Automatic sidewalk blocker
But srsly to me it does feel like the future, because when I was a kid “by the year 2000” was synonymous with a glorious future of space hotels, undersea cities, moon bases… I can’t believe we’re a quarter of the way through the 21st Century and none of that has happened. On the plus side we did get really spiffy new ways to buy stuff we don’t need with money we don’t have, and fingertip access to pretty much all of human knowledge, which most of us ignore in our endless quest for entertainment. But oh well.
Fucked up thing is some of that has happened, but you need to have been born into generational wealth to be a part of those things. Ritchie Ricn is just moralisticly better version of Musk. Or at least a version less hooked on coach K
you dont have to put the meat on the sheet but at least put the sheet on the shelf below it
Every time someone posts this meme, I feel compelled to add “forums for communists”.
Big Tech made Lemmy so that communists wouldn’t organize in real life
I think your priorities are in the wrong place if you think about “forums for communists” instead of “telegram channels with incel nazis”.
I interpreted it as them mentioning lemmy (since lots of lemmy users are communists or socialists of some flavor), but if they meant to complain I agree with you completely
The former. Being subversive doesn’t imply it’s bad.
Now I feel compelled to ask: Do you this meme is seriously asking for opinions on subversive innovations? Because I interpreted it as asking what is the most dystopian.
And I hope you would agree nazis killing people are more dystopian than fucking larpers.
It appears to me that the meme is complaining about tech breaking laws, not soliciting opinions. In case this needs to be said, I’m using Lemmy because of its ability to resist (legal!) censorship, especially of long-overdue leftist speech.
But then the poll would make little sense, because forums for communists would win with 99.97% of votes…
I wish the average person was as open minded as you’re giving them credit.
Fake money for criminals helped me buy weed when I didn’t have a local dealer. It’s also how I pay for Mullvad. So fake money for criminals wins.
I miss when that was what the fake money was for instead of the bullshit broligarch grift.
I demand privacy, so I’m a criminal anyways
Crypto is not privacy.
The exposure of hotels using surveillance pricing. A room should cost a hunnert bucks a night. Not $100 or $150 or $200 or $250 etc., depending on which “app” you pray to. Am I right Trivago?
- Doorbell surveillance network
- Self-service identity theft
- State secrets betting house
- Billionaire fan club fund
- autonomous, moving surveillance network
- activity detection across walls
Very good additions.
I would add that the state-secrets betting houses are also more broadly insider-trading betting houses
fake money for criminals
I presume you must mean USD?
Hiyooo
Why is everyone so toxic? If you wanna discuss something be nice. (Even if you think that the person you are discussing with is a complete idiot)
Hey we obey the law here sir
“Fake money for criminals” is such a dumb, bootlicker thing to say.
Maybe most “1st world” people don’t undersrand it yet but crypto (although most of it is scam, but the good ones like Monero) really enables international transactions and freedom of money and brings so much freedom to the people.
Scammers have ruined the image of cryptocurrenvies but there are actually useful currencies out there like XMR,LTC that are being used frequently for actuall services and products. Not just trading.
Found the
CryptoBroBroligarch !Yes, much better to choose currencies supported by state violence instead of math and open source software. /s
i’m going with the fake money for criminals, cuz sometimes the criminal in question is a trans person trying to get their medicine
to my great annoyance, almost all diy hrt online can only be bought using crypto. and wow does it make you hate cryptobros to have to navigate an ecosystem clearly designed for speculation to get your life-saving medicine 🫠
You hate the people behind the ecosystem that enables you to get the medicine you require?
i hate the people who turned a way to pay for things anonymously into a stock market.
Creating a market to exchange crypto and cash enables everyone’s use. Speculative markets are a natural feature of something new like bitcoin and would’ve happened regardless.
You’re doing crypto a favor by keeping it at least 1% still anarchist.
that sucks mam.
I hope eventually there are less dumb ways to access the stuff for you.a
The very fact that it’s “fake money for criminals” is exactly why I didn’t pick up any BitCoin when it was 12p per coin… I could have been rich af off of £10
I too, ran across Bitcoin in the VERY early days, when it was pennies. I thought it was a scam and probably illegal, I mean “people can’t just set up their own currency, can they?” It didn’t help that I first found it when I was poking around in Tor, wondering what the “dark web” was all about.
Haha, what an idiot!
Yeah, I didn’t get any either. :-/
“criminals” = people the goverment doesnt like crypto is untraceable (mostly)
I think thats why there are so many smear campaigns against it
crypto is untraceable (mostly)
It is very traceable. It’s just that the government doesn’t have a special position with tracing transactions, so there’s been a bunch of kludges built on top of the very transparent Bitcoin network to try to mask things.
For laypersons: they put all the coins in a box and shake the box.
For your lay: the government puts a significant fraction of the coins into these boxes and can use the statistical information gained from this to deobfuscate transactions. If you put enough money in, either at once or slowly over time, they can figure out who you are.
thats the point, its decentralized
anything is traceable IF you have a special position in the transactions
monero, as an example, lets you run your own node
There are plenty of issues beyond that, especially BTC and similar coins being energy inefficient, just imagine if every single transaction ran through that. It wasn’t designed to be practical.
And on the less technical side, the biggest contributor to crypto being despised by most people is the massive prevalence of scammers, from companies that pretend to help you invest (while being a ponzi scheme) to rug pulls to other scammers being attracted to it for its perceived anonymity.
Afaik there’s legitimate uses for the underlying technology, but cryptocurrency is just inferior to regular digital currency from a practical standpoint, and you either have to put up with government regulation (defeating the purpose of a currency aside from government) or put up with fraud that can’t be stopped by our governments.
Bitcoin energy use doesn’t scale with the number of transactions but based upon the competition for mining.
so you have to put up with surveillance or put up with freedom?
I dont think the state should be able to trace transactions
That’s very understandable, but impractical for investments and savings, the US insures some banks and the like but it doesn’t insure crypto funds, if people’s savings end up there based on false promises (or if their assets are managed by a third party) they can lose everything and have no recourse.
This isn’t a hypothetical, it’s the story of countless people who lost everything to grifters. I don’t think blaming individuals makes a lot of sense when it comes to emerging technology and when, again, regular finance is generally insured by the state. The biggest reason for scammers to flock to crypto is that there’s a lot less regulation, making it harder to prosecute them. And that’s my original point on the choice we have right now, even if ideally we want better choices in the future. Right now you either go with a traditional institution for financial services, which includes government oversight, or you operate on your own and assume a lot of risks, whether you’re even aware of that or not (and financial actors purposely deceive people on this end, as it’s in their best interest to do so).
so basically, research the crypto you buy and practice basic cybersecurity?
sure, it wasnt designed for everybody, but that isnt a reason to smear it
Without glasses, I thought that said “illegal crab company” and I was all in.
I feel like this is something I’d hear discussed on the Park After Dark podcast (Trailer Park Boys thing, now with 100% less Bubbles for obvious reasons)
No law can stop carcinization.
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Citizen Sniiiiiiiiiiiips!
that’s what I read with glasses, and I thought it was about garage crab farming
Again, I’m all in.
Before I go all in with you, I have to know- is this an illegal company where crabs are the product or where crabs are running things?
It can be whatever you want it to be, baby.
Wait… You’re a baby crab, right?
Yes
I prefer ethically sourced crab, tbh. I actually like the vat grown seafood because it is better for the environment and fresher inland.
Fake Money for Criminals.
Turns out things for criminals sometimes can be an okay thing for noncriminals.
Also, buying explosives and fake documents. 🥰
The things I like are cheap…
Say your country makes baby formula illegal to push some breastfed is the only way agenda, would you consider a mother buying formula online with crypto a criminal?
Yes, because criminality has nothing to do with morals. If the state views you as a criminal, you are a criminal. That’s why some criminals are still good people and cool.
Be gay, do crime
Legal != Moral
He makes crypto sound way cooler than it is
