Please, we’ve upgraded to RFC 6214

They expect 3-5% of the effected population to claim the damages ($20/per device)

The downside (according to the religious) is that their God is an asshole who engages in collective punishment for breaking his arbitrary rules

Uhh 2 decades late here

Complete pipe dream, commodity backed currency means the currency issuer loses control of inflation/deflation to production of said commodity. For a commodity backed currency to maintain value, the commodity stores owned by the issuer have to grow in proportion to monetary demand (usually GDP growth).

Why deflation is bad: deflation means that as time goes on the same amount of money is worth more. This means that a viable way to invest the money is to hold onto it. Say there is yearly deflation of 4%, that means any investment which has a return lower than 4% is losing you money. Additionally intelligent consumers will cut down on purchases since they can buy more for less later. This leads to economic slowdowns and can self compound if suppliers decide to lower prices.

This is one reason why countries like inflation, it encourages spending and investment.

Bitcoin and similar crypto require new coins to validate all previous coins and interactions. Each new coin is exponentially more expensive than the previous. Therefore Bitcoin wealth is extremely stratified to early adopters who built up a collection before the value became this obscene.

Bitcoin and all similar crypto were intentionally designed to be self deflating, it won’t replace finance, it’s speed running the same problems. The reason almost every country on earth switched to fiat/self inflating currencies is that the best way to invest a deflating currency is to stash it and forget about it.

Ladies and gentlemen, we got him

He pisses off the libs, he says it like it is (ie doesn’t sound like a politician), and he plays the hits to the conservative base

Great, how are you checking and enforcing this

Oh you know, camping, seeing the sights, destabilizing foreign governments, frolicking. The usual.

I am nobody and I test, their statement is true

Can you name a county where the federal minimum wage can pay for a 1 bedroom apartment?

How about state minimum wage?

Did you know that in some cases it is literally cheaper to just give homeless people houses?

Why do Americans consider houses to be their primary asset which must appreciate in value?

What do these questions have in common? Capitalism (particularly of the American variety)

Some light reading for the curious: USA overview

Helsinki Homelessness Solution (the Guardian)

California info (refer to the sources in the footnotes)

Fuck, take the Wikipedia page of you want

It would be really cool if she was though 😢

Everyone who votes for the rarest of Pepe’s gets a spawning of skink twinks to serve their every whim

Dc wanted to bring in the professional protest brutalizers, but they are in Paris. NYPD was the runner up.

What is this? Electoralism in MY republic?

Because Democrats and Republicans serve the same interests, same reason Republicans are “somehow” able to constantly leverage every aspect of government they control while democratic controlled branches flounder

Increased customer data collection, an ai “assistant” that might require registry editing to remove (I already did this once to kill Cortana for good), and it will require me to reformat my os drive. If I have to reformat and do a fresh install I might as well change OS and be free of their fucking ads as well.

Yup, I’ll be moving over rather than go to win11, ads on my lock screen and search bar nearly made me jump from win10 and there is no way in hell I going to even try to deal with clippy3.0/cortana2.0