I didn’t. I left of my own accord.

“Thingie”

Or in my language – “Negocinho”.

A Negocinho and a Cabo (“a thingie and a cable”) make a phone charger (“carregador de celular”)

I’m going to work

But you can help yourself to my gaming PC.

Wow, Male AND Female burritos. We are spoiled for choice.

(If you know you know)

Exactly at 0

Stepping back and looking at technology as inventions and the stuff they do and the ingenuity that goes into them, tech is dope. And even useless tech is fun as a toy.

But for Capitalism Reasons, whenever some new technology gets announced my first thought, by necessity, is “okay cool. How are they gonna use this to fuck us over and/or to kill people here in the global south”

Because the answer is not, has never been, and never will be “they won’t”. There is ALWAYS a knife under the pillow with capitalism.

Because you touch yourself at night

sorry. I had to say that.

It’s Avon for Cis Dudes that make fun of Avon ladies

It’s the Lottery for STEM Majors that make fun of grandpas that play the lottery.

I’d say ‘it’s religion for reddit atheists’, but it’s not. AI is religion for reddit atheists. “The rapture AGI is right around the corner and when it comes around God will save the righteous and punish the sinners we will live in post-scarcity utopia. Just please ignore all the priests committing horrid crimes on children actual AI copmanies being owned by technocrats with fascist leanings who seem very horny for the idea of never having to pay a worker again. Until then we just need to pray and proselytize very hard keep investing on DA FUTER”

Sorry, the only illegal shit I do is free illegal shit (piracy)

WELL actually, it’s not illegal here in Brazil. It’s only a crime if you can be proven to be making money off of it. Downloading/copying is free game. :^)

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You’re not wrong

But keeping a government democratic and under check is a lot easier than trying to do the same to a series of corporations with anonymous investors calling the shots. Every corporation is in and of itself a dictatorship, dangerously close to an old noble clan, and we pretend we don’t see it because it’s been hypernormalised.

I’d much rather take my chances with a government, that can in fact respond to the will of the people from time to time, than with a corporation that only ever responds to money with exactly no exceptions ever.

Also because the entire thing is backed financially by energy wasted, crypto has actually been slowing down the adoption of cheaper, safer renewable energy.

People spend x dollars on generating crypto, they expect to sell it for x+profit

Ergo if energy became cheaper, crypto would devalue and we can’t have that.

More like a squat or flophouse for nerds. Daring to exist in the middle of a gentrified area.

Crypto remains a pyramid scheme masquerading as a resistance against tyranny

Ironically you know what ACTUALLY protects from powergrabs by payment processors? A fully centralised, government backed form of digital cash that is fully equivalent to paper money.

Ask a Brazilian about pix. Super low fees (often feeling non existant). And transactions can’t be invalidated on the whims of a corporate board. For something to not be buyable by pix it has to be illegal, thus having to go through every layer of checks and balances a democracy has.

The problem with visa and their ilk is that finance has been privatised. Too much power in the hands of corporations that have deftly dodged regulation that would keep them neutral and honest. Thinking privatising things further and turning everyone into a fully unregulated petty digital landlord is gonna solve anything rather than make it worse is foolhardy.

You cryptobitches have been saying it’s “early days” since 2009

It’s been 16 years. That bullshit don’t fly anymore.

Fluttershy.

Tupã bless Brazil’s pix.

At least I can still buy porn from local furry artists.

one of the most numerous and arguably the most influential religious group in modern times is not representative of religious people

Are you being serious right now?

Though I will happily agree that evangelicals are in fact the worst religious people.

The gud fedposting.

Anywhere so long as they don’t try to kill adblockers

Everything else the forks can work around. What’s important is they don’t give into manifest v3/WEI and become complicit in the death of adblockers.