ynthrepic

Axes and axes. 🙃

Ah it's one of those sounds different but spelled the same f*ckers.

Tilting your head. I get it yeah! 😝 Makes sense.

Axies* 🙃

Played flying games first. Inverted ever since.

There's only one reason - Trump's vengeance.

Feel the freedom!

There is only one reason you would vote to block transparency.

Most Russians are good people too. We've got to stop thinking in these kinds of terms or we'll never get along with each other long term.

We just need to stop all the violence and to mean it.

The problem is war is good for business and good for dictators. But even democratic nations talk a lot of shit. It's all dishonest.

That was Musk on Biden of course. Nothing could have been more obviously bullshit. But half of your voters still got taken in by it all.

Hello from New Zealand. Don't get any ideas about moving in with Neil Gaiman on Waiheke.

I don't think it's impossible (sorry, I know that was a typo) and I'm sure a significant minority are aware, and they are the Israelis actually voting on the right side of history.

But, it's easier than you think for a huge number of people to be woefully wrong about the people they are voting. The best example of this in the world right now is Donald Trump and his Republican party.

Trump's so obviously tyrannical it's hard to imagine anyone not knowing, and yet around half of those who voted, voted for him. Objectivity there cannot be that many psychopaths in the population, so what explains their belief in him?

Occam's razor suggests it has to be ignorance.

I've no doubt the technology, the Internet and social media algorithms in particular, have played their role. Fox news too, and now the Podcastisphere. Media echo chambers are a relatively new phenomenon and it's taken a little while for bad faith actors (mostly on the right, and in oligharical circles) to twist the narrative in their favour, but here we are.

There's every possibility it's the same for most Israelis in the default case.

Naturally, in any nation with crippled media, propagandistic control is going to be even worse (like Hamas's Gaza, Iran, previously occupied Syria, etc.). So it just doesn't make sense to blame voters is all I'm saying, because they think they're making the right voting choice in the end.

Thanks for that. I am not suggesting it need to be directly tangible like the gold standard, but something ostensibly public (perhaps embedded into an international economic alliance) that is directly ties to ownership of a secure portfolio of investments across a variety of intrinsically valuable staples or otherwise being carefully managed by skilled investors.

Think 401K, and the bond market, but without being subject to the whims of national foreign policy.

Crypto regardless of how impenetrable it is technologically, if it's inevitably controlled by unethical actors, it's still worse for the world and not a safe investment to recommend. And like everything else, tangible or untangable, it's value is still subject to market interest, i.e. as you say, people agreeing to pay for it assuming others will buy it off them in the future.