Drag doesn’t believe in money. What’s capital gonna do about that?

The rate at which new bitcoins enter the economy is controlled. When the processing power of the mining network increases, the difficulty of the mining problem is artificially increased to keep the rate of minting the same. They throw out perfectly good solutions to the problem of creating the next link in the blockchain, to control inflation of bitcoin value.

You’ll also notice the difficulty level for this block. The Bitcoin network aims to produce one block every 10 minutes or so. The system is designed to evaluate and adjust the mining difficulty every 2,016 blocks or roughly every two weeks (based on the number of participants). This doesn’t always result in a block time of 10 minutes, but it’s close.

https://www.investopedia.com/tech/how-does-bitcoin-mining-work/#toc-why-mine-bitcoin

The mining difficulty number represents 2,016 divided by the average time it took to mine one block in the last period, multiplied by the old difficulty level, or:
= Old difficulty x ( 2,016 ÷ average time to mine in the last period )
The lowest difficulty level is 1.0. The higher the number, the more difficult the solution is to find. The difficulty level on Dec. 5, 2024 (measured on December 1) was 102.89 trillion. You might see this published as 102.89T.

They are spending 100 trillion times as many processor cycles on bitcoin mining as is actually required to maintain the network. Every bitcoin transaction could be done at 100 trillionth the current energy cost. The only problem is, it would devalue bitcoins and crash the market like a Venezuelan dollar. So Bitcoin is designed to intentionally flush the energy output of a small country down the toilet to keep itself valuable.

Nah, it’s intentionally energy wasteful in order to control inflation.

In Israel there is a lot of economic inequality between Semitic Jews and white Jews (Ashkenazim). The semitic Jews are called Mizrahim by Israel, it’s a political term that didn’t exist before the Nakba.

There were Jews in Palestine before the invasion, and they have not been treated as equals to the coloniser Jews. Jew Vs Arab is not the full story of Israel’s racism. Israel is fundamentally antisemitic, whether the semites in question are Jews or Muslims.

Wittgenstein said that language isn’t actually semantic in its natural state. Instead, language serves as a sort of game to accomplish social ends.

“I could care less” serves the social end of telling everyone you have no critical thinking skills and shouldn’t be taken seriously.

What kind of Nazi sympathist uses Twitter in 2024?

.world has come under a lot of fire for being centrist and having anti-violence policies. 196 actually moved from blahaj to world, and most of the users said they wouldn’t be going with it, because they don’t agree with the aforementioned policies.

This is great. Dull men’s club is a great community and it doesn’t deserve to be lumped in with the rest of .world.

Drag is engaged to marry a very lovely dragon. Its username is @honourarydragon@lemmy.nz. The bond between dragon and rider has changed who drag is. Although, to be honest, it isn’t the first dragon drag’s been spiritually bonded to.

Drag is your human shield. Transphobes on Lemmy are harassing drag instead of you. You haven’t said you’re trans, but you’d be way out of line if you’re cis. As long as drag is around, other trans people have less to fear. If Lemmy becomes an accepting place for people like drag, then it will be very hard for fascists to transform the space into one hostile to less unusual trans people. Drag is helping the rest of the trans community. Drag is willingly being the front line in this fight rather than hiding in the closet. The expendable soldier. The shock trooper.

And you don’t like that. You’re not grateful, you want to do the fascists’ job for them and take down the front line, exposing the vulnerable trans people who, after drag is gone, will be the new most unusual and most hated. You’re hurting the trans community. It’s just like the poem. Learn from history, don’t repeat it.

There are gay people who say bi people’s existence makes a mockery of them. And bi people who say accepting trans people is hurting the queer movement. But that’s the OPPOSITE of how this works.

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

Solidarity is strength and you choose weakness. You’re hurting the trans community.

No, drag is pretty sure the one sacrificing trans people’s rights is the person in this conversation who wants to control how other people identify.

They won’t admit it, but most AAA game companies are casinos

C is someone’s genuine identity, not OP in particular’s genuine identity. It’s C too

Klaus Columbus

Steven Snorrison

Diogenes de la Firenze

Trelawney made a prophecy and Voldemort decided Harry fit the bill, although Neville also met the criteria. Voldemort went to the Potter house to kill Harry, end his biggest rival before he could grow up, and create a horcrux from the murder of his enemy. Voldemort chose Harry.

Also these books are so fucking racist. “Cho chang”. We should stop talking about them.

Drag hates trailers. They’re full of spoilers

Hey quick question for any cis people reading this: do you think this is a transphobic joke, a trans-inclusive joke, or someone’s genuine identity?

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Drag googled “Anonymous Obama election” and couldn’t find anything