2008 turned me from a lib into an anarchist. I’ve completely lost faith in their facade over oligarchy.

That’s consistent across all social media!

How does the dealer get the cash without potentially exposing their location?

Once the cops find it, there’s no stakeout-proof way to recover it.

I think they’re talking about people who didn’t vote at all, not Trump voters.

When democrats win: crickets “We didn’t win enough so I’m afraid our hands are tied.”

I already have people sleeping next to my house so that would be a huge improvement. YIMBY!

Apparently my standards for dentists have been too low, thanks for the info.

He looks like Uncle Sam but fun

So when you asked for a full quote up front, they gave it to you?

Have you ever actually tried this? They often don’t even know the brackets up front.

Isn’t it just someone else watching the kids and cooking the food? Except now that daycare worker or cook might be a man.

It’s certainly an efficiency improvement (different people different skills) but not double the work IMHO.

Now when covid hit and we had to educate our own kids and cook our own food, while holding down our jobs - that was double the work.

In addition to the other reasons, there is also the worry of surprise charges. You’ll go in for a $100 checkup, only to find a bunch of other “standard” fees and services tacked on at the end. They’ll act like this is normal, and you’re weird for asking how much it costs up front.

This is twice as bad at the doctor than at the dentist.

Never forget that real technological progress is being made, but an ever-growing percentage of your labor is stolen from you.

All rolls must be on the blockchain now.

A little bit. But mistakes happen, it’s a huge order, and they were transparent about it. I can accept that so long as it stays infrequent.

Your wallet stores digital coins that are blindly signed by an exchange. The Taler Exchange keeps funds matching all unspent digital cash in a settlement account. (Source)

When you add dollars or bitcoins or whatever to Taler, you’re making a deposit.

The only thing we all have in common politically is that we don’t think social media should be controlled by a handful of gigantic manipulative corporations.

“Exactly! Simply do that for every product you need to live.”

Why deposit your money with a central authority? The linked website points out that Taler adds instant confirmation to Bitcoin, but you can already get that using the Lightning Network - without custodial risk.