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Count Regal Inkwell

@ VinesNFluff @pawb.social

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Nerd|Furry|Linux User|Ace|BiRomantic|Taken <3

Leftist with an incorrigible love for fancy aesthetics (mostly Renaissance Italy/Victorian England) that might be incorrectly read as a monarchist because of that.

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Unicorn, but also occasionally gryphon.

  • Then they will ask why nobody wants to use their payment cards

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  • Then they will ask why nobody wants to use their payment cards

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  • You're not wrong

    But keeping a government democratic and under check is a lot easier than trying to do the same to a series of corporations with anonymous investors calling the shots. Every corporation is in and of itself a dictatorship, dangerously close to an old noble clan, and we pretend we don't see it because it's been hypernormalised.

    I'd much rather take my chances with a government, that can in fact respond to the will of the people from time to time, than with a corporation that only ever responds to money with exactly no exceptions ever.

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  • Also because the entire thing is backed financially by energy wasted, crypto has actually been slowing down the adoption of cheaper, safer renewable energy.

    People spend x dollars on generating crypto, they expect to sell it for x+profit

    Ergo if energy became cheaper, crypto would devalue and we can't have that.

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    Is Lemmy like a historical salon?

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  • More like a squat or flophouse for nerds. Daring to exist in the middle of a gentrified area.

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  • Crypto remains a pyramid scheme masquerading as a resistance against tyranny

    Ironically you know what ACTUALLY protects from powergrabs by payment processors? A fully centralised, government backed form of digital cash that is fully equivalent to paper money.

    Ask a Brazilian about pix. Super low fees (often feeling non existant). And transactions can't be invalidated on the whims of a corporate board. For something to not be buyable by pix it has to be illegal, thus having to go through every layer of checks and balances a democracy has.

    The problem with visa and their ilk is that finance has been privatised. Too much power in the hands of corporations that have deftly dodged regulation that would keep them neutral and honest. Thinking privatising things further and turning everyone into a fully unregulated petty digital landlord is gonna solve anything rather than make it worse is foolhardy.

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  • You cryptobitches have been saying it's "early days" since 2009

    It's been 16 years. That bullshit don't fly anymore.

  • My mop and its new fresh cut

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  • Fluttershy.

  • Creative Title

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  • Tupã bless Brazil's pix.

    At least I can still buy porn from local furry artists.

  • Why are most religious people so easy to manipulate? (serious)

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  • one of the most numerous and arguably the most influential religious group in modern times is not representative of religious people

    Are you being serious right now?

    Though I will happily agree that evangelicals are in fact the worst religious people.

  • PERSEVERE!

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  • The gud fedposting.

  • Where’s Firefox going next? You tell us.

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  • Anywhere so long as they don't try to kill adblockers

    Everything else the forks can work around. What's important is they don't give into manifest v3/WEI and become complicit in the death of adblockers.

  • What kind of ROI did they promise to their investors?

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  • The ROI was eternal life

    Do people just forget religion exists and believers take it fully seriously?

  • What's your harmless/low-stakes conspiracy theory?

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  • Right?

    With hindsight, now being more or less the target audience (a 30+ year old disillusioned with life) -- A lot of the books they pushed on us (I'm in Brazil, so of course they pushed the Brazilian canon of Literature) were objectively super good?

    But y'know

    When you're 15 years old, and have to read a book that is not only very old (thus has a vocabulary you are already struggling with, just because OLD), but is written by grown-ups for grown-ups (ergo, a lot of the fun leans on heightened versions of life experiences adults have all either lived or seen someone live through) -- AND you have to do it in a hurry (because you've got like 4 other assignments for that week, and the deadline looms) -- AND you are expected to not only get into the nitty-gritty of its themes and such, but to do so in a way that your teacher approves of?

    Like how can you not hate reading after that? I was lucky I'd been exposed to literature I liked prior to that, so instead of thinking "I hate books", I just thought "wow all these books suck".

    They didn't suck. But they just... Were very much not for me?

    Like. Senhora, by José de Alencar, is a deeply enjoyable book if you're a grown up. Two rich people who married for money and hate each other's guts, playing the perfect husband and wife to society while shooting subtle barbs at each other whenever they get the chance? AND then they end up fond of each other after years of this? Inject that into my 30-year-old historical-romance junkie EYEBALLS please. But at age 15? I hated it.

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  • Humans being gluttonous motherfuckers who will consume stuff until we're wrecked is indeed older than dirt. Some of the oldest records we HAVE of humanity involve people committing excesses of the sort.

    -- Having a bunch of organisations driven by profit independently come to the conclusion they can exploit this flaw in human persons to maximise their profits, leading to a systemic vicious circle where we consume more, so they create more artificial needs for us to consume, so we consume more, so (...) -- Is, in fact, a product of capitalism.

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  • That's just capitalism

    You're describing capitalism

    And pretty much everyone knows that's how it works, the disagreement is that some (very odd) people think this is a good thing.

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  • The way literature is taught in school is designed deliberately to make people hate reading + studying the subtext and paratext.

    By forcing kids to read books that aren't just old, but were written by 40 year olds for other 40 year olds, and then mandating them write reports about the symbolism of a book they didn't even want to read in the first place, you ensure that like 80% of people will inherently associate reading and interpreting media with every negative emotion at once.

    Meanwhile you look at fandom dorks on every site and you see how invested on themes and subtext they are, and you realise people kinda naturally want to overthink media... Provided they like that media.

    But people who can read subtext and understand it are less susceptible to propaganda. So.

  • What was the last image you saved from the internet?

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  • Unfinished art of my fursona by my artist friend

  • if you could go back in time, when? What for?

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  • I'm going to 1450 and giving the natives guns before the Spaniards and the Portuguese arrive.

    Without them, anglos probably won't bother either.

  • there is hope for anyone...

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  • TFW no filthy rich furry bf