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@meso anubis is basically captchas meet crypto miners yet somehow everyone likes it because LLMs bad
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@Spooke @djsumdog @jeff crypto is the only solution but artists were mkultrad into saying it's bad

@wowaname If by GNU Money, you mean GNU Taler, then I have to disagree. That project only exists because of Stallman's extreme pro-taxation autism.

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_While You Were Distracted: Trump’s GENIUS Act CBDC Will Allow Government to Punish Vaccine Mandate Refusers by Freezing Bank Accounts_

It's a double-edged sword: What it permits and enables could be targeted at anyone: Illegal immigrants, abortion opponents, ANTIFA members, gun rights advocates, or "enemy" Senators or Congressmen, you name it.

FTA: The GENIUS Act would create a digital dollar, the “Stablecoin,” which would likely eventually replace all cash, and would enable governments to freeze the accounts of anyone declared in violation of “lawful” federal or state executive branch regulations, such as the vaccine mandates passed down in 2021 by the US Department of Health and Human Services.

Trump is doing the exact opposite of what he pledged to an audience soon after he was elected in November 2024. He said he would ban CBDCs – central bank digital currencies – but Stablecoins are in every important respect CBDCs.

https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/while-you-were-distracted-trumps
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Really, until recently, adult games were always games that you had to go out of your way to find. Prior to Steam, they were mostly on shareware sites or purchased via mail-order. Steam banning such games will just bring them back to self-hosting.

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@gabriel I'm lucky that my extended family decided to use SMS group chats in place of Facebook, even if some of them still use it.

I don't know much about Facebook Marketplace. I still see plenty of ads on my local craigslist, even if they items they're selling require a bit of a drive.

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Feeling a bit of FOMO from refusing to have a Facebook account for years.
It's weird to ask the fedi about this, but does having a facebook account actually matter in 2025?
Ironically I think Facebook Marketplace is what I'm missing out the most on because many people refuse to use anything else...
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Hopefully, the recent ban of adult games on Steam will bring back self-hosted indie games, even if it's mostly adult games.

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Google Gemini just lost a chess match with an Atari 2600 from the Ordovician Era.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-...

The Atari 2600 had 128 bytes of RAM.

That is not a typo.
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My weakness is loving the modern world. While culturally things keep getting worse most technology is getting better and I like it, with the exception of the surveillance 'features', which mean I can't fully enjoy things like smartphones.

By weakness I mean I get genuinely angry when people attack modern life and technological innovation with blackpilled, cynical drivel. I truly hate such people and hope they all die in fires.

@Eleutheria2 @usluck Nobody uses "alt-lite" anymore, especially since they've been proven to be no different than neocons.

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@usluck >releasing the names of child rapists is child porn

Please, alt-lite. Please stop. Every time I think I've seen the most retarded take about the files, another one of you pipes up!
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btw, i know many people with 2+ children - more than couples without any children.

really not even sure anymore if the statistics can be trusted or if they are a psyop to kill morale.

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