Bitcoin. 120k. 2025.

My criticism here isn’t about any specific group or topic. It’s about this aggravating debate pattern where rhetoric is used to paint the opponent’s argument into a morally charged form rather than addressing the actual claim being made.

That style of engagement is not something that ever leads to meaningful discussions.

A similar dynamic occurs in other highly polarized subjects where participants are more focused on signaling moral positions than resolving the underlying question.

This sort of shit has been going on since at least the times of Artistole who championed logic over emotion.

Arguing with vegans is like arguing with antivaxxers, they are positions based on emotions and they have their own version of reality they use to reinforce their believes. They often claim they have studies to back up their claims but the most shallow dive shows them to be bullshit.

It’s literally evident as they try to reframe this as rape. Their need to lean on rhetoric shows they have a strong basis for their believes.

They answered yes while creating a reason to be offended for having to answer yes.

Can’t make this shit up. Impotent rage is some people’s identity.

What’s funny is it’s literally a shared behavior across the entire political spectrum in America but each side pretends it’s only the other side doing it.

This why most everything is tap to pay now.

If I’m forced to swip, I have card with a low limit I keep just for these places with phone alerts for any transaction. Starting do that after being hit with this while travelling, annoying as hell even though it only cost me my time.

Ignore these people. Delete kitchen and reinstall. Had this happen once and the plumbing and electrical was all messed up too, only fix was fresh install.

Definitely don’t ignore this, I heard about a guy who did and he had to reformat his entire house. Took all weekend.

Is this meant to be an insult? Most kids are average.

Most parents who think their kids are measurable above average are the ones missing half the stupid shit their kid does.

Depends on how many older siblings they have.

Gallons are still countable.

That’s because you don’t understand infosec. It’s assure you, they are unimpressed despite their polite chuckle.

Based on the downvotes your getting. Quite a few of the people excited for this are definitely migrating to the left of the bell curve.

Lemmy is wierd, the user base has a very inflated view of their own intelligence. For example, some will get confused and think since I’m on Lemmy I must be also guilty of this; their reasoning skills are quite terrible.

This isn’t Reddit, you can upvote content without announcing it.

Looks like no one here has run a cash business or has experience with the overhead that comes with dealing with cash. It’s not zero.

With credit cards, there is no need for cash drops, safes, drawer balancing, armor cars or employee theft. Banks actually charge businesses fees just for depositing cash.

Interesting. I have a story I’m developing where this is a plot point but it’s not just one person, it’s literally everyone. Instead of spacetime it takes place inside a machine simulation and then instead of it begins becuase of a god, it happens because everyone is immortal and bored.

But the idea is the same, for all anyone “alive” knows, they could be in the machine, except they can’t know because then they’d live wrong. Only in between lives, do they know.

I knew a kid who did this. Some random kid saw and reported it. His dad was the head janitor of the high school, he helped his dad, was on the payroll so actually was working for the school district himself part-time. He still almost got expelled, managed to only get a week of suspension.

The parts not fit for hot dogs.

Trick has always been to never spend all the crumbs.

I let people enjoy things even if I don’t enjoy them.

Except when that thing someone enjoys doing is some harmless ribbing.

We don’t just think it. It’s 100% true and you are annoyed by us because you know it is too!