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  • Three years after the January 6 attack, propaganda about the insurrection is poisoning the American public

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  • If Democrats lost because people on the left refused to vote for them, they would be forced to change. Problem is everyone claims each election is an existential crisis (doubtful) so you're never allowed to withhold a vote or vote third party.

  • Benjamin Netanyahu's controversial son did not return home for war. Some Israelis are wondering why

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  • So by paying for university he is funding any protests done by students? A bit of a stretch, no?

  • youtube getting more agressive blocking users after 3 videos

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  • I used ublock to block the popup by using the pick function, but I have not run into this 3 flags your out popup yet, so depends on how they disable the video I guess. I'll try to report back.

  • YouTube's anti-adblock rollout has finally arrived for Firefox users

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  • What do you mean by direct-to-content-producer? I can't find it on Google. Are you suggesting the viewers pay the content creator and the content creator pays YouTube for hosting?

    Subscription is a reasonable funding method. It's also reasonably priced. I think the bigger problem is companies that refuse to offer subscriptions, because Facebook knows no one is dumb enough to pay $15-20 a month, but that is what they make off the ads so offering the service for anything less would cause them to lose money. Merely offering the subscription shows users how much Facebook really makes off of them.

    YouTube is also very generous with how much they spit revenue with creators. I don't like that they exist as a monopoly, but at least they aren't parasites like the other half of the web.

  • Some people crave the flat

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  • I'm more curious as to what bologna you eat that doesn't taste like hotdog.

  • A key feature of NFTs has completely broken / Web3 was supposed to make sure the original artist always got paid. Not so much anymore.

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  • Yeah I was tempted to add a caveat, it does technically auto executive, but because it needs to interact with the real world it will always run into the oracle problem. The only solution to the oracle problem is courts and tort law, which makes the blockchain contract redundant and unnecessarily expensive.

  • Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap

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  • VC investing is effectively predatory pricing, squeezing out original non-tech service providers by providing services below cost, then replacing them with monopoly tech versions. The funding is intimately tied to the industry and they all use the same strategy.

  • A key feature of NFTs has completely broken / Web3 was supposed to make sure the original artist always got paid. Not so much anymore.

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  • This was actually the original idea of non-fungible tokens, but because you need special legislation to tie an object to this digital receipt (there is nothing legally tying one thing to the other), they just skipped over it completely and said the NFT itself was the commodity, which is why they could only do it for digital art with the a web link. (we could, for example, see this more useful for a title to a car or house)

    In fact, many NFTs don't even contain any language about copyright or licensing, they don't even attempt to pretend that the NFT holder owns the copyright. The owner of the NFT in these cases only owns the NFT, and not the copyright. Of course, you have to transfer the copyright separately from transferring the NFT, which makes this whole thing redundant for buying/selling on secondary markets, but they could have at least tried to pretend they could.

  • A key feature of NFTs has completely broken / Web3 was supposed to make sure the original artist always got paid. Not so much anymore.

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  • Apparently, smart contracts are not contracts at all... they are friendly suggestions. Unsurprisingly a contract needs a mechanism to enforce it, which makes decentralized contracts redundant at best (as you still need institutions outside of the blockchain to monitor and enforce the contracts), and or worse, completely useless if there is no legal way to enforce them.

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    RFK Jr. says he’d sign a federal ban on abortions after three months of pregnancy

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  • The people that can actually make him look like an idiot refuse to interview or debate him (don't want to "platform" him, among other concerns), so he looks like a genius to people that don't know better.

    People also seem to be concerned that he can bullshit his way through a debate by overwhelming people with fake facts. This is completely false, I've seen clips where he gets light pushback from relatively neutral speakers and he immediately folds or says something stupid.

    People need to stop trying to sweep him under the rug, it only makes him look more authoritative and convincing to dumb people.

  • Lebanon, Kuwait Poised to Ban ‘Barbie’ for Promoting Homosexuality

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  • I don't like centralized religions either, and I think I agree with your points. But I'm just saying the line "The X of peace" is either so generic that it is a bland description of any ideology. All ideology hides it's violence behind self defense, and are therefore "peaceful". Or it implies that they are particularly peaceful, so it's a description of non-violent. But few ideologies would identify as non violent, and so they would not use that term to describe themselves.

  • Lebanon, Kuwait Poised to Ban ‘Barbie’ for Promoting Homosexuality

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  • I've never actually heard anyone use that line except people in alt-right circles, and I am around a lot of Muslims. It is not a term Muslims use to describe their religion, not that they would describe it differently, just that it is a strange description. It would be like calling Canada "the country of peace", which I guess is technically true because most countries want to avoid war and promote peace? But does not mean their military is non-violent.

    The line is clearly used for the intent of creating a false contrast to make some made up point about hypocrisy.

    Also as the other commenter pointed out, you are making a critique about the middle East, everyone agrees the middle East is dysfunctional.

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    SEC Told Coinbase to Stop Trading in All Cryptos Except Bitcoin Before Suing - "we believe every asset other than bitcoin is a security"

    www.coindesk.com /policy/2023/07/31/sec-asked-coinbase-to-stop-trading-in-all-cryptocurrencies-other-than-bitcoin-before-suing-report/

  • Being subscribed to similar communities on multiple instances and seeing duplicates

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  • The main post would be shared but then in the comment section you can swipe left or right to scroll through the different instances (comment section). Most comment sections don't have such unique requirements anyways, usually on Reddit I just assume "don't be an asshole" and on the few occasions where that is not sufficient, I get deleted and the mod notifies me of the error, then I learn. Generally people won't familiarize themselves with the community rules before posting.

  • ‘Media outlets are erasing Sinead O’Connor’s Muslim identity’

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  • It was the Bush administration that used their cultural differences as a justification for their hatred of the west. Of course, Bush could have just mentioned what Al Qaeda actually said, which was that they were a reaction to the US military, money, and support meddling in the Middle East. But then that might draw negative attention from legitimate concerns the Middle East has, which means the terrorists win according to their tortured logic, so instead "they hate us for our freedom".

  • Do e-cigarettes actually work?

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  • I think the main thing is that you can get a more intense nicotine hit, probably because it is easier to smoke higher concentrations, so I assume it is more addictive in that regard. It's a smoother smoke and you don't get that residual nicotine in the mouth that you would at high concentrations of the freebase. You can always just try it out, most vapes are compatible with both juices, although they might be optimized for one over the other.

  • Very honorable of them to leave up all the 'fuck spez'

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  • It's more of a cliche, I don't think anyone actually does it, but it shows up in those cropped images of tweets people post on reddit. Downvotes should show right next to the upvotes (at least, on desktop). Is a nice feature to show both, so if it's like, negative 1, you can see, Oh it's actually negative 10 and positive 9, that is like 50% dislike ratio. Feels a lot better knowing its a split crowd.

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  • Do e-cigarettes actually work?

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  • I just saw your response to my comment, didn't load earlier. Yes is fundamentally the same chemical reaction. Acid/base reaction that results in a salt. Makes a huge difference in the experience in my opinion, I find the salt form to be much closer to real cigs. But as you can see from the other commenter, people have different preferences.

  • Very honorable of them to leave up all the 'fuck spez'

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  • DELETE THIS POST 😂 Hey this isn't twitter, but you can try 👏 adding 👏 claps 👏 between 👏 words 👏 if you think it will help.

    Is a valid point to say they haven't done anything honorable. Maybe my post is the equivalent of saying a murderer is honorable for telling the cops where he put the bodies? I like to give credit where credit is due, but I can see your point. Anyways, I feel bad that you have been downvoted to zero, I'll give you an upvote.

  • Very honorable of them to leave up all the 'fuck spez'

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  • Interesting point, that they are actually censoring dissent, it's just that they are focusing on what can actually harm them and they have deemed fuck spez to be a good vent. So in effect it looks like they are giving free range to words/text protests, but really that is the only they leave up.

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    Very honorable of them to leave up all the 'fuck spez'

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    Bitcoin 101 - Quindecillions & The Amazing Math Of Bitcoin's Private Keys

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    Justifications for monetary inflation are a lie

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    Banks Being Weaponized (You're Next) - Bitcoin University

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    The IMF blog post on cryptocurrency

    www.imf.org /en/News/Articles/2023/06/22/cf-interest-in-cb-digital-currencies-picks-up-in-latam-the-caribbean-while-crypto-use-varies