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    1. tone policing
    2. grammar policing
    3. word policing (thanks for that. I think scab is so much more fitting in this case)
    4. tone policing

    Do these types of comments ever get you anywhere? Now that you’ve thoroughly offended me, did you have a point to make? Or was your point just that no one should have free speech and should be punished irreparably and permanently for calling out injustice wherever they see it?

    Speaking of which, do you ever attempt to vocalize these strangely despotic hot takes out loud to yourself and think, “am I a fascist?”



  • Perhaps not all do. Many (not most) people in foreign countries still hold on to the hope that they can come to America and “succeed”. A good case in point: many of my Indian tech worker friends in the US and their opinion on the H1-B visa debate. They are overwhelmingly on Elon Musk’s side (in fact, many of them worship him) of that debate despite the fact that Musk uses captive H1-B visa people to run a legal sweatshop in the US. The US loves to perpetuate that opportunity myth as a way to attract scab laborers from poor counties.





  • I stand behind this idea 100%.

    I’m sorry you have to start from such a defensive place about the crypto aspect of this idea. Don’t let hivemind anti-crypto people get you undermining or apologizing for your vision. It is the right way to do decentralized finance.

    Most people would recommend ETH or BTC but I’d actually recommend you stay away from ETH because of the inherent non-determinism of the accounts model.

    Full disclosure: I might be slightly biased since I moderate Cardano’s communities on Lemmy but, if you want the stability of BTC’s UTxO with smart contracts, I’d recommend Cardano. Decentralized in most every way including governance, fully open source, and utterly parallelizable (due to the UTxO nature of it).

    You should also consider BTC or Monero if you don’t absolutely need smart contracts. But don’t let the investor moonbois get you using ETH or Solana. They’re both incredibly flawed and most likely unfixable (in ETH’s case because of nondeterminism and in Solana’s case because of centralization).

    Good luck!









  • And looks objectively terrible compared to basically ANY major motion picture released this year (perhaps just short of the great film but terribly-lit “Rob Peace”).

    I was flabbergasted that such horrifically flat lighting and incredibly dismal/uninspired camera work didn’t trigger any reshoots (particularly with the $150 million budget they had and, as a consequence, the equipment they had at their disposal.)