I do think I answered his general question, which seemed centered around his bitcoin skepticism.
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You don't need to buy into the "Bitcoin will replace the U.S. dollar" narrative to buy $5 worth of bitcoin to send a few hundreds or thousands of emails..
No one goes to an arcade wanting to play a game and says "I don't know about these tokens, though..."
You buy bitcoin somewhere (if you can't figure this out yourself you arent trying)
And send it to whatever address this app provides to you..
> It is amazing that this has to be confirmed on a website...
I think it has a lot of memetic power because it’s plausible given the other things she’s said, like trying to deflect to economic “success” by pointing out the DOW ~is~ was over 50,000.
It also doesn’t need to be an attributed quote in order to reflect the countering sentiment: “Yes, prosecute those in the Epstein files no matter the geopolitical and economic cost.”
It also has a certain whiney, servile tone to it that makes it just annoying enough to trigger the leftist “ick” instinct.
Idk, I hope the 50,000 dol- meme picks up and people stop spreading this fabricated quote.
My 15 year old son has been building his own video games with Unreal Engine for a few years..
I was recently looking for mentors to work with him and advance his skills, targeting college aged kids / young 20s..
It was surprising to me how many people I came across in this field at this young age that are trying to focus on the "higher level" game planning aspects and not so much on the lower level implementation specifics.
It was an observation, and a criticism. It was massively reported that Shitter has a huge problem with bots, and was very publicly known when company valuations were happening. And, since the handover to Musk, there has been a documented shift to extreme-right-wing content on the site.
I'm not going to beat around the bush. You know as well as I do that X has become the de-facto social media network for extreme-right demographics and the overall quality of content has objectively diminished as a result.
Yes, the quality has gone down, but not much quality can be had in 140 characters in the first place - so it is impressive that it was managed in the first place.
> their users are either racists, bots, or simply garbage people
It is a bit intolerant to go and blanket label a large group of people like that. Sure there are extreme views, but that is what is bound to happen when you have a large amount of users on a platform. So it is on reddit, bluesky, YouTube and what-not. But there are also a lot of milder people.
This!, its amazing how some people want to drag you into their world and have a huge discussion when all you want to do is point out some part of their idea your dont like.
Yep It's some kind of logical fallacy where they try to discredit what you're saying by asserting that you must have some kind of solution in order to justify identifying a problem. It feels as if they try to 'prove' that they are smarter than you are, because you clearly don't have solutions where they clearly do.
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