knightly the Sneptaur @ knightly @pawb.social

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https://abcnews.go.com/538/democrats-incumbent-parties-lost-elections-world/story?id=115972068

"History" would seem to suggest that we're in for another go around the cycle of fascist ascendancy and collapse, and that the Democrats might have had a chance if they ran a primary instead of letting Biden hog the candidacy 'til it was too late to switch.

They did fail, obviously, in large part because they took too long to ditch the incumbent and didn't do enough to distance their new candidate from him.

No, I expected someone to be an actual change candidate after they finally convinced Biden to drop out.

Instead they just replaced Biden with a lady-Biden.

Blaming the voters instead of the politicians is the same thing as making excuses for the politicians.

As opposed to a spyware app owned by the local government that's designed to sow discord and destabilize any opposition to the local oligarchs?

Seems to me that, for most people, there's more personal risk in being spied on by local cops than foreign ones.

At the risk of being called an accelerationist, the fact of the matter is that the only way out is through.

You're not wrong, they need a union. Which is precisely why Facebook and Twitter pack their payroll with H1-b visas.

The US has a glut of skilled tech workers right now thanks to a quarter-million layoffs last year, the argument that they can't find the labor locally is facetious. Also, every H1-b worker should be entitled to dual citizenship or full naturalization, whichever is their preference.

It does entirely.

Taking control of a government that's designed to disenfranchise you is a very different task than reforming a government that used to be responsive but was captured by hostile interests.

Take back? Our government never belonged to "the common man". This is a country of the rich, by the rich, for the rich, and always has been.

What about enbies like me?

I'm guessing we still get shirtless service, but no freebies. XD

Bury it deep enough to lock the carbon in. If you spend it, those dollars will eventually find their way back to the treasury where they'll be burned.

Blockchain currencies aren't a bubble, they're a scam.

The results aren't worth the expense. So-called "AI" is the biggest bubble since the great recession.

Wealth concentration is even worse now than when that song was written.

Of course it does. A million validators on less than 15,000 nodes? The top 100 accounts already own 35% of the network and rising? The top 0.005% of accounts own more than 78%? A Gini coefficient worse than Ukraine? A Nakamoto index of 3?

Ethereum is only months from a level of wealth concentration that would give Lido and Coinbase a combined 51% of the stake.

"Or doesn't have to". So you admit it?

Proof of stake is a centralized system. If access to your ledger is going to remain centralized then there's no need for it to be a blockchain. You can just have a regular distributed database.

Solarpunk is an anti-capitalist, pro-ecology aesthetic, not a coherent political ideology.

You should put more thought into this, because without a proof method that relies directly on the amount of power produced then you're just hoping that people aren't minting tokens for free.

The blockchain isn't "new" at this point either. It's been around for 15 years.