Bitcoin is for dodging sanctions and the influence America has over the international banking and payment systems. It’s also may shield third parties from sanctions the US may impose on those who transact with Iran.

Sure, but advocates for prison reform don’t have to be incarcerated.

People leaving Twitter now is not very impressive. Less “seeing the light” and more “Trumpgret”.

I’ll remind you that the Debian project left Twitter over a year ago. So the EFF isn’t as fast moving or comfortable with change like … Debian.

I saw a post where a Cybertruck got T-boned by like a Nissan or something. The Tesla didn’t look damaged badly at all and the other car was modern art. Tesla people were bragging about it until someone pointed out that the Nissan driver walked away while the driver of the Tesla broke both legs.

I know this is anecdote, but the point is that vehicle damage doesn’t prove people injuries.

What is up with all these puerile jokes lately? Lemmy is turning into a cafeteria table for preteen boys.

I was thinking about commenting on misogyny, but I’m not sure the people making these jokes are ready for tall-talk.

I think the spirit of shitposting is in opposition to the spirit of taxonomy. And it’s super ironic to argue over the definition.

Precisely defining shitpost would annihilate it’s meaning and we’d be forced to use another word.

If you pay attention, you’ll notice that English is actually pretty bad at keeping slippery meanings contained inside her words.

I used to be into snake Youtube, but I had to stop because most of those bozos are putting themselves in stupid danger and borderline abuse the animals by handling them and causing them stress for content. One of the guys that I watched obviously cribbed his ascetic from Steve Irwin to the point that he followed his hero to an early grave after being bit.

This bozo is a content creator and his desire to help science or snake-bite victims is a thin veneer to justify taking risks that even the Jackass dudes would think is crazy. All for clicks.

By encouraging amateur herpetology with venomous animals this dude will probably cause more invenomation injuries than any contribution to medicine will save.

The State needs to have procedures and guidelines in place to protect capital punishment supporters from any pain or suffering caused by executions.

This is crazy. The Artemis II had to get fast enough to escape our gravity, flew to the moon, did a Tokyo drift around the moon gaining speed the whole time.

There are few good options to slow down in space, and the plan is to hit the brakes by slamming into the Earth’s atmosphere at a speed that so far outside human experience that the numbers don’t make sense.

Re-entry is actually the craziest, and most dangerous part of this mission.

I don’t want to be pessimistic, but I’m a Challenger-kid and this whole business gives me anxiety.

My analogy is apt because both guns and drugs are dangerous and our society treats the things very differently for arbitrary cultural bullshit.

Pointing out that legally, guns are OK doesn’t contradict my point, it furthers it.

I pulled this off reddit. I know that’s gross, but this was too good not to share.

Just a reminder that Federal Law shields people who sell guns from liability over the just as inevitable consequences of that industry.

Had a friend who did this with poison ivy. I’m still laughing decades later just thinking about it.

I’ve seen figures that cars kill between 500 and 700 kids EVERY DAY, worldwide. Can you imagine if the Terrorists got 700 kids just once?

We’d probably do something about that.

I’ve never trusted full disk encryption because I understand the person most likely to get locked out of my data is me.

I can see the use case for laptops, but my security policy is “if you have physical access, you win”.

You should keep in mind that this is a negotiation position, and it’s normal to ask for the world at the beginning so the inevitable compromise may be more in your favor.

40 years ago, this article was titled “the toxic chemicals in no-smoking signs are the real cause of lung cancer”

My prediction is that it’ll come out that the Trump Administration was negotiating with Ahmed Chalabi the whole time.