"The police are not here to prevent disorder, they're here to preserve disorder." -Richard J Daley right before the police beat the shit out of everybody and 'shoot to kill' was ordered.
Interestingly, NFTs could solve a lot of issues with deeds. This was posted on reddit some years ago
Spent some time working in real estate fraud. Your question [regarding somebody hacking your wallet and stealing the deed] creates a scary scenario but let me assure it isn't better now. You would be surprised at how hilariously easy it is to get on title for a property and start fucking with it.
All I need is the current owners information (public record) and I can go record a deed right now. Its called a wild deed and while they don't usually cause any trouble if your state laws are decent you can very easily wake up to someone else's name on your title and an annoying legal process to clear it.
It happens by accident ALL the time and people usually don't realize it until they try to refinance.
AINs that are different by a single digit are more than common. Deeds can be hand-written and there is a lot of room for human error in the recording process.
"Is that a 6 or a 0?" - Registrar employee about to ruin your month.
Now your neighbor "owns" your property, your lender is sending you angry letters, and you have a court date just to delete a document with a typo on it.
This is before we get into criminals actually trying to steal from you. The damage can be catastrophic. You will lose your home if you sign the wrong paper or (more recently) put your thumb on the wrong ipad.
There are issues here for sure but don't think a paper deed in a lockbox is much safer than an nft. It's just how we've always done it.
We need more than 20 people at these anti-ICE events. My comrade wisely said: show up alone you get arrested, show up with 100 people you get shot, show up with 100,000 people now we're talking.
I've been to too many of these protests with 5-15 people. Not enough people give a shit.
Not really. People are in really bad spots and need money. While I roll my eyes at grindbros and hustle culture and all this pointless/asinine tiktok influenza crap, it's pretty disingenuous to deny that people actually do need additional income outside of their main job.
That said, what you have described seems pretty annoying.
The only "evidence" I've ever seen cited (by western media of course) was all stuff the US does on a larger scale: blocking candidates from ballots, closing/changing polling places at last minute, etc (can't remember the rest, it was too stupid to take seriously). I have however read several accounts that the elections were overseen by hundreds of world officials and has been repeatedly said to have been one of the most democratic elections ever.
Hmm, believe this or the US who has been meddling in South America for 70+ years? 🤷♂️
You can subscribe to communities on different instances. I click All or Subscribed I see stuff that isn't just in my instance.
That's kind of the opposite of fragmentation. Personally, I enjoy seeing which instance each person is from.
dozens of barely active forums.
well, lemmy itself is pretty niche. Yea I get that it's frustrating when there's a niche community with basically zero activity ... I feel like that's just because lemmy itself is relatively small.
Trump has proven that the "cordiality" of government isn't worth the effort when you can just do wtfever you want and nobody can stop you, not that other politicians even want to stop him.
I'm a member of DSA and have done events with General Strike US. I've helped support striking workers and teachers with food and supplies, and walking the picket. I'm doing my part.
I'm also being realistic. Who's going to pay people's rent when strikes last 6 months or more?
thematically, sure. The content of course is all the same. The basic feel is the same. I get the excitement for some of the more 'advanced' features, but I don't see why that couldn't be implemented elsewhere.
Authoritarian for the working class and the planet instead of the billionaires as the US currently is. ✊
Amazing how you people worship billionaires who don't give af about you, and would rather side with fascists than work with Socialists 😂