inv3r510n @ inv3r510n @lemmy.world

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It hurts to wear them anywhere, kinda like trying on a friends prescription glasses and getting an instant headache because you don’t need that prescription.

Don’t forget being called a tankie for daring to rightfully criticize the democrats for being the frauds they are.

Oh yeah. They’ve got their class interests to protect which is why they do absolutely nothing for us. Remember they’re gonna hand over power to fascists because politeness and protecting institutions matters more to them then fighting for the minorities they’ve manipulated for decades. They don’t give a fuck about us.

I’m not saying I support it, I’m saying that’s what’s going to happen. We’ve had numerous options for off ramps from this hot mess but the democrats block any kind of left wing legislation and improvement of people’s lives. They’re frauds who protect their class interests above all else. They’re not gonna do shit about fascism.

The root of the problem is capitalism and imperialism, and the only way out at this point is a general wildcat strike and then violence. This country will never unify under labor power so violence it is.

The only reason I have respect for it is because for once democrats aren’t the party of piety and taking the high road. It’s actually a bit refreshing seeing them muck around in the mud.

You’re totally right though. A whole lot of people should be getting pardoned for the drug war biden himself was responsible for condoning as a senator for decades. But then how would the prisons and those who contract with them for slave labor profit? Will anyone think of the poor investors?

You have a child like understanding of economics if you think the current way of doing things is working and somehow won’t lead to an economic crash. We already had an economic crash not long ago. And we’re about to go into another.

Thanks. I respect what biden did for his son because the republicans would do (have done?) the same shit.

What I don’t respect is the endless wars of imperialism, the genocide, the handing over power peacefully to overt fascists, and biden not doing a single fucking thing while he’s a lame duck to protect us from the incoming government.

Who gives a fuck about what the republicans or democrats say anymore? They’re all corrupt rich people who are full of shit and don’t give a fuck about you and never did.

Oh no! The two pro capitalist pro imperialist parties are trading barbs about dumb shit!

You can’t vote your way out of fascism but you can certainly vote your way into it.

Maybe one of these days the liberals will fucking learn from history.

Hi 2008 called and wants it’s fiat money back. Guess you weren’t alive for that market crash? You’re clearly a child or young adult who didn’t live through that as an adult or you’d know how easy it is to manipulate an economy and crash it so the 1% of the 1% can consolidate even more power. I see based on your defense of truly pointless jobs that you’re a worker of the laptop class, I’m sure your marketing or business degree is really important to making the world work. Not.

The limitations are innate because there’s finite resources on a finite planet. If we’re able to come up with infinite renewable resources then we can get the luxury gay space communism we all want.

The way (some) crypto works is by making even more complex mathematical calculations that require more and more computing power. Limit the computing power by limiting resources (finite planet, remember?) and there’s your regulation.

Of course, this isn’t a perfect world, and tech companies will do anything in their power to get a leg up on their competitors and will go through all the energy on this earth to make a quick buck (looks at the AI companies)

The limitations would be innate. Especially if it were tied to renewable resources, there’s a finite amount of resources on the planet even with renewables which can’t be 100% renewable by default.

People work because they have an innate drive to do so. Look at firefighters and search and rescue for example. Most are volunteer (at least where I am) and they run into burning buildings to rescue people for no money. Or they’re hiking into remote wilderness in awful conditions (deep snow, -20F outside, high winds, miles from civilization, huge cliffs to fall off of and die) to rescue lost skiers and hikers. Hell there’s plenty of rich people who could retire yesterday and live their lives out drinking Mai tais on the beach without a care in the world and yet for some reason they still show up to work, because they want to.

I doubt people would be doing stupid pointless jobs pushing papers around in circles if they weren’t financially manipulated to do so.

They aren’t “real” anywhere but it just goes to show how easily people and networks are manipulated

Nah, I’ve tried on friends polarized sunglasses and goggles and what not. My face is small so it’s not a size issue.

I had a brain injury as a teenager so I think it might be related to that. I’m also pretty sure I’m autistic so it could be a sensory issue because I remember as a child (pre injury) hating wearing sunglasses (probably because they were polarized). Nowadays I can’t be outside on even a cloudy day without normal sunglasses, and my contacts and prescription glasses are transition lenses because of how sensitive to light my eyes are.

The limitations of computing power would regulate the value of the crypto, just like the supply of oil regulates the value of the petrodollar.

Governing bodies would just get corrupted. Gestures broadly at the world

One could argue that an OPEC like entity would emerge in the crypto space where they artificially control supply.

I’m not arguing in favor of crypto, I’m an ancom, I’d prefer a moneyless society entirely.

Can’t believe you got downvoted for calling the genocider in chief a monster.

Good for him. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

Might as well have the completely corrupt country we deserve. Both parties.

Yeah they make me instantly nauseous!

You’re talking to an anarchist, so anarchy isn’t a problem to me. I want less control by government not more. More control = more opportunity for corruption. More centralized = more government power. More decentralized = more power to the people.

To me the problem with crypto is that it’s really easy for people who currently have power to consolidate their power even further by buying vast amounts of crypto in hopes that crypto will take over fiat money worldwide.

I don’t have a solution for stopping bad actors, and that is one of many reasons why I’m not a crypto bro.

But in a perfect world it would make a great abstraction of trading on computing power. And unlike the petrodollar it could be backed by only renewable resources and climate friendly. But again, perfect world.

I wanna preface what I’m about to say by saying I’m not a crypto bro. At any given time I’ve owned less than $500 in crypto, and currently I own none.

But this makes a great argument for crypto, or at least the idea of some forms of it.

Up until the past few decades oil ran the world because you couldn’t make or ship products without it. Oil touches almost everything, from fertilizer to farm tractors to shipping produce across a country, let alone all the gizmos and gadgets that eventually end up in a trash heap.

For the past few decades that’s being surpassed by tech and electricity. Tech runs the world now, and it needs electricity to function. (Hence all the geopolitical posturing around Taiwan, as TSMC is located there and they’re the only ones making computer chips to that level). Oil is still important, and we are a long way from getting rid of its importance, but it is being overtaken by computing power and electrical output.

Crypto is to computing and electrical output what the USD is to oil. Crypto requires vast computing and electric resources to make it secure and to me crypto backed money is an abstraction of the change we’re seeing in society as electrical output’s importance is starting to surpass oil output.