Yeah, it’s relatively easy to make good money in crypto if you understand investing. There are a lot of things that are illegal in regulated securities markets that are not yet illegal with crypto.

I intentionally don’t invest in crypto, because it doesn’t produce anything. Any money you make is just taken from another investor, usually because they don’t know what they’re doing. When you invest in a company, you make products and sell them to customers. Something is created and rarely are people cheated.

The people investing in crypto are intentionally cheating uninformed investors in a way that is not possible in regulated securities markets.

FT is for suckers. Barron’s is the better news source.

20 years ago

Wait until you find out what people were writing about 2000 years ago.

Where will those users come from? Not from the Fediverse. There aren’t enough Fediverse users to sustain even one month of Threads growth. They do not care about the Fediverse at all.

Threads has lots of users because they just signed everyone up who has an Instagram account. They aren’t trying to steal Fediverse users or “extinguish” the technology, they’re trying to be a Twitter alternative.

Also, people here don’t need extra content from Threads. We already have content. You can just personally block Threads if you don’t like it. It’s your choice.

Elected 16 years ago… Let’s be clear, Hamas does not represent or protect the people of Gaza. Palestinians are the original hostages in Gaza, and they have two groups of kidnappers: Hamas and the Israeli government.

Well that’s mainly because of “recognition”. Few countries recognize Hamas as a valid leadership organization of Gaza. That’s the difference between an army and a terrorist group. The army belongs to a recognized country.

But that’s good. Meta doesn’t care about Lemmy or Mastodon because they’re tiny. Threads is a threat to Twitter. They want to integrate with Mastodon just because Twitter doesn’t. That’s it.

They’re not going for “total control” of your conversation about Gaza. You are not important to them. You are not the main character in some David and Goliath story. There are only Goliaths.

Yes, for all the people saying “it’s not that many”, this is a huge number. No military campaign can withstand 80% losses. That’s like the losses Napoleon took invading Russia. Or Hitler, invading Russia…

Guys, I’m thinking this invading thing is hard in this part of the world.

The US did that with pallets of cash in Afghanistan, but that was explicitly money for warlords. No one tried to hide it. It was completely different.

Are you old enough to remember actual flame wars on Usenet, etc.? That’s what I’m talking about. The people who invented the term “flame war” weren’t deterred by a high barrier to entry.

Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria.

Speaking of the Simpsons, do you think the people on alt.nerd.obsessive were better?

Yes in most circumstances. It’s valuable to let people speak, but not for like 5 comments back and forth.

Wouldn’t it take less time and money to just bake them? They’re just pies. It’s not like the recipes are secret. I could see a deli doing that but not a bakery.

If you already have the whole bakery all you need is some butter, flour, sugar, and eggs. And you can advertise “Not from Costco!” pies.

Because launching satellites is very similar technology to launching ICBMs. They have a nuclear program and are trying to miniaturize their bomb to fit on the missile. Developing ICBMs would not be great for world peace, although China would probably tell them to sit down and be quiet.

Or in a small walkable town. They exist. You don’t need a 100,000 people city to have easy access to apples.

No banks ask why you’re withdrawing money, except security questions for your benefit. Like to see if you are being scammed. They don’t really care, even about a million dollars.

The person who receives the money is going to have to deposit it in a different bank, so banks are just transferring money back and forth.

No tax authority or security agency knows about it (at least in the US). You are just not that important. If you don’t pay taxes or do something illegal they’ll get you later. The bank keeps records for like 7 years.

I have directly been told lots of nutty things. Just yesterday someone told me that my nickname in a video game was affecting my lag. That doesn’t make any sense.

Why does this bother you unless you actually have an issue with women? The fact that you’re complaining about it indicates that it is meaningful to you.

The US only cares about uncooked food: meat, fruit, etc. I’ve personally declared Reese’s peanut butter cups, as a joke. They look at you like this:

The long term effects are going to be serious whiplash. The monetary regime would go from severe inflation to super low inflation (below what Argentina needs). They will essentially be using Argentinian Government funds to buy US dollars, thereby helping the US keep its inflation under control.

That’s good for the US, but Argentina may fall into a recession. Growing economies need a growing money supply or businesses will not be able to borrow money to expand. By essentially hitching their economy to the slower growing US economy, Argentina is ensuring that their businesses pay high interest rates to borrow money. The US government is paying you 5%, risk free. Why tf would anyone loan money to Argentina less than 10-15%?

Remember how US tech companies all fired people at the same time when the Federal Reserve increased interest rates (it happened)? That’s what will happen to many companies in Argentina at the same time.

Edit: lol, he was just lying about “dollarization” for votes because it’s nuts:

He added no dollarization was planned in the short-term, as fiscal and monetary stabilization were need, the first source said.

https://news.yahoo.com/finance/news/milei-economic-team-led-former-175214678.html

The gauchos are the settlers you mentioned. The soldiers were mostly British mercenaries. Did you read the article?