Zoe @ekg@librem.one
Wealth is a legal fiction.
Believer in absolute human rights.
//Board member of an organisation with ~$9m in total assets.
Generally knowledgeable in many fields of study.
Bad at CW, feel free to remind me.
Please mute me if you don't feel up for whatever.
I speak/write English as a second language.
Dyslexic and autistic, please be patient with my responses.
Anti-normal.
Joined May 2019
@irestartpcs @jerry temu is an advanced investor scam. Similar to a pump and dump, or ponzi. The "product" only exists to appear legitimate.
Zoe
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It's easy to see how Twitter's anti-woke obsession drove away key user segments in a matter of months, and made the business not viable. It's harder to see how newspapers have done the same exact thing to themselves, slowly, over 50 years, as the demographics of who buys news, has changed beneath their feet.
If your business depends on everyone paying a monthly fee, to hear rich white men lie about and harm them... I don't know how to tell you this, but that business is not long for this world.
@ceoln yeah everyone going by the same call sign is a big no.
@ceoln no, they are just poorly implemented. Getting voice, only, communication right has been a problem for a century, radio was first used in the great war, and their exist plenty of experience to draw on.
@ownlife two reasons, it's the ones you here about, and genre fragmentation. If you invent a new genre for each book every book can be a best seller.
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@morgun @malwaretech in my experience rich people share the same fears you have, they want to be loved, respected, and have some where safe to return every night. They just have very different circumstances to achieve that.
@inthehands after some further research it seems like I was mistaken and a "bail in" can include deposits. I highly doubt that would be realised due to the harm it did when it was last tried, apparently involving the Bank of Cyprus.
@inthehands the term you are looking for is "bail in", a "bail in" is when non-deposit creditor is asked to take a hair cut.
@malwaretech anyone that say rich people "deserves" to be rich isn't serious. I don't mind people being rich, but I also don't see it as a problem if they lose money.
@ygalanter @w7voa no, the "bail in" is funded by commercial banks. Unless you have money deposited at a bank, or do business with an organisation that do, you will not fund any of this.
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When I was six, I asked for a pair of roller skates for Christmas. On Christmas morning, I opened my present to find a single roller skate.
I knew my parents didn’t have a lot of money, so I was still grateful and determined to make it work and I thanked my mom and dad and went outside to play with my roller skate.
I proceeded to “skate” along the curb with the roller skate on my right foot and my sneaker on my left foot and I was honestly having a blast when my mom came outside.
Mom: Uhhh…what are you doing?
Me: I’m roller skating, mom!
Mom: Yeah, but why are you only wearing one of your roller skates?
Me: There are TWO skates?!?
It turns out my mom wrapped the roller skates separately to give me more presents to open, but the other roller skate got buried in the Christmas morning shuffle and nobody noticed because I didn’t say anything about only receiving one roller skate.
Today marks ten years since I lost my mom and, every so often, I remember that day because it was so very her, doing whatever she could with what she had, even if it meant wrapping presents separately to make me feel like I had more.
If your mom is still around, hold her tightly. If she’s gone, remember the good times fondly.
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"A sugar replacement called erythritol – used to add bulk or sweeten stevia, monkfruit and keto reduced-sugar products – has been linked to blood clotting, stroke, heart attack and death, according to a new study."
Preformative Credibility
@Miriamm thanks, numbers I have seen before includes secondary degrees.
@Miriamm that sounds low, what is counted?
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Today on the first day of Women’s History Month I learned that after no fault divorce was finally legalized in 1970, female suicide rates dropped 20%🤯
The "strong 1950s family unit" that the GOP is nostalgic about ignores record high female suicide, suffocating domestic violence, & zero female financial autonomy.
But maybe that's GOP's goal all along?🤔
#WHM2023
Wealth is a legal fiction.
Believer in absolute human rights.
//Board member of an organisation with ~$9m in total assets.
Generally knowledgeable in many fields of study.
Bad at CW, feel free to remind me.
Please mute me if you don't feel up for whatever.
I speak/write English as a second language.
Dyslexic and autistic, please be patient with my responses.
Anti-normal.
Joined May 2019
