Viking_Hippie
@Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on New Year? In this economy? 4 hours ago:
Maybe 2009:
Dubya was out of the White House and Obama still hadn’t evolved into his final Centrist form, making it theoretically still possible to influence him towards governing more like the 2008 campaign Obama
Facebook was still barely bigger than MySpace, Twitter was still pretty good rather than a fascist safe space, Google had yet to ruin YouTube, and enshittification was generally the exception rather than the rule
An Inconvenient Truth was still relevant and most countries at least did a halfway decent job of PRETENDING to care about the future livability of the planet
Still early enough to pump and dump Bitcoin to death, preventing cryptocurrency from becoming the go-to money laundering tool of rich crooks everywhere including the current president
Windows 7, the best ever and last good Windows is released
The first international Trans Day of Visibility is celebrated with few if any fascists trying to murder anybody present
Plus a bunch of bad things, but next to nothing compared to every single subsequent year.
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- Comment on She strongly disagrees 16 hours ago:
10? Could be as many as 613, depending on who you ask
- Comment on What the democrats just did. 1 day ago:
You mean the oncoming train about to run over everyone who’s not a rich white Christian fascist man?
- Comment on What the democrats just did. 1 day ago:
Not familiar with the last two, but all the rest are amongst the most frequent collaborators with the fascists, usually COMPLETELY contrary to the wishes and needs of their constituencies.
They must all be primaried as soon as possible!
- Comment on When Xfinity has an outage, I don’t pay for those days. The government’s been shut down for 39 days so can I pay 39 days less in taxes? 2 days ago:
But what non-dysfunctional government that doesn’t behave like it is a subscription service shuts down regularly?
A well-functioning government never shuts down, let alone regularly.
That doesn’t mean that the people should forgo their contribution to shared civilization, though.
The current kakistocracy misappropriating funds doesn’t mean that the parts of the government they haven’t ruined doesn’t need tax revenue.
- Comment on I promise I'm not 2 days ago:
The value of metal isn’t arbitrary,bits valuable because the metal is actually valuable. You can use copper for electronics, silver for medical instruments, gold for all kinds of things from semiconductors to low impedance buses
Yeah, because necessary computer chips, medical instruments, and other electronics won’t become extremely expensive or scarce from being MADE OF MONEY!
There’s a finite amount of metal in the world and an ever-increasing demand for both things made of metal and currency. Combining the two would inevitably lead to a point in the far too near future where only very rich people can afford to use money and/or only rich people can afford to build anything out of the money metals.
There is no deflation of metal currencies or inflation
Except when there’s not enough of it in existence for both making the things of it AND for being all the money. Which is already the case.
This is a common lie of corporate sellsmen trying to sell everyone into their pyramid scheme
Maybe not the BEST thing to mention pyramid schemes while trying to convince people that inherently finite resources can cover several exponentially increasing needs in perpetuity…
The value slowly drifts over time
Until it’s suddenly currency again AND still needed for making important stuff with.
the discovery of new sources or technology which makes extracting easier
Which will STILL be much more expensive and require extra security once extraction equipment contains wiring and circuits made of literal money.
The point is though that compared to fiat currencies, it’s extremely stable and over generations
Which it has been because it’s been considered raw materials for production of goods for generations. That flies out the window the moment its value becomes intertwined with all levels and types of commerce
something people can save and give to their grandkids
If they’re EXTREMELY rich compared to most of the world’s population.
it will be roughly the same value.
No.
People can retire for example without ever needing to put their money at mercy to the rich in speculation markets.
Very few people, sure. Probably significantly fewer than now.
The is what you call deflation, but it’s what I would call economic appreciation
It’s what I call becoming richer by already being rich, which is basically the stock market but with less effort.
this is an honest economy
Overly simplified to the detriment of most people ≠ honest.
Simply put prices have to meet workers halfway.
Would be lovely, but the reality is that most workers would no longer be able to afford anything made of the money metals and would probably be underpaid even more than they already are since there’s actual scarcity added onto the artificial scarcity.
The only real downside compared to fiat currency, and this is really the only one in actuality
Nope. I’ve mentioned a few already at I bet you’re going to say something else in a bit
that money is harder to obtain without producing something of real value
Not if you already have it and it appreciates. Like the current system, but even moreso, it’ll be up to the ones who hoard the most riches to determine what has “real value”.
This means that governments can not spend money to stimulate the economy, and the economy cannot carry massive amounts of debts
Which would be awful. Without tools such as deficit spending and government debt, every recession could take years or decades, if not be permanently insurmountable since you can’t just create emergency metal.
Interest rates would be high because interests would have to cover the people who default.
Which would mean that only rich people would be able to afford to borrow money, further enhancing the “get richer by already being rich” effect
This is not a bad thing
As long as you are one of the lucky few already in possession of a lot of wealth in metals.
I could go on responding to all the rest of your fallacious arguments in turn, but if you haven’t gotten the point yet, let me just summarize it for you:
TL;DR: Going back to economies based on physical metal would be absolute weapons grade idiocy.
- Comment on Turkey issues genocide arrest warrant against Netanyahu 3 days ago:
The announcement was met with a firm rebuttal from Israel. Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said Israel “firmly rejects, with contempt” the charges, calling them "the latest PR stunt
If the contempt of the Israeli foreign minister doesn’t confirm that you’re right about something, nothing does.
Yes, Erdogan IS a fundamentalist tyrant and indirect mass murderer, but regardless of whether it’s for good or bad reasons, his government doesn’t 100% doing the right thing here. Only thing missing is Smotrich being on the list.
- Comment on "Nevertheless, the vaginal sounds that were sent will have reached Epsilon Eridani in 1996 and Tau Ceti in 1998. It is unclear what sort of reply we should expect." 3 days ago:
I too will be using the word invaginate in all the sexy talk I share with your wife.
- Comment on "Nevertheless, the vaginal sounds that were sent will have reached Epsilon Eridani in 1996 and Tau Ceti in 1998. It is unclear what sort of reply we should expect." 3 days ago:
Gotta have a hobby 🤷🏻
- Comment on "Nevertheless, the vaginal sounds that were sent will have reached Epsilon Eridani in 1996 and Tau Ceti in 1998. It is unclear what sort of reply we should expect." 3 days ago:
- Comment on Definitely spongeworthy 3 days ago:
It’s a reference to an episode of a 90s sitcom about nothing.
Specifically the episode of Seinfeld where Elaine finds the perfect birth control for her (which is some kind of sponge 🤨) but then they stop selling them so her new criteria for a sexual partner is to determine whether they’re attractive enough to use one of her limited supply, which she calls being “spongeworthy”.
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- Comment on I promise I'm not 3 days ago:
[Citation needed]
- Comment on *Jarvis, arm the valediction* 4 days ago:
I’m fond of saying “with all due respect, which is none” when applicable
- Comment on I promise I'm not 4 days ago:
the abolition of all forms of [nonconsenting] domination and hierarchy
Fixed your (probably accidental) kink shaming 😉
- Comment on I promise I'm not 4 days ago:
Has to be combined with price controls, though.
Without that, the profiteers would just take the opportunity to raise prices for everything even further and then everyone else is back to square one or worse.
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- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 4 days ago:
Call me old-fashioned, but if it doesn’t run on diesel, I’m not drinking it!
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 4 days ago:
I hear they’re gonna nerf it in the next patch, though.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 4 days ago:
Depends on how much time you have…
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 4 days ago:
Probably either referring to a non-negligible difference or to how being alkaline enough to make a real difference would make it basically poisonous.
I’m no phlebectomist, so I can’t say whether they’re right about it or not 🤷🏻
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 4 days ago:
Which is reason number two (pun intended) why brown M&Ms are the superior ones.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 4 days ago:
“You know what would make this poison really pop? A fistful of active charcoal and prompt medical treatment!”
- Comment on Bä bä, vita lamm har du någon ull? 4 days ago:
I’m picturing a confused mix of black metal and the catchiest pop music possible 😄
- Comment on Bä bä, vita lamm har du någon ull? 4 days ago:
Thank you for using my seemingly useless information exceedingly well 😄❤️
- Comment on Bä bä, vita lamm har du någon ull? 5 days ago:
“Killing” is also Danish for kitten. Do with that information what you will.
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- Comment on Germany seeks deal with the Taliban to expedite expulsion of Afghan migrants 6 days ago:
True, but demagogues pushing xenophobia don’t tend to distinguish between Arabs and non-arab Muslims.
