@skells What happened to the requirement to accept legal tender? It's not being enforced.
@skells There's a limit to how specific i can be, but if you're doing business with someone who refuses to accept cash and you no longer have a bank acct, that debt just piles on the penalties. Yet a bank has a right to refuse business to anyone.
@skells btc is only viable when 2 parties opt to use it. If your utility company, mortgage lender, and tax collector only accept bank payments you’re stuffed. Laws forcing legal tender acceptance are getting ignored more and more.
@yogthos@mastodon.social currently reading this, seems quite balanced so far:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1043951X20300274#bbb0015
Any decision maker not subject to democratic control will eventually act against the common good and in favor of their own advantage.
All decision makers need to be subject to strong, direct and universal democratic control. Otherwise they'll not act in the interest of the commons consistently.
We need more democratic society, economy and state.
The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
@skells @wolf480pl
Would you rather fight an army decked out in full clown attire, and lose, or would you rather BE an army decked out in full clown attired, and win?
Finished a jar of Aldi instant coffee today.
It's a glass jar with a plastic lid, which should last decades. So naturally I'm going to give it to some lads who'll crush it into tiny pieces, melt it down in a big oven and pour it into a mould to make a whole new jar.
That makes WAY more sense than just putting more coffee in the jar.
https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-the-very-concerning-data-from-scotland?s=09
"Full stop right here. Any public policy measure – from vaccine passports to discrimination – cannot be justified under the science, even if one’s conscience is OK with apartheid."
The #1 reason why they're pushing so hard to get everyone to get vaxxed is probably to make data like this go away by getting rid of the control group.