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I put my dick in the future and it came out more rotund but less grandiose, so i have the conclude the future is Maricopa county, as they grow wide, not tale. Gross amd quidditch corsackage.
Probably modern electric drums.
Play them like the wind winds them
Automatic sidewalk blocker
I eat those
But srsly to me it does feel like the future, because when I was a kid “by the year 2000” was synonymous with a glorious future of space hotels, undersea cities, moon bases… I can’t believe we’re a quarter of the way through the 21st Century and none of that has happened. On the plus side we did get really spiffy new ways to buy stuff we don’t need with money we don’t have, and fingertip access to pretty much all of human knowledge, which most of us ignore in our endless quest for entertainment. But oh well.
Yeah, because you were thinking of all the ways technology could have been awesome, while what they were working on was making it funnel all the world’s wealth to a handful of people.
Fucked up thing is some of that has happened, but you need to have been born into generational wealth to be a part of those things. Ritchie Ricn is just moralisticly better version of Musk. Or at least a version less hooked on coach K
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Every time someone posts this meme, I feel compelled to add “forums for communists”.
You forgot femboys and linux users
Big Tech made Lemmy so that communists wouldn’t organize in real life
Nah, infighting always works best.
I think your priorities are in the wrong place if you think about “forums for communists” instead of “telegram channels with incel nazis”.
I interpreted it as them mentioning lemmy (since lots of lemmy users are communists or socialists of some flavor), but if they meant to complain I agree with you completely
The former. Being subversive doesn’t imply it’s bad.
Now I feel compelled to ask: Do you this meme is seriously asking for opinions on subversive innovations? Because I interpreted it as asking what is the most dystopian.
It was, but tech lawlessness swings both ways, or has so far, and it’s worth mentioning.
I took it as the poll itself, and the results, being entirely irrelevant. They just decided to use that as the format/delivery mechanism for their joke.
It appears to me that the meme is complaining about tech breaking laws, not soliciting opinions. In case this needs to be said, I’m using Lemmy because of its ability to resist (legal!) censorship, especially of long-overdue leftist speech.
And I hope you would agree nazis killing people are more dystopian than fucking larpers.
But then the poll would make little sense, because forums for communists would win with 99.97% of votes…
I wish the average person was as open minded as you’re giving them credit.
Fake money for criminals helped me buy weed when I didn’t have a local dealer. It’s also how I pay for Mullvad. So fake money for criminals wins.
Fake criminal money more legit than government money. One day I woke up to the news that all my deposits are frozen indefinitely, that I am not allowed to carry cash abroad, and that I am not allowed to get bank accounts or transfers from any foreign institutions. .Thank fuck for crypto and that I had some. It literally saved my life, so yeah, fake criminal money by a long shot for me.
Selfhost instance on .ru
Checks out. Hows the outlaw life?
Fake money for criminals is unironically a decent addition to the world, although it’s coded in a really dumb way. Plagiarism machine is overhyped right now, but it also has some legit uses.
So, the poll actually seems about right.
I miss when that was what the fake money was for instead of the bullshit broligarch grift.
Bubbles always burst eventually, just wait for it.
Although, without the grift, it would be super illegal, so should we really complain?
I demand privacy, so I’m a criminal anyways
Crypto is not privacy.
Depends how you use it. And which coin - before Q day comes Monero is pretty private, but Bitcoin is transparent.
depends. not universally, that’s right. don’t buy dogecoin for privacy.
Also depends on your definition of privacy. Some people confuse privacy (not seeing what you do) with anonimity (not knowing who you are).
Public blockchains (like BTC) have zero privacy, as everyone sees the transactions and balances, meanwhile private ones (like XMR) supposedly avoid anyone but two people in a transaction to know that transaction happened, or even to know each other’s balance.
In both cases, I would say you are as anonymous as your way to turn the coin from/into fiat is (P2P, KYC or non-KYC platforms, etc.).
Like with AI, I like crypto as a concept, but the practice… (specially the resources both consume for what little benefit they end up having)
I also do PCP and other Durango Morrison drugs as heist forbid
You can swap Monero with a more common coin on a decentralized exchange with no KYC, and then cash that out at your Coinbase or whatever.
Also, Monero is very efficient for a proof of work coin, partially because it’s designed to be mined on regular, consumer grade PCs.
According to Google, it uses somewhere between 645 and 650 GWh annually, compared to between 150 and 204.4 Terawatt-hours (TWh) for Bitcoin.
Bitcoin was the first, and as is usually the case, that makes it one of the worst.
According to Google, it uses somewhere between 645 and 650 GWh annually, compared to between 150 and 204.4 Terawatt-hours (TWh) for Bitcoin.
sure but it’s also a much smaller operation
Fair enough. I do believe it’s more efficient on a per coin basis or whatever though
- Doorbell surveillance network
- Self-service identity theft
- State secrets betting house
- Billionaire fan club fund
What’s self-service identity theft?
Verified identities online, passport, face scan
- autonomous, moving surveillance network
- activity detection across walls
Very good additions.
I would add that the state-secrets betting houses are also more broadly insider-trading betting houses
Mixtape
Without glasses, I thought that said “illegal crab company” and I was all in.
No law can stop carcinization.
(V) OwO (V) What’s this? snip snip
Citizen Sniiiiiiiiiiiips!
that’s what I read with glasses, and I thought it was about garage crab farming
Haha, I knew what that one was going to be without clicking. Great channel
Again, I’m all in.
I feel like this is something I’d hear discussed on the Park After Dark podcast (Trailer Park Boys thing, now with 100% less Bubbles for obvious reasons)
Before I go all in with you, I have to know- is this an illegal company where crabs are the product or where crabs are running things?
Yes
It can be whatever you want it to be, baby.
Wait… You’re a baby crab, right?
I prefer ethically sourced crab, tbh. I actually like the vat grown seafood because it is better for the environment and fresher inland.
i’m going with the fake money for criminals, cuz sometimes the criminal in question is a trans person trying to get their medicine
to my great annoyance, almost all diy hrt online can only be bought using crypto. and wow does it make you hate cryptobros to have to navigate an ecosystem clearly designed for speculation to get your life-saving medicine 🫠
Can’t you just hold your money in a stable coin like USDC to avoid the volatility and speculation?
the homebrewer i was buying from didn’t support this one, so i would’ve had to convert it, which means fees typically
anyways, i don’t really care to maintain a crypto portfolio. i buy the coin when i buy the thing, so volatility isn’t too much of a concern. my main annoyance is at the bonkers fees that exchanges want because they (rightly) recognize cryptobros as a milkable consumer base
Could use localbitcoin.com (or localmonero I guess), though it’s been so long since I’ve been to those sites that I forget if/what kind of cut the website takes.
But yeah, dunno if you can avoid fees when cashing out to fiat. And if you’re using non-kyc sites to swap Monero, they’re likely taking some too, for the convenience and privacy (worth it imo)
You’re doing crypto a favor by keeping it at least 1% still anarchist.
You hate the people behind the ecosystem that enables you to get the medicine you require?
i hate the people who turned a way to pay for things anonymously into a stock market.
Creating a market to exchange crypto and cash enables everyone’s use. Speculative markets are a natural feature of something new like bitcoin and would’ve happened regardless.
that sucks mam.
I hope eventually there are less dumb ways to access the stuff for you.a
The exposure of hotels using surveillance pricing. A room should cost a hunnert bucks a night. Not $100 or $150 or $200 or $250 etc., depending on which “app” you pray to. Am I right Trivago?
Fake Money for Criminals.
Turns out things for criminals sometimes can be an okay thing for noncriminals.
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Also, buying explosives and fake documents. 🥰
The things I like are cheap…
Say your country makes baby formula illegal to push some breastfed is the only way agenda, would you consider a mother buying formula online with crypto a criminal?
Yes, because criminality has nothing to do with morals. If the state views you as a criminal, you are a criminal. That’s why some criminals are still good people and cool.
I wouldn’t say it has nothing to do with morals, since (at least hopefully) it’s our morals that help guide us when making laws.
But yes, illegal does not necessarily mean immoral, and vice versa.
Be gay, do crime
Legal != Moral
Fake money probably, it allows me to easily buy drugs from online.
If people value it I guess it isn’t so fake. Most “legit” currencies are just the goverment promising you its worth something anyway.
Fiat currency is based on the government’s ability to issue and service debt, which is based on its ability to collect taxes, which is based on the economy it oversees. It’s a bit roundabout but the pieces all connect.
Crypto is supposed the compensation for providing compute resources to a blockchain, which ostensibly backs some application with actual intrinsic value. In that sense crypto is real, but there are no actual blockchains which support valuable applications. The entire thing much more closely resembles a ponzi scheme where real currency is deposited, and then the appreciation it experiences is proportional to the ratio of inputs vs withdrawals, without there being an actual asset creating value.
A government promising it’s worth something carries a hell of a lot more weight than some random tech-bro promising it.
Crypto doesn’t have value because tech bros say it does, that’s not how it works.
In both cases the trading value of the currency has almost nothing to do with who originated it, and almost everything to do with how the general public feels about it.
Just like crypto, most “government” currencies are worth what they’re worth only because everyone agrees that they are. That’s called “fiat” currency. And that’s why fiat currency exchange markets exist. The US Dollar hasn’t been “convertible” (redeemable for a fixed amount of precious metal) since 1971, and many other world currencies were already backed in some way by the US Dollar at that time.
The real difference is in the supply.
Government fiat currency is difficult to counterfeit, although the government (or reserve bank) can always make more whenever they want. We trust them not to print more money, increasing the money supply and devaluing the currency. However, this is exactly what has happened sometimes in the past, and no doubt will happen again in the future.
Crypto currency is virtually impossible to counterfeit, and IIRC there’s a finite (but not precisely known) amount of it that can be made, no matter who you are.
Personally, I still use physical fiat currency and no crypto. I’d like to use crypto, but regulation in my country makes it very difficult to use without registering your details with a central authority. And although everyone’s pushing e-money options which are similarly tracked, thankfully I still have the option of using anonymous cash.
I don’t do anything bad or illegal. I just believe that government and big business don’t deserve to know everything I do in my life simply because they want to.
and IIRC there’s a finite (but not precisely known) amount of it that can be made, no matter who you are.
This varies wildly depending on the coin.
You can use crypto without those registration if you know where to find locals who are willing to trade it for cash. It’ll be just like finding a local dealer.
You just reminded me that it’s been a couple of decades since I Candyflipped. Need to do that again soonish…
Monero my beloved…
I believe in a future where we won’t need money anymore, but in the meantime, Monero is a pretty solid choice.
I tried looking at dreadforum to see how markets work nowadays and found out in a minute I was viewing a mirror that was injecting links
I think I’ll just ask a dude on the street at this point
But then again I am in a country where that would work with 0 negative consequences for me as the user
Doesn’t dread’s captcha force you to check the url? Afaik it makes you fill in specific parts of the url, so that you check that the url you are using is the same one they are using. Curious how the mirror was able to bypass that.
Regardless I just spent some initial investment saving the pgp public keys and making sure they are legit, so that I can use them to verify dread’s mirrors.txt whenever needed. Faster than walking out to the street imo
It’s my first actual visit, and I did what apparently is the obvious faux pas
I googled for dreadforum link, was pointed towards one shown at https://dreadforum.io/
I entered it into tor browser, no captcha was shown and I landed directly on the site/mirror.
The one post I read, something concerning validation and opsec on markets or dreadforum, had an explanation that if the text they wrote in hyphens differed from the url right under it I was already viewing a mirror, as they spelled out a link.
That was true, the url shown was darkmyurl dot com instead of the actual link spelled out hyphenated.
I was humbled, and have now learned that even asking for the true php keys from you right now is submitting to defeat. The only good opsec seems to be your own
Ride sharing, short term rentals, Crypto, and AI?
Correct.
I’m paying $900 for a short term (week and a half), last minute, airbnb, I’m meeting with a potential roommate tmr to move in on the 1st. Paying real rent instead of paying airbnb hosts.
Oh no the terrible ride sharing!
Wrong definition there bud.
Ridesharing still gets you the 33 cars.
Yeah, when it was “Hey, I drive to work every day, anyone else on this same route want to pay a bit for gas and share my ride?”. It was kind of fine.
But now its just flat out people’s “job” as a cabbie without proper cabbie regulation.
Ride sharing does not remove cars from the roads, typically they take only one person to one place. Actual solutions include LRT, BRT, Metros, U-Bahns, S-Bahns, and REM style automated light rail.
it reduces cars in public parking lots and spaces though, which is nice
But those cars are now in the streets moving to the next customer, basically trading parking to traffic
Yes but at the direct cost of drivers that tend to be more reckless
ime rideshare drivers are generally incredibly good at driving, so I trust their judgement. Are there stats that they get in more crashes?
Sure, as long as everyone’s going to the same place at the same time, and washes and doesn’t blast horrendous trap music on a JBL.
