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.

Don’t even need to cycle an original thought into something this dumb.

Bill Hicks - Gays in the Military

They might. Sexuality is a spectrum.

Tipping is optional but in the US many tipped employees are making $2.35/hr. They’re paid a minimum of min wage after tips, but their tips first have to cover them to minwage

Judging the Catholic church for continually welding it’s power to shield child abusers but doing little more than virtue signaling and token optics on genocide.

If the Pope gave a shit, he’d have gone himself and done something about it. WWJD?

Y’all can look around and see how little human life is valued. It’s not about humans, it’s about them and only them.

He isn’t considering it. He’s already made the decision

??? Bad argument for the use of AI.

Ai is shit. It makes shit. It’s powered by precious fresh water and it wastes monumental amounts of electricity. And y’know, the massive amounts of theft.

All to what? Generate some soulless bullshit?

If you’re making art to defy the rich, maybe actually make the fucking art yourself? Instead of making empty, lifeless facsimilies of resistance art?

What is the relation between someone speeding in their car and a professor using a bad set of course materials?

Your analogy doesn’t really establish any causal or relational links. Both subjects are victims of America’s capital-dominated power structure?

Sure better decisions can be made, but how much can you blame the subject under duress? How much blood can you reasonably expect the parent or teacher to draw from the stone? At what cost of their health?

In my experience professors are heavily overworked and heavily underpaid. Offloading work onto other systems to get a better work-life balance seems like a natural response.

It’s okay! The UN has recently declared this a genocide! I’m sure after 5 more years of rhetoric, 3 voting periods, 2 years of silence, and another year of logistics, they’ll do something!

Mm yeah, the issue is devs and their micro services and not their bosses demanding they pull every fractional cent out of every iota of the customer and their data.

I was referencing people I know. They’re normal fans that have a bit of merch and hide behind the “it’s my childhood” defense. Not terribly parasocial about it, but they’re furries. I think it’s more just the “God given American right” to believe that you’re in a protected, soft little bubble and none of your actions have consequences.

What is it if not a landgrab? A pit Putin can throw the next generation of russians into? A blow to Putin’s pride that he refuses to accept?

You have no idea the amount of queers I know that still participate in harry potter bullshit because “it was their childhood” and “she’s already rich so what’s it matter?”

MFs hide behind their nostalgia and pretend they’re still fucking children while paying money to someone advocating for their fucking genocide.

“died in custody” is one thing, it happens, people die.

But when it happens to dozens, hundreds, thousands of people a year? That’s America.

So glad he’s taking an actual stand by sitting around and doing nothing. This is the clear and direct action I was hoping for, from the do nothing democrats. /S /S /S

This is about as good as holding up signs. Fuck him

Lmao. What an unbelievably stupid rule. “Just pretend everyone is cool even if they’re a total loser or whatever”