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- Comment on Money Power 1 day ago:
Sure hoard seeds and self sustain as well. That’s not exclusive to preparing for dollar collapse. I suppose it was my ignorance leaving out ways to survive outside of protecting savings.
As an old man, protecting my life savings is important to me as I’m not going to be in my prime and able to forage and farm and hunt and whatnot. Equally important is making sure as the system crumbles that I have a group of local like minded survivalists to join together with.
I do disagree that they see the inevitable. But that’s moot.
When shit hits the fan, you can’t eat bullets, and you won’t be able to shoot your way out of it.
When everyone can’t find food, they’re not going to peacefully sit back and watch those who are prepared eat. The guns are for defense and trade purposes. They’re equally important in a true doom scenario.
- Comment on Money Power 1 day ago:
how do you propose we do that?
They’re destroying themselves. Store money/value in a form that isn’t fiat (metal, guns, ammo, art, crypto). They are very close to the collapse of the US dollar. Their ponzi can’t sustain the debt payments anymore, and nearly all other mechanisms to prolong it have been exploited. Its hyperinflation will bring down nearly all other economies as well.
The music is going to stop soon and it’ll be dark times. Be prepared
- Comment on Trumps says Venezuelan jets will be 'shot down' if they endanger US ships 2 weeks ago:
I’m not the one that said there was some fact about Biden being a war criminal. Someone else did. Then someone else said it needs concealed. I simply said we shouldn’t conceal truths.
- Comment on Trumps says Venezuelan jets will be 'shot down' if they endanger US ships 2 weeks ago:
So because I dont follow politics, my opinion that we shouldn’t conceal history is invalid?
- Comment on Trumps says Venezuelan jets will be 'shot down' if they endanger US ships 2 weeks ago:
The truth led us to Trump, so we should conceal it instead? What garbage.
- Comment on US agents arrest 475 in raid on Hyundai-LG plant 2 weeks ago:
I’m tracking with most your comment, but what’s the racist angle you’re tossing in all about?
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 5 weeks ago:
The downloadable maps from that link are misnaming the “Gulf of America” as “Gulf of Mexico”, so Trump would never ask anyway haha
- Comment on YSK The World’s Most Common Passwords 1 month ago:
Indeed, just four impersonal words is a great password. Mix up the capitalization and it’s even better.
- Comment on Australia to ban under-16s from YouTube 1 month ago:
I also used to make a distinction for apps where the majority of content was rando internet user created. But all the apps are now just fulltime creators and very rarely does a true rando go viral.
The “going viral” technique got ruined similarly to how seo ruined search. Completely ruined to the point that the little guy never appears.
- Comment on Australia to ban under-16s from YouTube 1 month ago:
Yeah when musically/tiktok came along, twitter, insta, snap, and YouTube all copied the model so you’ve got this dual use thing going on there.
- Comment on Australia to ban under-16s from YouTube 1 month ago:
I think the words were used not just by different generations, but also different level of users.
As someone who was around and heavily involved in tech during the bbs days, then walled garden services, then internet forums, THEN social networking and media, I agree not with you but with the prior comment.
The dictionary definitions are rewriting history based on a word that hadn’t even been coined yet. They created a definition which retroactively lumped nearly the entire internet under that term. It’s incorrect and unhelpful to do so.
However, given that language changes and us old geeks don’t make the rules, “social media” now indeed includes the entire internet. I can’t argue with the dictionary, but I can explain the reasoning behind my disagreement with the term. I think that’s the same the last person was saying.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
So much repetition and fluff. Obviously AI written and told to use hundreds of words instead of making it short and succinct.
You’re not doing the world a favor with this slop.
Let’s not ruin Lemmy yet? Please?
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 1 month ago:
I’m genuinely sorry that my words upset you.
Good day sir.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 1 month ago:
Sorry you feel that way. While I am very experienced in the field, and as such would be surprised that this snuck by me, I miss things from time to time. That’s why I asked for references.
If experience in a field isn’t an argument for being knowledgeable in the field, you’re likely hard to please.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 1 month ago:
You’re not my enemy. You’re batshit crazy, but definitely not my enemy.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 1 month ago:
What part of that is related to this? I just read it.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 1 month ago:
This is just disguised anti-Trump nonsense under a veil of bits of facts tossed around. This is the equivelant of the right claiming that Joe Biden is wearing a mask. Ppl on the fringe are crazy.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 1 month ago:
OOOFFF GOT ME
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 1 month ago:
The Wikipedia in on the term debanking and what it means. Not some wild anti-Trump conspiracy to come after you.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 1 month ago:
Do you have a source for ANY of this dribble?
I was homeless for years, and have worked with homeless addicts for the last 10 years. Never in my life have I heard of these things happening for the reasons you give. Hell even to this day I don’t update a bank with my new address.
Could you provide a reliable source for more information about this actually happening to real people en masse? I have no doubt it’s happened to someone somewhere, but would be surprised if this was a real problem and I wasn’t aware.
- Comment on US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation 2 months ago:
I thought that word might bug someone.
It’s not just a distributed hash table. That’s not a trustless cache. It’s Byzantine fault tolerant. Trustless.
It combines game theory with distributed hash tables and makes them irreversible.
And yes, even satoshi himself was upset he couldn’t get the anonymity perfect. Great strides in other chains to do that, and zk stuff for confidential activity.
Look, it’s not for everyone. It’s not for you obviously. But it’s a breakthrough for sure - tech, science, whatever category you want.
It’s the first time man created a system that can’t be reverted. That’s a big deal.
- Comment on US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation 2 months ago:
I’m not an idiot that’s buying shit that rug pulls. It’s just dd. A lot of ppl like to gamble memecoins and shitcoins.
- Comment on US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation 2 months ago:
Irreversibility is what Bitcoin brought to the table. Prior to it, nothing else has ever had that capability. It’s literally the scientific breakthrough. It’s why it holds value.
If you can’t see that value, that’s one thing. But it is there.
- Comment on US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation 2 months ago:
Scamming is done by humans, not digital currency. Scamming isn’t new.
Crypto is liked by scammers for the same reason it’s so valuable to everyone else, including nation states. It’s irreversible. It’s a mathematically perfect ledger objective of corruption and military might. It’s a source of truth in a very grey world.
- Comment on US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation 2 months ago:
Indeed. But only one can be printed by state actors who over millennia have proven to mismanage and fail.
- Comment on US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation 2 months ago:
The usd has a huge dependence on other nations accepting it, and capital being injected by wealthy nations and people. It’s backed by military might and threats for not using it as a reserve currency to trade oil.
- Comment on US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation 2 months ago:
Both are dependent on banks and whales. Only one is dependent on the trustworthiness of a govt tho.
- Comment on US passes Genius Act, first major national crypto legislation 2 months ago:
Ok I’ll bite. What’s a scam? Currency in general, or currency on a distributed censorship resistant immutable ledger?
- Comment on is there any way to invest ethically as a sole individual? 2 months ago:
not tied to oil in any way
Like a company that doesn’t use plastic at all in any way?
- Comment on YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process 2 months ago:
Wow you typed a LOT to defend not making a GitHub issue. That energy redirected to writing a GitHub issue would be stellar.