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cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 02:07:11 JST 
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It seems that the US Civil War actually had VERY little to do with slavery. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 00:41:14 JST 
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@polarisera My daughter-in-law says that crawling is because babies aren't getting time on their tummies, so they aren't learning to crawl until later, which also delays walking. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 12:48:10 JST
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@Ree @sun The dollar is uber-centralized. Two organizations, the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury, create it, regulate it, and control it. The banks are also under the authority of those orgs, so even checking / credit cards / loans are effectively controlled by the same two organizations. There is no decentralization and currently no way to do so even if they wanted to decentralize.
Several years ago, some large-ish banks got caught money-laundering drug profits. They denied all charges, paid a fine, promised to change their ways. A bank from a foreign nation known for its bank secrecy laws was caught--I believe it was financing known terrorists, but it could have been a drug cartel--and was given a fine after its home government intervened to request that the US not give their bank the death penalty.
So yes, there are reasons for those anti-money-laundering laws, but the biggest violators get token wrist slaps, while the person who uses Zelle to send their roommate their part of the rent risks having an IRS investigation.
I was going to be an ECON minor or a MATH minor, but I couldn't make up my mind and wanted to get my degree already, so I graduated without either minor (one class away from either of them). One of my finance professors had once been sent by USGov to help $FOREIGN_NATION build its banking system. There's so much fascinating stuff (and zillions of minute pieces of information that no one can keep straight in their minds) in that industry, and that's before the Treasury and the Fed dropped their masks and showed that they would f*ck us all and let us die as long as the banks stayed in business. I'll bet there's more conspiracies between the Treasury, the Fed, and the banks today than any conspiracy theorist could ever pursue.
So, no. Banking regulations and tax laws making it difficult to obtain and use cryptocurrency is not a good thing. It prevents more legitimate uses from arising and allows banks to exploit us longer. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 02:35:54 JST
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@coolboymew @georgia @anemone
2020 showed ery clearly that Bernie Sanders lacks appeal to minorities, which are a necessary part of any Democrat winning the White House. I still don't think they should have blocked him that way nor should they have pre-promised Hillary Clinton the nomination in the first place. I think they had some potential winners for 2016 but knowing the party's promise kept them from running. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 00:12:25 JST
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@hfaust Biden is a pre-boomer. He's my parents' generation, not mine. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 10:35:21 JST
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> Hillary lost [in 2016] because the Dems cheated Bernie
No, Hillary Clinton had around thirty years of scandals behind her by that point. And everyone who was over 35 at that time could remember at least one of them. She's always been a "rules apply to thee, not to me" kind of person. That's why she lost.
As for Bernie Sanders, in a party that relies upon ethnic minorities in urban areas for much of its electability, Sanders had essentially no appeal among those groups and still doesn't (as 2020 proved). -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 04:46:20 JST
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@lucy @Hyolobrika
They were originally one party, the Democratic-Republican Party. It splt in the middle 1800s, when their main competitor (the Whig Party) collapsed. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 08:39:28 JST
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@ElDeadKennedy @SPCmovienight This is the end of DST. US is going back to standard time for a few months. I wish we wouldn't, but there's got to be some very wealthy and powerful group that benefits from the pain (and deaths!) time shifting imposes. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 01:09:50 JST
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> 5yo asked me "what is private school?"
> Followed by lots of idiocy, but what do you expect from Octodon?
Look, Bozo. I support public schools, but I know from personal experience that they cannot and will not meet every student's needs. Instead of feeling threatened that alternative systems exist, why not rejoice?
Every family that sends their kids to private / church schools still pays any taxes that would go to support the public school system, but they don't cost the system any money.
Additionally, I raised three boys who would not have graduated had there not been alternative educational systems in place. And I still believe that one year in a church-affiliated high school saved my life by keeping me out of a gang-infested high school with loads of on-campus violence (but different gangs than the prior high school, so there was none of the "we grew up together" to protect me).
Son_1 lucked out because he had a severe foot break that took about three years to fully heal, so the school district put him on a home tutor program through the continuation school. He returned to the main campus about six weeks before graduation.
Son_2 and Half_son were able to get into a charter school in middle school, which enabled them to escape the public campuses (including violence, overwhelmed teachers who were so busy with problem kids that they couldn't help anyone else, racial tensions, and both teachers & counselors who didn't believe these guys could do anything).
So, yes. I'm a big supporter of church-affiliated schools and charter schools, because I've seen their benefits up close. And none of this means I oppose or wish to harm / close public schools*. Four of my sisters and one niece work / worked in the public school system.
I do want to reform them by capping salaries and benefits for the administrators. I think taking away the ability to divert all the money to themselves will cause many of the worst school administrators to leave the system entirely, while leading to supplies and equipment reaching the classroom and pay reaching teachers, improving things for our students. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Oct-2024 21:43:20 JST
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Looks like typhoon Kong-rey is going to hit or pass close to Taiwan today. I think this is around the 3rd typhoon to hit the island this year.
Grandson_3 was watching it on Ventusky this morning. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 28-Oct-2024 10:10:22 JST
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@jeffcliff RE: https://www.threads.net/@meidastouch/post/DBpZSW_Svp1
Is there something going on between the US military and Puerto Rico? Nothing showed in a quick DDG search. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 28-Oct-2024 09:47:29 JST
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@mangeurdenuage There is a real university called City University of New York (CUNY), so I'm not surprised at this advertisement. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 14-Oct-2024 07:46:33 JST
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https://annihilation.social/objects/4c1a92eb-23cc-4120-8a06-30551f86031b
Another reason to hate the switch from standard time to daylight saving time: no one gets it right. We just need to pick one and leave it alone. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 01:30:25 JST
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@mangeurdenuage Was that the anti-corruption guy? I saw someone mentioning that one such person had been killed. Their comment: everyone in "LatAm" should know better, so he deserved it. -
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pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 06-Oct-2024 09:46:36 JST
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@j is that john kerry hfs -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 03:27:24 JST
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RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/113233487913808059
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41711709
Here's yet another example of why FOSS projects should not allow their GitHub presence be their only presence. Host the repo elsewhere and mirror to GH or host on GH and mirror elsewhere, just make sure people always know where the offsite repo is. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 29-Sep-2024 22:44:18 JST
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@sun That's totally insane -- it is making the firewall controllable from outside the server or network, ripe for abuse. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 23:58:21 JST
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@Mitsu If everyone (else) is in Japan, they should have a big meetup. I'm not there, but I still want them to have fun. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 28-Sep-2024 12:59:18 JST
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@feld
The only reason I had a TV was for the PS4. Since I'm not planning to buy any more consoles, I won't have to find non-connected televisions. But if I bought a TV, I'd go with enc's idea above.
> connects to 'net to get firmware updates. "Oops! These updates require an account with the vendor."
> 2 months later, connects again to fix bugs in the original firmware updates. "Oops! Your account is locked until you provide a cellphone number."
> 3 months later, connect because the TV is flashing a notice across the screen that it will deactivate unless you connect it. "Oops! Your account is not verified because you did not upload a photo of your ID card."
> And so on until you tire of connecting and disconnecting it and leave it connected all the time. -
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Another Linux Walt Alt (lnxw37b2@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 11:26:10 JST
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@sun
> fediverse moderation or its lack of black and brown bodies
Lack of dark-skinned moderators and administrators is quickly solved by having such people spin up new multi-user instances.
Lack of dark-skinned fedizens? Well, if that's an issue, the people who complain about it should invite their friends.
Is this something that RO (or even worse, more DeVault trying to rescue us without even talking to us) is saying?
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