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- Comment on Trump Media & Technology Group, the company owned by the President, said Tuesday that it would raise $2.5 billion to invest in Bitcoin 6 days ago:
The worst thing that has ever happened to Bitcoin was for its price to skyrocket
- Comment on Trump Media & Technology Group, the company owned by the President, said Tuesday that it would raise $2.5 billion to invest in Bitcoin 6 days ago:
Oh. Absolutely, the President shouldn’t be doing this at all. But then again, the President also seems to be using tariffs to directly manipulate the stock market, and Congress is just going to let him.
He’s grabbed the entire Republican party by the pussy…
- Comment on Trump Media & Technology Group, the company owned by the President, said Tuesday that it would raise $2.5 billion to invest in Bitcoin 6 days ago:
Bitcoin is pretty widely traded, though. By some accounts, it has a daily trading volume of 50B. 2B is just a drop in that bucket, so it’s not enough to directly manipulate the price.
No, if you want to make money by manipulating prices, you use a shitcoin. $TRUMP has a market cap of $2.5B, and a daily trading volume of 500M. A $2B investment in BTC can then be used on dodgy exchanges to buy and sell $TRUMP anonymously.
- Comment on Trump Media & Technology Group, the company owned by the President, said Tuesday that it would raise $2.5 billion to invest in Bitcoin 6 days ago:
This is good for Bitcoin
- Comment on Have You Checked On Your Wii U GamePad Battery Recently? 6 days ago:
I hope so too lol. I do keep a spare quart of oil in the car just in case, I party like it’s 1979
- Comment on Have You Checked On Your Wii U GamePad Battery Recently? 6 days ago:
I have an old Subaru that burns oil, and coincidentally the light comes on right around when I should be change the oil anyway
- Comment on What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with? 1 week ago:
Furthermore, since it’s very likely that this author is not going to make really complex points, you could just go to the library, skim through it for an hour or two, and take notes on the two or three points worth quoting. (Or go all old-school and make photocopies of a few pages…)
- Comment on The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it? 1 week ago:
The solution is to raise better humans who make better choices, not to use technology to prevent our bad choices from being worse.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s definitely something you can learn in just a few lessons, particularly if you are just driving around town here and there. There’s a rhythm and muscle memory to it, and once you get it, it becomes super easy.
I think I traded in my last stick-shift (a Jetta) 13+ years ago, and there are still times when I am driving and my left foot instinctively moves toward an invisible clutch…
- Comment on Shocked to hear ‘prompt engineer’ is not a real job 3 weeks ago:
I am a prompt engineer, I show up to work on time
- Comment on Meta's Reality Labs Has Now Lost Over $60 Billion Since 2020 - Slashdot 4 weeks ago:
I remembered my login, my UID is in the 200,000s so I’m not as cool as you.
The place doesn’t seem to have changed at all, and that’s not n3cessarily a good thing.
- Comment on Meta's Reality Labs Has Now Lost Over $60 Billion Since 2020 - Slashdot 4 weeks ago:
Wait, Slashdot is still around?
- Comment on The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards 4 weeks ago:
I think these guys are overstating things a bit. The whole reason technical standards exist is to facilitate interoperability, and in most cases this interoperability leads to increased trade. It’s no accident that the first standards were developed during the industrial revolution, where we first started using machines to make parts, and they needed to fit together (like screws and nuts). Then, when the railroads came along, we needed new standards for things like track gague, because without it one countries’ trains couldn’t use the next countries’ track, making cross-border commerce more expensive. It’s also when we started to standardize time (because before the railroads, “noon” was whenever the sun was directly overhead, so varied by region).
These standards weren’t developed altruistically, they were developed to generate more trade. There is a cost to developing them, and companies spend that money in the hopes of making more later. In theory, anyone can access the standards that the ITU or IEEE create, but to participate you need to shiw up at their meetings, and there is a cost to that.
The standards process is anti-monopolist, though. The reason why they are as “open” as they are is to prevent a single entity from patenting key parts of the standard and gate-keeping access. There have been patented things in standards, but the SDO mandates that the parent-holder disclose it up front, and will not let it in the standard unless certain terms are met (which vary by SDO). It is not anti-capitalist, though, but rather it is a cabal of companies agreeing they won’t let any one of them gatekeep the rest.
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Fildena Double 200mg Tablets for Erectile Dysfunction: Understanding Its Effects on Liver Health 4 weeks ago:
Ads? In my Lemmy?
It’s more likely than you think!
- Comment on Why is the NFL draft day so "special"? 5 weeks ago:
Dude, you live in Green Bay. Shouldnt you have been fully indoctrinated in Packers Football by now? I thought they issued everyone a cheesehead hat at birth.
- Comment on New Jersey sue Software Company RealPage and 10 NJ Landlords for Alleged Collusion in Statewide Rent Raising Scheme; landlords set rents based on RealPage’s algorithmic pricing software. 5 weeks ago:
In recognition of this awesome development, I promise not to shit talk about NJ for the rest of the day. Hopefully I don’t have to make any left turns…
- Comment on Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*? 5 weeks ago:
Well, justice is supposed to be blind, isn’t it? It’s supposed to deal with everything in a neutral manner. The Court is not supposed to pick sides, and they must operate within the system, because their legitimacy comes from it.
- Comment on Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*? 5 weeks ago:
But that’s the Court’s job, to look at all the technicalities. The Administration sent him there erroneously, but since he is there now neither US courts nor the administration can compel his release. The Courts need to acknowledge that, while also acknowledging that the Administration likely did it this way on purpose, and the whole “administrative error” thing is a crock of shit. But they can’t come out and say that. And that gives Trump a wedge to split the whole thing apart.
Fascists are good at using the fact that their opponents need to uphold the law against them.
- Comment on Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*? 5 weeks ago:
Right. That is why the Administration position on this has some merit which the courts need to defer to. As an El Salvadoran who is back in his home country, the US cannot compel his release. All the US can do is ask nicely.
But, they haven’t even done that. Which is why the courts are so pissed. They know all this, and they know that all the administration has to do is prove they asked, in good faith. They won’t even go that far. They did that performative thing where the El Salvadoran President said “We won’t send him back since he’s a criminal”, but the courts in the US don’t consider him a criminal.
There is no better definition of “contempt of court” then what the US is doing right now.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Do you know if your dad has been snipped? If not, you had better move out if you are able to. Because otherwise you will end up being free child care in about a year …
- Comment on Is there enough filament to complete the print? 1 month ago:
But if you know how much filament you have, it takes all the fun out of playing Filament Chicken…
- Comment on Do you hate French people too? If so, why? 1 month ago:
I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
In some places, there is still a social expectation that your mode of dress should be an indication of how seriously you take whatever is going on. People used to get dressed up in suits just to simply go outside. Nobody expects that anymore but some might still expect students to look somewhat put together in a college setting.
Now, I don’t think the professor should have mentioned anything (particularly about your hairy pits, lol). But, they may have been doing you a favor, because they expressed to you directly that they find it objectionable. While that shouldnt have an effect on your grade, professors are only human and this one signaled that he doesn’t think you take their class seriously based on your mode of dress. How many others do, and are just not telling you?
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 1 month ago:
You are now an American citizen, so you should have the rights the rest of us have. You should be fine. They haven’t gotten around to threatening to denaturalize people yet. When they do, they will concentrate first on people from countries they don’t like, that used old policies they have since rescinded. And they will have to use more due process than they are using on these non-citizens.
The one thing I would be cautious of, though, is the state of your cell phone. They are very thin-skinned when it comes to criticism lately, and may decide to look through your phone’s social media to decide if you are insufficiently loyal. They have broad powers to do that when you re-enter the country. As a US citizen they cannot deny you entry, but they can still make your life difficult on entry. And this group doesn’t exactly pay attention to laws, do they?
At minimum, you might want to shut down your cell phone before getting off the plane. Explain it by saying it is a long flight, and you wanted to save your battery for arrival. If they confiscate a phone and try to dump all its data, they are more limited if the phone has just rebooted. They would basically need the PIN to do anything. If you want to go further, you can also log out of all of your social media accounts and remove their apps before the flight, so they even if they force you to divulge the PIN they won’t find your social media history.
That may all be too paranoid, but we live in stupid times.
- Comment on Sensitive financial data feared stolen from US bank watchdog: OCC mum on who broke into email, but Treasury fingered China in similar hack months ago. 1 month ago:
Check Elon’s basement
- Comment on Can I sue my apartment management company? 1 month ago:
Assuming you are in the US, you can sue over anything you want to. But there is a cost to that, and your management company may be banking on that cost being higher than your rent.
Also, if you have all the documents, you should be able to read those and learn what stipulations there are if the lease terminates and you are a month-to-month situation. It could be that you needed to give them more notice. They could have buried it in the fine print. It would suck to pay a lawyer money only to be told “yup, they can do it”, and now you are out more money.
- Comment on Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York 1 month ago:
Ooh. I know this one. Parts of NYC still use a steam heating system that was first designed in the late 1800’s:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Since you are a professional who has happened to make it with some level of success, you know firsthand that there are a lot of excellent people who didn’t manage it for one reason or another. (And it’s not always because of lack of talent, they might have just gotten the wrong injury). How did they manage things when they finally came to terms with the fact they wouldn’t make a living doing that? What did they have to fall back on? Are they coaching? Teaching? Selling real estate or insurance?
There is nothing wrong with him chasing his dream, but make sure he has an alternative planned. Make him talk to some of those people, and find his own path. Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
- Comment on How did Mahmoud Khalil managed to challenge his (pending) deportation at all, while others were deported without due process? What makes Mahmoud Khalil's case different? 1 month ago:
If I had to guess, it’s probably because his family was able to lawyer up quickly (either because they could afford it, or knew someone who would work the case for free). Courts can’t act here unless someone files a case over it. There might be other people with valid legal cases to challenge their detention, but if they can’t get their hands on timely legal advice they’re just screwed.