dualmindblade

Eh, but this sort of thing is an actual practical use case of crypto, the problem as you pointed out is off ramping to a fiat currency, this is actually a sovable problem, you can wash your crypto funds, there are methods for literally perfect money laundering if you know what you're doing, and as long as you know someone who can cash them out and get the money to you you're good to go. Unfortunately it's annoying AF, I'm sure Hamas and whatnot are doing something like this but not your average Palestinian.

I've been complaining to myself and family about my depression, my frustrations trying to treat it, and various life stressors, had actually typed a long post in this thread doing the same but wtf like they were launching a truly organized and large scale invasion of the West Bank as I was typing that. Also in my own country:

Half of the 200+ responses are essentially just "same", this is reddit mind you, not really known as a hub for the 65+ crowd. I follow that sub and it's 95% people under 30...

I realize that "other people have it worse" is usually wrong thinking when you are struggling but idk imma try and spin that into "I really am privileged and I will try to be grateful and at the very least I vow somehow to use that privilege to do something, anything, to make the world better, I owe it to my family for one thing and I just despise suffering and most of the suffering is happening outside my own head. Period."

I have kids so yes, I must in a sense hope in order to maintain the tiny bit of sanity that holds my life together

And to be clear I don't expect reform from within to save the country, but perhaps it may buy the world enough time for revolution

The one lingering hope I have is that the democratic party will suffer such a catastrophe that it can be remade or replaced. I have an unpopular opinion which is that I think we are running out of time for actual revolution in the US, as in overthrow our terrible government, I don't expect the system to collapse on its own as many do, so I must maintain this hope

Hope in humanity, Kamala do what Kamala do she is brat after all, I expect nothing good. What I do need is for some kind of attention on what her policies might look like from the media

I just fucking can't with this shit, if the election takes place without her clarifying her position on Gaza and she doesn't catch some major mainstream criticism for it, I will have lost all hope

You'll feel better soon, I'm sure of it

Empathize so hard. That's the worst, you see a sunset, you recognize it's remarkably beautiful, something that might even have brightened an otherwise shitty day, and just.. nothing

Did I spend hours yesterday arguing about politics on the Charli sub? Yes I did. And the main user I was engaging with, I pointed out they were being a bit rude and condescending in absolutely the nicest way possible because I'm not gonna be mean to a trans ally. Checking back this morning, they deleted all their posts and comments on a > 1 year old account, I am hoping for unrelated reasons or maybe they were a bot but now I can't get it out of my head and I feel bad and I blame Charli

This wouldn't even be possible at the place I work lmao. When I started there there was still a physical server in the building that housed my now empty desk (yeah it's still there after 4 years of work from home) hosting some of our applications, there was a room that had a filing cabinet filled with punch cards, we had to fill out paper forms sometimes to get access to a database. Our security team has no idea what they're doing, like they're not even technical, we have basically one very good dev ops guy frantically duct taping over processes designed, badly, in the early 2000s, their job will never be done and they'll never pay for another person if that calibre to join the team.

The idea of this happening to a bleeding edge 100 billion dollar tech company is fucking hilarious, I guarantee you the devs were constantly complaining to management about the possibility of such a scenario, and some poor overworked programmer is going to lose their career while their boss gets another high paying management job after the company goes under, or just retires out of savings.

Because it's free money? I have like 3% of my net worth on there right now, not that that's saying much