wraekscadu
@wraekscadu@vargar.org
- Comment on So sweet 🥲 1 day ago:
Who said I was a doctor?
- Comment on So sweet 🥲 1 day ago:
Will have to try it out next time. Thank you for the tip 🍆💦
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- Comment on no complaints tho 2 days ago:
Lol yeah, if you don’t like what you see… Just close your eyes! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Is there a chance America one day will elect a Progressive? Or will we keep going the elder dipshit route? 2 days ago:
For which office? You guys already have elected progressives in some offices
- Comment on Real 5 days ago:
Depends on your definition of “easy”. Here’s the wiki article about it.
- Comment on Real 5 days ago:
We can build a telescope to see this by the way. The lens being the gravitational warping of spacetime by the sun. We go waaaay past the orbit of Pluto (I forgot the exact distance) and send probes there. We can have quite nice pictures of planets up to pretty nice distances.
- Comment on The Struggle 5 days ago:
Can I see please 🥺👉👈
- Comment on Back in the day the world had The Great Dictator speech speaking the truth. Then came Network with the I am mad as hell. In this era what speech are we going to look back from the future? 1 week ago:
The only terminal goal that corporations have is to make money. As much of it as possible.
Production of Andor was greenlit with the assumption that investing money in it would result in a positive ROI. Nothing more, nothing less. The same applies to them funding the fascist admin.
- Comment on IMPORTANT PSA FOR PARENTS 1 week ago:
#blessyourkidneystones
- Comment on Back in the day the world had The Great Dictator speech speaking the truth. Then came Network with the I am mad as hell. In this era what speech are we going to look back from the future? 1 week ago:
Most monologues and speeches from Andor:
- Nemik’s manifesto: Talks about liberation and authoritarianism.
- Kino’s speech: I interpreted it as a call for revolution against the ruling class.
- Mothma’s senate speech: Talks about how fascism rises with a loss of an objective reality (in the public consciousness).
Andor’s really a banger! Please consider watching it if you haven’t already.
- Comment on In this modern world of AI, with devices everywhere having microphones, is it even safe to satirically joke and banter with a friend anymore? 1 week ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Your opinion is important 1 week ago:
Racist post. I hope it isn’t tolerated by the community.
Do activists with a messiah complex exist? Yes. Are they annoying? Yes. Should folks considered “white” and politically “liberal” be generalized into having this attribute? No. It’s racist to do so.
OP is quite bigoted and should know better.
- Comment on Crypto as a Payment Method? 2 weeks ago:
The argument for privacy in monetary transactions is much more nuanced than the one for simple text messages. Reducing privacy in text messages only punishes the “good guys”, as bad guys can still use e2ee communication media very easily.
For monetary transactions, things get more complicated. Tax evasion, money laundering, human trafficking, purchase of weapons can be done using super private payment systems. If adoption of this becomes widespread, then liquidity of these currencies increase. For example, if I’m selling illegal weapons, then the Monero that I receive from that purchase needs to be somehow converted into real money so that I can buy a house, groceries and so on. If Monero becomes widespread, then I don’t even need to this.
Imagine Bezos, musk and all the other crooks just getting way way more of powerful.
How do they handle the traceability aspect? Like, if it’s a blockchain, that makes transactions public by definition right?
Not quite. They use something called “ring signatures”.
- Comment on Crypto as a Payment Method? 2 weeks ago:
Centralised payment systems are much more efficient. Yes, corporate capture can make them suck (visa/MasterCard duopoly). To ensure security, financial infrastructure tends to be super capital intensive. This leads to an oligopoly in a best case scenario and a monopoly in the worst case scenario.
Being a natural monopoly, I would highly highly be in support of state owned financial “stuff”. Cooperativize operations as much as possible, but let the state raise capital for this. Good for national security too.
Certain types of crypto can be very good if you want transactions to be anonymous (Monero being the best example). Wanna purchase drugs from an illegal ecommerce platform? Monero is untraceable. Wanna buy weapons, launder money, etc? Monero works. Otherwise, it’s pretty much useless in the face of existing non crypto services.
BTC sucks for transactions. But its value proposition is kinda different. It’s kinda like gold (kinda).
Humans throughout history have based currencies based on items that can be easily verified to be real, and are scarce. Gold is an example. Gold can be mined, yes. But it’s pretty scarce. It’s easy to tell gold from “not gold”.
Hence, in a world where financial systems weren’t exactly integrated and digitized, assets and market info was hard to track, trust in other countries and their institutions was super low, gold worked.
But we abandoned the gold standard for a reason. Hence, do we really want a digital gold equivalent (in terms of verifiability and scarcity)? What even is the point? That’s why BTC doesn’t make sense (for me)
- Comment on If you are sitting behind him on a plane... you better behave yourself 5 weeks ago:
If I ever have kids in the future, and if my kids do this seat kicking bullshit, I give total permission to this distinguished individual to eat my kid.
- Comment on 🦋🧈 5 weeks ago:
Hey, funny picture, though could you please not link to Musk’s platform? He’s kind of a dick, n we don’t really like supporting his businesses here. Sorry <3
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 5 weeks ago:
Why’s that? What part from that era would you like to see again today if you could?
- Comment on butts n beans 5 weeks ago:
PEAK. This is the highest point of this community.