Science is influenced by academia. Still an important distinction.

Leaving the musky fields for where the sky is truly bluer.

Forming groups is still important. We need it to find our place in the world. There is no single truth, therefore we argue and fight.
Not saying anything you said is wrong, btw. Just wanted to state why we still have this stuff.

Your username and instance kinda gave it away, comfortable cushion ;-)

Just wanted to make it clear that I don’t have an american POV :)

Yes, its a very sad dilemma.

I believed for quite a long time (living in Germany) that this state of “peace by codependency” could be extended, even maybe applied worldwide, but I’m not so sure anymore. I still want this to be true, however.

But a defenseless state is still a very nice target. I’m not so blind as to miss both sides of the US protection, and the limitations and freedoms that come with it.

That would be awesome, but I would be severely underdressed.

I would be anyway.

I think the reason for this implementation is more the theft prevention. This sounds very mich like certificates to me

I’m with you on that.

For the individual saving is something very good. For the economy, however, a money hoarder is dead weight. It’s why inflation won’t ever completely go away, because it discourages hoarding (investing/bringing it to the bank can counteract this, that’s why I didn’t call it saving the second and third time)

It really depends who the issuer of the certificates (wallets) is. The funds get automatically transferred and won’t be lost, it’s “just” a privacy problem (plus the issuer will probably be able to interfere).

So the idea isn’t that dystopian, but it very much depends on the implementation.

I think the idea was that you can’t hoard anything, and stealing or reusing is harder. But it does make the central management way more powerful than it should be. But it’s normal bank standard.

What do you mean with “dystopian statist money”?

Demons run when a good man goes to war
Night will fall and drown the sun
When a good man goes to war
Friendship dies and true love lies
Night will fall and the dark will rise
When a good man goes to war
Demon’s Run, but count the cost
The battle’s won but the child is lost

Nothing good happens when a good man goes to war

But I also like the saying “If you want peace prepare for war”. War is not the right choice, but it’s seldom yours.

Yeah, I think so too. It should replace bank transactions completely.

GNU Taler to the rescue!

The netherlands are already looking into it: https://www.ngi.eu/ngi-projects/ngi-taler/

The project could be used via paper trail, as far as I understand it.

Stop that shit!

(Funny video, but I couldn’t not comment this)

By being shit
Then doing shit
Then becoming the shit.

Palestinian journalist failed to find a peaceful solution in rubber bullet disagreement.

YOU JUST MADE AN ENEMY FOR LIFE

I think not, I like the anime version

If anyone is interested, here is the original (I think):

Why don’t you use emacs? You can replace Linux with it and use it to start vim!