CapeWearingAeroplane

You ok buddy? Wanna talk about something?

This is what I mean. This is a classic example of a condescending way of talking to people. You really shouldn't be talking to people like this, it's not constructive at all and just makes you seem angry and like you have nothing better to say.

Nobody here is trying to fight you. If you don't have anything constructive to say you can just refrain from commenting.

You need help dude, going after people like this because you can't read what they're writing is pretty alarming.

I've been at some festivals where the bartering system was alive and well! People would trade beer for camping chairs or a volleyball for some duct tape. Good times :)

Not 100% true: I know some places in Norway that have unreliable internet connectivity. They have terminals in the store that will save your purchase and wire it to the bank when connection is restored. Of course, this means you can over-draw your card, but I've never heard of that being a big issue in those small places.

There's always some place that's worse. What you're arguing for here is a race to the bottom, where everyone tries to be worse than their neighbours in order to get the undesirables to go there instead.

In essentially "the tragedy of the commons" but in an opposite sense. If everyone gets worse in an attempt to get rid of "undesirables", you just end up with everywhere being worse, and the "undesirables" still being around. What we need is for everyone to build safety nets together. That might actually improve the situation.

"Y'all better pack up and back off that there border"

– Mother Fucking Army Statement

Honestly, I kind of wish crypto hadn't gone to shit with the whole speculation thing.. It was just this fun thing where obscure websites would let you buy random shit for laughs sometimes. Then suddenly investors had to try making money off something with no inherent value and ruined it :/

GET THE ROUNDIE!

On a hard drive? I remember a bunch of people messing around with bitcoin when it was new, relatively unknown and considered a niche nerd thing. There were online competitions with money prizes where the "last winner" (eg. third place) would win like one bitcoin.

Fast forward 15 years and the stuff you mined for fun in high school and forgot about on some dusty old computer is worth thousands of dollars.

It's completely common in most countries that some high-ranking government officials live on state-owned property. Among the reasons for this are security, and the fact that official visits, press events and other official events are held at that property.

My personal tale on this is that given that the brain contains chaotic circuits (i.e. circuits in which tiny perturbations lead to cascading effects), and these circuits are complex and sensitive enough, the brain may be inherently unpredictable due to quantum fluctuations causing non-negligible macroscopic effects.

I don't know if the above is the case, but if there's anything like free will out there, I'm inclined to believe that its origins lie in something like that.

I'm perplexed: How do you go from someone saying "gender is a social construct" to them being trasphobic? I got the "spot the vegan" vibes that they were trying to suddenly make this about trans rights..