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the Georgia GOP’s first vice chairman, violated state election laws by voting while on probation for forgery and other felonies,

Where the fuck do they find these people? It’s like Republicans are intentionally lampooning themselves.

“Basket of deplorables” ~ Hillary Clinton

“Hold my beer” ~ Republicans

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According to the second link, he sold nearly all of his class A shares, but none of his class B shares. His total share of the company went from 3.2% to 2.6%, which, is still not insignificant.

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Thar wasn’t me.

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nulluser ,

Tell us you’re a twelve year old boy, without telling us you’re a twelve year old boy.

nulluser OP ,

I’m pretty sure I’ve had the MMR vaccine more than once. Probably got it as a kid to get into school. Definitely needed it to get into college, but didn’t have records to show I already had it, so they just gave it to me again. Then got all kinds of shots in the military. Wouldn’t be surprised if yet another round of MMR was one of them. Point being, just tell the pharmacist that you don’t know if you already had it, but wonder if it’s safe to just get it again. They’ll probably answer, “Which arm?” 😉

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*than *than

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npr.org/…/donald-trump-golden-high-top-sneakers

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Holy crap! She was “saving up” to buy a condo instead of using that money to pay off the credit cards? That’s absolutely insane. I really feel like society would benefit immensely if there were mandatory financial literacy courses every 4 years, or at least before any major purchases (house, car, etc).

nulluser ,

Do they not teach geography in Arkansas? I guess not, so, FYI, Missouri is not Arkansas. They’re different states with different state laws.

Why is defederation an option when Limit/Mute exist?

In short i just jumped into the whole Mastodon blocking drama and am somewhat disappointed to see it as childish as reddit’s power mod drama. Accelerated by the fact that a Limit/Mute option exist just fine, i wonder why Block/Defederation is an option at all. It only moves power from the user to admins without anything in...

nulluser ,

Server admins are just people, generously running a server, for you. This costs them time and money to do. If they don’t want their server amplifying the content from some other server that they see as problematic, they absolutely should have that option.

nulluser ,

I often say, “Free Speech doesn’t mean other people are required to provide you with a soap box and megaphone.”

New York Trusted This Company to Care for the Sick and Elderly. Instead, It Left People Confused and Alone. (www.propublica.org)

Unchanged diapers. Fees collected for care never given. New York Guardianship Services is often tasked with caring for the “unbefriended,” but records show more than a dozen cases where it failed to meet the needs of the most vulnerable.

Walmart Bought a Finance App and Reduced Fraud Protections. Guess What Happened Next? (www.propublica.org)

One Finance was plagued by fraud and customer dissatisfaction after a Walmart-controlled partnership acquired it in 2022. As Walmart began touting One to employees and others, the “neobank” — as such ultraconvenient, lightly regulated apps are called — weakened user security and outsourced customer support. Con artists...

nulluser ,

I love ProPublica.

nulluser ,

No, no, no! Ted Stephens got them all up to speed with his famous “Dump Trucks and Tubes” educational lecture. Now they’re all experts.

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But these people are not obese. They’re already starving to death.

Nutrition screenings conducted at shelters and health centres in the north found that 15.6 per cent – or 1 in 6 children under 2 years of age – are acutely malnourished. Of these, almost 3 per cent suffer from severe wasting, the most life-threatening form of malnutrition, which puts young children at highest risk of medical complications and death unless they receive urgent treatment.

who.int/…/19-02-2024-children-s-lives-threatened-…

And that’s from nearly three weeks ago.

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How much electricity does the world banking system use? (Answer: a whole lot more)

How much of that electricity could be used to simultaneously run the banking system AND turn incredibly ambitious renewable energy project ideas from absurd pipe dreams into economic no brainers? (Answer: none)

nulluser ,

docsend.com/view/adwmdeeyfvqwecj2#

The direct answer to your question starts on page 6, but I recommend starting at the beginning to get the full context.

nulluser ,

Apples to apples. One global banking system to one global Bitcoin network.

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But this parallel financial system can also serve a tangible social good, offering an onramp to the financial system for people who would otherwise be left out. …

Bitcoin could eliminate all these intermediaries, allowing citizens to send digital payments directly to one another, without relying on credit and without incurring multiple settlement fees along the way.

cnbc.com/…/bitcoin-is-poised-to-blow-up-africas-8…

Bitcoin is for everybody.

nulluser ,

That’s layer 1. Read up on layer 2 options. Lightning Network is the best current example, but there are others and will be more. That’s where most of the innovation is happening now. The media never talks about it because it’s necessarily more technical and they think their readers/viewers are all idiots, so why bother.

nulluser ,

I don’t disagree with anything you said. Yes, it’s confusing and there’s no shortage of scammers trying to make it more confusing in order to bamboozle people.

My humble advice is to ignore “crypto”. Adopt, at least for now, the philosophy that, “it’s either Bitcoin, or shit coin.” That’ll simplify things immensely for those just getting started, and is true for at least 99.9% of other coins out there (100% if you want my honest opinion).

Maybe, in the distant future, when/if you decide to dive down the rabbit hole and really get comfortable how Bitcoin functions and what gives it value, then you’ll be in a better position to judge other coins. More likely, you won’t bother because you won’t need to.

But, mark my words, nothing is going to replace Bitcoin. Some other coins might manage to fulfill some esoteric fringe use cases that Bitcoin doesn’t, and maybe one those use cases will be beneficial to you. If so, awesome. But they’re not going to be able to replace Bitcoin.

Layer 2 protocols are tools that operate on top of the (admittedly slow and variable) Bitcoin blockchain. Lightning Network (LN) is currently the most prominent and allows secure transactions that complete in a few seconds with extremely small fees. LN addresses the “it’s too slow/unpredictable” argument against Bitcoin.

There are many other Layer 2 protocols running on top of Bitcoin in various stages of development and production addressing different issues and use cases. But, you don’t need to know about any of them, honestly. You don’t need to pick the winner (there will be many winners doing different things). When any of them catch on and go mainstream, then that will drive more demand for Bitcoin to help power that protocol.

nulluser ,

Per what capita? There’s only one global banking system on Earth. That’s what makes it global. There’s only one Bitcoin blockchain, and it’s globally accessible. Trying to subdivide either into arbitrary regions based on geographic or geopolitical borders is meaningless.

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Can you refute their math? You asked for a source. That’s the most comprehensive data I could find. I’m happy to look at any better if you’ve got it.

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You don’t think that the world banking system would use more energy if it quintupled in size? The world banking system uses more energy every time your local credit union installs an ATM at another grocery store.

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That’s a strong argument against password managers. We probably shouldn’t allow them, since some people are going to find them difficult to use.

ETA: Doubling the number of people using Bitcoin (especially on layer 2 protocols), is not going to remotely double it’s energy usage.

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Re: your on chain transactions argument, you’re completely over looking (intentionally?) the fact that day to day transactions don’t need to be on chain. In fact many would argue that they shouldn’t be on chain. Layer 2 protocols can handle all of that.

Just one example scenario could be…

Step 1. Your employer opens a Lightning Network channel to your node (self hosted, or not, your call). This requires one on chain transaction (actually, there are enhancements that allow opening multiple channels in a single transaction, but that’s beyond the scope of this conversation.) Step 2. Every month, your employer pays you over this channel. No new on chain transactions happen for this. Step 3. You use the channel to pay your rent/mortage, utility bill, etc. Still, no new on chain transactions. Step 4. You continue to use the channel to buy groceries, lunch, drinks for friends, a massage, etc. No on chain transactions. Step 5. Oops, you’ve got a bill that needs to be paid in fiat. What now?!? Use the channel to transfer some Bitcoin to your bank account, where it’s automatically converted into fiat. Pay your bill from there. Still no on chain transactions. Step 6. Return to step 2. Still no on chain transactions. … Step 3,658,423. 6 years later, you leave your job, Your employer closes the channel. Any Bitcoin left on your side of the channel (if any) is sent to an on chain address that you provided in step 1. This requires one more on chain transaction.

Total number of on chain transactions in 6 years and countless payments: 2

In reality, that’s probably not exactly how it would work. For instance, I would quickly just send my entire paycheck back out on the channel to a different LN channel I had open with a reliable node operator so that I wasn’t dependent on my employer keeping their node running over the weekend so I could pick up the tab at the bar. Etc

Regardless, that’s how it could work. There are countless other ways it could work, limited only by the desires and imagination of those setting up their channels, and all allowing for countless transactions over months, years, even decades, to be represented by two small on chain transactions.

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Modern society, you say? I would say that it absolutely is, but that’s just me. You do you.

nulluser ,

The channel in my example only needs to be opened with one month’s pay, not 6 years worth. The same initial balance goes repeatedly goes back and forth across the channel as it is paid and spent. But your “superior knowledge” of the subject matter is clearly all you need to make your “informed” decisions, so, whatever. I wish you well.

nulluser ,

Now I understand where ChatGPT hallucinations come from.

nulluser ,

These awards and settlements really need to start coming out of the police unions. That’s the only way to start getting cops to hold each other accountable.

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We came to visit Russia as tourists

Boy, my sympathy went to 0 pretty damn fast. Might as well have said they went to Nazi Germany as tourists.

edit: grammar

nulluser ,

Thank you. I knew it looked/sounded wrong.

nulluser ,

That’s utterly vile, especially considering that India fought against the Nazis during WWII. I can’t imagine being one of the soldiers that came back alive and seeing that shit in my own country.

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Got any links to news stories about tourists in Ukraine getting forced into fighting for them.

Take your time. I’ll wait.

Or how about Ukraine intentionally targeting missiles at apartment buildings and purely civilian infrastructure with no military value just to murder and terrorize people just trying to live their lives.

If there’s anyone here that’s a victim of propaganda and indoctrination, you’ll find them in the mirror.

nulluser ,

Water weight. You still drink water when fasting.

You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes | Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists. (gizmodo.com)

You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes | Airplane mode hasn’t been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists.::Airplane mode hasn’t been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists.

nulluser ,

Not having to listen to you talk on the phone while I’m trapped in a seat near you is absolutely going to decrease my air rage.

nulluser ,

The free market also dies when unregulated companies destroy their competition to become monopolies, destroy the environment and enslave people.

You’re correct in that when companies essentially own politicians and get regulations passed that help them do the above, like the system we seem to have now, then that’s a serious problem.

The answer to that isn’t to get rid of regulations, though. An unregulated free market isn’t going to stop factories from dumping toxic waste into rivers or spewing it into the air. It’s not going to stop companies from paying employees slave wages. And it’s definitely not going to stop companies from using dirty tactics to drive out their competition and become monopolies, as you seem to be suggesting.

A well regulated free market can both reward innovators that come up with new products or services that society values while also protecting the environment and the workers from exploitation, and ensuring healthy competition.

That’s not the system we have now, for sure, but we’re absolutely not going to get there by getting rid of regulations. We need to yank control of the government (and thus the laws) away corporations and the wealthy and give it back to the people.

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