Crypto is not capital. Crypto is a poker table, where each player can only cash out what somebody else brought to the table. Buying those coins is placing a bet, not making an investment. No value is created in or by the system.

If Trump wants to buy a hamberder with his 25 billion in monopoly money he needs to find a sucker to buy the monopoly money from him at the asking price. If that sucker want to buy a Banana with it, they need to find the next sucker. It’s a pyramid game, and the farther you get from the top the more likely you’ll end up the one without a next sucker below you.

The reason libertarians and similar nutjobs clamor for governments going into crypto is that those governments with their virtually bottomless pockets would then become the ultimate suckers. They’d be boosting the prices for all former holders of that coin, who could then cash out big by selling to the governments. Something they currently can’t do in big volumes without tanking prices.

The Zuck will embrace it. It’s the other messengers that have stated that they would not work with meta. And I’m honestly with them.

I have zero hope for any possible open standard for messengers to not be comandeered by google/fb et al so that it’ll end up to be a net loss in privacy and security. I have no interest to compromise my own privacy because aunt Karen doesn’t want to switch apps.

I thought the exact same thing and we should all endeavor to use 4616250 as a meme.

It’s an acquired taste. As a kid you might just want to look cool drinking beer. By the time that passes (if it does), the bitterness doesn’t taste quite as bitter anymore, and other tastes come through. Same for spirits and the burning sensation.

any cognitive Task. Not “9 out of the 10 you were able to think of right now”.

The frustrating thing is: Sometimes the same economists who do these studies tend to magically forget their own findings a week later when they are interviewed by some news channel about what the government should do about x or y. Because they can’t live with the fact that some of the base principles and beliefs of their own school of thought are deeply flawed.

Ok Choom.

Counter question: Is your wife software?

A friend hosted one when we were 17 or 18. He was from the USA and had never had beer before. One of these nights he hid under a parking car when he saw a police car approaching. Fun times.

Everybody is the hero in their own movie.

You’re not alone.

Same here, but I did occasionally get a similar full screen reminding me of that fact and urging me to buy a new PC. I installed Mint instead.

People keep saying “Linux is user friendly enough these days for even non techy people” and I’m sorry but it’s totally Not.

I guess people who say that think of the average non techy user as someone like me: I don’t really know how this works under the hood, but I do troubleshoot my own stuff, am willing and able to search for help and apply advice on my own, try different things, and hopefully realize when that advice starts to sound fishy.

The thing is, that’s not the average non-techy user. That’s already “dabbling in tech”.

The average non techy user is Homer going “oh, a talking moose on the Internet wants my credit card number? Sounds fair.”

The same is true for windows though. I have to help my dad with some minor thing at least once a month.

Often, they’ve forgotten the fucking password, if you’ve made it so they don’t have to put a password in when they log in

The second my father asks me about this is when I revoke his computer privileges.

I honestly never used open voice chats in games, but I do miss Barrens chat.

Become unavailable on non-private messengers. Explain your reasons if asked, but stay stubborn. (And yes, it will turn out that a subset of people you know don’t give a shit about staying in contact with you.)

Nah. Corporations aren’t all knowing godlike beings. They are run by stupid people who make mistakes, just like us.

When child labour in mines was abolished we didn’t abolish coal with it (sadly).