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  • You ended your comment saying you completely disagree with me after reiterating what I'd just said as if it were your own thought.

    You really need to work on your communication and reading comprehension buddy.

  • Yeah, and Zelle, Cashapp, venmo, PayPal all do the same and don't have that environmental impact you so easily dismissed.

    It's been great watching Bitcoin grow from this digital currency for buying drugs online to having all these layers added on to almost sort of make it comparable to the systems we already have. By the time you guys actually make something that isn't just stocks with no backing but faith, we'll have moved on to a post-money society(probably not but I have more faith in that than blockchain ever being a useful currency.

  • Again, for the people in the back:

    The experiment was whether or not they could be independent monetarily. Not whether or not blockchain works. But whether, in actual practice, if it could provide the monetary independence some people claim it has the power to do.

    Outside influences were strong enough to overwhelm Bitcoin adoption and it succumbed to those outside influences. As an experiment seeking to test whether or not Bitcoin could resist these influences it failed.

    This is how experimentation works. Now you can tweak your experiment and try again, but acting like failing at the exact thing you were trying to accomplish is somehow not an experimental failure is just delusional.

  • So they experimented with resisting the US and IMF and it was not successful.

    We call that an experimental failure.

    You really don't get it. "Blockchain" was not the experiment. "Utilizing blockchain in the global economy" was the experiment.

    And it failed.

  • You know the towers log data too, right? And that websites themselves can track you regardless of what OS you use, right?

    Privacy is good, but stop with this "Linux is a magic weapon" BS.

  • So when I wrote about bots, I was describing them as an effect created by a cause. You went and reversed the two and are thinking I blamed bots.

    No.

    What I said was that voting based moderation is a popularity contest. An easy way to win popularity contests is to stuff the ballot. On the internet, you can do this with bots. Ergo, the rise in bots all over the Internet is a consequence of our popularity based algorithms and systems. That type of moderation just doesn't work. But please, keep misunderstanding people and then blaming others. I'm sure that'll help.

    If you're gonna disagree with my idea, at least get it right. You're not being downvotted heavily for not agreeing with the hive mind in the right way. You're being downvotted for lacking reading comprehension and going off on a crazy sounding tangent.

  • So all the progressive businesses that hire these kinds of people will close and lose revenue while the non-progressive businesses, the ones you really want to hurt, will stay open and collect the revenue they'd normally collect along with a bonus from customers they bring over. Also remember that it's the lower income people who have less choices about when and where to shop. Close the only store they shop at on the only day they have time to do groceries and you're hurting them way more than the more privileged person who can just go another day or travel further.

    This feels way more like cutting off your nose to spite your face

  • The experiment was to move beyond external parties. They were not able to do so and returned to using external parties. Ergo "the experiment failed".

  • "Bitcoin is great if you don't use the block chain"

    That's what you just said. So why even use it in the first place?

  • This is what I'm waiting for someone to articulate. I work in the cannabis industry - we have nothing to do with Republicans and the Federal government already hates us. What would our workers striking accomplish? It'd only hurt our company and thus more likely to hurt Dems than R in the long run.

  • Think even more general than that. Ignore identity/gender/sexuality issues for a moment. How do you write a research article about the negative effects of a drug on pregnancy without using the word pregnant? About complications during a "normal pregnancy"(I'm using their word, not mine - please don't take offense - I hope you see where I'm going)? If you can't mention gender or pregnancy, even when it's about cis people, you suddenly can't do a whole hell of a lot of research.

  • Agreed. I think when most people hear "able to sense magnetic fields", they think it means you can always point to North. It's more like being able to feel temperature or proprioception(your ability to sense where your body is). I think it's another dataset that gets added to our mental calculations, we just can't pinpoint that exact "sense" and use it actively.

  • Ahhh, the rallying cry of "just downvote it". I'd insert the "this your first time?" gif here if I could. Leaving a community to self moderate invariably turns into a popularity contest, and then when one group eventually takes over, an echo chamber usually filled with the same regurgitated spam. "If you don't like it just downvote it" or it's reverse "well it has a lot of upvotes, so someone must like it"(welcome to why we have so many bots today....) always ends up catering to the terminally online at the detriment of the average person. People far too often will speak with absolute confidence about things they have never even experienced, but because it's well formatted, it's sent to the top. The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect describes this in part.

  • Hehe it is the best. Been using Gir as my avatar for things most of my life 😂

  • That was much more "chain of command is incompetent but we have no choice but to obey" rather than "blind loyalty". Did you forget the episode where he was dishonorably discharged by the DOOP for blowing up the space station with the ribbon cutting laser? His second in command, Kiff, is literally constantly pointing out how stupid and incompetent Zapp is. Hell, even "I sent wave after wave of my own men against the killbots until their counter overflowed", arguably the worst case of being a loyalist to Zapp, ended in a win for Earth. They didn't fall apart and collapse - they defeated the unstoppable killbot army and got a medal(show them the medal Kiff).

  • Thanks Negative Nancy. Not the point here tho.

  • People can only improve if we allow them to and give them the opportunity. You have the right mindset.

  • The moment you start thinking about prison in terms of punishment and who deserves worse, you've missed the mark. Rehabilitation should be the purpose. There's a reason other countries have much lower recidivism rates and some of their prisons are like resorts. The point is to nourish the mind, soul, and body to make a BETTER person - not to continue the beatings until morale improves.

  • It's well known inside that firefighter duty has more freedoms, WAY better food, and that pay rate is miles above anything else you can get while inside. That's not to say these aren't brave people risking their lives, but it is definitely a sought after position for it's many perks.

  • I was thinking this for a second, but is this really plausible? Normally when we talk about corporations we talk about how powerful they are and how they use different nations to locate headquarters and offices in order to mitigate legal and tax obligations. We regularly talk about how governments can't reign them in and how they act with impunity.

    But now? "They HAVE to capitulate. They are just doing it to survive." Really? Do we really believe that? Or is it more likely that this is what they want and if they didn't, they'd be fighting tooth and nail to stop it? I'm with the second option honestly.