The problem with Unions is they make people lazy as hell and takes way too much to fire someone. That’s my experience of being in three different unions in my life. The laziest assholes get paid the same as the hardest workers. Damn near impossible to fire anyone. I went non-union to actually work with not lazy…

I saw one of the last hip shows live, and I suspect it was similar. You start at a funeral and end at a wake. Incredibly raw emotion for the whole show.

I was at the Leafs game the day of the Humboldt tragedy, and it was incredible to see the collective sadness transition into unbridled enthusiasm for the game. Very odd experience to see how one can lead to the other - hadn’t ever been at an event in person to feel it that way before.

My grandmother confronted a Skin head in the 90s. I was a kid and (then) mortified that my 5 foot nothing, red headed gram (Irish Catholic) told off a stranger minding his own business. (we’re Canadian). He got in her face and swore at her but she didn’t back down. He threatened to cut her. She laughed at him. I…

Please note: Australia does not have HOAs. In fact, most of the world does not have HOAs. We’re not that stupid.

My guess is that HOA’s for the super rich tend to not stand in the way. They probably charge him astronomical fees that the middle-class folk would scoff at, but he pays without even reading the bill.

If insurance didn’t pay when someone is an idiot, they would be paying 90% less in claims.

The entire event was so ridiculous. He doubled down we gave Iran billions of our own money again. He licked Putin’s butthole. He triple dog dared NK to attack Guam. He lied endlessly about breaking records and how much Congress has done. This guy, man. Fuck us all. COME ON MUELLER!!

So you prefer your physical representation of wealth that only has value so long as others have faith in it, over a digital representation of wealth that only has value so long as others have faith in it. That just sounds like wealth with extra steps. Never mind the fact that there’s nowhere near as much physical…

Of course I have heard of supply and demand. I just think that it is insane that people would pay 60 grand plus for this car when for that price you can get a whole other class of car.

Ah. See, I genuinely wasn’t sure. Debit transactions tend to be quick, but credit transactions can take up to three business days. Both cost some money to perform transactions, but credit cards are so common these days that its usually just automatically built into the price.

Not everyone’s a good TypeR.

A valid point. However Mt Gox acted as a middle man between the BitCoin network and the customer. Essentially, it was a bank. This configuration is vulnerable to attack.

Thought for sure I’d see more mentions of BitPay here in the comments. It’s like a debit card; FDIC-insured and useable anywhere Visa is accepted. You can alternately use a bitcoin ATM to cash out some of your BT.

They have created a financial system that can delegate with 100% certainty who owns which bitcoins, without the need for any corruptible, hackable, financial institutions.

Lol for not understanding what money is

Today, maybe. But a $20 bill is meaningless unless it is backed by something—usually a government. Otherwise it is crap. And if what it is backed with is worthless, it leads to inflation. I still remember this picture below from history class.

The US dollar has not represented anything physical, since it was taken off the gold standard in 1971. It is an entity whose value is derived from little more than its scarcity, and the political obligation for businesses to accept it as legal tender.

There are better drugs out there than weed. Why risk dealing with shady people in person when you can use a trusted online vendor that can overnight shit to your house?

All currencies are a construct of human perception. The value of gold, paper money, this lint I have in my pocket, it’s all relative in value to what we can (for the most part) agree on. Bitcoin is no different. Its more abstract and newer therefore harder to establish consistency and uniformily agreed upon value… I…