Don't you want to have more gun control?
Everyone who has been paying attention for the past year: Nope. I'm good.
Everyone who has been paying attention for the past year: Nope. I'm good.
@eff I recognize the need, but you have to be careful because rights must be balanced against each other. Canada is loser pays so that disincentives frivolous lawsuits, but you have to be careful with legal short circuits because you can dismiss a meritorious lawsuit without having a chance to really review the facts if it isn't drafted very carefully.
@Jdogg247
It's almost like when you lie to people, then brag about lying to people, then people stop trusting you. How bizarre!
It's almost like when you lie to people, then brag about lying to people, then people stop trusting you. How bizarre!
@TonyStark America has a lot of sacred cows you're not supposed to talk about.
The inauthenticity of political discussion from any given angle means you can't effectively rule, which means you're always going to get more tragedies and ultimately things will get worse and worse until someone is willing to point out that none of the emperors are wearing any clothes.
The inauthenticity of political discussion from any given angle means you can't effectively rule, which means you're always going to get more tragedies and ultimately things will get worse and worse until someone is willing to point out that none of the emperors are wearing any clothes.
@Laconicif @MasculineMarsupial @Yakov Crypto might be amazing, but bitcoin won't be anything but a ponzi scheme.
We've already had it where a few investors were able to overwhelm the system and stop transactions from going through for months at a time. If that's the case, then the transactions from one walmart in a major city would totally destroy the system.
I don't know if you're old enough to remember the dot com bubble, but all kinds of companies were going to stratospheric valuations. that same time, Facebook didn't exist, Amazon only sold books, Netflix sent DVDs through the mail, Google didn't exist, and Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy. Yahoo is gone. Pets.com is long gone. AOL is gone, and AOL Time Warner is no longer. Yahoo at the time was considered king among tech stocks, and the AOL Time Warner merger was considered massive.
People were betting on tech stocks because the technology was promising, and most of them lost almost all of their investment because it doesn't matter if the technology is promising as much as it matters if the business is promising. Outside of "You should invest in bitcoin because bitcoin keeps going up", there's no good business case for the specific implementation of the technology. It isn't a currency. It isn't practical as a medium of exchange, and its volatility makes it useless as a store of wealth or a unit of account.
If one comes out that solves the volatility problem, solves the transaction throughput problem, and is relatively easy to use for end users, then I could see that one taking off during a period of stagflation like what we have coming up, but it won't be bitcoin.
We've already had it where a few investors were able to overwhelm the system and stop transactions from going through for months at a time. If that's the case, then the transactions from one walmart in a major city would totally destroy the system.
I don't know if you're old enough to remember the dot com bubble, but all kinds of companies were going to stratospheric valuations. that same time, Facebook didn't exist, Amazon only sold books, Netflix sent DVDs through the mail, Google didn't exist, and Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy. Yahoo is gone. Pets.com is long gone. AOL is gone, and AOL Time Warner is no longer. Yahoo at the time was considered king among tech stocks, and the AOL Time Warner merger was considered massive.
People were betting on tech stocks because the technology was promising, and most of them lost almost all of their investment because it doesn't matter if the technology is promising as much as it matters if the business is promising. Outside of "You should invest in bitcoin because bitcoin keeps going up", there's no good business case for the specific implementation of the technology. It isn't a currency. It isn't practical as a medium of exchange, and its volatility makes it useless as a store of wealth or a unit of account.
If one comes out that solves the volatility problem, solves the transaction throughput problem, and is relatively easy to use for end users, then I could see that one taking off during a period of stagflation like what we have coming up, but it won't be bitcoin.
re: Devil’s Advocate ACAB meme
@joerebelloharley Except for the "special police" the politically connected will have to arrest and prosecute you through a banana republic show trial if you defend yourself against the politically powerful.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/aG0uE4oY6Mg/
I don't often share these videos, but styxhexenhammer talking about what we have isn't capitalism is something I write about constantly.
I don't often share these videos, but styxhexenhammer talking about what we have isn't capitalism is something I write about constantly.
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/i-used-an-electric-car-to-drive-to-my-brothers-wedding-and-barely-made-it
The story of someone who stopped to recharge 4 times for a trip you wouldn't need to fuel up once to do in a gas car assuming you had your tank similarly full. That's not in an area where it gets cold, either. If it's -40C, you probably dropped the battery life in half again, and that's if you're lucky.
I actually like the idea of the Nissan leaf. I've been eyeing used ones for a while as an around town car, but we need to keep in mind that these cars can't be a panacea. There's a limited use case and they need to prove they actually can work under those circumstances. Some morons think we can ban ICE cars. That 4 charge trip would turn into 8 charges ostensibly of 45 minutes each in that car if I wanted to drive to the next city over, and that's if there are enough chargers which I doubt. It would turn a one day drive into maybe 3 days. Good luck with that!
The story of someone who stopped to recharge 4 times for a trip you wouldn't need to fuel up once to do in a gas car assuming you had your tank similarly full. That's not in an area where it gets cold, either. If it's -40C, you probably dropped the battery life in half again, and that's if you're lucky.
I actually like the idea of the Nissan leaf. I've been eyeing used ones for a while as an around town car, but we need to keep in mind that these cars can't be a panacea. There's a limited use case and they need to prove they actually can work under those circumstances. Some morons think we can ban ICE cars. That 4 charge trip would turn into 8 charges ostensibly of 45 minutes each in that car if I wanted to drive to the next city over, and that's if there are enough chargers which I doubt. It would turn a one day drive into maybe 3 days. Good luck with that!
@wjmaggos @PhoneBoy How many politicians will visit any funeral of the excess suicides, excess cancer deaths, excess drug overdose deaths, excess domestic abuse deaths caused by measures meant to limit COVID-19?
Ah, none. There's only ever one problem in the world because it's easier to get whatever they want that way. All other problems don't exist. I'm getting used to it, but the "let them eat cake" mentality never does quite stop being incredibly frustrating.
Ah, none. There's only ever one problem in the world because it's easier to get whatever they want that way. All other problems don't exist. I'm getting used to it, but the "let them eat cake" mentality never does quite stop being incredibly frustrating.
@alex I want every single one of them to add me and my instance to them. Whatever ideology it is, I've got it, so put me down as the racist SJW trans paedophile or whatever I need to be to get blocked by all the people who want to block people solely because they disagree.
Then I'll only have cool people left on my fediverse.
Then I'll only have cool people left on my fediverse.
The corporate plan:
1. Advocate for less regulation so they can become massive
2. Advocate for more regulation so they can destroy the competition
3. Advocate for special protection because they're the only ones that can do what they do because there's no competition
And people fall for it hook, line, and sinker every time.
1. Advocate for less regulation so they can become massive
2. Advocate for more regulation so they can destroy the competition
3. Advocate for special protection because they're the only ones that can do what they do because there's no competition
And people fall for it hook, line, and sinker every time.
@urbanroman @pluralistic The worst thing is that you repeal the regulation limiting the behaviour of the banks, but then you keep the regulation insuring everything the banks do using taxpayer money.
By the way, all these companies that were spending the extra money during the good times on stock buybacks instead of building a cushion or investing in capital equipment or people are getting an on the books and off the books bailout to the tune of trillions of dollars right now. If the American people got the kind of bail-outs these companies are getting, most of them wouldn't need to worry about student loan forgiveness because they'd just pay off whatever loans they have left.
The master manipulators employed by these top companies have learned how to set the frame so that the rich getting overwhelming advantages is something they grudgingly accept rather than something they overwhelmingly desire and actively seek out.
By the way, all these companies that were spending the extra money during the good times on stock buybacks instead of building a cushion or investing in capital equipment or people are getting an on the books and off the books bailout to the tune of trillions of dollars right now. If the American people got the kind of bail-outs these companies are getting, most of them wouldn't need to worry about student loan forgiveness because they'd just pay off whatever loans they have left.
The master manipulators employed by these top companies have learned how to set the frame so that the rich getting overwhelming advantages is something they grudgingly accept rather than something they overwhelmingly desire and actively seek out.
