centof

@centof@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone gets killed by a car, so they restrict e-bikes.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I LOLed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone gets killed by a car, so they restrict e-bikes.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AKA Geotargeting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The data is in: Return to Office policies don't improve employee performance or company value, but controlling bosses don't care⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For some companies, yes. Ultimately, it all extends from greed. Gotta keep my using my land because otherwise it will lose value. Gotta layoff people to make profits go up. Must make money printer go, Brrrrr.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The data is in: Return to Office policies don't improve employee performance or company value, but controlling bosses don't care⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Data only matters to them if they can use it to support the conclusions they want. Otherwise they just ignore at best or at worst call it fake news.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As if the tip actually goes to the dashers.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say you ideally have enough for about a month expenses in cash. Then maybe have 2 more months expense in two different bank accounts(1 in each account). That way any one bank blocking an account for a flagged transaction is just a minor inconvenience. Same thing with credit cards, have 2 different ones so 1 getting blocked is just a minor inconvenience. Anything beyond that I would probably put in a tax advantaged investing account like a roth ira invested in mutual funds.

  I wouldn’t be opposed to holding some portion of long term investments in a well established blockchain like bitcoin or monero but I would hardly call it a necessity for most people. They are effectively out of the reach of governments if they are setup and used correctly. But I wouldn’t expect most people to have the know how and motivation to set them up and use them that way. Government can’t tell bitcoin to freeze your account. They can tell that to your bank.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As if the tip actually goes to the dashers.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The examples were never proven to be justified by the government or anyone else. In both cases the government essentially said freeze these people’s money and the banks did. No due process. No presumption of innocence.

  That is the danger of a cashless society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As if the tip actually goes to the dashers.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never suggested keeping your life savings in cash. You brought that up. I ignored that bit as your financial decisions are your own. And they are just not relevant to the original point of a cashless society being bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As if the tip actually goes to the dashers.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just because you haven’t heard of it doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. It is a big world and everyone only sees their small piece of it.

  The Canadian government did recently it with the trucker protests. The US did it with operation Choke Point starting in 2013. It targeted 20+ categories of merchants including porn stars, cable box descramblers, and money transfer networks.

  The government routinely misuses the ‘justice’ system to wrongfully imprison people. Is it so hard to believe they will do the same thing with money? The government is not a neutral arbitrator of who is innocent. No one is innocent. But the government allows some people to be treated as more innocent than others.

  Cashless forces everyone to cede control of their money to the government through the banks. Do you want the government to be able to get a list of everyone who purchases abortion pills? Can you see how such an ability can be easily abused by government? Assuming the government will always be friendly to you is a false assumption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As if the tip actually goes to the dashers.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not allowing the government/banks the ability to freeze or seize your money because you did something they don’t approve of.

  Not giving the government/big companies a log of how you spend your money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do new sites embed tweets?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair use is a defense you have to make in court. And court is expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel stupid asking this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If anyone, I guess we have Torvalds or Stallman. But if they were here, I doubt they be stupid enough to admit it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨England and Wales judges told not to jail criminals -including rapists- as prisons full⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I realize this is a bit off topic, but do UK’s judges still use those fake wigs today? I know that they did in back when the US split off, but I just wondering if they still do or if this is just a relevant stock photo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemm.ee plans for mitigating image upload abuse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like a good plan. I have been very impressed with your approach to administer ing lemm.ee.

  Regarding the planned invite system, what would be the consequences of inviting a malicious user? I would think it would be hard to enforce any consequences simply because of the open nature of lemmy as an ecosystem.