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Whiptail 3 points ago +3 / -0

There is a growing trend among creative\artistic companies (videogames) to reject all things AI as everyone knows it's suicidal to utilize a tool that will eventually make you obsolete. Our company actually has a policy that AI generated content is not allowed, so it's not all doom out there. There is a bifurcation happening where art and content made by people (real diamonds) is considered more artistically valuable than simulated approximated content (no matter how impressive but soulless facsimile) made by computers (fake diamonds.) What is more valuable, an oil painting by Rembrandt, or a digitally derived and altered piece printed on an inkjet printer. It's junk.

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Whiptail 6 points ago +6 / -0

And when people start dropping from antibody dependent enhancement when confronted with the next sniffle they can blame those evil birds.

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Whiptail 2 points ago +2 / -0

I think you're talking about WA. Totally captured through fraud. Drive a few miles out from Seattle or Olympia and you'll go back in time 50 years but more guns. If Seattle suddenly disappeared WA would be more red than TX.

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Whiptail 3 points ago +3 / -0

Hippies only got it partially right. The fellas speaking softly and carrying big sticks always have to show up when shit goes sideways. Going all in on love without war to back it up means you got pacified.

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Whiptail 9 points ago +9 / -0

The climate has been changing since climate existed, that's what it does. Bets on when they flip back to the global cooling scare, probably shortly after they hit their depopulation targets. More cows! more farming! More oil! MoOAR!

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Whiptail 25 points ago +25 / -0

I'm still waiting for an apology from friends, family, businesses, and government for aggressively treating me like a criminal selfish lepper for refusing to participate in anything covid. I bent over backwards researching this topic to try and protect my loved ones from this dangerous experiment, and was flat out ignored and shunned. I in fact did not kill grandma, that was Cuomo. Crickets.

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Whiptail 7 points ago +7 / -0

Don't worry, they'll introduce a few new mail in ballot measures to raise your property taxes 30% to save schools, nobody will vote yes, but somehow it will pass and automatically charge to your mortgage payment. They'll siphon off those extra funds and shut down the schools anyway. WA is run by a criminal syndicate.

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Whiptail 2 points ago +2 / -0

Chickens enable food independence. They're hardy, don't take up much space, eat anything, produce delicious meat and eggs indefinitely. It's no wonder they're part of the story and I bet on the top 5 enemy target list along with cattle and home gardening.

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Whiptail 1 point ago +1 / -0

Paper works just fine if it's actually "redeemable" 1:1 with whatever is backing it. FRNs are vapor backed by nothing, and crypto is redeemable in FRNs, so there you go. Now if we do a gold backed crypto, and I can walk into a vault and exchange my usb stick for bullion at a set price backed by full faith and credit, then maybe. At which point I'd hold most of my wealth in physical and just use the crypto to send payments, which means it's basically PayPal and has no intrinsic value other than convenience.

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Whiptail 2 points ago +2 / -0

But the ledger in your village example wasn't the money, the 3 pigs and 5 bushels of wheat were. That notebook and quill weren't a store of value, just a standardized agreed upon contract enforceable by societal consequences. I think crypto should have copyright value as a technology, and recourse as binding contract, but itself being an asset that ever expands in price past it's original money (whatever was used to acquire the crypto) purchase price is like me buying a western union money order, holding it for 2 years, and it's suddenly worth 100x more. it's ridiculous and a ponzi.

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Whiptail 5 points ago +5 / -0

If crypto could be bought, held, and exchanged without using an internet connection or transaction history through exchanges or bank routing purchase history etc., and it was easily exchangeable for goods off grid, then maybe I'd get on board. But it's not, and I'm not.

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Whiptail 2 points ago +2 / -0

"Major inequities in access and coverage existed both between and within countries. These inequities led to the vision of the Decade of Vaccines – 'A world in which all individuals and communities enjoy lives free from vaccinepreventable diseases' Global vaccine action plan\WHO

All trust lost, allowing these people to inject you with anything ever again forever at your own risk good luck

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Whiptail 10 points ago +10 / -0

A company that operates a lording orbital telecom platform with no escape from it's gaze on the surface of the earth now offers an everything service that vacuums up all your money. What could possibly go wrong.

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Whiptail 4 points ago +4 / -0

The rest of us require a double digit rate rise so prices of everything.. collapse.
Sorry about that.