@doomsdayrs Money is just one of the issues. You’d have to leave everything and, more importantly, everyone you know, your whole social context, behind.

It’s not easy to do, especially when you’re an adult with friends, family, romantic partners and responsibilities. You can’t just pack them all up with you, as they have the same problem, just one level down. And if you don’t have the means to travel frequently from one country to another, you might just as well leave for another planet. Sure, electronic communication exists, but it’s not a substitute.

@doomsdayrs “just leave your country” is kinda privilege talk. Not everyone can do this. And it’s not even always about money.

@starlight

@TheReanuKeeves Doom

@TheReanuKeeves 25.

Old enough to be an adult, but your body hasn’t started to disintegrate yet.

@communism

> Some people get turned on seeing topless men

If someone sees my torso and gets aroused, why is it my problem? Moreover, why is this even a problem at all?

You get hots from other people? Congratulations, you’re human.

All of this is such a non-issue. And it’s just to keep women down.

@Wahots

@arsCynic see also: there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism.

@CaptainBasculin

@arsCynic Newsflash: any currency under the Sun works like that. And stocks. And options. And any other form of speculative wealth.

And most of wealth on Earth is just that - speculative. The gold standard was abolished long time ago, and, some might say it’s for the better. Look it up.

Yeah, that paper in your pocket isn’t based on anything tangible. It’s just paper we agree is valuable. It’s not real in the same way a knife is.

Crypto is just a little bit more open about it. It’s just lines of math we agree are valuable.

And scams have existed in traditional currencies long before cryptocurrency. Same as currency trading, aka “encouraging you to buy more if it”.

So, if you want to hate on anything, hate on a concept of currency and speculative wealth in general. Cryptocurrency is just the latest form of it.

And, frankly, it’s just useful for avoiding unfair shit like international sanctions aka some fat cats deciding to bar me from donating or receiving funds

@CaptainBasculin

@turnip

> It can cause dimensia

I’m sorry, what the fuck? And what is “dimensia”? Does it have anything to do with spacetime dimensions?

@Nikls94

@AnonomousWolf
> gay men earn more than straight men

Who told you that?

@Kurtagag

@bpt11 Soda and beer cans. There’s always a little bit left.

@ThatWeirdGuy1001 That’s because it’s not only ingredients that are important but order, relation and interaction between them also is. Hypthetically, in terms of *elements*, in a closed system, the engine that has burned through its fuel is no different than a freshly fueled one. But the engine has reordered them in order to extract some energy. So they are not chemically the same, strictly speaking.

@TehBamski

@taxuswc yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

@asklemmy

@southsamurai *pistol hands*

@asklemmy Not a prank, just a story. Back at the Uni, we had a hall in the building, and that was where all of the administration was sitting. This was also one of two spots students hung out during breaks.

In there, there was an “Internet kiosk”. In practice, the damned thing was just a crappy WinXP PC with a touch screen and a metal keyboard. It was useless, actually, almost nobody ever touched it, because there were better alternatives in the computer class. The speakers were loud, though.

By default, it opened a browser with a Uni’s website as a homepage.

I loved how amazingly useless it was. So It was my primary target.

We ran Doom on it, we replaced the browser with MS Paint (boosting the usefulness 100-fold), replaced the homepage (at this point the whole administration learned what the fox said and that Rick Astley was never gonna give them up by heart, because it was 2013 and Internet was still cool).

On a year 3 I had to stop, though, because the dean was after my blood.

@shuro Here’s one more.

If you have a Unix-using friend who relies on the command history just a lil bit too much - like scrolling a dozen lines just to find an “ls” command, replace .bash_history file with a poem of your choosing with lines ordered backwards next time they forget to lock their session.

Don’t forget to back up the old file, though.

@asklemmy

@shuro The thing is, if he cares so much about some stupid logo shield, he IS a fool, after all :D

@asklemmy

@shuro Wow, the first one is borderline unethical. I don’t say I didn’t like it, but I certainly wouldn’t do that.

The second one, though, is all around great. Will I try it some time? I dunno, maybe? :D

@asklemmy

@shuro Ahh… I dunno, I think if a person cares about representing some automotive brand so much, they just deserve being mocked and made fun of.

Wonder if that guy learned a lesson.

@asklemmy

@wonderfox_dev Not bad, if lil bit morbid.

I *thought* to use mistranslations some time, but nah.

@asklemmy

@asklemmy Here’s one more from me, also computer-related:

If you’re in a non-English speaking country and your machines use layout switch function, add *one* more keyboard layout on every system you touch. Doesn’t matter which one, but bonus points if it’s as similar to ones present as possible, but different enough to matter - for example some letters are “switched”. I used German, French and even Bulgarian.

Lock the session and watch the reaction.

You are welcome.