Without glasses, I thought that said “illegal crab company” and I was all in.
that’s what I read with glasses, and I thought it was about garage crab farming
Again, I’m all in.
Haha, I knew what that one was going to be without clicking. Great channel
No law can stop carcinization.
(V) OwO (V) What’s this? snip snip
Citizen Sniiiiiiiiiiiips!
I prefer ethically sourced crab, tbh. I actually like the vat grown seafood because it is better for the environment and fresher inland.
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)
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?
Legal != Moral
Just be a fake criminal to get infinancial from the CIA OG WHAT IS THAT ME OF SHIT I GEYS GROST OF HAUNTING AS I DO TO MY OWN SELF WANTON WANTED DID NOT WHEAL MBOATS.
- Doorbell surveillance network
- Self-service identity theft
- State secrets betting house
- Billionaire fan club fund
- autonomous, moving surveillance network
- activity detection across walls
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’re doing crypto a favor by keeping it at least 1% still anarchist.
Can’t you just hold your money in a stable coin like USDC to avoid the volatility and speculation?
the homebrewer i was buying from didn’t support this one, so i would’ve had to convert it, which means fees typically
anyways, i don’t really care to maintain a crypto portfolio. i buy the coin when i buy the thing, so volatility isn’t too much of a concern. my main annoyance is at the bonkers fees that exchanges want because they (rightly) recognize cryptobros as a milkable consumer base
Could use localbitcoin.com (or localmonero I guess), though it’s been so long since I’ve been to those sites that I forget if/what kind of cut the website takes.
But yeah, dunno if you can avoid fees when cashing out to fiat. And if you’re using non-kyc sites to swap Monero, they’re likely taking some too, for the convenience and privacy (worth it imo)
hmm, i’ll look into that next time i buy hrt. thank you!
Localbitcoin and localmonero are arranged peer-to-peer transactions that I think people sometimes even do in person. So be safe.
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.
depends. not universally, that’s right. don’t buy dogecoin for privacy.
Also depends on your definition of privacy. Some people confuse privacy (not seeing what you do) with anonimity (not knowing who you are).
Public blockchains (like BTC) have zero privacy, as everyone sees the transactions and balances, meanwhile private ones (like XMR) supposedly avoid anyone but two people in a transaction to know that transaction happened, or even to know each other’s balance.
In both cases, I would say you are as anonymous as your way to turn the coin from/into fiat is (P2P, KYC or non-KYC platforms, etc.).
Like with AI, I like crypto as a concept, but the practice… (specially the resources both consume for what little benefit they end up having)
You can swap Monero with a more common coin on a decentralized exchange with no KYC, and then cash that out at your Coinbase or whatever.
Also, Monero is very efficient for a proof of work coin, partially because it’s designed to be mined on regular, consumer grade PCs.
According to Google, it uses somewhere between 645 and 650 GWh annually, compared to between 150 and 204.4 Terawatt-hours (TWh) for Bitcoin.
Bitcoin was the first, and as is usually the case, that makes it one of the worst.
According to Google, it uses somewhere between 645 and 650 GWh annually, compared to between 150 and 204.4 Terawatt-hours (TWh) for Bitcoin.
sure but it’s also a much smaller operation
Fair enough. I do believe it’s more efficient on a per coin basis or whatever though
I also do PCP and other Durango Morrison drugs as heist forbid
Ride sharing, short term rentals, Crypto, and AI?
Correct.
I’m paying $900 for a short term (week and a half), last minute, airbnb, I’m meeting with a potential roommate tmr to move in on the 1st. Paying real rent instead of paying airbnb hosts.
Oh no the terrible ride sharing!
Wrong definition there bud.
Ridesharing still gets you the 33 cars.
Ride sharing does not remove cars from the roads, typically they take only one person to one place. Actual solutions include LRT, BRT, Metros, U-Bahns, S-Bahns, and REM style automated light rail.
it reduces cars in public parking lots and spaces though, which is nice
But those cars are now in the streets moving to the next customer, basically trading parking to traffic
Yes but at the direct cost of drivers that tend to be more reckless
ime rideshare drivers are generally incredibly good at driving, so I trust their judgement. Are there stats that they get in more crashes?
Sure, as long as everyone’s going to the same place at the same time, and washes and doesn’t blast horrendous trap music on a JBL.
Yeah, like taxis, but without any protections or obligations that taxis provide
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
Nah, infighting always works best.
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.
I took it as the poll itself, and the results, being entirely irrelevant. They just decided to use that as the format/delivery mechanism for their joke.
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.
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?
fake money for criminals
are they talking about crypto or fiat? because it’s impossible to tell.
They’re the same picture.
All money is fake money for criminals.
The unconstrained expansion of credit following the end of Bretton Woods system could only lead to the long term devaluation of the currency, something that’s theorically infinite is also inherently entropic.
He makes crypto sound way cooler than it is
It doesn’t have to be like this though.
Here, for example, Uber is not allowed and Airbnbs are regulated
What country and why?
Italy. Because you need a license to be a taxi driver, and a random company cannot hand them out (and the taxi drivers union is powerful and corrupt). And because the government gotta know who is renting a room where, you can’t just go wherever you want without anyone knowing, especially foreigners. Whenever you rent a room in Italy, the owner will take a picture of your ID/passport, and send your data to the local government. Also you gotta pay taxes on the rooms you rent.
The only things we Italians we are good at is making many regulations, especially ones for safety lmao
See: building regulations
Rare Italian W
(Okay, maybe we are great at doing some regulations, we lack a lot of stuff that is normal for other countries and a lotta of rights…)
Yeah, we are a bureaucracy machine.
People (especially us) often make fun of how convoluted our bureaucracy is, but this has made us extremely good at paper moving. If any country had a go at being us, they would collapse.
I’m not sure that I would consider “we don’t have Uber because the Taxi industry is corrupt” to be a win
Well, instead of stealing from the drivers, to give to a corporation, it steals from tourists to give to drivers. I say it’s not good but it’s still less bad
I miss when the tech business model was to find where buyers and sellers were interacting, insert an app in the middle and then add fees.
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.
“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
Monero is untraceable (if you don’t use a KYC exchange to get it), but Monero isn’t “most” crypto.
You said crypto, in general, is mostly untraceable and that’s very very wrong.
Monero is the exception, not the rule.
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.
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
the biggest contributor to crypto being despised by most people is the massive prevalence of scammers
At risk of being called a crypto bro or something (I’m really not, I learned all this shit years before everything turned into what it is), I’d like to play Devil’s advocate here for the moment and ask how that’s different from fiat currency?
USD is practically untraceable, and people are being scammed out of it constantly with no recourse.
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).
crypto is untraceable (mostly)
Super super incorrect.
Haha, what an idiot!
Yeah, I didn’t get any either. :-/
Automatic sidewalk blocker
e-scooters?
Nah those food delivery bastards. They don’t even go home after they just sit together taking up half the side walk
Here is hire scooters left laying across paths
I eat those
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.
Yeah, because you were thinking of all the ways technology could have been awesome, while what they were working on was making it funnel all the world’s wealth to a handful of people.
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
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