Fake Money for Criminals.
Turns out things for criminals sometimes can be an okay thing for noncriminals.
Also, buying explosives and fake documents. 🥰
The things I like are cheap…
Just be a fake criminal to get infinancial from the CIA OG WHAT IS THAT ME OF SHIT I GEYS GROST OF HAUNTING AS I DO TO MY OWN SELF WANTON WANTED DID NOT WHEAL MBOATS.
Say your country makes baby formula illegal to push some breastfed is the only way agenda, would you consider a mother buying formula online with crypto a criminal?
Legal != Moral
Yes, because criminality has nothing to do with morals. If the state views you as a criminal, you are a criminal. That’s why some criminals are still good people and cool.
I wouldn’t say it has nothing to do with morals, since (at least hopefully) it’s our morals that help guide us when making laws.
But yes, illegal does not necessarily mean immoral, and vice versa.
Be gay, do crime
It doesn’t have to be like this though.
Here, for example, Uber is not allowed and Airbnbs are regulated
What country and why?
Italy. Because you need a license to be a taxi driver, and a random company cannot hand them out (and the taxi drivers union is powerful and corrupt). And because the government gotta know who is renting a room where, you can’t just go wherever you want without anyone knowing, especially foreigners. Whenever you rent a room in Italy, the owner will take a picture of your ID/passport, and send your data to the local government. Also you gotta pay taxes on the rooms you rent.
The only things we Italians we are good at is making many regulations, especially ones for safety lmao
See: building regulations
Rare Italian W
(Okay, maybe we are great at doing some regulations, we lack a lot of stuff that is normal for other countries and a lotta of rights…)
I’m not sure that I would consider “we don’t have Uber because the Taxi industry is corrupt” to be a win
fake money for criminals
are they talking about crypto or fiat? because it’s impossible to tell.
They’re the same picture.
All money is fake money for criminals.
The unconstrained expansion of credit following the end of Bretton Woods system could only lead to the long term devaluation of the currency, something that’s theorically infinite is also inherently entropic.
Without glasses, I thought that said “illegal crab company” and I was all in.
No law can stop carcinization.
(V) OwO (V) What’s this? snip snip
Citizen Sniiiiiiiiiiiips!
that’s what I read with glasses, and I thought it was about garage crab farming
Again, I’m all in.
I prefer ethically sourced crab, tbh. I actually like the vat grown seafood because it is better for the environment and fresher inland.
I feel like this is something I’d hear discussed on the Park After Dark podcast (Trailer Park Boys thing, now with 100% less Bubbles for obvious reasons)
Before I go all in with you, I have to know- is this an illegal company where crabs are the product or where crabs are running things?
Yes
It can be whatever you want it to be, baby.
Wait… You’re a baby crab, right?
Every time someone posts this meme, I feel compelled to add “forums for communists”.
You forgot femboys and linux users
Big Tech made Lemmy so that communists wouldn’t organize in real life
Nah, infighting always works best.
But then the poll would make little sense, because forums for communists would win with 99.97% of votes…
I wish the average person was as open minded as you’re giving them credit.
I think your priorities are in the wrong place if you think about “forums for communists” instead of “telegram channels with incel nazis”.
I interpreted it as them mentioning lemmy (since lots of lemmy users are communists or socialists of some flavor), but if they meant to complain I agree with you completely
The former. Being subversive doesn’t imply it’s bad.
Now I feel compelled to ask: Do you this meme is seriously asking for opinions on subversive innovations? Because I interpreted it as asking what is the most dystopian.
It appears to me that the meme is complaining about tech breaking laws, not soliciting opinions. In case this needs to be said, I’m using Lemmy because of its ability to resist (legal!) censorship, especially of long-overdue leftist speech.
I took it as the poll itself, and the results, being entirely irrelevant. They just decided to use that as the format/delivery mechanism for their joke.
And I hope you would agree nazis killing people are more dystopian than fucking larpers.
I want a none of the above option.
i’m going with the fake money for criminals, cuz sometimes the criminal in question is a trans person trying to get their medicine
to my great annoyance, almost all diy hrt online can only be bought using crypto. and wow does it make you hate cryptobros to have to navigate an ecosystem clearly designed for speculation to get your life-saving medicine 🫠
You’re doing crypto a favor by keeping it at least 1% still anarchist.
that sucks mam.
I hope eventually there are less dumb ways to access the stuff for you.a
Can’t you just hold your money in a stable coin like USDC to avoid the volatility and speculation?
the homebrewer i was buying from didn’t support this one, so i would’ve had to convert it, which means fees typically
anyways, i don’t really care to maintain a crypto portfolio. i buy the coin when i buy the thing, so volatility isn’t too much of a concern. my main annoyance is at the bonkers fees that exchanges want because they (rightly) recognize cryptobros as a milkable consumer base
Could use localbitcoin.com (or localmonero I guess), though it’s been so long since I’ve been to those sites that I forget if/what kind of cut the website takes.
But yeah, dunno if you can avoid fees when cashing out to fiat. And if you’re using non-kyc sites to swap Monero, they’re likely taking some too, for the convenience and privacy (worth it imo)
hmm, i’ll look into that next time i buy hrt. thank you!
Localbitcoin and localmonero are arranged peer-to-peer transactions that I think people sometimes even do in person. So be safe.
You hate the people behind the ecosystem that enables you to get the medicine you require?
i hate the people who turned a way to pay for things anonymously into a stock market.
Yup, the AI is definitely “the plagiarism machine.” 🤣 I’m using that from now on.
I’ll never not upvote this meme
I’ll never not upvote comments about upvoting this meme.
porno, duh
16th repost of this meme in 2 years that i’ve been here.
Driving murder machine
I do not murder any more nore can ai drive so I font appreciate this dialogue taserts.
I love em all except the coins at the outset. Uber is too expensive these days but air bnb is utterly fantastically.
Uber is too expensive these days
That was always the goal. Uber and Lyft prices were heavily subsidized early on. Their investors poured billions into them in order to not just establish market share, but tk drive existing taxi services out of business. Taxi services that had things like: fleets of company-owned vehicles instead of personal vehicles, commercials grade maintenance schedules, stricter licensing requirements for drivers, unionized employees instead of independent contractors, etc
Uber and Lyft just plain ignored a lot of existing regulations by saying “those don’t apply because this is an app” to legislators who were too old to know how to turn on a smart phone. They got the public on-board by temporarily offering artificially low prices and high payouts to drivers. Now they have established themselves and removed the competition, so the payouts are going down and the prices are going up.
There are still some US cities that do not allow Uber or Lyft to operate, and there are other countries in the world that do the same.
I couldn’t give a fuck any the regulations. They sucked and did nothing. Cabs were broken and Uber fixed that shit right up.
How were they broken?
Scamming, not showing up, not servicing 'those people '.
It’s funny you say that, because I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve been cancelled on by Anglo uber drivers.
👌👍 cabs were great
They weren’t. Uber isn’t either.
Your point?
It’s still miles better than Cabs, I can’t believe this even has to be argued! When was the last time anyone here defending cabs/shitting on Uber actually took a cab somewhere?
The few times I had to/decided to take a taxi, I got absolutely ripped off. And with an Uber, even if it’s expensive, you at least know before hand how much you’re paying. You can decline if you think it’s too much. Good luck trying that with taxis.
Is it? Because for any lodging of minimum quality, hotels are cheaper nowadays.
That just not true across the board. I’ve found solo they are expensive but compared to getting a suite at a hotel they are competitive. You ain’t beating the king room at a Hilton though, agreed.
It certainly isn’t true AT ALL for group travel. I regularly stay in very nice homes for under $150/night per person.
I know this is programmer humor but as a tech guy who actually likes tech that isn’t destructive, this just makes me sad
Probably modern electric drums.
Play them like the wind winds them
