i just wish that new technology that came out was cool and good and made our lives better. When I was a kid all the phones went from landlines with boingy cords to wireless! The internet went from annoying dial-up noises that turned off the phone to so fast you could watch a movie faster than you could download a song just 5 years prior. Cars started coming with the unlocking button fob! THE BUTTON YOU PRESS TO UNLOCK YOUR CAR! it was so cool! Now all the technology sucks man. When's the last time some little cool gizmo came out that made our lives better?
This is fanfiction. There's no analysis of power, no analysis of capital, no understanding of the overwhelming problems with any blockchain technology.
And worse it's boring. If you're going to be a leftist crank about some weird thing, do aliens or something
Just to entertain the idea for a second that some shitcoin will actually level the global market. Let's ignore the fact that there are plenty of ways to re-annonymize coins and all the other problems with it.
What would compel any holder of large capital to use it? What is the fulcrum of power that will stop these entities from using fiat currencies? If the global system right now benefits them so much (it does) why would they give it up and use something that doesn't?
embarassingly naive. The only thing Blockchain technology is good at is fleecing people who still havn't realized its a failed technology with no future beyond money laundering and scamming rubes
More importantly, is there any evidence that politeness and trying as best as possible to engage in good faith in every interaction leads to better outcomes? Is Posting Praxis?
Obviously not! We're all just screaming into the void for our own entertainment. If you wanted to make the world better you wouldn't waste your time on a federated reddit clone telling people they're being too rude.
What I look for in a bank is that it refuses to pay its rent on things like buildings and hosting contracts. That means they'll keep my money extra safe instead of spending it on foolish things like keeping continuing to be a bank.
These conservatives view the actions of liberals and urbanists like the Batman views the actions of the Joker. Oh you're building walkable cities, Joker? Is that so you can trap them all inside in an evil plot?! What's next, parks for kids? You're sick, Joker.
":The interesting thing about it is, it's such a difference releasing content for players that are playing your game instead of saving up all of that content for one big release that you're going to do later. So we came to the realization that this wasn't the right way to be developing for all of Overwatch. It was about a year and a half ago that we made the decision to really shift strategy. That's when we rapidly shifted the resources on our team to work on launching Overwatch 2, and that's what came out last October."
We realized the content treadmill model is the best way to make money so we're throwing two and a half years of work in the garbage in order to get more money from the Live Service model.
whats crazy to me is that it took them that long to realize it.
It's becoming increasingly easy to call yourself a Luddite these days, both because it gives you a chance to explain the actual Luddities, but also because everything invented in the last decade fucking sucks and everyone knows it. Every time Silicon Valley tech dweebs roll out something else everyone's just hoping that it can be smashed and wont just be around forever making everyone's lives worse. AI? Blockchain? FinTech? Effective Altruism? TikTok? I wish we could smash these up as easily as you could smash a fucking textile factory.
Wow grumpy pants! Perhaps you need to take some time to chill out in front of a good Marvel (c) Cinematic Universe (tm) movie about how cool it is when we all work together in a light-hearted, irreverant but inspirational way towards the ultimate benefit of the United States
Well have you ever thought about how rude you're being by talking about something that isn't in the United States? Pardon us for just trying to contribute to whatever you're talking about but also its probably a lot less important than the United States. You ask a lot of questions about what makes someone "from" a culture but the more important question is: how are they like Americans? Do they like our movies? Do they know english enough that I could travel to their country and yell at them loudly and slowly and they'd understand? I just think you need to find a new perspective on this because yours is currently very whacky. Perhaps you should be come more American at heart.
there's an alternate reality where the USSR won and Comrades of Duty (it sounds better in Russian) is the most popular video game series and there's a level where you get to absolutely whip down a river gunning down nazis in this thing
Dont forget that in your fantasy world the program code would have to have 0 bugs!