This towel is warmer and bitier than usual.

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.

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.

alt.sysadmin.recovery here I come.

And HTTPS does that. It’s encrypted.

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.

According to EU rules, eventual video calls to emergency services would be obligated to have the video feature on both ends — the caller and the dispatcher.

“Obliged” means “required”

99% isn’t good enough for emergency services. Also, sometimes, video is too dangerous.