Imagine being so fleeced by a scam that you post messages pretending others are dumb for not falling for the scam lmao

Saying crypto is pretty much the same as cash is disingenuous.

You don’t need to make an account to spend cash. You don’t need to pay fees to give cash to someone else. You don’t need to pay fees to process cash transactions. You don’t need an internet connection to acquire or spend cash. Cash transactions are executed in person, where mistakes can be reversed. If my personal info is compromised, my cash on hand is safe. Cash is generally much more stable, and is generally accepted everywhere.

And let’s address a biggie- cash doesn’t destroy the earth, unlike crypto. For all the protest I see about AI’s energy consumption, crypto was worse in 2022 than AI is projected to be in 2027. Let that sink in.

What is needed before crypto can actually be useful:

• needs to be as easy to use as real currency
• needs to be able to be spent freely on basic necessities
• recourse for fraud
• recourse to recover lost keys instead of losing funds permanently
• protection against market manipulation
• widespread merchant adoption
• address liquidity concerns
• actionable process to protect from illegal activities
• MASSIVE environmental protections- crypto was worse for the environment 4 years ago than AI is projected to be in 2027

There’s more, but I won’t bother as the above issues are more than enough to confirm that crypto is a scam.

How is it convenient? Its not simple setting up a wallet, picking a coin, registering with a market, hoping that the merchant you want something for happens to take your type of coin? And being anonymous is a turn off for most people- the vast majority of people want consumer protection. Merchants carry higher risk with a volatile, unregulated market, so they are hesitant to accept it.

Why would I pay fees to buy a faux currency, to pay for a pre-paid card of the same currency I used to buy to the faux currency, to spend it on things that can’t be paid for with the faux currency anyway? What?!?!

You might have had a salient point if the ancient Greeks made it popular for “solving thirst across the known world,” but really it was a novelty. Or if crypto was marketed as a novelty. But crypto was hyped to be the next big things, spreading around the world, no monetary boundaries. The same people making those claims are spending hundreds of millions on the election to making sure it stay unregulated with no consumer protection.

But sure, crypto somehow parallels steam?

99.9% of people could not pay for what they want or need except the handful of niche places that happen to accept it. Can’t pay medical bills with it, can’t buy my food at the grocery store with it, can’t buy my gas with it, can’t really apply it where I want to, only in the few spaces I get to.

That’s not what the developers claimed it would do, or what the investors wanted it to do. It’s not cost effective or simple. It’s created more problems than it’s solved. It flat out a scam.

Until there is an actual use case for Crypto, it’s definitely a scam as a technology. It exists only for investors and scammers, anyone attempting to actually use it is getting reamed.

That poor crew and coast 😢

Something can certainly be better than nothing, but the bias of the bias checker definitely skews right. It muddies the water, and serves counter to its stated purpose.

Thank you! Electric Forest was an absolutely amazing first date. We fell in love and I proposed a year later at the same festival. We now have a beautiful family :)

I sat back to back with this cute girl at a music festival (first date) strategically placed in the center of several gongs. The artists began gently rolling the gongs in succession in the middle of this electric forest and then they worked together to create rhythms and move them around us.

It is one my favorite memories of my wife :)

Yet

I can whole heartedly state that COD is garbage. It’s been enshittified into the ground for years, and recent additions are overwhelmingly negative on steam. COD hasn’t been good for at least a decade, if not more. It’s not what it was in its prime, at all.

I’m a bit amused to have come up with a new Trump insult after so many years. Run with it!

I was kinda proud of this one. I called him halfwit Hitler one day and realized I could just smoosh em together

What more could you expect from Halfwitler™

I respect their right to speak their mind. However, I believe there are other efforts currently where we can make a much bigger impact.

There are some huge issues on the table: fascist takeover, at least two genocides in different parts of the world we are involved with, systemic racism, LBGTQ rights, and many more.

We could get hung up on any one, and be correct in protesting that what we’re doing isn’t enough, to the only party even likely to entertain it.

But we won’t even have the option to protest if fascism successfully subverts democracy. Those protests only work if Trump doesn’t win. Project 2025 will not condone dissent.

I feel strongly about each of these issues, and agree with the protestors, but I feel that I am best served helping people register to vote/check registration status, supporting down-ballot dems, speaking against any Mom’s For Hate speakers in our PTA meetings, etc.

My main goal is to work to ensure that we have the ability to protest those important topics in a Post-Trump democracy, where the public has more bandwidth to energize. None of what we will happen if Trump cheats his way to the Oval Office again.

“Here’s some doomer poll data, but I put in a comment that the polls don’t matter” is a heck of a contradiction.

It does when the side with the increase is already a sizably smaller block than the side with increased energy.

Nothing has changed for MAGA, they will always toe the line. But, as for the past two decades, they will lose the popular vote and their only hope will be to subvert democracy.

Then why did you post this shit if these polls don’t matter? Be consistent.