The dollar is representative of the work you contributed to the economy
If that’s true, nobody on Social Security Disability would be getting money.
The dollar is representative of the work you contributed to the economy
If that’s true, nobody on Social Security Disability would be getting money.
So basically, the more people who believe in the value of some thing, the more that thing holds actual value?
Yes. That’s how value works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_value
The paradox of value (also known as the diamond–water paradox) is the contradiction that, although water is on the whole more useful, in terms of survival, than diamonds, diamonds command a higher price in the market.
Real money is backed by a country’s respective economy
True.
its an IOU from the government
False.
An IOU from the government is a bond.
If someone says something that a lot of people want to be true with no evidence… it ain’t true.
A coaster does not necessarily violate minimalism, but true minimalism would not need a coaster because surfaces would not be harmed by a drink with condensation.
Your variety of minimalism means people don’t buy nice things, which is bad because nice things last longer. Plastic chemically decays, sometimes in harmful ways, whereas wood is a long-term investment if you maintain it properly.
Even the descendants of slaves are living in a country slavery helped build.
Nothing they do will ever mean anything, because nothing can redeem the past.
That’s a whole mess of differing theologies, some of which (many of which) have been declared heretical.
The general term for this branch of theology is Christology and lots of stuff has been written about it.
And HTTPS does that. It’s encrypted.
Well, I suppose Fascists will always hate fat people.
I’m aware of how you think it should work (Usenet, basically) but how does moderation actually work on Lemmy? Can someone be banned from a sublemmy on one instance and not banned from it on another?
I don’t want to share an instance with the nutballs on the tankie instance or the nutballs on the fascist instance.
Chromium browsers don’t allow extensions (uBlock Origin being the best) to block ads as effectively due to their implementation of Manifest V3. The Firefox implementation doesn’t share that limitation.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/17/23559234/firefox-manifest-v3-content-ad-blocker
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-firefox-recap-next-steps/
Yes, there is a difference, but it’s minor and big stuff, like adblocking not working as well, are true of Chrome and Chromium.
Edge is Chrome.
Insurgencies work and has been proven time and time again. See: Iraq
The insurgents lost in Iraq. I know you stopped paying attention when FOX News moved on, but the Iraqi government won.
Yeah, I don’t trust TERF Island to do this right. They’ll ban Contrapoints long before they ban Rowling.
They’re completely meaningful and not at all patronizing. (Do you even know what that word means?)
Not wrong, in that the studies are valid, and completely relevant to your point.
Guns kill their owners far more often than they kill home invaders and other intruders.
Glass is heavy and fragile, and dangerous when it breaks.