dhork
@dhork@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why do people have an issue with people in their mid-20s dating much older people? 6 days ago:
DOESN’T THE GRIM REAPER TALK IN ALL CAPS?
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 2 weeks ago:
Socialism: If you have two cows, you give one to your neighbor.
Communism: If you have two cows, you give them to the government and the government then gives you some milk.
- Comment on Is the "everyday stuff" supposed to feel normal? Do y'all just have a parent do things then when you're supposed to be the adult you panic? 2 weeks ago:
It can be anxiety inducing the first time you do anything on your own like that. Rest assured, though, that you are not the only young adult feeling this way. Just do it, make a few mistakes in the process, and then you will be fine. Plus, you will know better next time.
With regards to the passport photo, it’s fine, just look at the guidelines thoroughly as they are very specific in terms of your background and stuff. In particular, you’re not supposed to use a selfie, because the angle will be all wrong. (You can use a cell phone pic with the proper background and lighting, they just recommend that someone else actually take the picture at the proper angle). Having said that, my last passport pic was a selfie which I took from arms length, and they accepted it…
- Comment on US hardware sales rose 69% in March 2026 following strong Switch 2 performance | US Monthly Charts 2 weeks ago:
Nice
- Comment on If you (a regular American citizen) had actionable, insider knowledge about the US Federal Government/Military and felt the public should know, how would you tell everyone? 2 weeks ago:
Hit up Polymarket, move the proceeds to crypto, move yourself to a non-extradition country, then spill the beans. It’s much easier to be in the wrong side if the US military industrial complex when you don’t have to rely on working for income.
- Comment on Phineas and Ferb: Why is Django? 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t quite remember this character (even after all the times my kids watched this show), so I looked him up, and it turns out the voice actor is one of the creator’s kids. So, he sounded like a “real boy” because he was.
The character’s entire purpose for existing was to provide some royalty checks to the kid.
- Comment on Whats a good etiquette to show you are doing a U turn in a left turn, so the cars behind you know? 3 weeks ago:
All you can do is go slower, and hope the oncoming traffic realizes what you are doing. Try yo slow dow whe approaching the intersection so it’s not all so sudden.
There is a left turn lane near where I live where U-turns are explicitly allowed, on a divided road, at a light with a dedicated left turn/u-turn lane and turn arrow. It’s not the cars you behind you you have to worry about, though. It’s the oncoming traffic that would turn right, that has a red light when you are making your U-turn, but they assume you are turning left and can make their right on red (perhaps without stopping like they should).
- Comment on So... is Iran blocking the Strait thing and then the US is also blocking it? So is it like... double blocked? Is it like "no you can't close the Strait, I'm closing it"? 3 weeks ago:
The best I can tell, Iran aims to block the whole strait, while letting their own traffic through. And the US just wants to blockade Iranian ports, and let the rest of the traffic through.
- Comment on Is there any way I can study Marxist theory in a way that wouldn't seem too boring or dry? 3 weeks ago:
I would start with Duck Soup.
Which Marx Brother is your favorite?
- Comment on Why the world doesn't have a backup plan for the oil crisis? 4 weeks ago:
There are backup plans, they are just more costly. Big Gas companies will just pass that cost down the line. Trust me, those companies were never in danger of losing money.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
No, you won’t have to pay taxes on that cash when importing it. But you can bet that CBP will ask nosy questions where you got it. And unless you can satisfy them that you got it by legitimate means, they will assume you got it by illegal means and confiscate it. It’s called “civil asset forfeiture”. Look it up.
Now, this situation is one of the few legitimate use cases for crypto. Find someone locally who will sell you a few hundred BTC with that cash, and now CBP has nothing to find at the airport. Then cash it out once you are in the States. The IRS would still be interested in where you got the money, be cause they monitor all the ways to get cash out of the Crypto ecosystem I to the US. But, as long as you have documentation of your lottery win (and crypto transfers) and file it all it shouldn’t be an issue. I would prefer to take my chancds as a documemted rich person by the IRS than as a rando who shows up at Newark with a briefcase of foreign currency.
- Comment on did the Artemis crew really spend 10 days pooping in their diapers? 4 weeks ago:
The toilet handled solid and liquid waste differently. Solid waste was stored for disposal on earth, liquid waste was stored in a smaller container and intended to be periodically vented out into the void. But the mechanism for that froze, and the container they had to store it in was too small for the whole trip, so they had to use a backup supply of pee bags for pee instead of the toilet.
I wonder if we were saved from an even worse fate, and if the toilet had worked as planned we would be destroyed at some point in the future by a race of aliens who we accidentally peed on
- Comment on Adult costume for Frozen themed children’s party 4 weeks ago:
That may not work the way you think it will, but that’s a spoiler for the second movie, IIRC.
- Comment on Adult costume for Frozen themed children’s party 4 weeks ago:
Just get a carrot nose, you can be the snowman. His schtick is that he can’t wait for Summer, because he doesn’t realize he’ll melt.
(Yeah, that’s a spoiler, but if you haven’t seen the movie yet you don’t care)
- Comment on How will you celebrate? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Are defense attorneys ‘good people’? 5 weeks ago:
Every defendant in the US is entitled to a presumption of innocence, and the Prosecution is obligated to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt. So, a defense attorney can be seen as performing a valuable service, to keep Prosecutors in check, and make sure they are doing their jobs correctly.
But I do wonder sometimes if these defense attorneys ask their clients whether or not they did the thing, or if they expressly say “Don’t tell me whether or not you did it”…
- Comment on It hurts. 5 weeks ago:
See my edit, it’s Jacksonville Beach FL
- Comment on It hurts. 5 weeks ago:
Where is this?
- Comment on Is cryptocurrency good for anything? 1 month ago:
Bitcoin burns so much energy because it’s developers are stubborn. It’s really that simple. Ethereum transitioned to a different algorithm that uses a fraction of that energy and only a few dorks care.
- Comment on Is cryptocurrency good for anything? 1 month ago:
He managed to keep it up until all of a sudden he couldn’t. Madoff was undone when he had to produce 440 million that he didn’t have.
Meanwhile, Tether was able to meet billions on withdrawals, several times. After Terra collapsed, I seem to recall they saw $15B in redemptions, but I can’t find any reputable links on that. If Tether was a scam, shouldn’t it have failed a long time ago?
People outside of crypto don’t realize how massive Tether is, and how much money it has under management. As much as the crypto bros dislike Ce tral Banks, Tether has turned into one. If Tether were to ever implode, it would take most Crypto businesses with it.
- Comment on Is cryptocurrency good for anything? 1 month ago:
Tether is an interesting experiment here. They are traded as smart contract tokens on top of various blockchains. They don’t really have any intrinsic value, other than Tether LTD saying “every Tether is 100% backed by currency reserves”, and releasing unsatisfactory “audits” now and then. It’s main utility is that it provides foreign exchanges with a way to trade in something that is like Dollars without opening them up to the regulation that comes with trading actual dollars. It’s market cap is currently in excess of $180 B.
But, USDT has been around, in one form or another, since 2015. And while other “innovative” crypto products have crashed and burned, Tether has been able to keep its peg and has never failed to meet redemptions. Furthermore, it doesn’t need to be a scam. It’s whole point is to always be worth one currency unit, so all they have to do is invest that currency in safe conventional investments and they can literally make billions of dollars with very little overhead. The most obvious answer is that they are not a scam.
I still don’t really trust them, but I have used them on exchanges, always making sure to trade through Tether to something I can redeem on a US exchange for actual dollars. But, I have to acknowledge they have lasted longer the most crypto entities. I wish they would get a complete audit together, but at some point their reputation for having lasted so long needs to be worth something?
- Comment on Is cryptocurrency good for anything? 1 month ago:
You’re not wrong, but why is not having the backing of a government a bad thing?
- Comment on Is cryptocurrency good for anything? 1 month ago:
I found crypto earlier than some. (not everyone – if I had more I wouldnt have to work anymore, haha!)
IMHO, the main value proposition of crypto is permissionless peer-to-peer payments. If we both have crypto wallets, and you send me an address to make a payment to, I can send that without needing anyone’s approval first. I don’t need any bank to agree to have me as a customer first, or any government to approve why the transaction is taking place. All I need is a functioning payment network, and the original Bitcoin white paper solved how to provide that and preserve anonymity. (Really Pseudo-anonymity, but only the nerds care about the difference)
As an academic experiment regarding permissionless payments, it is a resounding success. But, it turns out, Governments have laws regarding who can pay who regardless of the medium. So, just because Bitcoin enables permissionless payments doesn’t mean you done need to ask permission.
Furthermore, the rapid increase in crypto prices really doomed any chance at all for useful adoption. Because people don’t want to spend crypto anymore. They view it as a Store of Value, and who can blame them, given how it has risen from nothing to a > $2T market cap, even after the recent downturn? You used to be able to use crypto in regular transactions, but not anymore.
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 1 month ago:
“Scientific Community” is kind of a broad term. It is composed of a lot of smarty-pants types who are unlikely to take “no” for an answer, and will keep trying to fix the problem.
In the end, you may be right, and there’s no way to stop the runaway train, and all these folks will accomplish is getting our hopes raised while they earn their PhD’s and present papers in worldwide conferences they all burned jet fuel to get to.
But, what if you turn out to be wrong, and one of those poindexters actually figures out how to scrub CO2 from the atmosphere in an economical fashion, and they manage to stop the train? That person will be instantly famous, and the Nobel Prize might be the least of their accolades. They will be remembered as one of humanity’s greatest minds. If they happen to be British, they will be buried next to Newton and Darwin, that’s how important it will be.
So, they will keep trying, because it’s as close as you can get in this life to immortality.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
My #1 tip for stopping media addiction is to turn off notifications. There is simply nothing going on that requires your immediate attention. It can wait until you have time to check. Try it!
- Comment on After killing Ali Khamenei why doesn’t the US attack Mojtaba Khamenei? 1 month ago:
It’s possible either the US or Israel had some extremely timely intelligence on the location of the old leader, and the new one is just being more careful…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Communism
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m no radiologist, but yeah. That makes the most sense. And I bet the doctors would have presented it in a positive way for your mother at the time, to prevent her from feeling any sort of guilt in regards to not knowing she was pregnant, and how it might have affected your twin.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It could also be plausible that your twin was not viable, and did not develop in utero. So when she says they found your twin in the ultrasound, perhaps what they saw was whatever remained after the earlier absorption.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Makes much more sense if this all happened at 7 weeks vs. 7 months…
