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@velartrill @mystik brb, gotta ask my neighbor for potatoes in exchange for some hashes :)

@mystik it's also easy to "take away" on a societal level, in that it can be drained of all practical value by government action. kleptocurrencies have only taken off in places like the US where the government has received them warmly or ignored them. in russia crypto already cannot be traded for goods and services and will likely be banned outright, as china has. and when china banned crypto, crypto trading, mining, and transactions almost completely stopped happening in china. the only way people who held any could squeeze any value out of their vestigial wallets would have been by trading them internationally in exchange for real (state-backed) currency -- which also can happen only if the state in question permits it. and that's not even getting into countries like cuba or north korea, who have isolated national intranets with little or no connectivity to the international internet. crypto would be utterly useless in such places, even for doing crimes with

people who think that crypto is Freedom Money® are kidding themselves hardcore. they live a sheltered existence without any awareness of the reality of state power, and will have a very rude awakening if and when their country of residence decides to stop tolerating their energy-wasting hobbies — or when the power fails
They can start pissing off the construction industry too.

Hartz-IV-Empfängerin wehrt sich erfolgreich gegen Jobcenter-Schikane 

man könnte mitarbeiter der "jobcenter" mal n paar tage bei ~4°C auf dem balkon platzieren.

jesus i didn't even realize this was going to have linguistic implications. what the fuck is wrong with their parents, was everyone wearing masks at home too!??

this is actually a tiny bit terrifying because there's something in linguistics called the "critical language acquisition period". if you don't learn a language during that period, even a wack-ass language without recursion like Pirahã, you will thereafter not be able to learn any human language and will probably live the rest of your life more or less feral. doesn't matter how intelligent you are. you can have a 300-point IQ and still wind up permanently unable to share complex thoughts with other human beings if you don't learn some sort of language during that time

the good news is, this is a large time window, roughly from 2-13 years old. and that means that any damage done by the coof laws can probably still be repaired, IF we never do this shit again and parents make sure kids with severe language abnormalities get to speech pathologists asap (which in america doesn't seem very likely -- would insurance even cover that for most people??). but this shit needs to end before it winds up causing kids permanent harm

@Elfie @velartrill fun fact: right wing party here in germany nominated a centre-right-neocon-whatever-party politician for something and he got cancelled by his own party because he accepted the nomination. it's really clown world. 👌

@velartrill i never used 👌 before, but after reading about that it's now a nazi symbol because of "reasons" i try to use it more frequently ;)

@thj
> i mean, if he's a "controversial right-wing figure" then i'm a controversial right-wing figure too, and i don't believe i am.

you would be, according to most of german media ;)

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