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my friend's phone died last year and he

1) couldn't get inside anywhere to charge it because he didn't have his covid vaccine card anywhere

2) couldn't scan a menu to order at the outdoor cafe we found in the mean time

it was amusing, it stopped being fun very quickly, but we figured it out. these two scenarios are obviously not as relevant any more

but its way beyond "addiction"

Seems like it would be nice if there was peer review on an experiment's setup before papers were released.

The current process is wasting everyone's time.

I got added to some twitter DM groups recently where people talk about fast moving trends. what a shitty interface. can't @ mention people in the group without it trying to search all of twitter, you don't know their usernames because its different from their profile names, and the @ mention search doesn't even try to link them. can't quote reply or link to a prior message.

Encryption is the least of the things, all that means is that two of my devices probably won't see the same conversations.

the misdefined version of privilege is meant as “lack of some additional distractions” but the word is ambiguously paraded around as “everything handed out to people who are guided to use it all perfectly”

and that latter usage definitely loses supporters from the voting bloc that could do anything about it

You have to get supporters for consensus to shift. If an approach isn't working then you have to know why and acknowledge it.

It doesnt matter how you feel about acknowledging it, consensus wont shift if the approach doesnt change.

Ok this one is long and has many many dimensions to try to understand the veracity of (without assuming you know what its referring to).

The conclusion though is something I’ve noticed as well and matches the title. This is exacerbated by the very people arguing for equality, they lose support of would-be supporters in the majority groups by misdefining privilege. Causing resentment by would-be supporters who feel their valid struggles are neglected and invalidated.

Agricola

Not the same setting you described but its a frustrating one, it pretends to be a competitive game pitting the plays against each other but the mechanics for mere survival seem to override that.

Hmm, I’ll empathize that there was a time when I would have assumed that, but ive used tiktok enough to not think that from the headline or by surprised at all by the article

maybe just use tiktok for a while, its time. it took a while for my feed to not be cringy but just follow people you hear about (like this article) or that get reshared on other social media sites (all videos have a watermark with the username), and your tiktok feed will warp to stuff like that very quickly

Think of it more like the world has always been Darwinian and this has made it slightly more accommodating for people that would get weeded out from forms of social/upwards mobility.

The best time to get money is when everyone is scared that money wont matter.

If only anything in the government was that coordinated.

The same way you get ad recommendations

Your social network and everything else you look up and do

Even if you’re a ghost, the ghost profile is accurate enough

The US fed is the biggest whale in the whole market

And every major economic union is duplicating what the fed does

Even if the second part wasn’t true, the first part would cause inflation in those economic unions

It buys bonds from ANY bondholder indiscriminantly. It didn’t matter where they are, they get new dollars, and dilute the value of their area.

Thanks Thats very helpful!

Yes very cynical

that's an assumption. union existence should be tied to the perseverance of labor rights and collective bargaining power, not dissatisfaction.

its mere coincidence that there is a correlation to workplace/compensation satisfaction and interest in a union.

they end up at other companies of similar size, its part of the circuit, colloquially called FAANGs.

whenever you want you can always throw the credit card merchant agreement at any of those vendors just because you feel mildly inconvenienced.

it is against the merchant agreement to have any purchase minimum and vendors have absolutely no leverage on this reality (as this is per payment network, this can change per network at any time, but my understanding is that merchants can't have card minimums - this also applies to bars where much higher card purchase minimums are also commonplace)

of course, the sympathetic approach is to realize that its more profitable for the credit card network to have no mininum. but as you don't really experience this concept of card minimums outside of NYC, there's no reason to follow along with those merchant's rationale just because they told you why and you feel sowwy for them.

when I think about every thing that threatens low margin businesses, I just notice that a different one will take their place and a few owners will have to do something else to exchange time for food and shelter just like everyone else, so no need to keep them on life support

Adding to this, I would challenge a smart contract sanction on 1st (free expression, leveraging citizens united for money as speech), 4th (regarding privacy, and the equivalent privacy of other transaction methods), 5th and 14th amendment grounds (both forms of equal treatment in comparison to other transaction methods)

Maybe an article or two as well

Or just sizzleapp.com and im usually the last person to suggest a .com is relevant

I’ve built high revenue moderate traffic businesses on any tld

But I can recognize that its not 2012 anymore and mispelled startup names are not in vogue, while normal names + app suffixes are

yeah….. that’s going to happen though

that ship has long sailed

we’re at the bottom of the slippery slope

try to enjoy yourself

I agree with you and others that it is easy to fall outside the system, and that it is considerate to try to make a point to businesses that dont accept cash at all.

Retailer payment method acceptance is regulated at the municipal and state level. There is no federal or constitutional requirement to take cash or retain the option of cash payment.

So for the loophole experience, I would need you to show if thats a viable loophole in the areas where cash payment is mandated

You really want that? I love that every tiny operation accepts credit cards and apple pay now.

> unless you can prove a corporation will pay for you by swiping your payment card

and I don't want the state’s unsanitary and cocaine-laced notes for payment. see we can frame all options any way we want

You need capital to make passive income. And you need to be willing to risk that capital. If you dont have those things, dont bother.

Fortunately if you are a software developer, you can make things that other people require a lot of capital to do. So you can make your software vending machine of some sort and have passive income from that. Advertising it requires capital, and you have to design the system that has low infrastructure costs.

People have a right to transactional privacy (or more so, the government hasnt created any obligation against that), which most blockchains remove by default, restoring that baseline isn’t controversial. Onlookers and financial institutions cant see where you physical cash was, and they cant see your banking transactions. It requires voluntary disclosure or a subpoena.

Financial institutions operate on assumptions that a customer’s money is clean/fungible, and rely on the customer’s own admissions, except when a public ledger is involved. Simply restoring the baseline makes them not have any obligation to auto flag your transactions.

> POS that touch it

Sorry you got scammed irrecoverably. Everyone should be unlinking their transactions for a baseline of privacy.

Because of the US citizens involved, the treasury would have an issue with the sanction of an autonomous privacy vending machine, it would require Congress to pass a sanction similar to the online gambling funds ban. But here there would still likely be tricky legal issues for Congress to circumvent.

I don’t think the treasury can sanction a smart contract or force financial instructions to absolutely reject transactions from one

Do that court challenge

very true! its more like it bullies everyone into having capital within the US

the only point I'm making is that someone with $2,000,000,000 in assets, now having $1,500,000,000 in asset is in the exact same wildly more favorable and flexible position than the person that has no assets and not enough savings to support themselves for a few months as their earnings go directly to expenses. The latter group being the vast majority of the population.

I'm not making a point about which outcome is better at all, I'm making a point that the federal reserve can't do anything about that.

In my experience, the anticonsumption crowd has the most of everything

Its an amusing juxtaposition because you cant tell if they are obnoxiously out of touch or intentionally trolling at their amazing properties and parties

(while actually not eating meat)

I would say it is economically advantaged people with the privilege to do these things, choosing to. The industry that caters to the diet and health preferences overprices everything. This exacerbates the odds that less well off people will opt out of trying non-meat diets.

tl;dr result?