republicans were all pushed out of the party when they opposed Trump. Some were beaten in primaries, most saw it coming and retired.

Let's not water down the term "traitor" during, well... you know.

As long as it's more and not less.

Plus it's a great opportunity for dozens of trolls to push a republican narrative on social media. Maybe a message to anyone left-leaning to stop voting.

The numbers in that "bullet ballots" post were lies. They were convincing if true, but they just weren't true. North Carolina didn't have 7.1% bullet ballots, for instance, and the swing states weren't significantly different from their surrounding states, as he claimed they were.

Part of the reason that post sounded so good is that he gave easily verifiable numbers. But those numbers didn't verify.

This is the Clinton-era way of thinking. A losing campaign must have done everything wrong, and a winning campaign must have done everything right.

AOC's district leaned way more heavily towards Trump. Either they cheated literally everywhere or the results were valid.

There was a misleading post about "bullet ballots", but if you looked into the numbers they didn't check out.

Even in the Cabinet it's probably just Tulsi Gabbard that is guilty of treason. The rest are just idiots.

Now the Senate, however... There must be a reason impeachment hasn't happened.

As long as there's a clear confirmation dialog.

Besides that, Thread is pretty low-bandwidth and low-noise. It's designed to sip battery life from devices.

2.4Ghz just allows it to be built into tons of devices without an extra chip. Every Google Hub, Alexa, or Apple hub supports it.

WaPo has changed to dark mode.

Yeah... I'd be real careful getting started by joining a particular irc server known for anything.

What if you didn't realize there was a line and just went to the front?

We still need people to perform basic functions, and capitalism is a way to do that. "Renting humans" as it were. I think we can certainly raise the minimum a fair bit. Higher minimum wage works being everyone up. I think we could and should get the working week down from 40 hours to 35. That takes covering a full seven day week from 4.2 shifts to 4.8 (or five with a bit of overlap).

Agree on the estate tax. It used to be a thing. Republicans had ground it down over the years, and just recently finished it off.

Universal healthcare does a ton for freedom and entrepreneurship.

When you spread the money thin, it does run out quickly. But I think we can still afford those things if we just actually tax billionaires and corporations. And stop taxing payroll more than capital investment. Usury is a sin. Anything that makes money from having money needs a big leash.

And of course money nearly all the way out of politics.

I'm not looking for a radical change from what we had before.

Can you imagine if anonymous social media was allowed to influence elections?