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  • Bear with this awful logic: ISIS is against Christians, Christo-fascists are Christians, ISIS is antifa.

    Except ISIS is Islamo-fascist, and has more in common with the Christo-fascists than just about any other group.

    Edit: well there’s also the Judeo-fascists and Hindu-fascists, Buddho-fascists, Tao-fascists… I think the problem might be the fascists.


  • I think the problem is that it’s using news articles, a big percentage of which are going to be corporate news, which will downplay any fascistic threats that may help their bottom line or hurt readership. They also may not cover stories that wont get many clicks.

    It also seems to be mostly quantity based for determining severity. Which is fairly dumb, like many LLM based projects.








  • Won’t the economy have to go flat (stop growing) since the supply of bitcoin is fixed? Otherwise the value of bitcoin will always be going up. Which leads to hoarding and speculating, which was part of the reason for dropping the gold standard.

    Unrelated note: part of why humanity stopped making our money out of precious metals was because the metal was worth more and more while the dollar held steady. So people started shaving the edges off silver coins, and then recievers had to start weighing money at the time of transaction (which slowed it all down). Making money fungible was a huge advantage for commerce.

    Bitcoin transactions feel a lot like having to double check that the coins you’re receiving are actually “real” and that you’ll be able to trade them later. The lighting network feels like a tab at the hardware store where anyone can skip town anytime they want.