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  • If people had used cryptocurrency as a currency instead of as a “it’s totally not a security, we swear, even though we’re only saying that to evade SEC regulations a little longer” there’d be a lot fewer people calling it a scam.

    For sixteen years, crypto’s only use cases seemed to be buying illegal goods and securities fraud. Finally, we have another use case presenting: perfectly legal transactions that credit card companies have gotten cold feet about.




  • meeeeetch@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldoverwhelming furry
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    10 days ago

    Look, twenty some odd years ago, we all saw that episode of CSI and it fucked our perception of furries. But we have to move past our sophomore-in-highschool versions of ourselves and protect people who were just minding their own business and got attacked for liking something harmless that other people don’t approve of.














  • The Dems who, since the shock of the Reagan revolution, swore off having a political project beyond “don’t make it worse” but accidentally foreclosed on making things better in the process. More recently, they’ve been heard saying things like “nothing will fundamentally change” in the face of a political situation that is very different from 40 years earlier.

    Basically all the powerful Dems since Bill Clinton. Groups like the Democratic Leadership Council. They’ll poo poo ideas that regularly poll at 80% support across all parties, then spend all their political capital barely carrying a compromise position with 48% support across the finish line.

    I really hope that we’re reaching a tipping point where people who believe in a better world and pursue policies to bring it about can have sustained political success