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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @krispy_donkey 25 Mar \ on: BNPL Discussion: have you used it, do you know people who have? AskSN
Do I know anyone who has used it? Yes, she’s my wife! She is also available for 4 easy payments. Comes with budget-destroying karate-chop action.
I also have a friend who historically has been bad with money and has also used it. In this case both of these people are over 40, however my understanding is that most people who use it are younger, 18-35 or so, looks like there is some research out there on this which an AI can unearth easily enough.
For my part I do not love them, they may be helpful for some people but as a symptom I do not like how warmly they have been embraced.
105 sats \ 0 replies \ @krispy_donkey 24 Mar \ parent \ on: What are some of your best gaming moments? gaming
a lot of people got caught up in that moment. that was a brilliant example of the entertainment experiences video games can provide to the senses, the total effect being far more than the sum of its parts. some games by intention or accident become classic experiences, Red Dead Redemption was one such example. What a game, genuinely felt like a Sergio Leone simulator, I loved it. That whole generation was totally epic, only lasted 6-8 years but goddamn the quality that came out of it.
thank you for laying all that out, great breakdown. this also helps provide context to your other posts! chur chur
Some of your post are succinct to the point of being ambiguous, that is not the case with this post, this post is excellent.
Bankers used neoliberal dogma and narrative to deregulate the Keynesian monetary model empowering them to issue fiat debt finance to any purpose without restraint- this has lead to the deluge of non productive fiat debt leveraged asset price spruiking that has occurred since the 1980s. Libertarians do not seem to understand they are following the same narrative as the bankers who corrupted the wests financial system.
I have two questions here; assuming that the Keynesian monetary model managed to not become corrupted, how is it supposed to operate in the real world? Govts and banks expand the money supply with great discipline, adding to the supply as genuine value is 'created'?
Second question is pretty open ended, are you able to expand on your comment about Libertarians following the same narrative as the bankers?
in case anyone else is curious (and still reading) and like me cannot relate to this lunacy, one data point I came across is that Evangelical Christians who (apparently) make up 25% of US adults are likely to believe in the Rapture. I am pleased and not suprised to hear that this idea is waning in popularity.
Having had zero exposure to this but being aware of its horrible, heartbreaking effects, what exactly were/are people told about the Rapture? Is it the end of days along with the second coming of Christ or something? What do people think is going to happen? I got plenty of religious education as part of my schooling but we didn’t get told any of this…
Subjective topic, of course :) What I find interesting is how people who have no heritage from a certain country or culture end up loving a particular cuisine that might have no exposure to in their background. From personal experience I have a friend who just loves food from South East Asia and Malaysian cuisine in particular, but his background would not suggest such any such thing.
For my part the answer is Italian, I love how as you travel from north to south the food changes, from big, hearty stuff that keeps you warm in winter to lighter, more seafood oriented Mediterranean cuisine in the south, and everything in between such as that delicious wild boar fillet I had in Tuscany that time. I love the diversity.
I'm also very fond of any country that has Mediterranean type stuff as part of their cuisine, from Portugal to the Lebanon. Yum, I love it all. Funnily enough despite spending a few years in a bunch of Asian countries, I am not a huge fan of any particular Asian cuisine. Certain dishes for sure but not any overall cuisine, but if I had to choose an Asian favorite my answer would be Japanese.
Spicy opinion but any developed country with a cultural heritage link to the UK (e.g. Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US) should not be on this list, and by extension nor should the UK. This is the cuisine I ate most of my life and it's uninspiring at best. I am not aware of anything any of those countries claim that has not come from a European cuisine first, either directly or by being 're-imagined'. Honestly what even is American food? Surely those votes should be for Mexico.
Lastly I am surprised to see no votes for Thailand, given a lot of people say it's their favorite. If we want to get granular, I will say that Jasmine Rice is my favorite rice variety.
‘Dogs have masters, cats have slaves’. But in all seriousness I find the relationship between cats and humans very interesting, they were never domesticated in the sense that other animals were, it was more of a mutually beneficial relationship. Apparently. That’s seems to have changed a bit in some societies.
50 sats \ 0 replies \ @krispy_donkey 16 Mar \ parent \ on: New Bitcoin Mining Milestone (for me) bitcoin
Thank you!
Personally I subscribe to the 'it's the liquidity, stupid' school of thought. On that topic, the Bitcoin Layer did a video about this in the past few days which I found quite educational for my dumb ass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJinwqKz7zQ
While I wish it weren't the case that institutional investing is what is driving the price right now, speaking for where I live, a western, developed economy, joe citizen is not buying bitcoin at this point in time. Joe citizen ain't got two nickels to spare. And if a few are, it is not to gain access to some kind of anti-fiat freedom technology, it is as a speculative investment. Still a huge amount of education needed out there.
You may have mentioned it but in case I missed it, people don’t know shit about their own national currency, be it USD, CAD, GBP or whatever. Like, literally nothing.
I’m my only points are that
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people will never learn how to open a Lightning channel. Ever. But in the same way that they don’t have a clue how SMTP works, they will use Lightning in the same way that they use email. It will eventually be wrapped up in a UX that makes it totally unnecessary to know the workings of Lightning in order to access its benefits.
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As for adoption over all it is trending up, but I’m never going to look to the western world for signs of growth. It will be places like South Africa where that supermarket chain has rolled out lightning payment facilities. Those people need a technology like Bitcoin/Lightning today, where as for first world countries it’s a nice to have.
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lastly it’s still very early. And I don’t mean that in terms of people buying Bitcoin, I mean in the development of the tech and the layers that are being built upon it. This whole this is fundamentally a voluntary endeavour, there is no CEO or product manager directing legions of developers, it’s extremely small scale at this point.
Personably I think we are lucky to witness all this happen and we will be sad when the whole space is been developed and hyper commercialised.
I’ve been of the opinion for some time now that the man absolutely understands Bitcoins value proposition and is essentially a giant troll whose idea of fun is antagonising a large portion of the Bitcoin community. Suffice to say, I think he’s hilarious and I love him. It’s always a little less fun though when the trick is revealed. It was his interview with Nat Burnell that solidified this opinion for me. Still find him funny though.
It will be Reddit’s Digg moment. The question is, given how different the social media landscape is these days, is there an alternative reddit for people to escape to?
Thanks! I’m not from your part of the world so I’m sorry to ask, what was everything that was not animal based?
Curious to see how you get on cutting dairy. 🐮