I already have people sleeping next to my house so that would be a huge improvement. YIMBY!

Apparently my standards for dentists have been too low, thanks for the info.

So when you asked for a full quote up front, they gave it to you?

Have you ever actually tried this? They often don’t even know the brackets up front.

In addition to the other reasons, there is also the worry of surprise charges. You’ll go in for a $100 checkup, only to find a bunch of other “standard” fees and services tacked on at the end. They’ll act like this is normal, and you’re weird for asking how much it costs up front.

This is twice as bad at the doctor than at the dentist.

Never forget that real technological progress is being made, but an ever-growing percentage of your labor is stolen from you.

My group almost switched over during the licensing fiasco. Musk would get us to do it.

All rolls must be on the blockchain now.

A little bit. But mistakes happen, it’s a huge order, and they were transparent about it. I can accept that so long as it stays infrequent.

Your wallet stores digital coins that are blindly signed by an exchange. The Taler Exchange keeps funds matching all unspent digital cash in a settlement account. (Source)

When you add dollars or bitcoins or whatever to Taler, you’re making a deposit.

The only thing we all have in common politically is that we don’t think social media should be controlled by a handful of gigantic manipulative corporations.

“Exactly! Simply do that for every product you need to live.”

Why deposit your money with a central authority? The linked website points out that Taler adds instant confirmation to Bitcoin, but you can already get that using the Lightning Network - without custodial risk.

At work right now they’re denying all the new vacation requests because we’ve got to make a bunch of products for customer. But they at least told us when the order was placed, so everybody took a vacation before the rush or planned one afterwards.

Of course! Relax. It’s more precise to be clear they’re talking about people unhoused.

Homeless what, exactly? Sorry, you’re gonna need to throw in the word “person” just to be clear.

No, you’d have to say a bunch of other stuff around that quote too.

That is just a super mean thing to say. There’s another person at the other end of the computers.

It reads like a sign on the wall written in cursive at my aunt’s house.

Because it’s an interesting point on its own. Upvotes aren’t necessarily agreement.