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TerranFenrir

@ TerranFenrir @lemmy.ca

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  • What did you stupidly believe as a child?

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    • I thought all women had balls.
    • Testicles act as urine tanks.
    • Sex is a procedure done in a hospital, under the supervision of doctors. A couple goes to a hospital to perform sex when they plan on having a baby.
    • Penetrative sex involves parting butt cheeks and "dropping the penis in". This was my first wet dream lmfao, where I was "dropping my dick" in a hot friend. Except, the friend was a boy and so was I.
    • Thinking I was straight.

    (Clearly, I got access to porn quite late, and sex Ed didn't exist at school or home)

  • What did you stupidly believe as a child?

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  • When I was young, like >7,

    I'm sorry, couldn't help myself... Do you mean <7?

  • whotd uses brave

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  • I've seen the following types of people:

    • People who ask how to do it, and get amazed.
    • People who legitimately are not bothered by ads.
    • Who think it to be a "headache", and to just "let it be".
    • Who are incredibly tech illiterate to the point of frustration.

  • whotd uses brave

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  • I used to use brave when I just started becoming privacy aware. Here are the reasons why:

    • it's chromium based. I loved the way chromium based browsers looked, especially when compared to Firefox. They had a comforting feel to them, whereas Firefox had a very "office-ey" feel to it.
    • I wasn't aware of the issues of chromium dominating the market share that it does and how monopolization in this manner can be harmful.
    • I wasn't aware of the people behind brave.
    • I had seen older people use Firefox (with the default UI, which I didn't like). That's why, I associated Firefox with "old and outdated". I hadn't seen anyone use brave, and it looked quite good at the time for me.

    Now, I use Mercury, a Firefox fork (ikik, it hasn't seen an update in a long time, shush). I've loaded it up with my custom CSS, so its appearance is exactly the way I like.

  • whotd uses brave

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  • The reason to promote Firefox is different. As far I've observed people here, Mozilla isn't viewed in a particularly high regard here. It's just viewed as the "less bad" option.

    Google is an ad company. Targeted ads pay more. Invasion of user privacy is highly necessary for having good targeted ads. Hence, Google simply cannot not invade user privacy.

    Mozilla is incompetent, yes. But it's a non profit with a revenue model very different than that of Google.

    Blink has a scarily high share of the market. Google is blink's curator. This gives Google a scarily large amount of power. That is another reason I've seen many cite as a reason to use Firefox.

    I've never seen anyone dick riding Mozilla.

  • "autocorrect" has been around for centuries

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  • got tired of dwm lmao

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  • Sure, I'll take a look :)

  • got tired of dwm lmao

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  • I think 2023?

  • what I think of the apps

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    • Nothing wrong with a service existing.
    • Racist to assume that only people belonging to a certain race use these apps.
    • The apps are exploitative, sure. Advocate for better labor regulations here.

    This is the equivalent of saying "don't wanna make your own coffee? Go to Tim Hortons to be served by lower class Indians". Same message, but with the racism highlighted.

  • Trump told Jesse Watters he’s building White House ballroom as a ‘monument’ to himself ‘because no one else will,’ host claims

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  • Fr. Imagine a competent, evil politician.

  • got tired of dwm lmao

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  • Kde looks unpolished. Always reminds me of windows.

    I don't know why, but gnome is just attractive in a way that makes me want to suck gnome dick

  • Our payment systems are too dependent on the USA

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  • BTC is highly inefficient.

    Central banks are good, as they can manipulate interest rates to avoid recessions. This is not possible with BTC.

    The USD was tied to gold during the great depression. This fact was one of the biggest reasons why the depression lasted so long. Had the USD not been tied to gold, the depression would have been much shorter.

    If BTC becomes the primary method of transaction, be prepared for recessions to be as devastating.

  • Our payment systems are too dependent on the USA

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  • Not European, but here's a structure that I think would be best (for all currencies, European or not).

    Central bank creates a nationalised corporation "National payments processor". Loans out money to NPP to create a copyleft MasterCard competitor.

    NPP's objectives are to reduce interchange fees, establish sovereignty in this space while keeping transactions secure.

    Now, from what I understand, a retailer cannot charge different rates for different payment processors. Meaning, if I am a retailer, I can't charge more to customers who pay using Amex (who have high interchange fees) compared to those who pay using visa/MasterCard (lower fees).

    Meaning, if NPP keeps interchange fees low, the benefit would be passed on to retailers directly. Consumers would see 0 benefit. If consumers see 0 benefit, no one's going to pay using NPP. This is the case with interac in Canada. Interac payments are better for retailers. But I see 0 cashbacks through my interac card. Why should I not use my visa credit card instead that gives me better cashbacks?

    Therefore, here's what NPP does: it charges marginally less interchange fees compared to visa Mastercard, WHILE passing most of the fees charged to the retailer directly to the consumer as direct cashback.

    Consumer adoption happens because of better cashbacks, retailer adoption happens because there are people willing to pay using an NPP card (and also the sliiiightly less interchange fees).

    Now, to the organisational structure of NPP. State owned corps are prone to corruption. Accountability structures are top down. If I, the taxpayer owner of NPP am seeing corruption in NPP, I have to threaten my MP with my vote, who has to threaten the PM with their vote, who then has to threaten the finance minister with their job, who then has to threaten the head of the central bank with their job, who then has to threaten the ceo of NPP with their job.

    Instead, while the state maintains equity over NPP, the operations of NPP are controlled by a state started consumer cooperative, where member owners are those who own an NPP card. This way, accountability structures are much more direct. The inefficiencies of state owned corps are severely reduced while maintaining the benefits.

  • surely your hobby can't be that expensive

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  • Coffee beans take up 12% of my grocery budget :(

    It's delicious though.

  • Bedtime story

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  • Hm, maybe some of the agents invented immortality? Technology that could do away with mortality? Or maybe they just came across a cheat code? It's kinda irrelevant how they ended up being immortal. What is relevant is what happened after immortality was achieved.

    Death acted as a natural end to resource accumulation for a given agent. Immortality led to never before seen resource disparities. God emperor levels of resource disparities.

    These accelerated war, which accelerated resource disparities which then accelerated war, which finally concluded with the great genocide.

  • You're given $20,000 USD (or the equivalent in your local currency) to spend, but anything still left by the end of the day you lose for good. What are you spending it on?

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  • Put it in tax free saving accounts. Duh.

    I don't have anything that I want that I can think of. Maybe a little carpet?

  • Crikey that's expensive

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  • Coffee roasted less than 48 hours ago from a local roaster costs me around 1CAD per cup (16g shot)

  • New reference sheet I made while learning #inkscape !

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  • Nice!!!

    No tomatoes AND ONIONS??? Bruh that's literally what I make all my sauces with

  • Silver

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  • The current ones suck. But yes, the concept is cool and I'm sure they'll be perfected in the years to come.