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National governments are creating digital cryptocurrencies.

This matters a lot more than all that other shit.

Once something gets government backing there’s a guarantor of value for the currency because there will always be an entity that will accept it as payment (taxes, fees, fines, etc). That same entity is also capable of incredible amounts of violence, and can kidnap or even kill people who don’t pay those taxes, fees, fines, etc etc.

The problem with Bitcoin, or any independent crypto that isn’t created by a government backer, is that it only has value because people agree that it has value - they can change their minds whenever they want, and they can’t really enforce the value at the end of a gun.

When a government says a currency has value, they aren’t likely to change their minds and can shoot you if you disagree.

And somehow, the polls will all be wrong and we’ll all scratch our heads how that happened.

Must be because Republicans don’t answer pollsters! 🙃

Let’s see if we have midterms first.

The secret is to blame yourself for every fight.

Yeah, of course they insulted me. I deserve it.

I don’t have free time

I have time management problems

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That’s why duodecimal is superior to decimal.

Instead of converting to metric, we should convert our entire numerical system to be base 12.

Absolutely. I used the word “experience” and not “feel” intentionally here. People who raise and kill animals for a living try to think of animals like meat robots, they want to believe pain is just something animals sense rather than a subjective experience.

Sometimes, they successfully fool themselves so they don’t have to feel bad for the animals they hurt and kill. Other times they develop all sorts of disorders and addictions. Sometimes they kill themselves.

It doesn’t matter. People have already made up their minds, facts are irrelevant.

That’s extremely challenging for a lot of people. A lot of people aren’t even willing to accept animals experience pain.

I really don’t think any of this is intentional, though. It’s just the contradictions being heightened.

No one will learn anything from this.

Would you rather live in Xinjiang or in Gaza?

That’s because duodecimal is a great system and superior to decimalization.

Is that not a sunk cost fallacy?

The sunk cost fallacy would be “we’ve already invested so much into AI, we have to keep investing into AI to make it worthwhile!” As long as we’re not pouring more resources into AI there isn’t an issue. An AI model that is already trained won’t be untrained because we stop using it, after all.

It’s like freeganism.

This is the best use for AI image generators imo: throwaway meme slop that isn’t really supposed to look very good, wouldn’t have been made otherwise, doesn’t make any money off of other people’s labor, and did not take away a labor opportunity/labor power from anyone. It’s not like the AI companies are making money off of this, not even close, they’re all bleeding to death.

Oh it’s wasting water and electricity? The water and electricity were already wasted by training, you can’t un-waste the water or electricity. In fact, if you refuse to use the AI model they trained then the water and electricity were wasted for nothing!

Oh it’s plagiarism? Oh not precious property rights, I didn’t realize we were fucking capitalists protecting the sanctity of copyright.

It’s the equivalent of knowing the difference between “poisonous” and “venomous”

For the vast majority of people it doesn’t matter. Maybe they learned in 8th grade, but they forgot, because it never came back up.

I’m just observing that authoritarianism is essentially “water is wet” as a political concept. It’s vacuous and useless.

Someone not knowing there’s a difference between “radiation” and “radioactivity” doesn’t make them stupid.

Oh no, I’m not an anarchist. I’m a Marxist, I understand the state to be an organ by which one class represses another.

That’s why I’m saying “authoritarianism” is gibberish. There’s no other way to organize complex society. For now.

You’re not making sense. If you are you the enemy of the state, why are you pretending that non-authoritarian states exist?

They obviously don’t. A state literally can’t be build on total/absolute consent unless it’s populated by the Borg. There will always be internal opposition that needs to be repressed by authority and coerced into obedience to maintain order. Hence, gibberish.