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2021-03-11 at 2:29 AM UTC in When are rape jokes funny?
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2021-03-11 at 1:50 AM UTC in When are rape jokes funny?Any subject can be made funny or unfunny but it has to be handled properly.
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2021-03-11 at 1:49 AM UTC in Chauvin's Going to WalkChauvin was a hero
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2021-03-11 at 1:43 AM UTC in I spoke to a person today who went by the internet handle "LaserBoy99".He was 44 years old.
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2021-03-10 at 5:54 PM UTC in Bitcoins costs too much carbon says the greens
Originally posted by Nile They have useful properties, they aren't merely digital scrip. It's those properties that are valuable. after that its just brand awareness and usability in markets that arent purely speculative.
I think it will take a national government committing to some form of premined crypto that still retains its most important public and decentralised format.
For example I can imagine that in the future under a radical populist neo-techno-libertarian president running on the Republican platform, the US government invests in a new kind of crypto (let's call it UCD) and starts making it fiat in a progressive fashion, starting with utilities companies for example.
So in this case, the utility company will be able to exchange any UCD payments for USD for maybe 4% over a 1:1 exchange rate so they can offer any businesses that pay in UCD a 3% discount, and encourage them to accept UCD payments from customers. This nets the utilities companies a 1% profit extra (just for example, you could play with these numbers depending on the scale).
Then next they could entirely cut all indirect government programs and direct all those USD towards funding a UBI based on UCD and mandating by fist that rent be payable through UCD, so all these properties receive a discount on their utility bills. Then make it fiat, all businesses must accept payments in UCD. This would have a purely stimulative effect on the economy while strictly linking inflation to growth through increased spending, i.e. the right amount of inflation, operating in a bottom-up fashion. And it would integrate a documentable but still free-as-in-speech digital currency I tithe economy. -
2021-03-10 at 5:12 PM UTC in Bitcoins costs too much carbon says the greens
Originally posted by aldra any investment is a gamble, it's just the level of risk that changes
A risk isn't the same thing as a gamble, though every gamble is an uncontrolled risk. All investments bear risks. You should never be "gambling" while making an investment. You should be taking a controlled risk. -
2021-03-10 at 4:43 PM UTC in Chauvin's Going to Walk
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2021-03-10 at 4:42 PM UTC in Chauvin's Going to Walk
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2021-03-10 at 3:54 AM UTC in Bitcoins costs too much carbon says the greensCryptocurrency isn't an investment, it's a gamble
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2021-03-08 at 11:24 PM UTC in Bitcoins costs too much carbon says the greensIt is definitely a fucking retarded waste of energy is the truth. The technology is amazing if it came out in 50 years. I would be glad with it just being put on hold somehow until we get the world on renewables and clean energy.
At that point we would start it up again and it will just be about buying enough capacity for how much you want to do it, no different than any other stupid thing like video games or servers hosting stupid useless media and websites like 80000 pictures from Tina's vacation that she will never look at again yet has to be able to access instantly and essentially forever. -
2021-03-08 at 11:14 PM UTC in Happy womens dayEvery day is Man's Day
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2021-03-08 at 9:43 AM UTC in How would Jesus be tortured and murdered if he lived today?Let's torture the Buddha
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2021-03-08 at 9:42 AM UTC in The drone warsI imagine that deep in the 21st century, soldiers will be more like autonomous AI augmented drone swarm control nodes. You could even have drones swarm as a shield passively and take the hits that would have hurt your soldier. They will receive active reconnaissance they can personally direct and deploy, receiving direct video feeds. Augmented Reality based targeting system's where drones can accurately scout out downrange wind conditions etc. It will be like playing versus a hacker in an FPS.
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2021-03-07 at 11:32 PM UTC in The drone warsThe next generation of warfare will be dominated by drone technologies. Aside from standard aerial bombings and surveillance, what sort of drone technologies do you envision being employed in the battlefield of tomorrow?
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2021-03-07 at 11:29 PM UTC in How would Jesus be tortured and murdered if he lived today?
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2021-03-07 at 11:28 PM UTC in Sex toysDo you use them? Would you? Which ones and how?
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2021-03-07 at 11:28 PM UTC in disclosure, threat
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2021-03-07 at 11:27 PM UTC in How would Jesus be tortured and murdered if he lived today?
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2021-03-07 at 11:26 PM UTC in When are rape jokes funny?Depends on the joke
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2021-03-07 at 11:10 PM UTC in I want to have a midget as a neighbor.Whenever I see a midget, I get a strong urge to grab them by the ankle and shotput them.
