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2024-09-10 09:52:07

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The immediate solution to #ReplyGuy and #ReplyGal is client side filtering, though that may not be as universal as some would like. The soon but not quite yet solution is implementation and adoption of NIP-13 for #ProofOfWork. Set the #PoW difficulty high enough to make bulk spamming expensive but low enough that users shouldn't have too much difficulty.

2024-09-06 15:28:33

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I have to disagree. SimpleX has much better privacy at the moment. NIP-104 will help once it's complete and implemented in 0xchat, but SimpleX may retain an edge in privacy since users have no identity between chats. We could maybe approximate it by using a new nsec/npub in every chat we join, but I'm not familiar enough with the architecture to say for sure if that'd be fully equivalent.

2024-09-06 14:27:06

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When were they truly conservative in America? When only land owners could vote? Only whites? When you could own slaves? When we slaughtered most of the natives and put the remainder on reservations, scraps of their homeland we took? When we bombed striking workers instead of giving unions rights? When we destroyed Black Wall Street out of spite? When we could still discriminate freely based on race? Or gender? America has been whittling away at these hierarchical power structures, but it's not like it hasn't been an unending struggle to restrict the elite class.

2024-09-06 10:05:40

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I don't think they're mutually exclusive. Radicals are radicals because of their intense belief in an ideology, so we can't entirely decouple them from that ideology just because they take it too far in the eyes of some.

2024-09-06 10:02:41

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I agree with the goal, but I think a better approach would be to tax them on investments used to get loans. They DID realize the new value of that investment by convincing a bank it was sufficient to secure a loan. So make them pay the full taxes on it as if they'd sold it at the time the loan was approved, and only make them pay taxes on the difference from there if they actually sell it. Get a loan based on $500m investments, pay taxes on any profits accrued by those investments at the $500m value, and if they sell later at $600m, only pay on the new $100m, or if they sell at $400m, a tax deferment as appropriate for a $100m loss.

2024-09-06 09:48:41

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Maybe I'm missing it, but I don't see anything about presentation in NIP-01. Only mentions of line breaks, for example are in the context of how to properly structure events for signing and verification.

2024-09-05 20:36:27

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Yeah, the Nazis and the Confederates both wanted to artificially divide us along racial lines and treat one group atrociously.

2024-09-05 19:49:36

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Real cute. Do you have anything meaningful to contribute, or are you just here to drop crappy retorts I haven't heard since before I hit puberty?

2024-09-05 17:49:30

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Trump is whatever the fuck he thinks will make him money. Whatever he was before, he has no problem at all pandering to the far right for the last 9 years because that got him into the extremely profitable position if president. And those profits are why he did things like promote Goya products from the Oval Office and refuse to return boxes of classified info and cut taxes for the rich.

2024-09-03 07:56:35

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He literally admitted he wants to fuck his own daughter. He's been alluding to it for YEARS. Nasty, #weird as fuck motherfucker.
#Trump #maga #pedo

2024-09-03 07:41:11

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#meme #memes #comic #comics #humor #funny

2024-09-02 21:11:08

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It's definitely slower, but it's only really noticeable for images and videos. Text notes still load plenty quick.

2024-09-02 14:09:55

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I think it's primarily the capability to explain it that you lack. And yeah, the world's most advanced supercomputer can't steal your bitcoin, but you're still vulnerable to the old fashioned $5 wrench attack. Or being jailed until you make the payment or give up your keys. Or seizure of physical assets. Or denial of access to benefits or services. Or a dozen other things. It's true the government can't just seize your bitcoin, but they still have the power to make life extremely miserable until you do what they want.

2024-09-02 12:25:46

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I've been watching bitcoin since before Mt Gox collapsed. Stop telling me to study bitcoin. I've almost certainly been in this space longer than you, which is why I understand both its potential AND its limitations.
Again, companies got by without a money printer for centuries, and it never stopped them from acting extremely selfishly in the past, so removing it isn't suddenly going to make them altruistic. It's just going to bankrupt some of them. The money isn't even free for most of the businesses, it typically goes to banks who loan it out fully expecting to be repaid, and they won't throw bad money after the good forever. You only get free goodies if you don't fuck with another rich guy's profits.
Governments will be forced to act differently, true, but this will mainly be from inability to grow debt forever and, if forced to transact exclusively on chain, transparency. Even just using the lightning network as a government agency threatens the potential transparency gains. Plus, the government can't easily seize it, but they're still quite capable of coercing you to pay up. Again, I agree it will induce positive change, but I think you expect more than we'll get from it.

2024-09-02 11:34:05

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Corporations would simply form their own states. They'd buy small armies and if libre labor poses an actual threat to their profits, they'd be removed. Even if you ignore that inevitability, economies of scale suggest at least the biggest businesses would be able to compete quite well.
Unless you're prepared to be a farmer, you're going to need to buy food, so you're going to *need* to sell your labor to survive, so individual laborers have to deal with the power imbalance of needing food immediately, compared to a business owner capable of hiring you clearly having extra money on hand to weather a shortfall until you cave out of hunger. There's an inherent power imbalance in the worker-employer relationship, and the absence of a state won't fix that.

2024-09-02 11:24:51

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That's like saying to acquire more gold, you have to benefit others. Even if you ignore theft on the basis of the cryptography, it doesn't forbid or discourage exploitive working conditions. It doesn't forbid or discourage using slave labor to produce your goods. It doesn't forbid or discourage dumping toxic waste into ecosystems. It doesn't forbid or discourage wage theft, which is by far the most common form of theft in the US. It doesn't forbid or discourage price gouging, even on critical, life saving goods like medicine, food, or shelter. How is it supposed to encourage mutually beneficial behavior when it can't do anything about these selfish behaviors?

2024-09-02 11:04:37

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I did not say such indirectly. I explicitly and directly said it simply augmented existing powers.
How do you see bitcoin changing people's behaviors in this way? As I said before, we used to have hard money, and it most certainly did not force people to support others to enrich themselves. We waged wars for profits. We established monopolies. We crushed workers' rights. We enslaved peoples. We destroyed communities. We did all these things under capitalism when we had hard money that transacted primarily in cash. How is bitcoin going to prevent that?

2024-09-02 11:00:27

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Wall Street
- Directly trades in the private ownership of productive ventures
- The things they own are productive, which is how they derive profit from owning them
- Wall Street is practically all markets. Stock market, futures, currencies, if you can make a buck off of it, Wall Street is running markets for it.
So it ticks all the boxes for capitalism as you've listed them. Literally all of it resembles Wall Street.
A revolving door of government officials doesn't invalidate that. Paying off government officials to get bailouts and other free rewards from the government doesn't invalidate that. Using the state for violence to secure favorable market positions doesn't invalidate that. All of these things are just what the owner class under capitalism will do when exposed to levers of power: they use their capital to buy things and power that will enable them to secure more capital.
To argue otherwise is little different than arguing that true capitalism can only occur under anarchy as any government will provide levers of power for them to abuse and pervert the system. But under anarchy, you'll simply see those with the most resources spend them on armed forces to establish their own fiefdom in which they can maximize their profits, and then you see the exact same revolving door, bailouts, and "state" violence to protect market positions.

2024-09-02 09:43:33

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The root cause of what? Again, read carefully, I don't think I'm saying what you think I'm saying. I never said fiat was the root cause of anything. I said it was an augmentation of the powers of the uppermost class. It takes the nature of the system to the extreme. Bitcoin will help remove those augmented powers, but as I said in the last thread, the ruling class was still very much capable of abusing the hell out of us when they only had hard money.
I don't think it's a cure all. It can help solve a lot of problems, but it won't change human nature and how we leverage power dynamics. This is another of those borderline religious idealizations. Bitcoin is amazing at what it does, but it can't fix *everything*. It can only fix the things that directly stem from the quality of the money.

2024-09-02 09:37:23

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Yeah, and the point was that these are, in fact, still capitalist in nature. You want a hard definition, fine, let's look at Britannica:
"capitalism, economic system, dominant in the Western world since the breakup of feudalism, in which most means of production are privately owned and production is guided and income distributed largely through the operation of markets."
https://www.britannica.com/money/capitalism
Big business privately owns the means of production and depends on the operation of markets to get their profits. That sounds inherently capitalistic to me.
Wall Street privately owns businesses and the products they produce, and it exists practically *entirely* to exploit the operation of markets to skim profits.
Both depend on ownership of capital to gain profits through markets, not by virtue of labor.
This all looks pretty inherently capitalistic to me. You can argue that the individuals are motivated by profits and not by the ideals of capitalism, but the systems they're using the gain those profits look pretty capitalistic to me.

2024-09-02 09:08:39

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My dude, I at least discussed the topic at hand and highlighted how they leverage capital for profits under capitalism. You can't make literally any relevant points. You listed some totally different things, claimed I just think anything I don't like is capitalism even though I didn't even say anything negative about these things (seriously, ?????), and now accusing ME of leaning on "the feels" instead of a definition when YOU are the one who can't articulate your point properly.

2024-09-02 09:03:42

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Okay, that actually sounds like a reasonable distinction to make. I'd agree that'd constitute some new system if that was all there was to it, but I don't think it's fully correct here. The important distinction, I think, is who gets close to the money printer and how.
It comes down to how a self interested actor with access to the money printer will behave. They'll seek to enrich themselves, which means using the printer for their own good. They can't get away with just printing money for themselves, so they have to resort to allocating the printed money to someone with the capacity to reward them. They're unlikely to receive much extra power while maintaining power over the printer, so they'll mostly pursue financial rewards. This means allocating the printed money to people who have the capacity to reward them handsomely. In effect, those who receive the free rewards are those who already have resources free to reward the printer, and they receive those rewards as a direct and exclusive result of the resources they already hold. So ultimately, they're still generating as a result of resources they already own.
This is why I see fiat as simply an augmentation of the powers of the ruling class in whatever system it operates under, NOT a wholly new system. If we lived under a feudal system, the free rewards would all go to royalty and their vassals. If it was idealistic communism (i.e., that wasn't captured by authoritarians, which is very unlikely), it'd be used to secure the needs and wants of the people. None of these radically change the structure of the systems that fiat occurs under, it just bestows additional free rewards to whoever is in the uppermost class

2024-09-02 08:11:49

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Those are nice examples and all, but not only are they irrelevant when the topic at hand is Wall Street and big business, you don't ever actually explain how they aren't capitalistic. Big business is like the definition of capitalistic, so I'm very curious how you can argue against that. Wall Street perhaps even more so. It's literally the people with the most money buying and owning portions productive ventures so they can profit off them without contributing any labor, or trading commodities, or a dozen other things that all boil down to leveraging capital they already own to gain profits without having to perform labor.

2024-09-02 08:07:31

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You didn't even try. You made it clear what you think the distinction is between capitalism and the current system. You made it clear that this allowed and even encouraged certain behavior. You didn't even attempt to explain why this deserves to be considered a separate system from capitalism. Maybe you have a decent reason, maybe not, I dunno since you never actually mentioned it.
I think you should read what I'm saying more closely and spend less time trying to fill in the perceived gaps. You're repeatedly putting words in my mouth that I don't agree with. You assume that just because I had the gall to question your definition of capitalism, I must also hate capitalism want communism. If you'd been paying attention, I never suggested ditching capitalism *or* adopting communism. You treat capitalism like a religion, where even basic questions are branded as heresy, and it prevents you from properly discussing the subject.

2024-09-02 07:25:56

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They're definitely profit-seeking, but I don't see how that makes them non capitalistic

2024-09-02 06:36:51

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#meme #memes #capitalism #conservative #conservatives

2024-09-01 09:46:07

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#meme #memes

2024-09-01 07:19:04

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Yeah, I did, after your smug attitude made it clear you thought I was an idiot. I may have said it in plain words first, but don't try to act like I was the only one being insulting. And again, all you've explained is what fiat allows them to do, not how that means this is anything other than capitalism. Your inability to do so suggests you don't know what you're talking about.

2024-08-31 20:16:26

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That's a rather lofty way to cop out instead of admitting you can't explain it

2024-08-31 09:32:02

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I don't think that makes the system not capitalism, though. I think it just makes it a special subset of capitalism. None of this changes the fact that true value belongs to those with the means to buy and own the means of production. It's just capitalism in which the capital class has the means to pervert the language of value transmission.

2024-08-31 08:56:34

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In what way is it not capitalism? You've got people owning the means of production by virtue of having the wealth to buy them. That's textbook capitalism.

2024-08-31 08:19:58

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#meme #memes #trump #maga #politics

2024-08-31 07:56:30

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#meme #memes #comic #comics #eatTheRich

2024-08-30 22:42:24

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Look at the wealth at the top as a portion of total wealth. The top sliver of a percent keeps obtaining more and more of what's available. So yeah, corporate greed is measurably paying off.

2024-08-30 15:22:30

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Why not both? We already know for a proven fact that corporate greed is a major driving force for the current inflation rate.

2024-08-30 08:29:07

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Honestly how can they not see this coming? How can you try to thrash women's rights and then be surprised when women want to vote for your opponent? They're either stupid as hell or incredibly #weird.
#Trump #Harris #genZ #politics #maga

2024-08-30 08:26:33

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#Trump #maga #Vance

2024-08-29 06:50:22

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#Trump has zero respect for our military. Our soldiers are nothing but pawns to him. He did call the fallen losers and suckers, after all. And of course, once again, he will face no consequences for criminal behavior. He thinks he's better than you, and in the eyes of the American justice system, he's apparently right.
#meme #memes #politics

2024-08-28 15:38:18

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He says the flights were before anyone knew about Epstein, but we knew about Maxwell when he went to her party in 2014 https://www.insideedition.com/robert-kennedy-jr-jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell

2024-08-28 13:39:14

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The main difference I'm aware of is markdown support. Long form notes are specifically *expected* to be markdown, so any client claiming to support them must have support for markdown.

2024-08-28 11:58:24

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This is why I prefer literal translations. I don't want the translator's opinion. I want them to recreate what he said as accurately as possible so I can interpret it myself. I know I've seen a translation that attempts this, but I can unfortunately no longer remember who did it.

2024-08-28 10:21:58

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#SimpleX is the best for privacy, but I think it has occasional issues with groups. #0xchat runs on #nostr, but the privacy isn't that great yet. If you don't mind the lack of privacy, which #Telegram didn't have anyway, 0xchat is fine. Eventually, NIP-104 for EML will be finalized, and then 0xchat can implement it, and it'll be the obvious choice.

2024-08-28 10:16:48

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That's an interesting question I'd also like the answer to

2024-08-28 07:03:02

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I wonder what the success rate on this scam is. It's about 8 suckers to the dollar at current exchange rates.

2024-08-27 23:22:31

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Welcome to the internet, where the men are men, the women are men, and the children are FBI agents

2024-08-27 17:12:22

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Downloads page only seems to offer amd64 downloads, and the Pi has a different CPU architecture, so that won't work. You might be able to compile it yourself, not sure but it looks possible. Seems to meet the hardware requirements listed in the docs.

2024-08-27 17:05:10

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If you're concerned about it, it's probably worth discussing with the right kind of lawyer, whatever that is. It might cost a couple hundred bucks, maybe more if you have a ton of questions, but it's worth it to know what they might try to get you on and how.
Alternatively, exclusively publish and communicate over tor for anything even slightly related to the project, never share a photo or personal information of any sort, and generally remain untraceable. Downside is if they're interested and watching, you only have to slip up once.

2024-08-27 13:41:23

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Kinda #weird they'd think he'd get it as officially just some guy now.
#RFKjr #RFK #Trump #Harris #Biden #politics #meme #memes

2024-08-27 08:04:52

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That seems unlikely given I've used dozens of apps and ONLY get the issue in Amethyst. At minimum, I feel like there has to be some sort of weird interaction between the two.

2024-08-27 08:00:49

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2024-08-26 22:36:39

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Hmmmm there was the Spanish Flu around the 1920s or so, but pretty sure that's a form of the influenza virus, so obviously viral. It's an interesting question. Do viruses have a better chance of reaching pandemic status?

2024-08-26 15:47:43

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Well you're half right. It's not even close to being close. His policies sure as shit weren't good for the poor when he lowered taxes but set them to go back up after he left office just for the lower brackets and not the rich. Gave himself and his rich buddies a tax break, and got you suckers to cheer him on for it.

2024-08-26 14:02:00

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Any relay that was planning to charge you would have done so upfront. If anyone just sends you an invoice when you haven't tried to buy anything, it's pretty much always a scam.

2024-08-26 13:58:50

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No such evidence exists... Because anyone who understands economies and doesn't want to screw the poor even harder would hate Trump would vote for Harris. If they understand economies and don't give a shit about screwing the poor, they vote for Trump.
So fucking #weird to me that #Republicans spent years bitching about fat cat coastal elites... And then they had to shut the fuck up about it in 2016 when they nominated one. He's a two bit conman with no family values and a feeble, overly aged mind. I'd feel bad for them for getting played so hard (but fucking HOW?!) if they weren't excited to watch him ruin the lives of people I care about.

2024-08-26 11:21:34

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Probably including it in their profile name. As far as I'm aware, there is no authority verifying anyone. It's definitely not part of the protocol, but it's theoretically possible for a third party service to track npubs for people who want to show ID and be verified.

2024-08-25 18:25:34

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#meme #memes #ttrpg #dnd

2024-08-25 08:55:21

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Pretty much any exchange that handles fiat currency of any type. Access to modern banking, which will be necessary for users to deposit and withdraw non-crypto, will require KYC on all customers. Or at least all who use fiat, might be able to get around it if you strictly trade crypto since you can ignore banks, but I'm not sure.

2024-08-25 08:44:32

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Might have more to do with the fact I've never even heard of it. I'm not super into gaming communities, but I keep up loosely, and I still had to look for the name in your images.

2024-08-24 21:17:33

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We trade a view of true reality for a view of fitness for our survival. There was a TED talk by someone who talked about how they ran a simulation with three types of organisms: blind, view of true reality, and view of fitness for survival in that moment. View of fitness absolutely dominated. Your brain doesn't care about being right. It cares about keeping you alive, and if that means using cheap and dirty shortcuts, guess what, I hope you like optical illusions.

2024-08-24 07:21:24

I've been on a big #retro #gaming kick. Modern games are great and all, but there's something about #videogames from back before the rise of DLC and expansions and all that shit. You get a complete, mostly bug free experience, and games aren't bogged down for the sake of realism. Plus, you can get achievements for games up through GameCube generation on RetroAchievements.org
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2024-08-23 08:46:22

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Oh wow, how'd I miss that? Could swear I opened that tab a few times. Oh well, thanks for the tips.

2024-08-23 08:02:01

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Yeah, dumbass Musk ran off the advertisers, told them to fuck off publicly on stage, and now is suing them for not doing business with him, the guy who told them to fuck off. He's cooked, he knows it, and he's flailing about it.

2024-08-23 07:53:25

I guess #Trump is campaigning for #Harris. #TrumpForHarris? https://image.nostr.build/3f3e015b4a906fd5795a387abaf2033dd01e7e57f1cd1b1715afa78f9bdfac65.jpg

2024-08-22 21:54:39

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I haven't been making judgments, though, so the only insight you've managed to gain into my reasoning is the depth of my understanding of communism. You ask questions, I do my best to guess what a communist would say. The ideology may be flawed, but it's fairly coherent. Having some flawed logic doesn't make it utterly incomprehensible, and even if we don't agree with the conclusions it draws, it sheds light on the grievances people held or hold, and it prepares you to make your own informed judgment. I don't care how anyone feels about communism, I'm just tired of not being able to have nice things like healthcare because people don't understand that politicians and news pundits are lying to them when they call it communism to stop businesses from literally price gouging you to death.

2024-08-22 21:27:32

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Sure, I'd want more, but there's nothing central to communism that'd prevent me from getting it. A reason, successful implementation of communism would need to see your needs met AND enough surplus to pursue reasonable interests and goals in exchange for your contributions. You should be free to sell your labor, but communists view the capitalist system as inherently coercive because you're forced to sell your labor under threat of homelessness and starvation. I'd guess they'd want to provide basic needs so you were free to negotiate fairly and uncoerced to earn the surplus needed for those interests and goals.

2024-08-22 21:03:32

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Are you familiar with the gilded era in the US? The monopolies that earned the richest the title of robber Barron's? They'll absolutely devastate the economy if they can make a buck off of it. They do the best because they have the means to buy up all the assets the poor and unfortunate are forced to sell. And they're fucking ecstatic you're dumb enough to blame it one foreigners and not the rich getting them visas to give your job away.
Racism is a skill issue. It's people who think they can't compete, and instead of taking steps to improve themselves, they take the coward's route of blaming and tearing down others for their shortcomings. Get good and quit your bitching. Someone like you should be thankful for divorce laws so any poor woman who has the misfortune of marrying you can get away without killing you.

2024-08-22 20:56:33

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Kind of, yeah, but I think that'd only be done when they just need a little more, not a huge boost in production. What if they need every machine they can get running 24/7 because it's critical for farming in a drought that could cause a famine, or because it's part of a weapon needed in a defensive war? Modern printers are slow and can take hours to print large objects, so maybe you're willing to wake up every couple hours overnight to start a new piece for a good cause, but what if the printers they need finish a part in only 30 minutes? Are they willing to trust such critical production to run without direct oversight when people might slack off? What if hobbyists can produce enough, but the logistics of shipping them from all over the US (just as a hypothetical, it's big and poses logistical problems) would put excessive strain on postal services or take way more work to properly coordinate? In low stakes scenarios, enticing people to contribute with pay may be sufficient, but when the tool and what it makes is critical, bigger steps may be viewed as necessary and within the authority of the state to take, and they might include confiscating the tools and redistributing them to directly increase production.

2024-08-22 19:30:38

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That may actually be a valid way to handle it. As long as the state is seeing resources allocated towards producing the required goods, I suppose the job is done.

2024-08-22 19:27:13

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I understand the core ideas, but different attempts to implement will differ in the finer details. I can approximate the communist response, but there's a wealth of literature and thought on the subject that I haven't explored. I read the Communist Manifesto to understand the basic tenets, and that's it.
I think you could produce and sell goods, but some implementations of a communist state may differ.
As for disrupting infrastructure, I'll give an example. Let's say we develop nice, fast 3D printers that can print metal in a durable way. Say there's some widget used in future tech that can only be 3D printed and must be made of metal for some reason. Under a communist state, if production capacity wasn't meeting the needs of the people, the government would have the authority to confiscate capable printers and reallocate them to production of those critical goods. It should be noted, however, that most hobbyist printers *today* wouldn't be fast enough to be worth confiscating even if they could work with the right materials, but even if that changes, it won't change the fact that there's often a huge difference between a tool for an end user and a tool for mass production, and communism is primarily concerned with the latter, not the former.

2024-08-22 19:03:06

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No, I never said I believed in it. Why is it impossible to point out that people don't understand communism without them thinking you're advocating for it?
And no, you don't have that quite right. You could own a printer that could produce things, but you couldn't own a printer that *mass* produces stuff, unless there were so many that allowing it didn't disrupt infrastructure. I hope that wording is clearer.

2024-08-22 19:00:45

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I think you'd be able to own what's needed for you to do your own work. I don't think you'd be able to own what's needed for many to work. So you could own a craftsman's tools, but you couldn't own a factory or a business in which many craftsmen work and you solely own the goods and labor they produce. You might be able to band together and form something akin to a modern day co-op where everyone owns a share of the business, though. I guess it'd depend on how the core ideas are implemented.

2024-08-22 18:58:00

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I can only speculate, and I'm not an expert, just someone who understands the basic concepts, but I'll try as best I can. I'd imagine you could still own a hobbyist 3D printer at a minimum. Industrial ones might be difficult to get, but you could probably get print time on an industrial one as needed. It'd probably depend on how common they were and how important they were. If they were being used to produce important goods and we didn't have as many as we wanted for those goods, it'd get hard to get one. If there's enough that distributing some of the professional printers wouldn't disrupt infrastructure, I'd guess you could get your hands on one.

2024-08-22 18:10:21

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I think you'd be okay to own whatever you can personally use. The main issue communism intends to combat is the power wielded, unfairly in their opinion, by those who own and control what is needed by others. You could own the tools and space needed for your own craft, but you couldn't own a factory in which many work and solely own the goods and profit generated by many.

2024-08-22 17:40:01

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My dude, you're literally responding to a note where I said you could own your cash and property. And I didn't even say I'm in favor of communism, I'm just tired of dumbasses slapping the label on anything they don't like

2024-08-22 15:31:11

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Cope harder with Russia's abject failure and embarrassment on the world stage. Russia is going to fail, and the rest of the world is going to laugh at them. https://image.nostr.build/4d0090ec91e948e5aa46b35346ad87478939b399ca661fba5f012f5827518a95.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b8cc08cc8b0ef100885f4c995a190aceeead71e29c7427080ac897ffd9edd523.jpg

2024-08-22 14:29:02

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Nazis say a lot of shit, they aren't worth seriously listening to. And if nostr succeeds, those teens will be here in droves. It'll be the hot place to be. Even if you don't want to censor the relays to protect the children, do you really want your global feed full of dumb kid shit? Eventually, everyone's going to want some moderation just to filter out the unending deluge of shit they couldn't care less about.

2024-08-22 14:02:49

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Lmao a failing Kyiv? This was supposed to be a three day "special military operation", but here we are two and a half years later, and Putin's incompetence is plain as day in the simple fact that Ukraine is even able to resist still. Not only that, the stupid fuck allowed the first invasion of Russian soil since WW2 because he left his borders too sparsely defended. Because he needed those troops inside Ukraine. Where he was still failing to conquer it.

2024-08-22 12:31:50

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Lying to your body about what you're eating will almost certainly come with consequences. If you want less sugar in your diet, you unfortunately need to just pick foods that are less sweet, NOT foods with artificial sweeteners.

2024-08-22 12:06:05

#asknostr is there a good way to filter posts by language? I'm on #amethyst if it matters. I've started just blocking everyone I can't understand, but it feels like a crude solution. I don't really want to block them, but there's so much Chinese and Japanese in my global feed that I just can't understand or interact with.

2024-08-22 09:18:06

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Funny, that's what I said when you popped up on global, once again displaying a lack of understanding of communism. You'd think someone who harps on it so hard would be interesting in knowing what they hate

2024-08-22 08:18:57

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Communism isn't against personal belongings. It's against private ownership of the means of production, the land, tools, and materials needed to produce the things society depends on to function. So nothing about them owning their keys contradicts communism.
But I'm sure you sounded real clever to all your buddies that don't understand, either.

2024-08-22 07:52:44

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Cool straw man you got there

2024-08-22 07:29:28

I've only been here like 2-3 days, and I've already come across several open #Nazis, and I'm sure there are more who just aren't so brazen. First, to be clear #FuckNazis, preferably with something sharp or explosive. They're a bunch of loser fucks. We proved it in the 40s, and we can prove it again if they start feeling froggy.
Second, I know censorship resistance is a key feature of #nostr, so this probably isn't going to be popular with the people who are already here, but if we want widespread adoption, this place needs some form of moderation. People don't want to ignore Nazi scum around them. They want to not be around it at all. That means some form of moderation. Maybe that comes in the form of a moderated relay, but that starts to fracture the community. It's tricky, and I don't have a solution, but if we expect the average person to want to be here, it needs to be easier to make a community they want to be part of.

2024-08-21 17:58:59

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Yeah, no problem. If you ever want to try it, climbing gyms have become a lot more common, and this would be considered a VERY advanced route if it was in a gym, so you'd have beginner appropriate stuff to learn on.

2024-08-21 17:43:59

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There might be a more specific term that I don't know, but yeah, we would have still called it a dyno any time you were let go of the wall and depended on momentum to carry you to the goal. Typically feet off, too, so all launches would be dynos.

2024-08-21 17:38:12

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When I climbed in gyms, we called them dynos for dynamic moves, basically any time you have to launch and let go to get to the next hold

2024-08-21 17:07:18

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The mines call

2024-08-21 16:56:01

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I wouldn't say I was wrong. I'd say that's not child sacrifice, but I opted to disengage because the type to see that as child sacrifice is the type to "see" Satan's hand in anything that argues against their chosen path. It's delusion, and your religion has no place in American politics, but again, not the type to agree with either point.

2024-08-21 16:48:29

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Ah, so it's an "abortions are satanism" thing. Popular with the "the only moral abortion is my abortion" crowd. If I try to argue against that idea, I'll be doing Satan's bidding, willingly or not depending on how much Christ is still in your Christianity (not enough either way), so I'm just gonna say this one's totaled, write it off.

2024-08-21 16:40:05

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So you have no proof? He did an awful lot on live TV that he got away with. Probably because the American justice system doesn't punish the ultrawealthy owner class unless they fuck with other ultrawealthy people.

2024-08-21 16:25:13

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I wouldn't say her PhD is in the field she sucks at. It's in a very close adjacent field. That's often when PhDs make these huge public mistakes because it's not their expertise, but the feel like they've learned a lot just from how often it's come up, and then they publicly display that they way overestimated themselves.
I agree she sucked and that it's time for her moment to pass. I just don't like this being used as an example of why you shouldn't listen to experts. You generally should listen to them, but only about their area of expertise. They'll like to get real confident about other stuff sometimes, but this is when you ignore them.

2024-08-21 16:16:53

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And how do you propose to answer that question? By what definition and where did it come from?

2024-08-21 16:04:40

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I can agree on the sucking and the nepotism. Can you explain how that'd invalidate her opinion in her actual field of expertise, cultural studies, not breakdancing?

2024-08-21 16:02:52

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You got any proof that any of that is a lie? I bet you don't.

2024-08-21 15:53:15

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I'd actually recommend Marx if you want to genuinely understand the ideology and why it appeals to people. I'm not saying I agree with him. I'm just saying a lot of what people label as communist is just some authoritarian assholery. If communism is really so terrible, we should be able to read what Marx said and clearly see the flaws in it, right?

2024-08-21 15:42:51

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Letting covid rage initially because it was killing his political opponents more than his supporters at first. Somehow forcing republicans to abandon the border deal just to avoid giving Biden a win, even though Republicans keep bitching about the border. Just recently trying to talk a foreign leader into prolonging a war to help his election chances, despite not holding any office, so that's super illegal, but like his other mountain of crimes, it'll somehow go unpunished. He mocked a disabled reporter in front if a huge rally crowd on national TV. He tried a fucking COUP to hold onto power but was too god damn incompetent to pull it off. I could go on for hours. And these so far are just the easily verifiable examples. Practically everyone he hand picked to work for him in office agrees he's a sack of shit and has a story about it, but some will argue the stories can't be substantiated, so I won't give examples, just point out how fucking common they are among the people HE PICKED to work for him.

2024-08-21 15:22:18

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Oh the irony of you telling me to cope. You gonna try to tell me Trump doesn't wanna fuck his own daughter, too? I've heard the way he talks about her, straight from his own mouth.

2024-08-21 15:21:04

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You're really working hard to spread disinformation, aren't you? This ones kinda clever, it actually has some incorrect stuff mixed in to make you more likely to write off the shit that actually happened.
You go to bat from Trump, but he would NEVER go to bat for you if it cost him literally anything.

2024-08-21 15:19:03

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Did someone get their feelings hurt by someone who actually knew what the fuck they were talking about?

2024-08-21 15:16:19

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Lmao you don't even know what communism is, how can you possibly know I'm a commie?