Corporations and cooperation are not the same thing.

A corporation is a distinct legal entity. I am not speaking ill of organizing into a group, co-op or company, though private business can often be awful as well.

Fuck corporations. Why do we allow every aspect of our society and culture to be a market for profit and exploitation?

He’s 14. He’s about as innocent as every other child. While he should certainly be educated and corrected, allowing a child to fall into that shit is the fault of their guardian.

Do you remember all the stupid shit you thought and believed at 14?

Richest state in the richest country in the world and Californians are still convinced their problems are poor and brown people and not the people actually holding all the fucking wealth?

Not surprising. Still Americans.

You say this, but the people yelling and screaming are typically the ones that are pushing for progress, while the people that hide behind “decorum” are the ones trying to strip people of their rights and funnel money into capital.

Also, human beings are animals…

“Shorts” / “TikToks” / w/e are just short form multimedia content taken to their logical extreme. Small tidbits of context free, useless information, slammed into your soul so fast you miss all of the important bits and just get the buzz.

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They do, their alternatives are being homeless, or working at another company that’s very likely managed the exact same way.

The lack of a social safety net or sufficient welfare, empowers exploitative labour conditions.

A couple dead people and you’re fine with the victim slaughtering their entire village?

FFS.

Social tolerance does not make a genocide excuse. Nor does “oh they’ve been fighting for a while”

One of the sides is backed by the most powerful nation in the world, and the other is mostly civilians, being starved and mass murdered.

‘Both sides because some Palestinians are terrorists.’

I can’t imagine what drove them to such drastic measures. Isreal is a fascist state, commiting an ethnic cleansing on a territory.

Sure, it’s the fault of brown people for voting against that and not the fault of the politicians for supporting an unpopular policy.

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Places with much stronger social safety nets and much more accessible healthcare.

Making it expensive only bankrupts addicts and makes more things privileges for the rich.

Using gen AI isn’t punk. Fuck that bullshit all the way.

Creating your own fucking art is punk. GenAI is slop, powered by theft.

Crypto currencies aren’t open vessels which can be used for a vast multitude of things. They’re currencies. Defending them on the basis of “what about web browsers”. They’re not web browsers, which are designed to connect users to the Internet, they don’t allow someone to airdrop a photo of your front door into a virtual wallet without you at least consenting to the service used.

It’s a bit different when the developers and early adopters are the ones perpetuating the grift. It’s a digital money system with aggressive deflation and unregulated trading. Fraud is natural? Not coding to prevent fraud is implicit permission to commit fraud. Crypto didn’t spawn out of a vacuum. They didn’t somehow not know their virtual fake money was going to be used to grift and scam people.

Regular banking transactions cost fractions of a cent in electricity, as they don’t have to do exhaustive amounts of proof of work. Bitcoins value is somewhat tied to the electrical cost of generating a bitcoin.

Hilarious, again to suggest that the creators of fake, unregulated stock markets for fake money are in any way not aware that they can be used for very real scam and fraud and are thus y’know, responsible to regulate it or responsible for the unregulated damage.

A physical object with physical design limitations. A thing that can then physically be broken and abused, not software that can be abused well within the design limitations. Memeable.

I find them quite necessary. The derision is part of the point. So many people treat cryptocurrency like something to be venerated when it’s just a bunch of bullshit.

Bitcoin forked into bitcoin classic, in order to undo a transaction. I’m aware this isn’t a trivial process, but it protects those with power and capital and has no function to protect those who do not. The issue is that this is completely ran by capitalists and has no oversite, obviously banks have plenty of ways to fuck you over, that’s why they’re regulated.

Yes that is an issue. I’m suggesting that “cryptocurrency” as a solution to that issue is just as much of a solution as any other investment vehicle and isn’t something crypto is in any way uniquely suited to solve. Civil forfeiture is theft and unconstitutional.

There is no mechanism through which accountability can be held. That is entirely the point. You can “judge” them individually all you want but the ecosystem is uniquely suited for abuse.

Are you going to elaborate on where you disagree, or just “no ur wrong :( :(. Stop bullying my favorite grift”

On the drug trade issue? I’m clearly mostly focusing on all the other ways crypto is fucking stupid bullshit for people that don’t understand technology.

But I don’t think an entirely unregulated market with “anonymous user reviews” is really the smartest or best way to buy drugs.

Lol. Lmao.

Accountability is for the people that design, build, maintain, use, and moderate the program just like every other program. That’s just bullshit for the devs and their backers to weasel out of responsibility. Clearly they’re able to fork out transactions they don’t want to happen, if it benefits them.

Saying the system has no accountability for the way it allows anonymous actors to commit virtual financial crimes without fear of consequences is again, laughable. It’s a program, it should be judged on how it’s used. If a website allows people to post child porn, it’s just “a tool that’s being used and could be used to post art as well” oh well.

It’s purpose is what it does. I’ve never seen an “oppressed person” protect their money with crypto. By what mechanism would that happen? Wishful thinking?

The drug trade issue is soaked in capitalist libertarianism and any more socially libertarian / anarchist effects are purely derivative. Bypassing the capitalists government by going directly into the unregulated market.

When the “innovations” are made by people who claim to see themselves as liberators, but structure and use the technology only as a vehicle for scams, grifts, and other unregulated financial shenanigans, it’s kinda hard to see it in any other frame than who it helps and who it hurts. Overwhelmingly, crypto has shoveled money into the hands of those already wealthy.

Also being complicated & convoluted doesn’t make it good. It drains massive amounts of electricity for a heavily redundant proof of work system that has simple flaws like not handshaking wallet transactions. (You can just drop something into a wallet without the owner’s consent or approval, on ether.)

Also of course there is a political narrative. It’s a technology that’s trying to embed itself into society, it’s inherently political as a core goal. Lmao.