What do you mean, Ethereum is pos.

I guess I wasn’t up to date. That’s cool actually!

There are so many more, especially “boring” ones

Interesting! I will do more research then.

I thought the same as you about the exciting technological fundamentals before realising that it was unfortunately also very overblown.

Basically Blockchain technology is a solution in search of a problem. It was invented by someone who was convinced that decentralised currency would realise the ancap utopia. In order make it mainstream, people have been trying very hard to find better use cases and it turns out that you always end up concluding that the centralised approach is always better.

Proof of stake could make the thing not too environmentally damaging but it’s been years that major blockchains are saying they will implement it the next year. And again, the use cases would remain weak in the end

There are other cryptographic mechanisms at play, which are amazingly interesting but it is not going to revolutionise the internet since it’s already being used everywhere (for example asymmetrical keys).

I’m impressed by the fact that they somehow found a worse one

Macron goes down the accelerationist path

they ask me: ‘How can people just be getting on with life as usual?’ And I don’t have any answer for them.

How bizarre… Not wanting to give your blood to the blood god

It does, a lot!

Cool advantage of being ML : if you want to hate on somebody you can always find a way to accuse them of being reactionary

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LeFigaro is the most mainstream classical conservative publication in France. It is at the vanguard of transphopic and racist moral panics. However in terms of geopolitics, french conservative newspapers tend to be more careful and less bloodthirsty than liberal ones because of the anti-US tradition of DeGaulle who is still their biggest ideological compass

Imo the most probable scenario is :

• Neocolonialism is rejected by a critical mass of countries
• The west can’t adapt, so they try to reindustrialize by reverting to industrial revolution conditions (which takes an openly neo fascist movement)
• It goes to war with itself or the outside, either inter European, or West vs new anti-colonial block, or US vs Europe
• After that it undergoes a pink wave like South America, not radical enough to break out of misery but still a bit progressive

Can’t speculate further than that

One good testimony that I found on the subject is this video. What’s really cool is that it’s from a channel about learning the language and therefore no attempt to paint a specific reality.

On of my biggest takeaway is that there are established LGBT communities in citites that don’t appear to be subjected to any external pressure so that’s pretty cool

Legionnaires serve for three year terms, after which they can ask for French citizenship

Ah yes, feeding your military by offering people from the countries you plunder to join you. “totally not an Empire” moment

True but imo that’s a lot less scary, at least for Europe. The police can’t bear to fight on equal grounds, whenever they don’t feel like they can safely bully people they quit. It happened with the Yellow Vest movement, despite them being disorganised and mostly non violent.

Worst case scenario is nuclear anhilation

Best case scenario, imperial core military gets spanked so hard there’s no one left to fight revolutionaries

Insane shit

That’s so biaised, of course I’m gonna vote RPGs at Walmart for the meme

I think the question will be entirely open under socialism, because if a lot of better school structures are not viable under capitalism, it doesn’t mean that capitalist-compatible education models will instantly be abolished.

I think that making schools as stress free and interesting as possible would take care of most casual bullying. Then more educated staff to deal with extreme cases implying specific conditions might take care of the rest.

That’s just my guess though, don’t quote me on that

I don’t know anything about wrestling but I know who’s my favourite wrestler

They can have a little WW3, as a treat

Tactical moonwalk

They’ll try by ramping up fascist rhetoric

My silly hope is that enough chuds will still refuse to fight for Isn’treal for the wrong reasons