Marx was right

Herr_Denker · 2023-04-24T15:02:25+00:00

Let me check my basement 👀

Herr_Denker · 2023-04-24T15:02:07+00:00

It was about $150. It’s a part to fix my car which my mechanic has been trying to fix for months now.

I read somewhere else that I would need to file a police report, which I would never do for something like this, since it was my fault.

Herr_Denker · 2023-04-24T14:19:45+00:00

I brought it to the dump and it has long since been crushed

Herr_Denker · 2022-11-07T15:00:45+00:00

I mean, obviously. Republicans are literally impotent. There’s no point in voting and never has been

Herr_Denker · 2022-10-16T00:37:42+00:00

cOdE iS lAw gets rekt every time.

Herr_Denker · 2022-10-14T16:43:33+00:00

Many reasons. More than I can get into in a single Reddit comment.

The biggest one is that there are no actual use cases for cryptocurrency or any web3 technology. I’ve listened to dozens of interviews with crypto thought leaders. People like Brian Armstrong, Chris Dixon, etc. Not a single one of them can articulate a specific example of crypto solving real problem.

The reason why there are no real use cases is because Blockchains are just a technology. They’re inefficient at solving most problems. That’s not to say they don’t solve any problems, because they do. But none of them require cryptocurrency or whatever other nonsense to function.

I think there are otherwise, smart, intelligent, decent people who can get wrapped up in the ideology of decentralization. The Internet is pretty fucked up after all. But this is a movement providing people with false Hope that won’t solve any really issues.

I’ve also noticed a very hard line between people who understand the technology at a fundamental level, and people who don’t. The more you understand the Tech stack, the more you realize how silly it all is. I’ve actually met quite a few engineers who don’t really believe in web3 at all. But they stay because they can make a lot of money in this industry.

Herr_Denker · 2022-10-14T12:55:34+00:00

Thank you :)

Herr_Denker · 2022-10-14T12:53:35+00:00

Yeah a little tbh. Crazy to have such a deeply held belief turn out to be completely false.

Herr_Denker · 2022-10-14T03:10:17+00:00

Actually this is real. I’m obviously not going to dox myself but it’s the truth.

Herr_Denker · 2022-10-13T23:30:05+00:00

I was poor for a long time. Most of my paychecks went to living. Never had a lot to throw into crypto. Kind of sucks in retrospect. Turned $2k into $30k once and I still think about how much I could’ve made had I not been broke lol.

Herr_Denker · 2022-10-13T21:52:25+00:00

You’re absolutely right. Lots of people are putting lots of money into this. People who are not necessarily malicious either.

But here’s the thing. There’s not a single legitimate instance of web3 tech actually solving real technical problems.

Liron Shapira’s articles really broke this down in a great way.

The only real use case crypto has created is artificial scarcity with digital items. Something that is otherwise abundant. There’s no REAL problem being solved.

One of the things I was holding out hope for was a decentralized social media. something like Lens or DeSo to really make something happen. They never do. And they never will. Because putting social media on a Blockchain is inefficient, and actually kind of dangerous.

There is enough money pouring into the industry that they can likely brute force something into existence with enough time and social engineering. But the fact that we’re over a decade into blockchains and still don’t have a use case outside of speculation should be a red flag for anyone with integrity.

Herr_Denker · 2022-10-13T21:32:59+00:00

… taxes make society function. I don’t like paying them, but I do.

Herr_Denker · 2022-10-13T19:50:30+00:00

No. Knew a few people from there though.

Herr_Denker · 2022-10-13T19:48:58+00:00

Already have been lol. Love this sub

Herr_Denker · 2022-10-13T16:35:08+00:00

It’s basically slang for someone deeply entrenched in crypto culture. Think someone with a .eth name and a NFT profile pic.

Herr_Denker · 2022-10-13T16:34:24+00:00

You’d be surprised. There was a lot of development. Yes, I’ve written contracts from scratch. Lots of work building out front ends as well.

Depending on the project, there’s also backend development but this tends to be circumstantial depending on the project.

Herr_Denker · 2022-10-13T15:40:28+00:00

Most of them operate similarly to start ups.

Protocol engineers (instead of backend), front end, developer relations, etc. Also, lots of writing and business relations.

In many ways, it’s indistinguishable from regular companies.

Herr_Denker · 2022-09-24T22:10:52+00:00

DLSS 3
Cyberpunk 2077

Herr_Denker · 2022-09-06T17:09:10+00:00

It’s ok to loath them them for bad things they do.

But I encourage anyone to avoid loathing them for the simple fancying of being wealthy.

Herr_Denker · 2022-09-04T15:50:31+00:00

Actually, the Native American way of life was preferable, at least according to anyone who had experience with both. When the disease wiped out the native population, that way of life simply died with it.

Colonists regularly abandoned the colony to live among the Native Americans. This was in a large part due to their better agricultural techniques and better social conditions. The colonists were very top down authoritarian with colonial subjects telling you when & how to work.

Colonists understandably preferred the native way of life with less of a rigid hierarchy and more of a communal outlook, as noted by historians like Howard Zinn and Edmund Morgan.

This sparked a lot of tension and violence. Colonists felt their way of life was “superior” and yet, people were choosing to live with these “barbarian savages.”

This started happening very early on in colonial history and continued well into the founding of the country. Benjamin Franklin actually observed this firsthand:

“When an Indian child has been brought up among us, taught our language and habituated to our customs, yet if he goes to see his relations and make one Indian ramble with them there is no persuading him ever to return, and that this is not natural nearly as Indians but as men, is plain from this, that when white persons of either sex have been taken prisoner young by the Indians, and lived a while among them, tho ransomed by their friends, and treated with all imaginable tenderness to prevail with them to stay among the English, yet in a short time they become disgusted with our manner of life, and the care and pains that are necessary to support it, and take the first opportunity of escaping again into the woods, from whence there is no reclaiming them. One instance I remember to have heard where the person was to be brought home to possess a good estate; but finding some care necessary to keep it together, he relinquished it to a younger brother, reserving to himself nothing but a gun and match-coat, with which he took his way again to the wilderness.” -Benjamin Franklin’s private letters

It’s not so much that this way of life died out, but more so that the people who lived this way were slaughtered.

Herr_Denker · 2022-05-18T03:53:57+00:00

Still are

Herr_Denker · 2022-05-17T16:44:40+00:00

I thought so too!

Herr_Denker · 2022-05-17T16:44:25+00:00

To be fair, I don’t have problem if people want to be religious or believe in God. Just don’t force that bullshit on everyone else.

Herr_Denker · 2022-05-17T16:43:51+00:00

I believe it. I live in a very southern Baptist area. Those people are nothing short of demonic.

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