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That's what Jack Dorsey realized too, which is why he's a Nostr guy these days.

No, but the algorithm puts their content in front of people in part based on how many views it has gotten. Or does whatever the heck the shadowy black box wants it to.

Indeed. It's essentially malware.

At least BonziBuddy sang for me.

I believe this. I also believe that it's an indirect cause.

Curious how many people who use both cannabis AND amphetamines develop type 2 diabetes.

I suspect it's a smaller number.

Cannabis causes obesity in some, due to its impact on appetite. Do we need to draw out links to everything that we already know obesity causes and act like this is somehow interesting information?

Had me dubious when it wasn't just a use of zaps. Had me really lost when it brought up ERC-20 tokens, testnet or otherwise.

Shitcoins can rot.

IRC? Heck, there's still FIDOnet echos and usenet groups still active if you know where to look.

Just a lot of ghost towns in between them.

That any of these outlets are bending over for payment companies rather than just using Internet native money in 2025 is a real head scratcher. It's really not that hard to just accept Lightning payments. Heck, you can do it with Square EPOS terminals these days.

But a lot of industries are just in a D/s relationship with credit cards and I probably should stop kink shaming them.

Aleister Crowley somewhat famously gave himself asthma doing some fairly extreme pranayama, which led to him using heroin medicinally which led to him using heroin somewhat less medicinally for the duration of his life.

Yes, the guy was known for going big on most things he did. But it is worth throwing in the asterisk.

One time pad cryptography generated with truly random pads with no reuse of keys and no leaks in key transmission being the big exception.

But yea, calling it inconvenient for most uses is quite an understatement. It did serve many spies well though during the Cold War using numbers stations, even if the Soviets were known to take short cuts by just having a room full of people randomly hitting keyboards rather than using true randomness.

Good luck with the protests; we protested when they brought the newsfeed in in the first place, and it was quite an uproar. You can see how well that panned out.

Deleting my Facebook as a gift to myself in 2013 was one of the better Christmas presents I ever got.

Amusingly, the term incel was actually coined by a woman who was herself an incel. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45284455

When you use "society" as a synonym for "the establishment" there probably isn't one.

Never did much care for Rousseau myself though, or the fascists and communists he spawned.

If you're buying cheap things with on-chain payments, it's a bit like sending a bank wire to Starbucks for your coffee.

Lightning exists for a reason. Comes with far more privacy too -- arguably even more than Monero, if done right.

Must have been awhile ago, perhaps during the ordinal craze. Fees today are between 0-1 sats/vByte, even for immediate block inclusion.

I'm shocked hearing there are people who try to read everything in their RSS queue. That's madness. I get 300-600 in any given day.

What it does though is give me a range of headlines from news sources I've chosen to follow, that I can skim through, and read maybe 10-30 of on a given day (for some definition of "read" anyway...engage with would be more accurate). Heck, it's how I got here in the first place.

They were aiming for NON toxic? lol.

Could have fooled me.

Nostr or gtfo.

Parents covering school mostly went away in the 90's outside of the particularly wealthy segments of society. Mostly student loans since then, which people hope to have paid off by the time they retire to avoid having their social security payments garnished. Joking of course; nobody assumes social security will still be there.

In fairness, as a philosophy major, I realized fairly early on that most of what we read was out of copyright. I suppose if he's assigning stuff that is ABOUT what some philosophers wrote, it makes sense, but forgive me if I prefer just saving money to read Aristotle from Project Gutenberg.

And sure, there is more contemporary philosophy, and it's great he's keeping the books affordable. But if it's anything early 20th century or prior, don't be so surprised people are going to read what's in the public domain instead.

THAT is gross. At least when books were expensive, you knew you could recoup some of that cost the following year selling them back. It also meant you could buy them cheaper used. Assuming you didn't have a professor assigning their own texts and insisting you got the latest edition...

I wish my books were that cheap. 20 years ago. Even used they were well above that price.

One of these days, just like most bitcoiners today have, the government is going to learn the hard way that bitcoin and crypto are not the same, and should not be treated the same. One has no issuer, the other has them. One has an immutable ledger, the other is full of examples of rollbacks and even lost ledgers (lookin' at you XRP). One is peer to peer, the other has a small in group calling the shots on protocol changes, due to node running being out of reach of consumer hardware. Heck, a lot of them don't even try to hide this, using proof of stake (read: oligarchic operations) rather than proof of work, which was the crux of how bitcoin was made to be trustless.

But like I said, this is something most bitcoiners had to learn the hard way, and the government and institutions are new to this game. With any luck they'll figure it out quickly, but it might be tough given how much lobbying money is being thrown around by the issuers of these shitcoins. Note how many CEO's we're seeing in these crypto summits...and be reminded that you'll never see the CEO of Bitcoin anywhere.

I remember when that was the point of Bitcoin. Just about every other crypto out there is more fiat than fiat itself is, between centralization and arbitrary issuance.

And it still is for many; the banks just sort of want to throw their two cents in about that. And it turns out, the worst thing about bitcoin is that it's money for enemies; nobody can stop them from doing so (well, aside from their own regulators). Sort of how something being permissionless works.

Are people that bristled by RMS that they're this obstinate about refusing to call it GNU/Linux?

Seems to be a No Real Linux fallacy...

I'd love to see a sound system a la Jack or even Pulseaudio compared to Android's native sound system, though do recognize that at least for phones there are challenges, as of course you need to kill other sounds to accept an incoming phone call. Routing multiple outputs would be handy -- perhaps to keep some background music on while working played through a Bluetooth speaker, but then maintaining the ability to take phone calls either on the phone, or perhaps a Bluetooth headset without interrupting that music stream. Just because most people don't want more than one application outputting audio at the same time doesn't mean we shouldn't have it as an option. And I'm sure some would also find utility in handling multiple inputs as well, without relying on a discrete hardware mixer.

Turning off weapons we're providing to others would be devastating for the domestic defense industry, right up there with the shot to our own foot that kicking Russia off the SWIFT system was. Trump may be okay with aggravating our allies, but killing faith in our defense industry is an unforced error I don't see him likely to make.

Now, if the UK were to turn against us militarily (yet again), it'd be a different story. But in lieu of that, the reputation of American industry is likely to be the incentive that keeps them functioning.

Nah, republicans love infringing upon free market capitalism quite regularly. But they insist on being the ones directing how it is done.

All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

With only 4x the population too! And even that's looking dubious, despite the American economy being all but in a state of cardiac arrest.

You can use money to buy things people are willing to sell.

You can use power to get people to do they would not otherwise do.

Generally, if money is able to get people to do things they wouldn't otherwise do, there needs to be some sort of duress, or corruption. People who are content with what they have don't resort to prostitution or otherwise compromising their principles for money. Those who are held under crippling debt, or who come to have no principles, are much more inclined to do so.

Power is more subtle, and it is related to money, but no, they're not the same thing.

The British also realized that as long as the Americans would borrow from the Bank of England, and were willing to trade their raw goods to England where they could be processed into industrial goods and then sold back to them, there wasn't much of a need to win the war in the first place -- though they didn't realize this all at once (as evidenced by the War of 1812). It was when the Americans (in the North) got to disrupting this economic situation that things really kicked off that they needed to back the Confederacy in what was effectively America's third revolution. Despite losing that one too, America's economy and politics were impacted enough that it was just a few decades later the British agent and American turncoat Woodrow Wilson was able to bring the former colonies back to heel with the Federal Reserve Act, the 16th Amendment, and entry into WWI as Britain's ally.

It was a nice sovereign republic while it lasted, or so I've read.

They were also financed with a finite resource, or at least, one that grew at a much slower rate, governed by the laws of physics as they impacted the economic feasibility of gold mining. Rather than an indefinitely large supply of "money future generations will pay back."