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thesporkeffect

@ thesporkeffect @lemmy.world

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  • WHAT WILL A CASHLESS SOCIETY MEAN?

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  • WHAT WILL A CASHLESS SOCIETY MEAN?

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  • My point was not that cash wasn't being accepted. It's more that carrying large amounts of cash around is extremely risky for non obvious reasons.

    Not carrying a phone is definitely possible and even commendable, but for many people it's not an option. Just off the top of my head:

    If you are in an unfamiliar area unexpectedly you won't have been able to print off a map ahead of time

    Many people's employers require them to be contactable during on call periods

    If you are trying to get a job/caring for a sick relative, there may be risk with being unreachable for an extended period

    Obviously these examples are things that can be worked around in many cases, but currently society is arranged around the idea that you have a phone on you if you want to do anything. I agree with you this is not a good thing, generally. If you are able to push the trend back it's worthwhile but short of an EMP / solar flare removing all communication networks worldwide I don't believe there is a realistic chance this changes.

    Other unsorted thoughts:

    I know bill serial numbers are tracked, if they really wanted they could probably find video of you getting money out of the bank/ATM. Again, there are workarounds but it gets to be more and more commitment to POSSIBLY be untraceable.

    If you have friends with phones who travel with you or you get photographed in the background of someone else's social media you can get profiled that way

    • All this to say, I agree with the gist of what you are saying but I don't think it's realistic to expect many people to be able to do the work for something that has less tangible benefit to them than being able to pay rent. Social change will require personal habits changing along with political pressure to make databrokers illegal, prevent tracking via metadata, etc.

  • Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss

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  • The important part:

    HDF received more than $1m from Andrew Conru, a Seattle businessman who made his fortune from dating websites, the recordings reveal. After being approached by the Guardian, Conru pulled his support, saying the group appeared to have deviated from its original mission of “non-partisan academic research”.

    He founded AdultFriendFunder apparently

  • Yuh uh, very realistic situations

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  • Technically he only specified how many people. Some of those hamster balls are multi passenger

  • (If you know... you know.)

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  • What is this?

  • Biden administration writes to Israel demanding it improve Gaza humanitarian situation

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  • Article from June. Only mentions 'a shipment ', I have not heard we stopped supplying them long term. Need to research further

  • It really is tedious

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  • Sounds like something someone with painty taint would say.

  • Sounds great, love.

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  • Where do I sign up??

  • Femboy or FEM-boy

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  • Femboy or FEM-boy

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  • I'm more of a Femputer

  • Swastika Flags Flown During Donald Trump Boat Parade in Florida

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  • I believe in their view, it's presented as 'god can't come back until conditions are right, don't keep him waiting'

    The answer to why god needs their help when he's all powerful is some mumbling about tests of faith and the unknowable nature of the divine

  • Horrors We've Unleashed

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  • If your proboscis stays engorged for more than 4 hours, contact a geneticist

  • Netanyahu warns Lebanon of 'destruction like Gaza'

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  • Total Victory against Me being Deposed and Thrown In Jail for my War Crimes

  • Horrors We've Unleashed

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  • I know what you meant but I just imagined someone grimly eating mosquitoes out of pure spite

  • Horrors We've Unleashed

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    • ticks, too

  • Subway

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  • Bacon vanilla is good though

  • Those are so ugly. Who would even buy these... oh, right.

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  • Is the fuzzy liner easily removable and washable? That is my use case for socks

  • Rabbit Population

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  • Is this indicating the triple point of a rabbit?

  • #godot #GodotEngine

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  • Terry Pratchett was ahead of his time.