jeremyt

The story says she’s making $1300 a month from Social Security disability. She doesn’t need to commute, she gets the money even if she stays home all day and doesn’t do anything.

This story makes very little sense to me.

It tries to claim that the mom is just in this impossible situation and there’s no possible way to get out... that living in an SUV in the Walmart parking lot is the only option.

But it also says she’s making $1300 a month [edit: from social security disability]. Honestly, why can’t she drive that expensive SUV for an hour in literally any direction to reach a place where you can get a one bedroom apartment for like $500 a month?

This is what I don’t understand about homelessness: why do people insist that they have to live in a very high cost city?

Well, I left. So there’s that.

Ah, that liberal tolerance that I remember so fondly from San Francisco.

But they banned plastic bags and only buy organic. What more do you want from them?

At what current?

Cages only block external em, they don't block internal em from getting out.

The misinformation here is ridiculous. The operating budget request for zero dollars was because they collected so much in fines last year that it will pay the entire year’s budget.

Www.civic.com

For a fee that’s barely a rounding error for a ‘multimillion dollar payment’

This is laughable. I transferred btc today in about 30 mins.

This is why I switched to proton mail. Never looked back.

Yes, rhetorical question.

This article is complete bullshit.

I'm a member of this group, only because I was added without my consent, which is probably the case for most of the users in the group.

Just for giggles, I watched them do a pump and dump one time, and they basically sold the pump hard, managed to get about 10 Bitcoin in some tiny market cap coin, and then one guy sold all the way back down and left the "members" of the group holding the bag.

This group is a scam, but not in the way that this article says.

Also, telegram isn't encrypted as far as I know.

There’s a whole book on it - ‘why administrative law is unlawful’

Because that’s how the game is played. When scoring the effect of a tax bill, you were not allowed to take into consideration changes in behavior

Next year, thanks to the tax bill.

This is basically all of the worst arguments against Bitcoin collected and thrown together in the same comment.

First of all, the industrial and jewelry value of gold is so far below the current market price, that if suddenly everybody decided that gold was only worth its utility value people holding gold would lose almost everything. The difference between 95% and 100% is really negligible.

Secondly, on power consumption, the whole "one transaction requires more energy than a house" is basically sophistry. Even if this number wasn't overstated, it's stated in a way that assumes that this is static, that buying a coffee costs a house worth of energy.

No matter whether you are a Bitcoin person or a Bitcoin cash person, the number of transactions per unit of energy in no way will stay the same. If you are a Bitcoin person, you will see the lightning network, which will increase transaction throughput by several orders of magnitude, and if you are a Bitcoin cash person, the block size will increase continuously, shoving more and more transactions per block.

Thirdly, the claim that you can't convert Bitcoin into cash is simply stunning. I use Gemini as an exchange daily, and I've witnessed $1 million being liquidated into US dollars in a couple of hours without much slippage.

Finally, I would ignore the final paragraph because this person has shown that he knows absolutely nothing about Bitcoin or cryptocurrency.

If only they had $120M sitting somewhere they could use. I dunno, like a savings account or something. A really big savings account that's so big they have to hire asset managers to manage. It would be even better if this savings account was made up of money that good people donated to the institution with the intention that it be used to further education.

Yeah, that would be really nice.

I'm not sure that you realize that the current monetary system is only about half a century old. Fiat currency, backed by nothing except the government, has only existed since the 1970s.

Needing to pay taxes in dollars has nothing to do with what you get paid in. I know plenty of people who get paid in Bitcoin and pay taxes in dollars.

The backing of the military is useless. You gonna force people to buy dollars at gunpoint? The backing of the government is unclear.

We've seen 20% inflation before, and I see no reason we can't see it again.

This is not logical. Just because something hasn't happened doesn't mean it can't happen.

The backing of fiat is illusory.

I always posit this question, to which I have never received a satisfactory answer: What, exactly, would the US do if the world suddenly decided that the dollar was worth nothing?

Massive buybacks of dollars by the Fed would be seen as an ineffective and desperate move. Besides that, what other recourse do they have?

They claim the edge of the world is at the south pole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsOz_J6tJVU&t=1332s

Ok, fine, i'll play along. What is a reasonable tip?

Instacart wants me to tip 20%, so that's $40 on a $200 grocery order to carry my groceries 3 miles.

I have no idea what's appropriate, but that seems outrageous.

Call me crazy, but when I use one of these services, I expect the service to be reflected in the price.

Yes, if you hold during the fork you get coins on both forks. Yes you can cash out before the fork.

Don't you guys routinely use ACH transfers to buy things, give out your bank info, and just hope everything goes well?

I can't register. Getting "there was an error" message.