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JarJarJedi
8hr ago
What is the boring approach do that
Dollar cost averaging. Takes time though (and of course the time to start were like 10 years ago :) You can either buy regular BTC (combined with cold-wallet storage, that protects you from certain third-party risks, remember - not you keys means not your coins) or if you're only interested on hedging and not owning actual BTC, then ETFs of course. There's a bunch of them from reputable providers now (I don't use them but I've heard about them). Look at the feeds - some ETFs for some reason have insane fees, over 1%, which is totally not warranted given they don't do anything but holding BTC. I see no reason to use those, use cheaper ones instead.
PropagandaOfTheDude
8hr ago
I view the custody concern only in terms of "my financial advisor stole everything and disappeared". At the scale of those ETFs, I don't see the bitcoin assets being significantly different from any other assets under management. That page looks helpful, thank you.
Tanista
8hr ago
Canada’s constitutional system and political deadlock make major reform of human rights law that would allow for mass deportations (which would require packing the Supreme Court, which has rules about who can be elevated that limit it to the almost entirely progressive judiciary) effectively impossible.
The government can bypass the Courts even on issues of fundamental rights. Poilevre threatened this as a way to get round judges blocking penalties for criminals.
So, theoretically, a Canadian PM could come in and just hit ignore every time the judiciary tries to interfere with their immigration law. But this has never happened and I don't even know how people would react if it did.
JarJarJedi
8hr ago
Has anyone discovered a way to let it be openly known that you don’t agree with the group problematizing social norm, while still being accepted into the group
This is literally impossible. Not going to happen. If they are into culture where you know what your running club members thing about current politics, and on top of that that they belong to a totalitarizing purity-obsessed ideology, you are not going to change their minds. You can either suck it up and learn to make a mysterious face if you don't feel comfortable openly lying, or you find another group to run with. There wouldn't be "just running" with them.
If you can't find any group that is not infected, the only advice I can have for you is to move. There's a lot of life outside of woke clusters, and a lot of very nice, interesting and different people. You are not going to change the culture but you can choose which culture you're part of.
sun_the_second
could survive a COD lobby and a gay furry discord server
8hr ago
Do we have to guarantee that absolutely zero contact with children of any kind is had by that person to be reasonably sure they don't have opportunities to diddle them?
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
8hr ago
The problem being that except for a fairly small number of jobs, there’s no way to prevent this person from having contact with children. Warehouses might be about the only low-skill job available where you could guarantee that at no time is he in contact with a child. As far as professionals, most of them are public contact jobs, so again he’ll be able to contact children.
JarJarJedi
8hr ago
I've been to LA recently and I wonder if anybody here knows the answer to this: one thing I noticed there is a lot of people selling clothes (and other things but mostly clothes and shoes) on the street. And I mean right on a random street (maybe not random, but looked random to me), not even a tent, nothing, just some hangers or tarps and clothes and shoes on them. A lot of those.
Who are they? Why are they doing it on the street? Where these clothes come from - are they stolen? I have hard time imagining legit wholesaler giving people their goods to just sell randomly on the street - but maybe I'm wrong? What is the basis for this business, how that works? How people wouldn't just steal all the clothes if they steal massively from regular retail shops - are the criminals providing security for them? Or maybe corrupt cops? No regular cops for sure since I haven't seen a single policeman around for all the time I've been in LA.
I've never seen such a thing in any other major city that I can remember. I've seen kinda grey marketplaces or genuine street markets, but those are always in certain designated places and usually have at least some infrastructure, not just randomly deployed on the street. Why this is specifically in LA?
GBRK
8hr ago
Building a wall is a little silly. I'm pro-immigration, but in this case that l means I think the amerian military should immigrate into ottowa and annex it. Canadians are very aware that they aren't a real country-- this is the obvious solution to that.
faceh
9hr ago
lol there are a lot of potential scifi analogues.
Like the MeSeeks from Rick and Morty.
But I'd reiterate my point. The ethical issues mostly arise when you assume that their mental conditioning is NOT 100% effective and that it might occur to them to do something different.
If you've got a creature in front of you that WANTS to do taxes, enjoys doing taxes, wants to want to do taxes, and doesn't ever think there's anything wrong with that... and isn't otherwise causing itself harm due to some secondary effect of the programming, I don't think you're obligated to do anything other than facilitate their ability to keep doing taxes as long as that is relevant.
But I do think that's where we're starting to lose the analogy to AI, since we kind of know less about their individual internals than we do about human's.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
9hr ago
I believe it is ethically wrong for me
No stop this. This all reads like a cope for rationalising low-openness. As a person who exists in the world and interacts with other persons, I can tell you that 99.9% of any interactions you will have with others won’t involve any theoretical discussions of tenets of cultural Marxism. And the remaining is easy to avoid or deflect.
faceh
9hr ago
Solid.
But even when I'm not, as the kids say, 'locked in', I feel pretty much immersed in my surroundings.
A couple things prompted this musing, but one of them was noticing how many people claim to just "dissociate" through unpleasant events (read: their daily job) and many seem to agree that they spend a lot of time in a dissociated state, only pulling themselves together when it is absolutely necessary.
And I just cannot relate to that.
But couldn't find a decent psychological concept to describe my experience.
Pasha
Defend Kebab
9hr ago
I think it’s mainly the perceived capability to apply violence. You should generally prefer to fight a gymbro over a construction worker with less visible muscles if you had to choose
bonsaii
9hr ago
I hate doing taxes
Fully agree. My example wasn't chosen at random. There's really no other obligation in my life that makes me as annoyed/angry as filling out tax forms.
Ponder
9hr ago
Flow state might be a term that describes the opposite of dissociation. In a flow state you feel focused attention and immersion in the activity you are doing.
bonsaii
9hr ago
Unless you're ALSO suggesting that these behavioral changes are SO ingrained that they won't gradually shift over time as they accumulate experiences and/or head trauma.
This would make for a more nuanced thought experiment (how high a rate of these behavioral drifts is tolerable, what is to be done with those that experience such drifts), but for the purposes of my current question, I'm assuming it's 100% effective and permanent.
I think that's where the ethics of it start to kick in. If your modulated human one day says "I would rather not do taxes today. In fact, can we adjust my brain a little so I can get a feeling of optimistic joy from viewing a sunset? I read some books that made that sound really nice."
I'm assuming they'd never desire an adjustment because the thought would never cross their minds.
(Aren't we just talking about Replicants from Blade Runner, here?)
My ignorance of sci-fi is obviously showing here, as two other posts noted similar concepts I did not know (Tleilaxu, Genejack). It seems Genejack is more or less what I'm thinking of. As for Replicants, I only saw Blade Runner once many years ago but I don't recall any modulation of interests/desires, more just enhance capabilities and a muted emotional response?
faceh
9hr ago
Be remiss to mention the Chinese Cities really leaning into the aesthetic. Especially with the drone shows and the round robot cops.
One wonders how much of that is 'chicken/egg' though. We expect the future to look brightly lit and with glowing colors everywhere because a lot of scifi media depicted it as such.
I mean, Kulak had that bit about us having flying cars since the Fokker Dr.I. Either way that's not quite how the future was advertised to me. And the moon base isn't going to happen in that time frame, unless the Chinese have some surprises up their sleeves.
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
9hr ago
Discord
Every time I'm foolish enough to venture into a Discord for a game or youtuber I'm interested in, it's full of trans poly individuals proselytizing their lifestyle to children. It's like all those people ever talk about, despite the server ostensibly being about anything else. And of course all the discords have rules against "hate" which means you can't ask them not to.
self_made_human
Sajjano durjano bhūyāt, durjano badhyatāṃ sadā, baddho'nyān nibandhāyet
9hr ago
Trench coats are sick. That reminds me that I should engage in some more rampant consumerism by browsing Vinted for a few good pieces. The neon mohawks? You're welcome to keep them!
self_made_human
Sajjano durjano bhūyāt, durjano badhyatāṃ sadā, baddho'nyān nibandhāyet
9hr ago
You can buy a flying car, at least if you're in the US. Moon bases? Give it 5-10 years.
urquan
Hold! What you are doing to us is wrong! Why do you do this thing?
9hr ago
Well, I suppose you and I are more psychologically different than I thought.
I have to confess, though, that I’m not necessarily surprised — the only guy who ever mirrored my orientation in this way was that one guy from high school. Intriguingly I’ve had more “oh that’s how you see it too?” conversations with trans women than men, and actually more than cis women too — nobody crack an egg over my head. I have often found that people on the margins are those who most understand the precious nature of intimate connection.
Romance for a lot of both men and women seems immensely tied up in external status in a way it never was for me; while I absolutely recognize the norms of male performance in my own romantic success, when it’s come, I am also lucky that the performances that were appealing were abundantly personal to me, showing me at my best, being myself. And that the feeling I can, at times, inspire includes both attraction and companionship.
I believe all the things I do about love as transformation not because of things I read in novels, but because of what I have experienced in love. Every time someone has loved me it has changed me for the better. Not in the sense that “I was trained” or whatever people believe about women in relationships. But in the sense that I became more tender, more empathetic, more open to other people, and in fact more spiritual. I actually believe in God in part because of my experiences with romantic love. C.S. Lewis once called Eros “the thing in the world that most begs for idolatry,” (paraphrase) and I believe it.
But our discussion here and the serendipitous chat with my girlfriend prompted a really good chat with her last night — thanks for that. She made the point that what women dream about “in traditional romances, not the werewolf thing,” she added, is a man who cares about them, talks to them when they’re down, is emotionally available, good dad material. I made the point to her that a lot of men dream about the same thing — a woman who cares about them, accepts their vulnerability, believes in their potential, sweet and loving — good mom material. The great male fear is that a woman will love him only for what he can do, and will resent him and hate him if he ever stops giving interest on their principal. This shows up in complaints about nagging, the alpha/beta dichotomy, sexless marriages, if you find a male complaint about women this is what it resolves to. I don’t want a woman who loves me because I slayed the dragon, I want a woman who gives me the strength to slay him. “Behind every great man…”
If “cishet girl lore” can dream about a man who sees a woman for who she is, for her actual personality and soul and love her for this and not for the size of her tits, well, Cishet male lore also dreams about a woman who sees a man’s capabilities even when he’s down and yet believes in him. Loves him. For who he is, for who he can become. What both sexes truly want beneath the recriminations is very similar: love, affection, and commitment based on who we are in our innermost selves, not what we present to the world. This is the meaning of “intimacy.”
It is only because this is preciously rare that anyone settles for less. And men and women both feel its lack with great yearning. And sometimes, contempt.
faceh
9hr ago
I bet there are some subcultures out there that have this feel, but you'd have go out to look for them.
faceh
9hr ago
There has never been a prolonged global financial crisis in bitcoin’s existence.
Clearly Bitcoin is warding off large financial crises!
More seriously, this has been my main logic for never going all-in on BTC.
Coinbase accounts are custodial accounts, which means they hold they keys and you just see the numbers on the website. You don't actually own any crypto, you just trust them to own it for you. Which may be ok for many people, but if that bothers you then you should get a real crypto wallet and hold your own keys. The danger here is that if you mess it up you could either lose the coins completely or get them stolen from you. Coinbase Wallet is one example of non-custodial wallet, though I am not sure how good it is (I personally prefer offline hardware wallets).
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