Complete pipe dream, commodity backed currency means the currency issuer loses control of inflation/deflation to production of said commodity. For a commodity backed currency to maintain value, the commodity stores owned by the issuer have to grow in proportion to monetary demand (usually GDP growth).

Why deflation is bad: deflation means that as time goes on the same amount of money is worth more. This means that a viable way to invest the money is to hold onto it. Say there is yearly deflation of 4%, that means any investment which has a return lower than 4% is losing you money. Additionally intelligent consumers will cut down on purchases since they can buy more for less later. This leads to economic slowdowns and can self compound if suppliers decide to lower prices.

This is one reason why countries like inflation, it encourages spending and investment.

Bitcoin and similar crypto require new coins to validate all previous coins and interactions. Each new coin is exponentially more expensive than the previous. Therefore Bitcoin wealth is extremely stratified to early adopters who built up a collection before the value became this obscene.

Bitcoin and all similar crypto were intentionally designed to be self deflating, it won’t replace finance, it’s speed running the same problems. The reason almost every country on earth switched to fiat/self inflating currencies is that the best way to invest a deflating currency is to stash it and forget about it.

You don’t, especially when science related topics are political

Considering some of the community threads I’ve seen, they might actually have a point

Most honey bees are of the European variety, they have a habit of displacing native bees when they are farmed

Great, how are you checking and enforcing this

Nononono, you don’t get it, it’s the adult thing to hold your nose and vote for the polite fascist. That way we get to go back to grilling and not caring how we actively make the world worse

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Somehow it’s real (even that figure)

Varmhinder ist für die kinder

Increased customer data collection, an ai “assistant” that might require registry editing to remove (I already did this once to kill Cortana for good), and it will require me to reformat my os drive. If I have to reformat and do a fresh install I might as well change OS and be free of their fucking ads as well.

Yup, I’ll be moving over rather than go to win11, ads on my lock screen and search bar nearly made me jump from win10 and there is no way in hell I going to even try to deal with clippy3.0/cortana2.0

Also Warcraft, it’s blatantly ripped from Warhammer

Intended method: three phase fight where the PC must break a magic shield before I get off a spell (DPS check). Breaking the shield releases a shockwave which either needs to be dodged or cancelled by an optional item (magic earmuffs). Failure to break the shield fails the fight, sends them to the room before (fuck you watch the whole cutscenes again)

Pacifist method: compliment me a couple of times and I won’t know what to do with myself. I teleport away, leaving the key

No, in Jurassic Park African frogs are used as the genetic gap filler, these frogs (and therefore the dinosaurs) are able to change sex in same sex environents

You forget that not all Democrats are progressive, especially politicians who can get an advantage (also kickbacks) from political donations

Ok but what does it mean

There was an independence referendum in 2014, No won with 55% of the vote. There have been some theories that if brexit happened earlier then yes would have won. So yes it’s definitely possible.

“The world is a vampire” is the opening line from the Smashing Pumpkins hit “Bullet with Butterfly Wings”

The meme rejects the notion of flat earth by instead asserting that the song is literal and not metaphorical. This was not the expected mode of argument, hence comedy.