reedjosh

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by reedjosh 5y ago
> Could you apply this same argument to taxes/SSNs, drivers licenses[+], and other existing centralized systems in the US? Sure, but at least driver's licenses are about public spaces. I can drive on private property all I want
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by reedjosh 5y ago
I don't at all disagree, but this will be the first one openly limiting freedoms via the government's monopoly of force. I do believe there are others already doing so too, but none of them are open and acknowledged by the public.
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by reedjosh 5y ago
This is a one hundred percent relevant and accurate comment. I believe in ten years comments like this will be respected for saying it in a time when it was unpopular.
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Because authoritarianism is antithetical to our founding nature. A centralized database that is used to control individuals is akin to China's social credit system. I've actually started seeing people argue for China style systems
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> Isn't the entire point of a public health crisis Ha, I like the wording. As if there's a point to a public health crisis. I mean, yeah this is _the_ point if the powers that be are orchestrating this. I just find the phrasing
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Lol, love your irrelevant rant. Totally agree with it 100% btw. ESG is just corporate/banker control disguised as rainbows and sunshine. Gotta love the doublespeak Orwellian world we're in. While your rant was a bit off topic, it
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by reedjosh 5y ago
I mean... Unreasonable, sure. Out of character for US systems, no, not really.
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Further, mono-cropping isn't that great for the earth either. It's easiest to scale, but destroying our soil health. It's only so prevalent as the US subsidizes low quality corn, soy, and wheat. Regenerative grazing can be do
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by reedjosh 5y ago
I never gave consent. Just because I was born here I have to give my earnings to a system governed by representatives chosen through a binary (red or blue) funnel? How can topics as complex as transgender rights, or abortion be all boiled i
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Lol, free country. Also the country with the highest per capita imprisonment. I'm in the US. It's purely Orwellian double speak.
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Okay, but in the grand scheme of things that's like 'Well, we know the earth is round.' One thing that should be agreed upon, but isn't, is that carbohydrates are not necessary in the same way alcohol is not. While carbo
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by reedjosh 5y ago
I think what you've said here is great, and clearly this conversation is controversial. My own opinions on this and many other topics are almost all controversial. That said, the flagging here seems to have killed the conversion entire
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Turns out you only need vitamin C and fiber if you're eating fructose or other sugars. There was a study in the early 1900s where two guys ate meat only for (I think) one year. I'll see if I can dig it up. Found it. Pdf warning h
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by reedjosh 5y ago
I think what you're saying here is fair. I still don't think you've addressed my other points regarding organizations using progressive language to guard themselves from criticism. But yes, I'm probably guilty of the kne
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> If anyone can give Amazon a run for its money in treating its employees badly, my bet is on Intel. For sure this, but for me it is the money. In the last year I was promoted and gained 11% at Intel. I left for a startup, and gained 40%
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> At NASA, we're on a mission of equity... You did pick the more innocuous part. The opening is the above. Equity is a word being used to mean equality of outcome. This is viewed as something deeply wrong from a libertarian perspect
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Okay, but if they send their children to christian school (I'm actually not religious myself), is that too much indoctrination for you, or is it okay for people to raise their children with their own views and culture?
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> at NASA Yup... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODfOvQ6FGXI
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by reedjosh 5y ago
How many people died of the flu this year?
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> a deadly disease that also paralyzes healthcare VS. a tyrannical government that is ever encroaching on our freedoms using scare tactics. It used to be terrorism. I suppose we're both kinda motivated by fear here, I'm just wa
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by reedjosh 5y ago
https://suckless.org/ I've been happily using non bloated tools for years now. Obviously this isn't for everyone. ;)
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> we'll again have lockdowns Enforced by an out of control government. This is such a funny argument. In my ears it rings as "We need to comply with our abusers so they'll stop abusing us."
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by reedjosh 5y ago
This is a self imposed limit. The debt ceiling is a tool for political brinksmanship and whatnot, but it's not imposed by the US's creditors.
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> That's not really how the financial system works. Money enters circulation when someone takes out a loan. It leaves circulation when that loan is repaid. It is low interest rates that cause an increase in asset values. But unlike
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Yes, it is, but it is the person misrepresenting the investment as something it's not that's the problem, not the asset itself.
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by reedjosh 5y ago
And nobody's ever had a stock broker lie to them before?
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by reedjosh 5y ago
The stock market is pumped up by dollar printing, but nobody calls the S&P a Ponzi scheme, because again, nobody lied. > The overwhelming majority of the liquidity and price action is driven by Tether which of course is backed by thi
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by reedjosh 5y ago
No new currency enjoys a stable value against the dollar unless it's in some way pegged to it. Just because a currency is not stable in value at first doesn't mean it won't stabilize. Further, we seem to be talking past each
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> The missing part is just the central administrator. No, the missing part is the actual fraud. Bernie Madoff for example literally lied about assets under management. Dogecoin is just a digitally scarce ledger, with all there is to know
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by reedjosh 5y ago
With the fed itself acknowledging it's losing the battle to inflation--4.2% over the last year--then I'd say by your definition, that, alone, renders _dollars_ unsuited as money. https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted&#

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