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2024-10-09 12:47:28

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Okay, but what about researchers doing in-house gene sequencing? I just don't see this being something that can be intentionally hidden or unintentionally overlooked at this point. The human genome has been analyzed too thoroughly by too many independent parties, many of who possess the expertise to spot anomalies and have INTENSE incentive to publish those findings. Like seriously, any medical researcher would KILL to have their name on that paper if there was any actual truth to it.

2024-10-06 07:43:23

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Statistically speaking, I'm way less likely to shit my guts out from the twinkies, soda, and cereal than I am from the raw milk. Still not super likely with the raw milk, but if I had to pick one to call unsafe, it'd begrudgingly be the milk.

2024-09-30 09:44:20

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The part that bothers me is the part where all the options I have for my choices are selected by whoever has the most money and therefore power. I'm not rich enough to thrive under libertarianism.

2024-09-30 09:38:28

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Because some people aren't interested in their children learning the truth. For example, half of Americans apparently don't want schools to talk about the ongoing impacts of slavery and racism. https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/half-of-americans-dont-think-schools-should-teach-about-racisms-impact-today/2022/02
I could easily find more examples of laws and parents demand that children not be taught the truth. And that's what children should be learning in school, even if it means being uncomfortable at times. The world is what it is, and attempting to deny that and bury your head in the sand won't help your child succeed in life when they grow up and fail to grasp how the world works because YOU wanted to hide that from them.

2024-09-30 09:30:28

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The main problem is your initial assumption about hard work and earnings. As you frame it, the implication is that those on the right side in the picture are there because they don't work hard. That's just not right. Poverty is fucking exhausting, and the jobs that keep you there are doubly so. In every job I've worked so far with maybe one exception, the less money I made, the HARDER I was expected to work. Hell, why do we tell our kids to go to college? So they can get a nice, cushy office job where they don't have to bust their ass nearly so hard and get paid way more, too. So the guy in poverty works WAY harder but walks away with LESS money. I'm not saying it's wrong to earn more for in demand skills, but it's still disingenuous to frame earnings as a direct correlation to how hard one works.
You claim I'm advocating for us all to live on the right, but I never even advocated for anything here. I simply pointed out that the average anti-socialism meme almost ALWAYS depends on an example of people suffering CAPITALISM, not socialism or communism, while telling you that if we try to change, what's already happening will happen.
I'm not advocating for any sort of change when I say this, so don't take this as pro anything, just highlighting something about capitalism. It will never lift up those on the right without intervention like laws and regulations. Never. The existence of poverty, slums, and homelessness is excellent motivation for the worker class. Sell your labor to the owner class and let them keep the profits, or starve on the streets. Workers that don't have to worry about food and rent TODAY are free to turn down shitty jobs and refuse new or unsafe duties in their current job. Keep us cold and hungry, and we'll trade our labor at a loss every single time because, shitty as it may be, it keeps us fed and sheltered.
Again, not saying socialism or communism is the answer. But your job is the authoritarian fiefdom you choose to play peasant for. For all our love of democracy, we are loathe to introduce it to the workplace. If we won't, we need laws and regulations to protect us as workers because the owner class wields waaaay more power than us in every interaction we have.

2024-09-29 10:17:49

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I feel like you chose your meme template well

2024-09-29 10:15:45

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Cry more about having to contribute to the society you wildly benefit from

2024-09-29 10:14:33

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...as long as that life belonged to someone cishet and white.

2024-09-24 08:28:49

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Okay, lemme cite a dictionary since you seem to be struggling. Unfounded means "Not based on fact or sound evidence; groundless: synonym: baseless." That's what you call the Haitian pets story that you insisted on spreading after being informed it was not true.
You talk a lot of shit and make some personal accusationa, but you know what you can't do? Back literally any of it up. I don't think you're telling ME I'm deranged. I think you're telling YOURSELF because you have no valid response and can't cope with the introspection that would prove you've been listening to a shitty swindler.

2024-09-24 07:53:52

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Lmao did you forget you posted this in a thread that was like 9 days old on MY feed? Dumbass. Only posts of yours I've commented on came up in my feed. Because you used hashtags... So that more people would see them. Did you forget how that works, too?
Also hilarious that you wanna try to call me deranged because you can't cope with reality. I actually brought facts and sources to back my claims up, the fuck do you have? Bitter, unfounded hatred? A stubborn refusal to accept the truth? Sure as fuck not a damn thing resembling an actual source for a single word you've tried to pass as fact.

2024-09-21 10:57:00

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What, I'm mentally ill because I didn't fall for the stupidest fucking conman I've ever seen? All that happened. Everything I said. Feel free to cite a single fucking source, as long as it actually discusses the topic at hand, unlike that racist trash unfit for use as toilet paper that you embarrassingly tried to pass off as journalism.

2024-09-21 07:56:47

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He raised my taxes so he could cut taxes for himself and the rest of the rich, but he made sure the increase happened when he was out of office so idiots would blame Biden. His Supreme Court picks overruled student loan relief and cost my wife and I tens of thousands of dollars. His Supreme Court picks' decision to overturn Roe v. Wade combined with her health problems mean when we try for a kid, there's a very real chance it KILLS her for WANTING to have a child. Project 2025 that he supports would remove overtime pay and cost me yet more tens of thousands of dollars. I watched as THOUSANDS of my fellow Americans died ABSOLUTELY MEANINGLESS DEATHS because he wanted to downplay covid just because it was impacting his political opponents more heavily at first, but his stupid fucking ass couldn't grasp that it'd spread to his followers in time. I watched as the entire world laughed at us and our allies distances themselves for electing such a greedy, self centered, easily manipulated IDIOT.
So he cost me tens of thousands of dollars, threatened the life of my wife and every other woman I know, encouraged disease to ravage the citizens he swore to protect, and destroyed soft power that took us DECADES to cultivate. And I'm sure I could add half a dozen other things if I was willing to think about it for just 30 more seconds.

2024-09-20 09:14:28

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You'd also never see modern electronics ever again since the total manufacturing process is ridiculously complex, and the raw materials are spread across the world. Shit, most couldn't even sustain a colonial America standard of living just because of the metal. It'd be an absurdly huge undertaking just to mine and smelt the metal to make the tools and the nails required to build a period appropriate home.

2024-09-20 07:44:45

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Lmao racist super pissed to get called out for his racism and now offended that I would insult his feckless leader. Since you had to start wishing death on people you disagree with... https://image.nostr.build/0b5eae8dac8214bf920470f29a61b33a6a5b570ccd3873ee47c2999cac50d865.jpg

2024-09-20 07:42:09

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Yeah, you got nothing to really counter with, so you're just super pissy to get called out on your racist asshattery. If you don't like the source, I just picked one at random off Google because there are TONS of articles from practically every news agency. You can find one from a source YOU trust with practically no effort at all. Here's a second one chosen at random: https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/09/jd-vance-offers-proof-of-pet-eating-but-its-proven-false-with-1-phone-call.html

2024-09-20 07:38:34

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Lol do you think there's a standard issue immigration experience? I'm sure you or your family faced some discrimination and unfair judgment, but do you REALLY think black people are treated no differently? Did you have the legality of your residence routinely questioned like the Haitians are currently experiencing? Did you have the most wild, utterly unsubstantiated, batshit crazy accusations leveled at you and broadcast on a national stage? Somehow, I doubt it.

2024-09-18 08:47:49

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Jesus fucking Christ, that article is such fucking TRASH. Unpacking this much horse shit is gonna take some work.
First off, most of it isn't even ABOUT the pets, it's just trying to rile you up about immigrants in other ways. A few anecdotal stories that may very well be true but are totally unrelated, e.g. crashes. It contributes NOTHING to the topic at hand.
Second, the Haitians are there LEGALLY, but that doesn't stop him from incessantly calling them illegals. That simple fact shows they have absolutely no journalistic integrity because it's fucking TRIVIAL to fact check it. Here's one of the half dozen articles I VERY easily found stating that the vast majority of Haitians are here quite legally: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/haitian-immigrants-fueled-springfields-growth-now-us-presidential-debate-2024-09-11/
Finally and most damning, HE HAS NO FUCKING PROOF. The best he can say is that people have heard stories from other people, but NO FIRST HAND ACCOUNTS. Meanwhile, they actually FOUND the lady who made some of the first posts starting the rumor. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-just-exploded-springfield-woman-says-never-meant-spark-rumors-haitian-rcna171099
So no, it really doesn't look like I'm wrong. But it does look like you should be embarrassed for trying to pass that off as journalism.

2024-09-17 08:29:29

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People are terrorizing the town of Springfield because people are actually believing the shit. Your memes have consequences when they paint a group as deserving of hatred.

2024-09-16 09:35:03

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If God wants anything for Trump, it's for him to face sentencing and receive one as harsh as we plebs would. But Trump is rich, and we don't do that here, so it'll take His direct intervention to achieve.

2024-09-14 08:17:56

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#meme #memes #education #usa #america #guns #teachers #lgbt #freedom

2024-09-11 09:15:43

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Who else but #Trump is gonna give us #weird and delusional bangers like "immigrants are eating your pets", "people are getting 6th trimester abortions", and "immigrants in prison are getting trans surgeries"?

2024-09-11 09:12:49

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Looks pretty similar... If I squint really hard and hit it with about 5 layers of jpeg compression

2024-09-11 09:00:51

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Anything to distract from the raging dumpster fire that is literally anything to come out of Trump's mouth, right?

2024-09-11 08:46:39

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That's going to depend on your client, I think. As far as I'm aware, there's nothing in the protocol itself to respond to that, but clients are allowed to handle it as they see fit.

2024-09-10 13:41:35

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Depending on laws where you are, you might be able to get some CBD infused lotions or ointments. I've heard they can provide pretty decent pain relief. I haven't heard about them being used specifically for hands, though. And that doesn't help fix the problem, just reduce the pain, so I'd look into how to help prevent the problem, too.

2024-09-10 09:52:07

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The immediate solution to #ReplyGuy and #ReplyGal is client side filtering, though that may not be as universal as some would like. The soon but not quite yet solution is implementation and adoption of NIP-13 for #ProofOfWork. Set the #PoW difficulty high enough to make bulk spamming expensive but low enough that users shouldn't have too much difficulty.

2024-09-09 15:23:13

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#comic #comics #meme #memes #savetheplanet #funny #pollution #oil #plastic #green

2024-09-09 15:17:36

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#meme #memes #wizardposting

2024-09-08 20:55:45

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#meme #memes #funny #humor

2024-09-07 11:14:45

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I don't see that as viable. Either you block all npubs your contacts don't already trust and close yourself off from the public, or a determined spammer will just freely cycle npubs, potentially going as far as a new npubs for every message, and invalidating the web of trust.

2024-09-07 07:12:34

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Misogyny and racism are a skill issue. Git gud, losers

2024-09-06 16:22:48

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Nostr doesn't do a whole lot to protect your privacy at the protocol level. Your npub is public proof that every event you sign was signed by the same person or someone they authorized, unless they got your keys stolen, but whether it can be attached to you depends on your opsec. Relays are allowed to share your events freely to everyone, but they're also allowed to restrict access however they see fit. Encryption schema used for things like end to end encrypted chats are still not as private as competing non-nostr services, but advancements are being formalized so they can be put into use. Ultimately, the privacy nostr affords people will largely depend on how the software is built on top of it. Decentralization will provide a degree of protection, and a much appreciated one, but without stronger protections built into the protocol, it still depends on how we use it.

2024-09-06 14:46:06

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What do you think they're trying to conserve, then? The status quo? In that case, the only real conservative policy would be to not pass or repeal any laws. The only time they haven't proposed radical change was when the elite class was sufficiently entrenched. Which would align with my accusation that their only real policy is establishing and supporting a wealthy elite class. Once they started failing, they had to start trying to drag us back, and the farther we progress, the farther they try to drag us back.

2024-09-06 12:45:46

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I wouldn't recommend using client specific formatting. I know it's tempting, but it's not going to look the way you want to a large portion of people who see it since they'll probably be on other clients. Wherever possible, it's best to use the universal standard, and if you can't for some reason, probably wanna mention what you're using instead, e.g. markdown instead of plaintext.

2024-09-06 12:35:51

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Word have a meaning to you and I, but not to conservatives. Nothing means anything at all to them except in terms of whether or not it grants them the power to get what they want. That's why Americans have no idea what communism is or what socialism is. That's why conservatives tried to screech that democrats are the real racists. You've allowed a bunch of lying liars to define conservativism and assumed they wouldn't lie. Conservatism as they describe it does not genuinely exist in any real capacity in the real world. Don't get caught up in some No True Scotsman fallacy or purity test. If you want to see the REAL ideology of conservativism, this guy sees them for what they really are. https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/conservatism.html

2024-09-06 11:34:04

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That was 20-25 years after the CIA helped overthrow democracy in Iran. https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690363402/how-the-cia-overthrew-irans-democracy-in-four-days

2024-09-06 11:31:28

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My whole point, though, is that they ARE conservatives. You're confusing the professed ideals of conservativism with the true beliefs of conservatives. There are a few among the public that believe in the professed ideals of conservativism in America and practically none in leadership. Conservativism as they claim it to be is practically nonexistent and unpracticed. The lying and reinforcement of hierarchy IS the true core of conservativism. From that perspective, Fox is as conservative as it gets.

2024-09-06 11:07:40

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They call themselves conservatives because it's the PR cover for the true ideology. They claim they want to preserve institutions, but that doesn't include regulatory agencies or benefits for the poor. They claim they want to conserve freedom, but as soon as you do something they like, they have NO problem banning it federally, especially if it'd cost the elites. They sure as shit aren't conserving language, a key component of our culture, when they bastardize every word or phrase that might hurt them, like socialism or communism or racist. The only true tenet of conservativism is that society should be hierarchical with a small class of elites at the top. Everything else is just whatever will fool the public into allowing an aristocracy.

2024-09-06 10:05:40

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I don't think they're mutually exclusive. Radicals are radicals because of their intense belief in an ideology, so we can't entirely decouple them from that ideology just because they take it too far in the eyes of some.

2024-09-06 09:54:06

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I was mistaken, it's in the description if of kind 1, text notes, and it specifically says it should be plaintext and further says "Content that must be parsed, such as Markdown and HTML, should not be used." So clients shouldn't even be doing any formatting. Pretty sure long form content is supposed to get markdown formatting by definition, though, so perhaps the client is publishing as long form to get markdown support.

2024-09-06 09:33:53

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The only thing conservatives actually want to conserve, regardless of where they are in the world, is a wealthy elite class. In modern times, the elite class is always somewhat regressive, longing for the days of autocrats and aristocracies, but if the elite class loses too much wealth or power, they push regression that much harder. Any aspiring or established elites feed the masses whatever lies and policies they need to to convince the populace to allow an aristocracy, and the people allow it usually because the aristocracy allows the hierarchy to include a third class or more below enough of the people. So conservatives are inherently regressive anywhere that doesn't already freely canonize an aristocracy.

2024-09-05 20:36:27

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Yeah, the Nazis and the Confederates both wanted to artificially divide us along racial lines and treat one group atrociously.

2024-09-05 19:49:36

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Real cute. Do you have anything meaningful to contribute, or are you just here to drop crappy retorts I haven't heard since before I hit puberty?

2024-09-05 17:49:30

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Trump is whatever the fuck he thinks will make him money. Whatever he was before, he has no problem at all pandering to the far right for the last 9 years because that got him into the extremely profitable position if president. And those profits are why he did things like promote Goya products from the Oval Office and refuse to return boxes of classified info and cut taxes for the rich.

2024-09-05 15:06:06

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Funny how you say this, and then a few days later, you jump in my DMs to tell me my memes make me look mentally ill. I guess because you don't like that I'm shit talking authoritarian losers. I'm not sure since you won't even say what makes you think that. That's a pretty fucking judgmental take. Something I said must have really struck a chord. What'd I say that's been living in your head rent free the last few days?

2024-09-05 14:15:47

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I'm tired of remakes. I don't want to buy the same game for a third or fourth time. Emulators have never been better, and after the industry's bullshit between restricting access to old games and reselling remakes at full price, I don't particularly care anymore if they wanna cry about people using emulators.

2024-09-05 07:40:07

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I'd feel bad for her if she hadn't opted to be a domestic terrorist for such a stupid, #weird conman.
#meme #memes #Trump #maga #politics #republican #republicans #2020 #election

2024-09-03 07:56:35

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He literally admitted he wants to fuck his own daughter. He's been alluding to it for YEARS. Nasty, #weird as fuck motherfucker.
#Trump #maga #pedo

2024-09-03 07:37:24

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If the confederate flag is just about heritage, I should be able to burn one wherever I see it, as that's my heritage as a real American.
#meme #memes #nazis #nazi #confederate #confederacy #patriotism

2024-09-02 21:11:08

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It's definitely slower, but it's only really noticeable for images and videos. Text notes still load plenty quick.

2024-09-02 14:09:55

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I think it's primarily the capability to explain it that you lack. And yeah, the world's most advanced supercomputer can't steal your bitcoin, but you're still vulnerable to the old fashioned $5 wrench attack. Or being jailed until you make the payment or give up your keys. Or seizure of physical assets. Or denial of access to benefits or services. Or a dozen other things. It's true the government can't just seize your bitcoin, but they still have the power to make life extremely miserable until you do what they want.

2024-09-02 12:07:30

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What? Wall Street *privately* owns things. They perform no labor but still take a share of the profits simply for having owned capital. And we agree that the last sentence doesn't apply, so basically none of this definition applies to Wall Street.
As for parts of it supposedly never happening (not fully versed, can't say for sure either way), I think that's more an issue with the supposed implementation not living up to the ideal or theory. It's not an indictment of socialism itself to say systems didn't properly embody it.

2024-09-02 11:39:58

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I still disagree that it doesn't describe Wall Street. It's inherently capitalist to its core, even in the way it perverts and exploits government.
What do you think socialism actually is? Since you insist so strongly on getting a definition, let's check Britannica.
"socialism, social and economic doctrine that calls for public rather than private ownership or control of property and natural resources. According to the socialist view, individuals do not live or work in isolation but live in cooperation with one another. Furthermore, everything that people produce is in some sense a social product, and everyone who contributes to the production of a good is entitled to a share in it. Society as a whole, therefore, should own or at least control property for the benefit of all its members."
https://www.britannica.com/money/socialism
Sure seems to me like actual socialists would be against big business. Ironic that you can realize how conservatives label anything they don't like as communism but then proceed to do the exact same thing, just with socialism instead.

2024-09-02 11:34:05

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Corporations would simply form their own states. They'd buy small armies and if libre labor poses an actual threat to their profits, they'd be removed. Even if you ignore that inevitability, economies of scale suggest at least the biggest businesses would be able to compete quite well.
Unless you're prepared to be a farmer, you're going to need to buy food, so you're going to *need* to sell your labor to survive, so individual laborers have to deal with the power imbalance of needing food immediately, compared to a business owner capable of hiring you clearly having extra money on hand to weather a shortfall until you cave out of hunger. There's an inherent power imbalance in the worker-employer relationship, and the absence of a state won't fix that.

2024-09-02 11:24:51

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That's like saying to acquire more gold, you have to benefit others. Even if you ignore theft on the basis of the cryptography, it doesn't forbid or discourage exploitive working conditions. It doesn't forbid or discourage using slave labor to produce your goods. It doesn't forbid or discourage dumping toxic waste into ecosystems. It doesn't forbid or discourage wage theft, which is by far the most common form of theft in the US. It doesn't forbid or discourage price gouging, even on critical, life saving goods like medicine, food, or shelter. How is it supposed to encourage mutually beneficial behavior when it can't do anything about these selfish behaviors?

2024-09-02 11:11:54

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You're really living up to your name here. They do all of those capitalist things, and they do them constantly, but because admitting that would be devastating to your point, you can't admit that.
They don't play by the rules, and they use their proximity to power to extract money from others because that's what any powerful class does under any system. Power itself becomes a market, and they broker in it for personal gain. Socialism for the owner class is the end result of capitalism, not some invalidation of it. Those with power will use it to enrich themselves, and under capitalism, capital *is* power, so how could you expect anything else?

2024-09-02 11:04:37

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I did not say such indirectly. I explicitly and directly said it simply augmented existing powers.
How do you see bitcoin changing people's behaviors in this way? As I said before, we used to have hard money, and it most certainly did not force people to support others to enrich themselves. We waged wars for profits. We established monopolies. We crushed workers' rights. We enslaved peoples. We destroyed communities. We did all these things under capitalism when we had hard money that transacted primarily in cash. How is bitcoin going to prevent that?

2024-09-02 09:43:33

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The root cause of what? Again, read carefully, I don't think I'm saying what you think I'm saying. I never said fiat was the root cause of anything. I said it was an augmentation of the powers of the uppermost class. It takes the nature of the system to the extreme. Bitcoin will help remove those augmented powers, but as I said in the last thread, the ruling class was still very much capable of abusing the hell out of us when they only had hard money.
I don't think it's a cure all. It can help solve a lot of problems, but it won't change human nature and how we leverage power dynamics. This is another of those borderline religious idealizations. Bitcoin is amazing at what it does, but it can't fix *everything*. It can only fix the things that directly stem from the quality of the money.

2024-09-02 09:37:23

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Yeah, and the point was that these are, in fact, still capitalist in nature. You want a hard definition, fine, let's look at Britannica:
"capitalism, economic system, dominant in the Western world since the breakup of feudalism, in which most means of production are privately owned and production is guided and income distributed largely through the operation of markets."
https://www.britannica.com/money/capitalism
Big business privately owns the means of production and depends on the operation of markets to get their profits. That sounds inherently capitalistic to me.
Wall Street privately owns businesses and the products they produce, and it exists practically *entirely* to exploit the operation of markets to skim profits.
Both depend on ownership of capital to gain profits through markets, not by virtue of labor.
This all looks pretty inherently capitalistic to me. You can argue that the individuals are motivated by profits and not by the ideals of capitalism, but the systems they're using the gain those profits look pretty capitalistic to me.

2024-09-02 09:03:42

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Okay, that actually sounds like a reasonable distinction to make. I'd agree that'd constitute some new system if that was all there was to it, but I don't think it's fully correct here. The important distinction, I think, is who gets close to the money printer and how.
It comes down to how a self interested actor with access to the money printer will behave. They'll seek to enrich themselves, which means using the printer for their own good. They can't get away with just printing money for themselves, so they have to resort to allocating the printed money to someone with the capacity to reward them. They're unlikely to receive much extra power while maintaining power over the printer, so they'll mostly pursue financial rewards. This means allocating the printed money to people who have the capacity to reward them handsomely. In effect, those who receive the free rewards are those who already have resources free to reward the printer, and they receive those rewards as a direct and exclusive result of the resources they already hold. So ultimately, they're still generating as a result of resources they already own.
This is why I see fiat as simply an augmentation of the powers of the ruling class in whatever system it operates under, NOT a wholly new system. If we lived under a feudal system, the free rewards would all go to royalty and their vassals. If it was idealistic communism (i.e., that wasn't captured by authoritarians, which is very unlikely), it'd be used to secure the needs and wants of the people. None of these radically change the structure of the systems that fiat occurs under, it just bestows additional free rewards to whoever is in the uppermost class

2024-09-02 08:11:49

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Those are nice examples and all, but not only are they irrelevant when the topic at hand is Wall Street and big business, you don't ever actually explain how they aren't capitalistic. Big business is like the definition of capitalistic, so I'm very curious how you can argue against that. Wall Street perhaps even more so. It's literally the people with the most money buying and owning portions productive ventures so they can profit off them without contributing any labor, or trading commodities, or a dozen other things that all boil down to leveraging capital they already own to gain profits without having to perform labor.

2024-09-02 08:07:31

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You didn't even try. You made it clear what you think the distinction is between capitalism and the current system. You made it clear that this allowed and even encouraged certain behavior. You didn't even attempt to explain why this deserves to be considered a separate system from capitalism. Maybe you have a decent reason, maybe not, I dunno since you never actually mentioned it.
I think you should read what I'm saying more closely and spend less time trying to fill in the perceived gaps. You're repeatedly putting words in my mouth that I don't agree with. You assume that just because I had the gall to question your definition of capitalism, I must also hate capitalism want communism. If you'd been paying attention, I never suggested ditching capitalism *or* adopting communism. You treat capitalism like a religion, where even basic questions are branded as heresy, and it prevents you from properly discussing the subject.

2024-09-02 07:25:56

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They're definitely profit-seeking, but I don't see how that makes them non capitalistic

2024-09-02 07:24:44

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Please explain, you were unable to do that last time. You explained what fiat allows people to do, but you never even attempted to explain why that means it's not capitalism.

2024-09-02 06:36:51

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#meme #memes #capitalism #conservative #conservatives

2024-09-01 09:46:07

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#meme #memes

2024-09-01 09:44:08

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#meme #memes #humor #funny

2024-09-01 07:19:04

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Yeah, I did, after your smug attitude made it clear you thought I was an idiot. I may have said it in plain words first, but don't try to act like I was the only one being insulting. And again, all you've explained is what fiat allows them to do, not how that means this is anything other than capitalism. Your inability to do so suggests you don't know what you're talking about.

2024-08-31 20:16:26

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That's a rather lofty way to cop out instead of admitting you can't explain it

2024-08-31 19:02:01

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Dude, you can't even explain yourself, don't try to tell me what I do and don't understand. Maybe consider the possibility you're the one who doesn't understand if you can't articulate your reasoning. Nothing about the quality of the money changes the fundamental structure of the economy. It changes the fairness, yeah, definitely, but it doesn't fundamentally restructure the economy or society. It just adds another perk to being in the owner class.

2024-08-31 18:13:04

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Lmao I'm not advocating for communism, I'm asking you to explain how we don't live under capitalism, and you can't seem to do it. You've set a seemingly arbitrary distinction and won't explain why it's a reasonable one to make. I understand bitcoin well enough, I just don't understand what *you're* saying.

2024-08-31 16:41:49

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We had hard, gold backed money in the Gilded Age of America, and it sure as shit didn't stop capitalism from abusing people. We hard, gold backed money when people fought for union rights and the government BOMBED its own citizens. We had hard, gold backed money when we sent children to work because their hands fit in the machines better so they could be maimed for life to save the capitalists a few bucks. We had hard, gold backed money when we had fucking slaves, when you could own and trade in living human beings. Abusing the money printer is just one of many, many ways the capitalist class exploits us, but the fact they're doing it doesn't change the fact we live under capitalism. You can't even explain WHY fiat means we don't live under capitalism, you just insist it makes a difference that you don't explain.

2024-08-31 12:16:20

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Hey, that's not fair. #Trump is also a fucking idiot, a thief, and a conman so shitty, it's shameful he got more than a handful of votes.

2024-08-31 09:32:02

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I don't think that makes the system not capitalism, though. I think it just makes it a special subset of capitalism. None of this changes the fact that true value belongs to those with the means to buy and own the means of production. It's just capitalism in which the capital class has the means to pervert the language of value transmission.

2024-08-31 08:56:34

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In what way is it not capitalism? You've got people owning the means of production by virtue of having the wealth to buy them. That's textbook capitalism.

2024-08-31 08:37:03

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I'm gonna preempt by saying I'm not actually advocating for communism, just pointing out a trend I've noticed.
I can count on no fingers the number of times I've been warned about the dangers of communism by someone who actually understands communism. What do you think communism actually is?

2024-08-31 08:20:40

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Hey yo wtf

2024-08-31 08:08:53

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They love to do that shit. "Here's a picture of what's happening right now under #capitalism, probably in your nearest city, but it's totally what #communism will do"
#memes #meme #rightwing #conservative #conservatives

2024-08-31 07:56:30

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#meme #memes #comic #comics #eatTheRich

2024-08-30 22:51:21

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Lmao okay. I didn't list them because I could tell you just wanted to feel smug, and boy, was I right. I guess that's on me, I invited you to get to your point, and you did. You don't know a damn thing about me, but you're sure ready to assume. I think it's projection. Your accusations are confessions, but you probably can't see the truth of that.

2024-08-30 15:22:30

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Why not both? We already know for a proven fact that corporate greed is a major driving force for the current inflation rate.

2024-08-29 12:42:41

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Depends on how happy you are with the bag. If it's just sufficient or less, try something new. If you're genuinely happy with it, maybe try a direct replacement.

2024-08-29 12:40:57

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I included an article. If it's insufficient, feel free to look for one to your tastes.
Not fucking Trump, that's for damn sure.
Let's be real, this is the sort of question you ask to see how hard you should lecture me, so why don't you go ahead and tell me what you think the right answer is?

2024-08-29 11:00:37

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Pretty fucking #weird how they rail against pedophilia... Until it's one of them, and then they get dead silent about it. Sure seems like they don't give a fuck about the children. Or are giving the wrong sort of fuck.
#meme #memes #maga #Trump #Epstein

2024-08-28 16:16:24

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I don't know, but it sure seems like the sort of thing they'd support. If they don't, I'd expect it to be planned.

2024-08-28 15:38:18

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https://image.nostr.build/7b0eefe9930bc79173625d43e188a4ecf4898c98772479a3033d8a0dbd26cb76.jpg
He says the flights were before anyone knew about Epstein, but we knew about Maxwell when he went to her party in 2014 https://www.insideedition.com/robert-kennedy-jr-jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell

2024-08-28 11:58:24

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This is why I prefer literal translations. I don't want the translator's opinion. I want them to recreate what he said as accurately as possible so I can interpret it myself. I know I've seen a translation that attempts this, but I can unfortunately no longer remember who did it.

2024-08-28 07:03:02

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I wonder what the success rate on this scam is. It's about 8 suckers to the dollar at current exchange rates.

2024-08-27 08:08:17

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I'm hoping #0xchat implements some better privacy and I can just use that. I think SimpleX's lack of identity will always give it an edge, but nostr could get close. There's a NIP still in progress targeting number 104 for MLS over nostr, and I think that should resolve a lot of the privacy issues if I understand it properly. And if 0xchat adopts it when it's done, of course.

2024-08-26 22:36:39

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Hmmmm there was the Spanish Flu around the 1920s or so, but pretty sure that's a form of the influenza virus, so obviously viral. It's an interesting question. Do viruses have a better chance of reaching pandemic status?

2024-08-26 20:12:33

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I think the NIP for long form content, I forget the number but want to say something like 23, stipulates markdown as the format, and markdown has support for image links, so I think you should be fine to use that for inline pictures in a blog post. Note, however, that a lot of clients default to a different NIP, one of the first few, for... I think they call it something like short form text or short notes, and I don't think that requires or expects markdown.

2024-08-26 13:58:50

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No such evidence exists... Because anyone who understands economies and doesn't want to screw the poor even harder would hate Trump would vote for Harris. If they understand economies and don't give a shit about screwing the poor, they vote for Trump.
So fucking #weird to me that #Republicans spent years bitching about fat cat coastal elites... And then they had to shut the fuck up about it in 2016 when they nominated one. He's a two bit conman with no family values and a feeble, overly aged mind. I'd feel bad for them for getting played so hard (but fucking HOW?!) if they weren't excited to watch him ruin the lives of people I care about.

2024-08-26 11:24:36

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Same, thinking about getting involved

2024-08-25 22:24:09

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I think you don't "follow" yourself in some app feeds, I think including #amethyst. Your notes will still show up if you include a #tag that you're following or if you're on the global feed, but the global feed is a cesspool, I don't recommend it often.

2024-08-25 08:55:21

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Pretty much any exchange that handles fiat currency of any type. Access to modern banking, which will be necessary for users to deposit and withdraw non-crypto, will require KYC on all customers. Or at least all who use fiat, might be able to get around it if you strictly trade crypto since you can ignore banks, but I'm not sure.

2024-08-25 08:44:32

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Might have more to do with the fact I've never even heard of it. I'm not super into gaming communities, but I keep up loosely, and I still had to look for the name in your images.

2024-08-24 21:17:33

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We trade a view of true reality for a view of fitness for our survival. There was a TED talk by someone who talked about how they ran a simulation with three types of organisms: blind, view of true reality, and view of fitness for survival in that moment. View of fitness absolutely dominated. Your brain doesn't care about being right. It cares about keeping you alive, and if that means using cheap and dirty shortcuts, guess what, I hope you like optical illusions.

2024-08-24 21:06:19

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Signal is an end to end encrypted messenger, but it's centralized, all messages go through the Signal servers. They claim to minimize the metadata they're able to collect and generally only keep what they have to and only as long as they have to. To my knowledge, there's no sign they've ever betrayed that plan, but you do have to trust them to.
SimpleX Chat is similarly end to end encrypted (I think, I don't think it was initially but is now, but not 100% sure on that, definitely coming soon if not here already), but it uses a relay system similar to nostr, and it doesn't have any sort of identity. To start a chat with someone on SimpleX, you open a channel with them on a relay, but if you start chatting with someone else, you open a new channel that may or may not be on a new relay, and there's no identity linking the two. Compared to something like 0xchat over nostr, this is more private so there's no real persistent identity outside of individual channels, but it can be more of a pain to make initial contact because you need to establish the channel without a persistent identity.

2024-08-24 20:56:22

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I haven't used Plex, but I have a Jellyfin server, and it's been great. One or two shows had some messed up metadata, but I managed to force it to process them properly somehow.

2024-08-24 14:49:24

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I don't think 3E and up even had an encounter rate. I think that's the first generation of #DnD to firmly step out of the #OSR mindset and into the modern one.