cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9525207
Without glasses, I thought that said "illegal crab company" and I was all in.
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2026
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that's what I read with glasses, and I thought it was about garage crab farming
Again, I'm all in.
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I prefer ethically sourced crab, tbh. I actually like the vat grown seafood because it is better for the environment and fresher inland.
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Fake Money for Criminals.
Turns out things for criminals sometimes can be an okay thing for noncriminals.
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i’m going with the fake money for criminals, cuz sometimes the criminal in question is a trans person trying to get their medicine
to my great annoyance, almost all diy hrt online can only be bought using crypto. and wow does it make you hate cryptobros to have to navigate an ecosystem clearly designed for speculation to get your life-saving medicine 🫠
that sucks mam.
I hope eventually there are less dumb ways to access the stuff for you.a
You're doing crypto a favor by keeping it at least 1% still anarchist.
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- Doorbell surveillance network
- Self-service identity theft
- State secrets betting house
- Billionaire fan club fund
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Fake money probably, it allows me to easily buy drugs from online.
If people value it I guess it isn't so fake. Most "legit" currencies are just the goverment promising you its worth something anyway.
A government promising it's worth something carries a hell of a lot more weight than some random tech-bro promising it.
In both cases the trading value of the currency has almost nothing to do with who originated it, and almost everything to do with how the general public feels about it.
Just like crypto, most "government" currencies are worth what they're worth only because everyone agrees that they are. That's called "fiat" currency. And that's why fiat currency exchange markets exist. The US Dollar hasn't been "convertible" (redeemable for a fixed amount of precious metal) since 1971, and many other world currencies were already backed in some way by the US Dollar at that time.
The real difference is in the supply.
Government fiat currency is difficult to counterfeit, although the government (or reserve bank) can always make more whenever they want. We trust them not to print more money, increasing the money supply and devaluing the currency. However, this is exactly what has happened sometimes in the past, and no doubt will happen again in the future.
Crypto currency is virtually impossible to counterfeit, and IIRC there's a finite (but not precisely known) amount of it that can be made, no matter who you are.
Personally, I still use physical fiat currency and no crypto. I'd like to use crypto, but regulation in my country makes it very difficult to use without registering your details with a central authority. And although everyone's pushing e-money options which are similarly tracked, thankfully I still have the option of using anonymous cash.
I don't do anything bad or illegal. I just believe that government and big business don't deserve to know everything I do in my life simply because they want to.
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Fake money for criminals helped me buy weed when I didn't have a local dealer. It's also how I pay for Mullvad. So fake money for criminals wins.
I miss when that was what the fake money was for instead of the bullshit broligarch grift.
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Every time someone posts this meme, I feel compelled to add "forums for communists".
Big Tech made Lemmy so that communists wouldn't organize in real life
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I think your priorities are in the wrong place if you think about "forums for communists" instead of "telegram channels with incel nazis".
I interpreted it as them mentioning lemmy (since lots of lemmy users are communists or socialists of some flavor), but if they meant to complain I agree with you completely
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The exposure of hotels using surveillance pricing. A room should cost a hunnert bucks a night. Not $100 or $150 or $200 or $250 etc., depending on which "app" you pray to. Am I right Trivago?
The very fact that it's "fake money for criminals" is exactly why I didn't pick up any BitCoin when it was 12p per coin.. I could have been rich af off of £10
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He makes crypto sound way cooler than it is
I miss when the tech business model was to find where buyers and sellers were interacting, insert an app in the middle and then add fees.
It doesn't have to be like this though.
Here, for example, Uber is not allowed and Airbnbs are regulated
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But srsly to me it does feel like the future, because when I was a kid "by the year 2000" was synonymous with a glorious future of space hotels, undersea cities, moon bases... I can't believe we're a quarter of the way through the 21st Century and none of that has happened. On the plus side we did get really spiffy new ways to buy stuff we don't need with money we don't have, and fingertip access to pretty much all of human knowledge, which most of us ignore in our endless quest for entertainment. But oh well.
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The fake money for criminals is the best because there's a lot of people that aren't criminals that have bought in on it and among those the concensus is "I think a bunch of IT neck beards can build a better financial system better than the one that evolved over centuries".
The delusion is laughable.
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fake money for criminals
are they talking about crypto or fiat? because it's impossible to tell.
They're the same picture.
All money is fake money for criminals.
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Well the innovations clearly must be good because people use them so much. Frankly the term "illegal" doesn't carry much weight for me. Piracy is illegal, but I think copyright is far worse.
Why is everyone so toxic? If you wanna discuss something be nice. (Even if you think that the person you are discussing with is a complete idiot)
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