That's definitely half my point, yes. You can't just shut off water to children like that's somehow okay, I'm pissed at Israel too. The kids in Palestine didn't kill the kids in that village, this is why even though I'm a very vengeful person, spite and "collateral damage" is not acceptable from anyone, myself included.
This needs to be handled carefully. Yes, crypto needs to be protected from banks as much as geocurrencies, but this could backfire if malicious parties try to alter the outcome in their own favor.
I'm not an investor when it comes to cryptocurrency, IMO crypto is worthless and has too high a chance of staying that way. The point behind crypto is an escape route if geocurrencies suddenly end up as digital geocurrencies, which WILL be controlled in dystopian ways. That being said, setting aside $20 or so a week, or a month, or even just making a one-time $100 conversion, plus purchase cold-storage for a cryptocurrency, seems wiser than putting all your eggs in geocurrencies. Just be VERY wary of what you're doing, and do not long-term store cryptocurrency with or use proprietary cryptocurrency owned by a corporation. The whole point of it is to have an alternative that you control, not to just keep jumping ship and starting over every time some bastard gets greedy.
The US military has, in all likelihood, been already capable of this for the past 15-30 years. Google has no market other than the public, and there's no way to stop it from tagging rich people as "that asshole who owns what used to be twitter" but also the general public (us) would just end up flagging people we hate or envy or who we want revenge on to ruin people's reputations.
There is no upside for a tech like that in the hands of big money, not even for big money; done the way Google would do it, it would fracture society like nothing before it and that includes utterly destroying the economy before leading to some sort of nuclear exchange.
I would sign up for this if it's opt-in and either decentralized or local storage-based. Otherwise I hope the fuckers who would ruin this idea for greed crash and burn.
But I remember we did it. "Okay, Brian, the record's five. The record's five... Okay ready? Go!"
No, but Israeli soldiers are known for mostly being deployed against civilians when someone thinks massacres are somehow okay.
I'm not on Israel's side on this one, but fuck the Hamas too.
Yeah, ffs, if you want to fight a war, leave both side's kids out of it.
14 and younger is too early for anyone to die, I swear if that asshole Trump really is the Antichrist (look it up, I'm no Christian but the "Kek and Medjet" meme energy is strong with that theory) and the bible was right (and if so, that these really are the end times), I hope every last person who has willingly killed a child or ordered someone to kill children goes to the 10th circle of hell or whatever passes for it, no matter what god or concept they believe in. Especially Trump (see the Mexican immigrant kids who his illegal "task force" of bigots basically kidnapped and let starve) and Putin, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Justice needs to be served for every child, whether they were enslaved on cocoa farms, working in slaughterhouses in the state that changed child labor laws, sent to juvenile detention for crimes they didn't commit because the judge was getting kick-backs from a corporate prison, or killed in school shootings.
People say we hate child abuse. I strongly suspect what people really hate is the feeling of disgust that enter their heads if they hear "sex" and "kids" in the same sentence, which would be understandable if it was genuine concern (nobody, especially kids, should be subject to sex against their will, and yes, kids cannot consent) but it's not. If it was, guns would be regulated, school bus routes would be required to never cross railroad tracks, and any leader - corporate or government - responsible for the intentional or negligent death of a child due to actions that used political/managerial authority would be executed.
I am so done with reality. Wake me up on November 12, if we're still around by then.
Huh? Just for clarity's sake, is this a good or bad thing?
It's also 2023 and I'm sick of pretending what happened didn't happen just because the internet doesn't like hearing about it.
Huh, wasn't expecting the kid with a PC but they got that part right. In 1999 I was super into neopets.