Viking_Hippie
@Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Every day is a blessing 1 hour ago:
They did the monster math
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 3 hours ago:
Only for the purpose of posthumous Mormon baptism.
- Comment on Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth 3 hours ago:
I’d personally prefer something more along the lines of a bear cave, I think 🤷
- Comment on Dracula's Uncle moved his family from Arlington to a military base because he was terrified of sidewalk chalk. 2 days ago:
Fact: Stephen Miller hates Jews almost as much as Clarence Thomas hates black people.
- Comment on I can buy myself flowers ♫ ♪ ♬ 2 days ago:
Pro tip: writing your name in the sand is significantly easier when well hydrated.
- Comment on Bondi's Latest Press Briefing 2 days ago:
Or at least hung like one
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Probably depends on jellyfish proximity 🤷
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 6 days ago:
Silent Hill fuck?
- Comment on Fact 1 week ago:
a self-indulgent and overlong toboggan-ride over the top-most surface of whatever theme he claimed to be exploring.
That’s coincidentally also word for word the worst review I ever got from a sexual partner.
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- Comment on Every accusation is a confession? More like everything is a confession 1 week ago:
Lots of hate fucking, probably 🤷
- Comment on Every accusation is a confession? More like everything is a confession 1 week ago:
Not for peace, no.
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- Comment on Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists 1 week ago:
I was in a bluegrass band called Cyberpunk Chihuahuas. We offended many cultural sensibilities.
- Comment on MAGA 1 week ago:
That’s the episode title, yes. Well remembered!
- Comment on What is the most profitable industry in the world? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's scientific publishing. 1 week ago:
I’m actually surprised it’s not closer to 100%
These are probably the official figures arrived at AFTER a bunch of schemes to avoid being fairly taxed, as are those of the other companies listed.
In fact, it would surprise me at all if 30-something% is the REAL profit margin of the ones whose official one is 2% and those of the top 5 or so are all 80%+.
- Comment on DEI4All 1 week ago:
“Where are the goddamn Ethiopian, Sami and Kurd dancers?!"
- Comment on NEW TOAD ALERT 1 week ago:
Close, but he’s actually called Herbie Tonojizz and he’s a really sweet guy!
- Comment on The heat... I mean the cold... well, it’s palpable! 1 week ago:
As far as equations go, “one degree RA equals 5500 degree Celsius divided by joking” is unusually abstract 🤔
- Comment on Milk 1 week ago:
Who made you in charge or arbitrarily defining the properties of a sauce.
I did. Sorry about that. I’ll choose more carefully next time
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- Comment on New Year? In this economy? 2 weeks ago:
There may be some rose tinted glasses there bud
More like picking a year almost at random and then seeing how the better than recent years it sounds, but you’re right about the rest 😁
- Comment on New Year? In this economy? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe 2009:
Dubya was out of the White House and Obama still hadn’t evolved into his final Centrist form, making it theoretically still possible to influence him towards governing more like the 2008 campaign Obama
Facebook was still barely bigger than MySpace, Twitter was still pretty good rather than a fascist safe space, Google had yet to ruin YouTube, and enshittification was generally the exception rather than the rule
An Inconvenient Truth was still relevant and most countries at least did a halfway decent job of PRETENDING to care about the future livability of the planet
Still early enough to pump and dump Bitcoin to death, preventing cryptocurrency from becoming the go-to money laundering tool of rich crooks everywhere including the current president
Windows 7, the best ever and last good Windows is released
The first international Trans Day of Visibility is celebrated with few if any fascists trying to murder anybody present
Plus a bunch of bad things, but next to nothing compared to every single subsequent year.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Quoth the OP, anymore
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 2 weeks ago:
10? Could be as many as 613, depending on who you ask
- Comment on What the democrats just did. 2 weeks ago:
You mean the oncoming train about to run over everyone who’s not a rich white Christian fascist man?
- Comment on What the democrats just did. 2 weeks ago:
Not familiar with the last two, but all the rest are amongst the most frequent collaborators with the fascists, usually COMPLETELY contrary to the wishes and needs of their constituencies.
They must all be primaried as soon as possible!
- Comment on I promise I'm not 2 weeks ago:
The value of metal isn’t arbitrary,bits valuable because the metal is actually valuable. You can use copper for electronics, silver for medical instruments, gold for all kinds of things from semiconductors to low impedance buses
Yeah, because necessary computer chips, medical instruments, and other electronics won’t become extremely expensive or scarce from being MADE OF MONEY!
There’s a finite amount of metal in the world and an ever-increasing demand for both things made of metal and currency. Combining the two would inevitably lead to a point in the far too near future where only very rich people can afford to use money and/or only rich people can afford to build anything out of the money metals.
There is no deflation of metal currencies or inflation
Except when there’s not enough of it in existence for both making the things of it AND for being all the money. Which is already the case.
This is a common lie of corporate sellsmen trying to sell everyone into their pyramid scheme
Maybe not the BEST thing to mention pyramid schemes while trying to convince people that inherently finite resources can cover several exponentially increasing needs in perpetuity…
The value slowly drifts over time
Until it’s suddenly currency again AND still needed for making important stuff with.
the discovery of new sources or technology which makes extracting easier
Which will STILL be much more expensive and require extra security once extraction equipment contains wiring and circuits made of literal money.
The point is though that compared to fiat currencies, it’s extremely stable and over generations
Which it has been because it’s been considered raw materials for production of goods for generations. That flies out the window the moment its value becomes intertwined with all levels and types of commerce
something people can save and give to their grandkids
If they’re EXTREMELY rich compared to most of the world’s population.
it will be roughly the same value.
No.
People can retire for example without ever needing to put their money at mercy to the rich in speculation markets.
Very few people, sure. Probably significantly fewer than now.
The is what you call deflation, but it’s what I would call economic appreciation
It’s what I call becoming richer by already being rich, which is basically the stock market but with less effort.
this is an honest economy
Overly simplified to the detriment of most people ≠ honest.
Simply put prices have to meet workers halfway.
Would be lovely, but the reality is that most workers would no longer be able to afford anything made of the money metals and would probably be underpaid even more than they already are since there’s actual scarcity added onto the artificial scarcity.
The only real downside compared to fiat currency, and this is really the only one in actuality
Nope. I’ve mentioned a few already at I bet you’re going to say something else in a bit
that money is harder to obtain without producing something of real value
Not if you already have it and it appreciates. Like the current system, but even moreso, it’ll be up to the ones who hoard the most riches to determine what has “real value”.
This means that governments can not spend money to stimulate the economy, and the economy cannot carry massive amounts of debts
Which would be awful. Without tools such as deficit spending and government debt, every recession could take years or decades, if not be permanently insurmountable since you can’t just create emergency metal.
Interest rates would be high because interests would have to cover the people who default.
Which would mean that only rich people would be able to afford to borrow money, further enhancing the “get richer by already being rich” effect
This is not a bad thing
As long as you are one of the lucky few already in possession of a lot of wealth in metals.
I could go on responding to all the rest of your fallacious arguments in turn, but if you haven’t gotten the point yet, let me just summarize it for you:
TL;DR: Going back to economies based on physical metal would be absolute weapons grade idiocy.
- Comment on "Nevertheless, the vaginal sounds that were sent will have reached Epsilon Eridani in 1996 and Tau Ceti in 1998. It is unclear what sort of reply we should expect." 2 weeks ago:
I too will be using the word invaginate in all the sexy talk I share with your wife.
