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IPCC World’s Last Chance (Again)
"We have this week reached a tipping point that is even pointier than every other tipping point so far reached; which is to say we will soon be at a point of no return that is well past the point of no return that we were last warned there was no returning from."
https://rclutz.com/2022/04/09/ipcc-worlds-last-chance-again/
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Literally the entire front page of MSN right now: either curated propaganda about how bad Blumpf and anyone protesting on J6 is, why guns are bad and their marches they bused in during the summer when nobody is doing school, and ignoring the gas prices/inflation. Nope. Please pay attention to this TV trial while you can't fill your car up on $40 anymore.
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@JapanAnon @DarkMahesvara Most Japanese unfortunately see crypto as a stock rather than alternative money.
Beside that, crypto in general is pretty different from fiat, each token has its own usecase (including none), like Monero as money, Dero as smart contract platform, Equilibria as oracle, Bitcoin as store of value, and so on.

By introducing so many different tokens like Skeb for artists, Storj for storage, LBRY Credit for a video site, and so on, unless you've been longer into crypto than 1 year (like you and I), this will most likely bewilder all the normies who previously used just Yen for literally everything, and that alone can make them go like "why the fuck do I have to care about 1000s of different tokens for 10000s of different things if I can just use the Digital Yen/CBDC for everything?".

Not saying that we need to just choose one, but rather most people will need lots of learning in order to truly adapt to the cryptocurrency lifestyle.
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@coolboymew The west nowadays really seems to be conditioned into believing that if you don't pick a side, you by default don't stand with Ukraine, and therefore by default you stand with Russia.
Speaking of dumbing down an entire culture...
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Also I'd like to point out that there is no such thing as web3.

Or web2.

People likes to call things with weird names and stuff for marketing but the web 2.0 from 15 years ago was the normal web. We just made a bunch of "blogs" and forums and social sites and for whatever reason people called it web 2.0.

NFT and cryptomoney is NOT part of the "web" (which is just a cooler name for the HTTP protocol). Therefore calling it "web3" is wrong even for marketing. Why is it not part of the web? Because people is NOT SUPPOSED TO BROWSE JSON DATA. Its that simple. And the web was NOT meant for this crap.
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mfw all successful socialism is based on selling oil to america lmao

Nobody is going to wish me a happy birthday?

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I'm kinda tired about the modern web tbh. 20 years ago anyone could make their own browser relatively easily. I mean, 20 years ago things like JavaScript and CSS were already a thing, but were more primitive and not so many sites used them yet, as websites were mostly built in Macromedia Flash (yes, it was Macromedia back then) and sites that used HTML were still pretty primitive.

Nowadays nobody thinks about building their own web engine because by the time they are done with at least the bare bones of it, there are 20 new bloated specifications.

So what everyone is doing is to stamp Chromium into a frontend and bloat it with ads and sponsorships and web3 crap to monetize it. Like Brave. And many others.
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Fixing drugs by banning them is like curing the cold by declaring coughing illegal.

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amused thing is that every so often someone without formal education becomes smart

all the people with formal educations are just like

:blobcatwaitwhat: this person is janky and awkward but they almost made good points
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college be like read this book and then take a test that says you read the book

random person: [reads book for free]

:blobcatpleading: no, bad
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