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Crypto is not anonymous, the entire concept of how it works is to be the worlds most public and distributed transaction ledger. It is more difficult to track than credit card transactions, but that's a very big difference from being impossible to track. There have been multiple papers published at this point on how you can de-anonymize any crypto purchase.

People really need to get over this idea that using crypto to buy things makes you anonymous.

I don't think they're talking about the janky render. They're saying the published specs closely match the REVVL 7 Pro. The render as you point out is garbage and shouldn't be used for anything.

And like all Trump products the phone will be a complete piece of garbage made by the cheapest possible manufacturer in China. I guarantee you'll be able to find the white label version of it on alibaba for like $75.

Next time I need to explain what bikeshedding is I'm just going to point to this article.

The platform is a tool, and like most tools it can be used for both good and evil. I agree it's making the problem significantly worse, but hyper focusing on just the platforms while ignoring the people using them doesn't seem like the right approach either. I don't know how to preserve the positive aspects of platforms like Facebook, TikTok, and Youtube while also preventing them from being abused to spread hate and lies. I feel like there must be something that can be done to at least improve the situation a little. The various "community notes" features I don't think were a terrible first step, although they're also far from a solution. It's a complicated problem with a lot of potential pitfalls, but one I think is going to be critical to solve and soon because the problem isn't going away, as long as we have an internet it's here to stay.

TL;DR: of that whole thing boils down to "the problem is too hard to solve and all the solutions are worse than the problem so don't even try". I don't agree with the premise because if we accept it, then democracy is doomed.

We can not have a functioning society when we can't even get a majority of the citizens to agree on basic aspects of reality and half the people are convinced the other half are lizard people that are putting mind control drugs in the water supply. A functioning democracy requires an informed and educated populace, and unchecked propaganda, disinformation, and conspiracy theories lead to the opposite of that, particularly when you have a wealthy group that profits from spreading it.

You're both right which is the real conundrum. It's becoming increasingly obvious that conspiracy theories and propaganda in our hyperconnected social media fueled internet are incredibly dangerous and rot the foundations of democracy. Democracy can not survive if these kinds of things are left unchecked. By the same token however any mechanism that immediately springs to mind to combat them is ripe for abuse and easily subverted by fascists and totalitarians. I honestly don't know what the solution is, only that we desperately need one.

I was curious so I checked and apparently I beat you by one day. I wonder what the date distribution looks like around that time for people joining.

Musk bought Twitter for $50B, in comparison the price tag for repairing any of these schools seems like half a peanut in cost. There is money.

The top 0.1% of the US population controls the vast majority of US wealth, and they use it exclusively for pursuing more wealth for themselves. Improving education does not make the 0.1% or even the significantly less wealthy but still filthy stinking rich 1% more money so they will never pay for it. This is why the US needs 200%+ taxes on the 1% not on imports, not that our bought and paid for government would ever do such a thing.

The communities actually paying for these things couldn't afford $50M never mind something insane like $50B. So no, there is not money, at least not without solving our completely out of control wealth inequality, but that's an entirely different problem.

What's happening here cheapens what's happening here. I guarantee this guy will still vote Republican next election. Maybe not Trump specifically, but I guarantee he won't be voting for a Democrat. This isn't a news story, it's the entirely predictable outcome. Republicans never care about something until it impacts them directly, but even when it does they don't change their behavior.

Man who voted for Leopards Eating Faces party devastated after leopard eats his face.

Fun fact, this kind of mistake is known as an eggcorn.