SabinStargem

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[–] SabinStargem@lemmings.world -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think that the fundamental flaw of our economies, is that they weren't created with rules in the first place. We just took the vague notions of trade and coinage, then began to add the rules after the fact. What if we did a hard reboot, but with an economic Constitution to guide the economic system?

For such a system, I believe we would want three things at the most basic level:

1: Transparent and simple rules. Ordinary people should be able to easily identify and troubleshoot the excessively wealthy.

2: Universal but boring benefits that guarantees survival for everyone, with a basic income. Money is for buying upgrades to lifestyle, not survival. Jobs are for affording to buy more expensive luxuries, like vacations to a foreign land, attending the theatre regularly, and so forth.

3: Absolute floors and ceilings on income, assets, and wealth. Beyond a specific point, wealth is taken as tax.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmings.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Talk eventually becomes action, if there is enough of it. By people agreeing with each other, they eventually normalize a thought. It could be something mundane like "this drawn girl is cute", and eventually snowball into "Last night's Hatsune Miku concert was rad, met twenty other cosplayers!"

Let people talk. It how communities become real.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmings.world 1 points 4 days ago

Always have been.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmings.world 1 points 4 days ago

My rule: If I can't easily write nor remember a daily password, it is crap. My strong passwords are kept in a offline password manager, which has a relatively weak master password in the vein of "R!seaboveit@ll". Not ideal, but at least a human can type it.

The real danger is going to be websites leaking or sharing the individual password it is given. So long as no one knows your (offline) manager's pass, the threat can be cordoned off. Unfortunately, we can expect the integration of AI into OS ecosystems to make that method vulnerable. Say, for example, Microsoft's Copilot or Google's Android.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmings.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thank you. I just printed out a PDF of your written list. Here's hoping it finds it way into the court of a future Nuremberg trial.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmings.world 6 points 4 days ago

Not a failure. The whole point of R&D before doing a genuine payload is to remove this sort of issue. While the association of the company with Musk is truly crappy, this explosion is genuinely useful.

If this project were European or under a different administration, I would feel the same.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmings.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If a war happens, whoever wins, we lose. :(

[–] SabinStargem@lemmings.world 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I hope furry LGBT+ hackers already exfiltrated whatever was to be found, and are waiting to release when the FOIA is rejected or falsified.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmings.world 2 points 6 days ago

Didn't know that. Thanks for the tidbit of lore. :)

[–] SabinStargem@lemmings.world 27 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I hope California, blue states, and Europe all bankroll this into an official Neo-CDC, free of Yarvin's hatred and stupidity.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmings.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think people would aim at corporations, not their communities. In a crisis, people tend to flock together and do what they can to help each other. It is elites who panic and go out of their way to 'protect' what they perceive to be theirs.

Behind the Bastards has an episode about Elite Panic.

Elite Panic: Why the Rich and Powerful Can't be Trusted

[–] SabinStargem@lemmings.world 2 points 1 week ago

I am expecting Monero or some other privacy coin to become big, because people would want the discretion of dollars while still having digital flexibility. Musk is almost certainly angling to make a Muskcoin to go with an X Everything app in the Chinese fashion, so people will naturally go for something that isn't controlled by the Fascist States.

Of course, gold and foreign currencies like the Euro will see a major uptick. Again, to avoid Fascist oversight. No one knows what the right answer to this crap would be, so every decent person will just take a guess. Along with a shot, for courage.

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