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Cake day: December 28th, 2023

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  • virtue-signalling. : the act or practice of conspicuously displaying one’s awareness of and attentiveness to political issues, matters of social and racial justice, etc., especially instead of taking effective action.

    If you’re going to complain about genocide then do something that will objectively make the one thing you’re complaining about much worse, you’re only signalling the virtues you profess to care about and not doing anything to stop it.

    If you’re so upset about being called a virtue signaler, maybe don’t virtue signal about your vote when your vote isn’t any kind of harm reduction and would actively make the problem worse?

    But hey, what do I know, I just actually want to minimize genocide instead of taking my ball and going home to let a monster into the white house and make it worse. But please, keep telling me how much your type is “anti-genocide” when you’re asking people to do the same thing trump and his ilk want. Kindly fuck off with that bullshit friend.







  • I was just telling my partners yesterday that I knew we were getting old, because all the restaurants we’ve gone to recently are playing music we grew up and came of age listening to. On one hand its nice to hear stuff I actually enjoy listening to. On the other, that just means I can start to feel the stale breath of the reaper on the back of my neck.













  • It is a bearer asset

    Meaning your money can be stolen and it’s gone forever unless you convince them to return it

    that nobody can take away from you without force

    Unless your wallet’s password is cracked, then you’re fucked and have no recourse. There have been so many issues with wallets generated with a bad algorithm that allows people to break your phrase easily and leave you without anything. And that’s not even getting into hot wallet issues where you get rug pulled and they steal all your money or you decide to give your money to someone like SBF and the whole exchange does down.

    There are so many examples that disprove this statement that it’s honestly hilarious.

    and no government can inflate away and leave you poor.

    No, instead you can get left poor by some scam you fell for and have even less recourse to get your money back than if it was the government.


  • You may not see it as money, where I do, since I can buy the things I need to survive with it.

    Can you go to a random store and buy food or goods? Can you send it to your landlord for rent? No, only a small sunset of orgs take it, because everyone else understands that shit like transaction delays and inconsistent gas fees means it’s impossible to effectively run a business on monopoly money that doesn’t have a set worth.

    You can consider it to have monetary value, and I do insofar as you’re playing with an unregulated security that should be taxed, but it’s not money in that you can buy an arbitrary good for sale. You’re playing with monopoly bills that someone will agree to pretend is real money, but most businesses will laugh you out of the building and tell you to come back with real money. Because crypto is just a financial asset that people give monetary worth, but it isn’t money.