i'm immunocompromised but wearing a mask drives my TMJ up the wall. i try to limit my mask wearing. it's a balancing act of "how much risk am i taking" and "ow ow my jaw + all the regular discomforts of wearing a mask." i am, indeed, weaker than furries

i want to agree with you, but right now my jaw doesn't hurt right now,

(EDIT because i wanna add more)

like. i feel all this same anger and rancor. everyone should still be masking, etc etc

i'm ardently "covid is real and you should take precautions against it", combined with the selfish "i am immunocompromised and especially susceptible to pneumonia", and even then i'm still not masking 100% of the time

i think instead govts would invest into other measures to reduce the spread of diseases, like paying for vaccines and testing, air filtration symptoms, etc.

crazy that (some) linux is the OS that Just Works now, and windows is the one that needs the user to configure to keep usable

IIRC a few years ago there was a "disable windows tracking" tool of high repute

Their progress thing is a blue-cyan!

gitlab already took blue

sounds like blockchain

Good take and I agree, except Ubuntu let you type "sudo apt install" anything which was fantastic. I fucked up my whole laptop constantly in 2010

can't tell if you're calling me insane or the "blue sky to lightning" thing insane, either way, i agree and also thank you

unironically yes

one company that seem to have a pretty unclear business model.

The business model is to profit off of making Bitcoin mainstream. It's literally that.

Every single one of Jack Dorsey's public endeavors have been pointed towards making Bitcoin (Lightning) a thing. The only reason BlueSky isn't loudly pro-Bitcoin is because the people at BlueSky know that most people see cryptoshit as a toxic scam.

The whole Bluesky team are huge cryptocoin bros and they've been excited about Bitcoin Lightning ever since Jack Dorsey was asked to join on kicking the network off.

For the past four years, Jack Dorsey has been the main character of Bitcoin Lightning. He sees himself as a Jesus type person and I am not joking or exaggerating.

Technologically: The Lightning network works basically like Venmo or Paypal: Give your Bitcoins to a big wallet which does formal transfers infrequently. You're basically splitting the time+btc costs of one transaction by combining it with many others, so long as you trust the Lightning node you're using.

The profit plan is this:

1. Make BlueSky big and ubiquitous

2. Add Bitcoin integration once everyone's there, and make it fast and easy.

3. Nobody's going to leave over it lol

4. People using Bitcoin = Bitcoin costs more = Jack Dorsey becomes rich

Supporting evidence:

1. Jack Dorsey already said he's going to integrate Lightning into BlueSky .

2. Renaming Square to Block because blockchain, and then...

3. ... Adding Bitcoin Lightning to Cash App (Block)

   • Do you know anyone who left Cash App (or Venmo) because they introduced Bitcoin? No right?

4. Spiral lol, Tbd lol, etc.

5. Block owns ~8000 BTC.

6. Jack Dorsey owns an undisclosed (but likely huge) amount of Bitcoin.

   • His net worth is ~$4B and Bitcoin is worth ~$40K. If just 1% of his networth is BTC, then he owns 1M BTC, which is about 5% of all the Bitcoins.

   • Yes, this is stupid

TLDR: All signs point to Bitcoin for Bluesky. i also agree it looks like people are moving to bluesky but i sure hope it doesn't take off

I wouldn't hesitate

imagine how much economic output you would miss out on if you relied on teams!

in this manner it also counts as anticommunist

well i resubscribed to hit 100 twice so far so i'm feeling pretty great

I can't really blame you for how you feel here. I'm feeling pretty similarly. Choosing between two parties where the common ground is "genocide is good and we have an obligation to perpetuate it" is driving me insane.

At the same time, I can't realistically imagine any path to ending the genocide without the US democrats in control (on top of all the other things that are A Little Bit Better with dems). (Even then, I don't think it's realistic, or even plausible. Just far more likely than it coming from Republicans, and that as far more likely than something like a successful revolution with a better govt.)

I don't say this to convince you otherwise. If anything, I guess I might be convinced otherwise. If we're both in blue states, a vote for Jill Stein (mannn) might scare Dems by that fraction of a bit. Fuck it, let's vote for Jill Stein

The thing is that a ceasefire is a pause in the genocide, not an end. It's not even a return to the status quo as of October 6th. A ceasefire is a compromise that still keeps things on the course toward genocide.

It falls far short from an acceptable way for things to be, it's less than a bare minimum, and yet it's still on the optimistic fringes of what could happen in the next week or month. That sucks!!

I'm still enthusiastically pro-ceasefire as a step off of the course of genocide. Same boat as you-- I'm disgusted my senators and my rep likewise haven't been able to call even for that.

But my personal pride doesn't matter, and the only benefit I could see to not-voting (or voting for Jill Stein) is to punish and pressure the Democratic party toward the left. But I don't see an argument for that being more effective than actually voting in Democrats and continuing to pressure them while they're in office.

im a big srsly/cute_spider fan and this is wonderful to learn

the key thing is that the "both sides are the same" argument is the south park argument.

on some mainstream parts of the internet, "biden is 99% hitler" is a point of discussion we're expected to take seriously and debate with the south park folks

I appreciate this! I ended up figuring Charity Navigator is my best bet to avoid solicitations, and I could gamble on some spam if it means I could provide aid.

I ended up going with UNRWA (1) just because you posted it but also (2) a lot of the higher-rated charities with similar >90% scores had different gaps in the rating breakdown.

I also learned Doctor's Without Borders (1) is calling for a ceasefire and (2) does not operate in Israel (since they are focused on filling gaps in medical care, and Israel does not have those gaps.) I think they're generally a safe bet to send money to too.

submit to the postmasters general of the fempire

i share this sentiment

i have no qualms against people with spare money shelling it out to scamscams while ignoring the mounting evidence that it's a scam

(i call it a "scamscam" because NFTs are like a scam on top of a scam. fraudulent nfts are a scamscamscam. append an extra scam if u agree capitalism is a scam #scamscamscamscam)

but the space is also filled with a lot of enthusiastic artists, programmers, etc. who aren't just investbros but truly believed optimistically that Blockchain Will Solve Thing. boredape is kind of adjacent to that

on the other hand, a lot of the most vocal people who were blinded seem to be using their fame to promote more coinshit and didn't actually get blinded. so i think actually my sympathies waned over these past few paragraphs #apefest

i have FOUR BITCHES which is one more GET than a jstpst POST needs

certified good post

i think about this often. but for tea

something i love is that NFTs were supposed to provide a way to make a cryptographically timestamped message with verifiable authorship

but nobody is using that, and bored ape's twitter thread about the blinded attendees ended with this message, because NFT threads are full of scamscams

This is the final tweet in this thread. Anything below this that looks like us is spam/phishing links. Do not click on links unless you have determined they are safe. You can also cross-reference with http://crouton.net and official brand communication channels.

lol. lmao.

(editorial note: i added the crouton)

every one of my posts is 100% serious and describes something that has happened or is a premonition of something that will happen #apefest

all jokes aside, yeah, the #apefest hashtag on twitter was chock full of people who woke up early in the morning with tweets struggling to make sense of burns on their eyes and skin

now it's full of cryptogrifters saying shit like "When your eyesight returns, come & have a look at our collection. " nft link

you are describing something plainly and accurately but it's funny inherently

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