petefromnorth

Please, do.

Yes, better a fallback than to completely block.

Fuck Adobe. It triggered the auto-renew while on vacation for a year, I cancelled within a week later, and was forced to pay a massive cancellation fee. One of the worst companies I've interacted with, will never use their products again.

Why use LN when other simple L1 solutions already work great as money.

Litecoin (LTC) has cheap fees and lots of room. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is constantly improving and has a ton of transaction room to grow, with increases if/when demand grows. Dogecoin (DOGE) not my favorite, but does work fine for the money use-case, but development, from what I can see is a bit stale.

With these existing simple solutions, I don't see why Bitcoin (BTC) has to be anything more than the unit of account other crypto projects value themselves against.

I just paid using Bitcoin Cash (BCH), low fees and simple to integrate ;)

I can, but I am choosing not to as to preserve privacy. Just one data point, you are welcome to not believe it.

It's not theft, it's piracy.

You still have to find which service it's available on, enter payment information, download an app... And even then if you're not in the USA the selection is distributed across more apps, and lots of content isn't available easily even if you want to pay.

> We live in a world where 90% of the entire catalog of movies ever filmed are available to be instantly delivered to your home in 1080p for less than the cost of a Big Mac

Yet whenever I want to watch something, I have to look up which service it's on, see if it's available in my country, sign up for a subscription, possibly download an app.... Or, go to the high seas and be watching it in 4k resolution within 2 minutes.

It's very real. I have friends in the industry working on a Netflix series, and the amount of political correctness being forced on them from the Netflix side is insane. I cannot give a specific example due to exposing which show this may be on, but if the stories I hear or true, the Netflix staff must do a lot of Yoga cause the stuff they force to change is a stretch. The artists I know on the show went from being excited, to just there for a paycheck after certain fruits were deemed racist around black characters (not watermelons), and a LGBT plotline was forced into a childrens show just because.

Who pays you to write this shit, seriously.

How is China in any way ideal. Here in the west, with very high voluntary vaccination rates, everything for the most part is back to normal. Even the vaccination verification process is gone.

We dealt with covid in a reasonable, science-first way, which also allowed us to have the freedom to not get vaccinated, talk about what's happening, etc. Sounds much more ideal than the shitshow going on in Shanghai currently.

People ARE starving. There is plenty of evidence of this, not everything has to be outlined in the OP's article. This is like how the Russian people are saying there's no proof the exact tanks which killed civilians in Bucha were Russian, since no one has been able to go in and verify the exact tanks in person yet, so therefore it didn't happen. Your responses in this thread are really giving off wumao vibes.

The majority of western countries did this. Optional vaccines, restricted from public gatherings if you choose to not get it.