ZodiacSF1969 @ ZodiacSF1969 @sh.itjust.works

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Yeh there is a huge double standard on this site.

OP did write the part you're referring to lol

Depends on the system. In Australia undervoting can invalidate your vote.

They are talking about the Biden admin stating that a recession is more complex than the simple definition, so therefore they weren't in a true one.

What were the milk commercials?

I want to re-watch Sliders.

This is being disingenuous. They are more than just distributed ledgers or certificates of ownership. You are ignoring that crypto is proposed as a viable alternative to the financial system. They are both often promoted as 'investments', when there is rarely any underlying value behind them.

Your response is exactly the kind of handwaving that commonly pervades tech companies and led to crypto being popularized as a financial product. The reality is a lot more complicated, and for that reason there are a lot of problems that stop them being as useful or valuable as people want them to be.

If you have specific arguments against the Line Goes Up video I'd be interested to hear them, as I thought it was quite a good take.

I think people are using the word scam not in it's strictest sense - that is to say, I don't think Satoshi personally invented BTC to defraud everyone who bought it so in that sense, no, it is not a scam technically. A better way to describe it would be via the greater fool theory: the only way to make money is to find someone even more foolish than yourself to buy it.

Crypto as it is currently implemented is inefficient, riddled with problems, and is deflationary which you can argue about but most economists would say deflationary currencies are bad as they lead to shrinking economies and do not encourage investment.

There also aren't that many problems that it 'solves' that aren't already solvable by existing tech. And even in the case of things it's useful for, if it were to be widely adopted the 'benefits' would be overshadowed by the massive new problems that would be created.

I think crypto will always have a niche, especially for black markers. I don't think anything similar to currently existing crypto currencies will ever be adopted for widespread use as legal tender.

And as the other commenter pointed out, the tax situation is a nightmare. Even if you don't sell online yourself, that's a big hurdle to crypto achieving what many supporters claim it can do.

Lmao they call it AI powered for real?

When I looked at that site to see what everyone is talking about, it looked dead with most posts having no comments. Am I missing something? Doesn't really seem like a threat to Lemmy.

It's not because they want to nanny you, it's because they can't afford the legal fees.

This is going to be a problem for any instance that gets big enough to be noticed by copyright holders or law enforcement. The legal issues will start to pile up.

This is a very naive take.

I had a job doing this. I went to see Death Blow with my friend and he brought his friend, Brody, along. Just as the movie starts he pulls out a camcorder and starts filming!

I thought it was crazy. Anyway after a while Brody gets real sick in the stomach from too much candy. My friend had to take him home, but before he leaves Brody pulls a damn gun on me and says I have to finish recording the movie!

I didn't know what to do so I just said yes and took the camcorder. I had no idea what I was doing, so I just pointer at the screen and tried to hide from the attendants.

I couldn't believe it, when I gave Brody the recording he said it was the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen, he even called me a genius! My bootleg tape was a smash hit. He asked if I could go film an 'arty' movie next, Cry, Cry Again. I was torn up inside, as I disagreed with bootlegging but didn't want to say no to Brody. So I asked my friend to ghost-film it for me. But when I saw the crap he recorded I refused to let it go out under my name. I demanded we re-film, with three camcorders throughout the theater with headsets to coordinate. Brody said no, so I quit right there.

In the end the version my friend filmed went out, but my other friend accidentally taped over the ending with her dancing. Oh, and my other friend tried to take up bootlegging to impress a girl, but he got arrested and cried.

Anyway, what's the deal with airline peanuts?

OK? That doesn't absolve the real childish behavior I was responding to, you idiot.

I didn't say it shouldn't be scientifically studied. It definitely should be, especially the extremely high rates of comorbid mental illnesses in trans/non-binary people.

The article you linked states that gender is now commonly considered a social construct rather than tied to your biological sex. They are making the distinction so that there is no confusion when reading their papers.

The science is not settled, they are conceding that the common use of the term now has a different meaning than it did in the past.

The issue isn't just that they might win, it's that they will naturally dominate in competitions where biological makeup matters.

If you don't see how that's not fair I don't know what to tell you. There are hard rules in biology that don't mesh with gender identity politics, and there's no way around that.

That's disingenuous and your own link doesn't support what you are saying. The link demonstrates that gender to refer to self-identity is both recent and an artificial distinction. The science behind transgenderism is far from settled as much as people would like it to be. We don't even know what causes it.

Finally some sanity on this site.

lmao you are the perfect example of what is wrong with this kind of thinking. You are free to ahead and block someone who was simply arguing in favor of free speech, but no one thinks big of you for it and the fact you decided to declare it to the world is hilarious.

UAPs could be anything, we have no idea what. No evidence was presented that they are aliens, and the ex-intelligence guy who claimed that they are aliens also believes the Vatican is involved in the cover up, not exactly credible.