You'd think the bad publicity alone would be enough to destroy any chance of election. You'd think.

"in Canada we don't kill them, we just objectify them!"

At this rate it won't be anthropogenic climate change or the associated risks that will kill us.

It'll be war and chaos sparked by some AI generated misinformation peddled by morons like Elol and these other braindead wastes.

Divisive? Let's call him what he is: a dribbling, brain-dead misogynistic cunt grifter (and now potential pedo).

Click bait title designed to cause division and working as intended it seems.

If you actually read the article, Owlcat have nothing but positive sentiment for BG3 success.

Appreciate it 👍

God this is ridiculous, sorry to hear you have to deal with such idiotic bullshit.

"I will definitely come back I promise."

Typing random word salad on the internet doesn't make it true, turns out.

What could possibly go wrong?

The rich are killing us all, but don't seem to realise that they won't be escaping either. Shit rises to the top.

True. No taxes for them in that case. No food either, after a while.

Can you define woke?

Are you upset because you got rejected by a taller guy?

Yes, let's retreat to the most hostile environment imaginable and live under the whim of sociopathic billionaires.

That seems like a good alternative to, I don't know, actually not destroying the environment we've perfectly evolved to live in.

On a side note, World 3 seems to be depressingly accurate.

100% agree. This attitude actually ends up devaluing art and entertainment because it basically boils down the to the idea that "it's not a real job."

I bet you'll find that some do have patrons or subs or something similar.

If people want to share their work for free, that's cool. If people want to charge for their work, that's also cool.

The fact is, being good at something creative takes the same time and dedication as anything else, but because it's entertainment or art people expect it for free 'because it's a passion'.

Should doctors passionate about medicine not get paid either?

The fact is if you want a rich culture full of awesome art, the people creating that art need to be fucking paid.

I'm not necessarily in support of monetising the fediverse or anything like that, but I also don't begrudge anyone creative trying to actually get paid fairly for their work and time.

Sharing your opinion is not the same as sharing your art.

I agree that monetisation as a standard probably isn't ideal, but I think you're fooling yourself if you think a lot of the artists and musicians here aren't posting with some intent to drive you to their monetised content. Social media is a great place for artists to promote their work in general.

I thought the whole point of the fedi was to encourage open social media. If you don't want to see artists or monetised content, you can block those creators or instances. The fedi isn't subject to your preferences or mine, after all. I'm sorry, but I don't think you get to decide what does and doesn't happen here.

The thing is, monetisation wouldn't even work the same way here because there is no algorithm, so it's not like you'd get (as) many people trying to create rage bait to game the algorithm.

Your initial post came across as if you begrudge any creators or artists making any money from what they post here. If I misinterpreted your position then my bad, and I don't want enshitification either (although given the decentralised framework of the fedi, I'm not sure how that could even happen in the traditional sense).

Are you fucking five?

I disagree. The fediverse just proves you can have successful decentralisation without any whiff of blockchain. You call them legacy systems, but they are in fact still current systems aren't they.. we're still using them.

So you mean racism.

Try getting underneath/above and stick close to it, melee when you can, especially when it's staggered. I found it brutal as well, typical From serving that up right at the start hah.

I know, I was just curious how many steps it would take before they were honest about their own bigotry.

Of course they don't have the balls to be, so instead stay vague and deflect.

You seems surprised and yet Trump has been charged with almost the same thing for inciting the Jan 6th riots.

Do you have an example?

I don't really understand why this is getting so massively downvoted.

Seems perfectly reasonable to me as a white person. Yes, point two could be more nuanced, but otherwise aren't all these downvotes kind of illustrating the point the OP is making here?

That's GB news, which is hilariously irrelevant.

Yep I definitely agree with your last point. And likewise, appreciate that we could have a discussion about this sensibly. Not sure a finite currency would solve these issues as they are human issues. My take would be addressing the human aspect of these problems through education, which is to be fair pretty unlikely to happen.

As you say though conversation is the way forward, whether we're taking about crypto or anything else. Cheers :)

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That is 100% the crypto mentality. I got mine fuck you if you didn't.

Haha all good :D

Not related, but nice username. I just watched that episode :D

So no examples to back up your claim. Ok.

You know bank transfers are almost instant across most of Europe right?

That's a US specific problem. Solutions already exist.

Yes, there are serious problems with the current system. I hear you, and I agree.

Fiat isn't the problem. These are problems with human behaviour, lack of oversight, and a system that incentivises bad practice.

Crypto does nothing to fix any of them, and in most cases simply makes them worse. It's not a solution, it's just touted as one by the crypto rich to bring in new money.

Just look at the rhetoric vs reality. It's not ok for governments to just print money on demand, but it is ok for Tether to print Tether on demand which they then use to buy shitloads of BTC to pump and dump the market?

It's the same shit, just even worse.

We're all being fucked over by the same ultra rich, and technology is not the answer to that.

Voting in and supporting people who want to start taxing these fuckers and holding them to account is a step in the right direction.

So you think it's an asset, not a currency?

Calling it a currency is generous. I know it's meant to be, but let's be honest - you're not buying the majority, or probably even any, everyday goods or tech with your BTC are you? Most people certainly aren't. And most BTC owners certainly aren't. They're holding to the moon.

Do you know what a blockchain is? It's not cutting edge technology at all.

You're right though, there is a compatibility problem.The BTC network is designed to be inefficient and it's slow as fuck. Why would we replace a fast and pretty efficient system with a slow one that also makes your money unrecoverable if you make a typo?

That's not even touching on how fun it would be to buy your groceries when BTC crashes 20% overnight.

Or how ridiculously convoluted using crypto is in general. And how easy it is to get hacked, scammed, rug pulled.

It's complete fantasy mate. I'm guessing you're deep in the crypto space from your comments, which are the same old non arguements over and over, so no one ever talks about any potential negatives. That in itself should tell you everything you need to know.

I'm not saying you can't make money with crypto, but it's a casino and nothing more. The rest is just feel good bullshit sold to you to make you buy and hold, generally.

It does matter, because with respect you changed what you class it as to support your arguement. Obviously there's still discussion on how to class BTC, but my understanding is the consensus outside of crypto is it's a speculative asset.

That's also why it would be terrible as a currency, from what I understand.

Amos has the best lines in general haha.

Is it a currency or an asset? You replied claiming it's a currency below.