Yes but that generally just shifts the questions one layer lower. Where would God come from then? I know the typical answer is God has always existed but if God doesn’t need a reason to exist then really the universe doesn’t either.

Inflation data being a lie is definitely something I’ll agree to.

Your claim I’m wrong because I’m in denial while you outright deny. Sure thing.

Processing for oil is customized based upon its properties, which vary based on the source. It isn’t possible to just swap Venezuelan oil for some other oil.

40 hour workweek didn’t really begin until 1940 so the average yearly wage based upon that isn’t likely a good estimate.

The first income tax was 3% on income over $800, or about $28k today. That isn’t a tax on only the wealthy.

In physics theory doesn’t mean some random guess. Theory means it has been experimentally validated.

If you buy stocks that money goes to the previous stock holder, which is most generally not the corporation.

Reality is non consistent with your claims of biological advantage.

I agreed with the post until there might be a reasonable bar part. When a person switches hormones the body follows. The whole concern about trans folks is also truly rooted in bigotry, not sportsmanship. Let’s not forget that part.

Science doesn’t support your belief that trans women have physical advantages. Do you understand the role that hormones have and the effects on the body?

Scientists sure are stupid. Wasting time collecting evidence to prove their hypotheses. /s

Making things up then.

I’m not worried about bitcoin. I’m tired of the same nonsensical and unsubstantiated arguments made from ignorance. Have fun being ignorant.

I bet you claim that the dollars in bitcoin ETFs aren’t real either. Bitcoin ETF is growing far faster than gold did. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/blackrock-bitcoin-etf-becomes-fastest-192152139.html

So their “evidence” is that people use new tether to buy bitcoin after bitcoin prices have gone down. Fundamentally they don’t show that people aren’t buying tether but they falsely claim it is evidence of manipulation. The data could also be explained by folks purchasing new tether to buy bitcoin. The paper is from 2018 and tether has gone through numerous government investigations since with no major action. This paper lacks anything resembling real analysis and does not meet the standards of a scientific paper.

Source: I’ve been on more than 40 physics papers and have personally solved more than one impossible physics problem.

That paper is bullshit. Source, have a PhD.

Do you have any evidence or are you just making things up?

Yeah, like I said it would increase bandwidth and storage for nodes. Credit cards themselves aren’t a feature of the u.s. dollar. Nothing prevents additional networks, like credit cards, from also processing transactions and then doing settlements in bitcoin. The ACH network processes 35.2 billion transactions per year. How many settlement transactions between banks are there? Fewer than ACH. The current US financial system isn’t really built on the dollar but numerous independent networks.

Lemmy loves open source except if it is bitcoin or Ethereum. I don’t get why so many are so happy for their government to be able to control their wealth through currency manipulation. Plus governments also use money to suppress dissent or ideas the gov’t doesn’t like, aka things like Wikileaks.