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- Comment on Sex work would probably be less stigmatized in a currencyless society 12 minutes ago:
It does if they formally define it as their career path and treat it as such.
Sex work is more than just having sex with people for fun. There’s layers, specializations, and skill to it. Not all of it is strictly physical. Someone might want to just go on a date after their spouse passed away, for instance. Handling that situation requires a lot of emotional maturity and your skill in those situations improves with experience.
- Comment on Sex work would probably be less stigmatized in a currencyless society 27 minutes ago:
There can be other forms of compensation in currencyless societies, so not necessarily. There’s also just the personal fulfillment aspect, which is supposed to be the main thing motivating people to work in this hypothetical.
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- Comment on Get scattered 1 week ago:
I feel like it has to be the second thing, but not everyone has those religious experiences, and even the religious don’t always correlate these things to God. It just requires so many layers of weird assumption that I really don’t know what to think.
- Comment on Get scattered 1 week ago:
I feel like there’s a lot of these, where someone says “how do you explain [extremely basic, everyday thing] without [religion]?”, it’s kinda weird. Like being a certain level of religious makes you immune to all common sense.
- Comment on Android has a "Ctrl+Z" feature, the keyboards just dont support it 1 week ago:
Never used it, might check that one out after
- Comment on Android has a "Ctrl+Z" feature, the keyboards just dont support it 1 week ago:
It’s the best replacement for Google keyboard I’ve tried by a wide mile. I like the gestures it has by comparison, they allow finer control. It’s also very stylish. I’ll probably use it for a long while.
- Comment on Android has a "Ctrl+Z" feature, the keyboards just dont support it 1 week ago:
Found FUTO to be my favorite of the and trying it out now as a daily driver, thanks for the suggestion :)
- Comment on Israel Gaza war: ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas leaders 5 weeks ago:
Yes but I’ve seen most estimates state that about 435,000 of those were civilian. I’m sure that’s bullshit but I want to be accurate to the estimates I’ve seen.
- Comment on Captain Price seems to die in a cut ending from Modern Warfare 3, uncovered 13 years later 5 weeks ago:
When I was in high school people talked about the campaigns all the time, but that’s just me.
- Comment on Maybe those 20 seconds were because of the lack of getting raises? 5 weeks ago:
Haha fair! I don’t smoke.
- Comment on Maybe those 20 seconds were because of the lack of getting raises? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah but it’s a more boomer spelling. Usually it’s “whippets” or “whippits”. Just kinda shows that he’s old. Like calling marijuana “pot”.
- Comment on Captain Price seems to die in a cut ending from Modern Warfare 3, uncovered 13 years later 5 weeks ago:
Mostly young people who like low-standard action media, or people who are nostalgic from playing these when they were young and enjoyed low-standard action media.
- Comment on Israel Gaza war: ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas leaders 5 weeks ago:
NOOOO YOU CAN’T HOLD US ACCOUNTABLE FOR TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CIVILIAN CASUALTIES
-Genocidal war criminal
Also crazy to think that hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians have died as a result of post-9/11 US wars and yet no one in the states is held to this standard.
- Comment on Maybe those 20 seconds were because of the lack of getting raises? 5 weeks ago:
There were probably never any “whip-its” (lol) either.
- Comment on Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy 1 month ago:
Seems good for industry and bad for the actual populous, considering things like this can still happen lol.
- Comment on WTF is wrong with Killing Floor 2? 1 month ago:
I tried KF2 for a while and really couldn’t get into it. The game just lacks replayability in my opinion. Trying different perks, maps, difficulties, etc. really didn’t resonate with me because I felt like I was doing basically the same thing, just kiting around enemies in a predictable loop. There was a serious absence of memorable moments, unlike with other horde shooters like l4d and even b4b. Sunk a few dozen hours into it and it kinda feels like a waste in hindsight, never really enjoyed it and spent the whole time trying to.
- Comment on Child care costs more than a mortgage payment or rent almost everywhere in the U.S.: ‘There is no escaping it’ 1 month ago:
Yes!!! So many industrialized western nations subsidize child care. I really don’t understand why the US has to be behind the curve with fucking everything, especially with this since we need more kids so badly.
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 1 month ago:
You come to my store to buy something, you hand me the bill, I take it and don’t give you anything in return.
Video cameras. Also the shopkeep develops a reputation and is easily identifiable.
Most scams are done irl with FIAT,
Technically the truth, but a MUCH larger percentage of the crypto ecosystem is devoted to scams. I don’t think that is just “growing pains”, the design of crypto, again, incentivizes this behavior because it gives victims no recourse.
at the end of the day you can’t protect everyone from everything, especially from their own gullibility.
Yes, but gullibility is the #1 problem and again, crypto has no safeguards or recourse.
For some people complete control over their money is a plus
Control but only within the system and ruleset that is made by those who control the chain. If institutions leverage their power in the space in a mass-adoption scenario, then they will be the ones making these rules and controlling what you can do, and the rigidity of crypto’s rules advantage them in that case, no the consumer.
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 1 month ago:
I would prefer for crypto to be gone. Based on my understanding of blockchain, I don’t see how it can be used as currency ever. Blockchains can be extremely useful, just not as currency.
The only thing you can really do about stolen tokens is have some authority de-list them and re-issue new token to the victim. That’s hardly a solution. It also extremely centralizes control, which runs antithetical to the purported benefits of crypto.
Crypto also doesn’t take power away from institutions. If institutions were to leverage their power in the space, they would become just as, if not more powerful than they are currently, assuming a mass-adoption scenario. The inflexibility of crypto always works to the advantage of those setting the rules.
Crypto is also incredibly power inefficient. Even with proof-of-stake instead of proof-of-work, it is still factors less efficient than normal FIAT transactions, and as of yet I see no solution to that. One may pop up in some hypothetical future, but I have no faith in that.
Additionally, crypto will also always reward those who engage with it disingenuously, as it is not linked to one’s real identity and, again, is inflexible and impossible to truly regulate. In a mass-adoption scenario, scammers would become enormously more successful.
Most importantly, crypto is a digital asset whose store of value is implicitly tied to the belief that it can be sold for FIAT. It is almost exclusively a speculative vehicle, and always had been since its inception. Actual crypto purchases are disincentivized by how slow, inefficient, unwieldy, and volatile it is. Not to mention high transaction fees for the most popular coins. It is also deflationary, meaning one is disincentivized from spending it, which is extremely bad for the economy in a mass-adoption scenario. Gentle inflation is one of the core principles underpinning our economy. Having currency also be an asset that appreciates in value is objectively a bad thing.
I feel like I could keep going for a while but hopefully you at least understand why I feel this way now lol.
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 1 month ago:
Yes, exactly my point. It’s way harder to scam with physical stores of value like cash, because there aren’t layers of obfuscation like there can be with digital stores of value. That is why scamming is so much less common in meatspace compared to crypto, where every single interaction, even with a vendor or exchange, is a potential landmine you have to be cognizant of.
With PayPal or bank transactions, those can be reversed and there are regulatory bodies to ensure consumer protections. Even with physical stores like cash, it is much easier to track someone and prosecute for illegal activity since they can’t hide behind crypto wallets.
Every store of value has some form consumer protections and systems of accountability except for crypto, and as such scammers are empowered by it.
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 1 month ago:
There will always be scammers, my point is just that Bitcoin empowers them. Scammers and fraudsters have many more tools through Bitcoin than they would with FIAT, and they are more likely to succeed and thrive.
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 1 month ago:
I consider piracy wrong when companies are stealing from creatives (like authors whose books are included with no credit or royalties) for the purposes of profit. I don’t believe all piracy is always good full stop. I believe piracy is ethical if it allows for preservation of content that may otherwise not be preserved or maintained.
Also that was just one of my points lol. Most LLMs are still just bad at what they are claiming to be able to do.
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 1 month ago:
I use it for sure, I even pay for Gemini for its creative writing capabilities, but most LLMs are bad at many tasks they’re advertised to be good at (coding being one of those things), plus they’re largely based on stolen work and/or copyright infringement. They don’t reliably do what they’re claiming, and they are unethically developed. Hence, they’re bad products, just objectively.
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 1 month ago:
Generative AI is hardly “good” yet, either morally or as a product.
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 1 month ago:
My point is that its lack of regulation and decentralization makes it more vulnerable to the types of attacks that actually matter, namely market manipulation, fraud, and scams targeting specific accounts through social engineering. Those are already the biggest problems with FIAT, and crypto just intensifies them. by removing existing protections.
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 1 month ago:
Never! Except with early pump-and-dumps, whale manipulation, spoofing, wash trading, Mt. Gox, or what’s happening with Tether.
But besides all that stuff creating massively disruptive volatility on a slow as shit network, what’s not to love?
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 1 month ago:
If you get scammed using FIAT you can just call your bank and they can issue a chargeback through the card provider, especially if it’s credit.
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 1 month ago:
If I took $100 cash from you under false pretense, it would be a crime and I would be prosecuted for it. I would also have to expose myself by interacting with you. If I trick you with a fake login page and steal all your shit from your crypto wallet, then according to the blockchain that’s just fine, and I can do it completely anonymously from the other side of the planet with 0 hope for anyone to do anything about it. I had access to the tokens, so I can do anything I want with them and no one can stop me, reverse it, or even find me. That’s the issue.
Every crypto bro I’ve talked to has said some version of “well don’t get scammed then”, which is such a fucking stupid and asinine answer. Every financial system has consumer protections except for crypto because they are 100% necessary for normal people to survive.
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 1 month ago:
True, but Crypto has been awash with scams from its inception. Blockchain inherently rewards those who engage with it deceptively since access to tokens = ownership, there are no take backsies, 0 consumer protections, and it’s global.