It’s fine, she said in an interview afterwards that her next career move is fulfilling a lifetime ambition of joining the circus. So the spot is still open.
Define “help” I’ve blown up on unsolicited cold-callers like military recruiters, and political campaign fundraisers multiple times and it helped me feel better. If I’m calling for support then I’m already vulnerable and blowing up is like biting the hand that feeds so no, that doesn’t help. Power dynamics matter when taking your anger out on others. Self control matters so you don’t have to
Bitcoin already has a unicode sign, which is plenty. We don’t need an emoji, we need better user access to the full unicode set. (To date, on both mobile and desktop, I have to sometimes websearch specific characters and copy-paste, and not all emoji are displayed on my PC Firefox browser, though it’s better now than last year). Also curiously, the Lemmy website text editor emoji picker only places an emoji at the end of the text, not where the cursor is (and adds a space I don’t want).
The current Emoji library has a frog face, 🐸 not a frog body. That’s a higher priority than a bitcoin. I could see some kind of generic crypto coin, maybe. Maybe.
On a parallel subject, I do think the international community would do well to create a decentralized currency, and I do think blockchain may figure into this, but it needs to be secure and allow for anonymous transactions, and not allow for tampering with the ledger. Bitcoin has failed on all three accounts. We need a better, more robust system, but it seems all current cryptocurrencies are practice, and toys for prospectors and gamblers until we make a robust one.
I absolutely do not want to encourage the ransomware industry.
but it needs to be secure and allow for anonymous transactions, and not allow for tampering with the ledger. Bitcoin has failed on all three accounts.
Lol what? No legitimate bitcoin critics make these claims against Bitcoin. The ledger is immutable and the transactions are pseudo anonymous. In fact your typical bitcoin critic lists these as downsides (“no way to reverse mistakes” and “cannot prevent money laundering”) right after the criticisms about energy consumption.
You legitimately have no idea what you’re talking about.
I’m not a Bitcoin or crypto expert (though I remember news about a decade ago about unrelated data, including pictures, ending up in the ledger. Maybe they fixed it?) Rather I think about what I’d want in a currency that we don’t have in state-backed currencies.
And yes, anonymity of transactions is one of the, money laundering is about justifying gains to a surveillance state on the grounds that only state-approved transactions should be allowed. Like the internet, the economy is and should be bigger than the regional states we have, unless you want Hollywood telling you what content you are allowed to watch and how many times before your license expires.
One of the problems with state-proprietary banking systems is that they can be manipulated for political purposes. It’s nice when this means depriving dicks of their money (say Putin and Russian Oligarchs) but it’s not very nice when it’s used to silence journalists who embarrass the ownership class (e.g. Wikileaks) or is used by industrialists to block competition (e.g. the MPAA and RIAA arranging for the freezing of Kim Dotcom’s assets, and those of Megaupload, which was about to release a new music distribution system).
The point is to create a currency that states cannot control or regulate.
Yes, there are matters like the black market. CSAM transactions have become more difficult to trace while cryptocurrencies are stable, but I suspect these can be addressed piecemeal when we actually confront problems like drug abuse and porn production. As it is, the people who do the most damage, cause the most cost and death have enough influence on state regulators of currency so as to not need to launder money. (Though they may fold conflict diamonds into ones mined from legitimate sources.)
You said the Bitcoin ledger is mutable. It’s not. You said Bitcoin isn’t anonymous and that’s mostly true because it’s pseduo-anonymous which can be fully anonymous if you want it to be.
Ubuntu has its ups and downs when you’re actually living with it, but they have a fantastic installer experience. I have had my fair share of bizarre dead ends with other distro installers, like Bazzite telling me “you need -860GB more space”. Ubuntu puts you in a solid live-iso OS where the installer is just an app that you can drag to one side and run other tools before continuing. It tends to do sensible things if I go off the beaten path with a more advanced install.
Nowadays, I am happy with debootstrapping or btrfs send’ing an existing Debian install to set up a new system for myself. I still think that Ubuntu is reasonably likely to be a good experience for a newcomer.
After reading the children of time series, I choose to use octopodes simply due to the fact that they are beautifully narcissistic little bastards in those books.
Most tastes and values stay the same. I feel less emotional intensity and motivation for everything though, for better or worse.
Mentally, learning is harder, thinking is slower.
Physically I will get sore more and more easily if I don’t stretch and exercise, but by the same token I am in a better state of fitness than ten years ago.
They always played up that anyone can learn anything at any age but it really does get harder as you get older. I'm not sure if it's because of obligations, the juices slowing down (less plasticity), or just having less of a feel for it. Kudos for the fitness and cheers!
I just realized oily feathers probably explain why penguins rocket through / out of the water so well. Non-mixing liquids and all that. I think I’m on to something.
I have similar conversations with student nurses when they come to psychiatry about how to (informally) calculate risk when making decisions like how close to stand to someone or whether or not you can go into a patient’s room alone. My one-liner is “don’t be scared, never be stupid.”
First of all, we’ve got a bunch of highly unpredictable people, but 7-11 often has a similar quantity, and at least on the psych unit you can be around 99.9% that they don’t have a gun or even a knife. They might not be kittens, but you don’t have to treat them like rabid bears, either. Well. Most of them anyway, and I’d tell you if we had one at that time.
It also helps when you’re dealing with a high violence patient to take account of all their strengths and weaknesses. Back when I was a sitter I had a patient who was delirious from low oxygen but kept trying to clock me every time I tried to get the O2 cannula back on, but also was too weak from the low oxygen to even sit up. So I just backed off to the foot of the bed and phoned the assigned nurse and just explained what was up and that I needed a second set of hands (to hold his until we got the O2 back up enough for him to listen to reason). She walked right past me and almost got decked and the conversation went more or less:
“oh shit, he’s really aggressive”
“yeah, that’s what I said”
“you sounded so calm though!”
“…well he can’t get me over here!”
I had a similar conversation much later in my career about a patient who was trying to break my fingers but lacked the strength to even do that. When the other nurse expressed concern that he was trying to hurt me all I could think to say in that moment was,“…he’s not very good at it.”
It’s the same when you’ve got a super violent patient in ambulatories. They’ll be ready to beat the shit out of you but if their feet are tied together by a 6 inch strap you can just walk away from that ass-kicking at a leisurely pace, that’s the point of the restraints. Just make sure they’re on right and you won’t have any problems.
Also statistically speaking people with mental illness are much more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators, but that’s a whole different discussion.
The one benefit Arch has for me (even though I no longer use it as I found I’m not too fond of rolling releases), is that the AUR with an AUR helper takes care of getting any Linux packages installed. No need to copy commands off a github repo or something like that.
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