Shhh don’t tell people they’ll ruin it.

Didn’t all that apply to HRC?

Fair enough, but it’s just about the only explanation that would make sense. Dude is going to lose the election over this.

Biden’s primary stated reason for defending Israel is a promise to his dying father.

Not his conscience, not the people alive and around him today, not the people who voted for him, not the people who he’s depending on to get re-elected.

Sorry America, an 80 year old white man is making an undemocratic choice due to a promise he made to another old white man. Awesome.

So we’ve established neither Mike Johnson nor Joe Biden are trying very hard to help Ukraine.

Ok. Keep doing it.

Yep. Strange how Biden was able to figure out how to get weapons to Israel without congressional approval and against the wishes of people he’s depending on to get re-elected but can’t use that same brain power of his to help Ukraine.

He’s playing both sides.

So is Biden. So is every pro-corporate trash politician in this country.

We can use this argument? I don’t get the impression Biden is trying very hard on all sorts of things.

For example, Biden went around congress to get weapons to Israel. So why isn’t he doing that for Ukraine?

Biden should go around congress to ship them weapons.

I accept that your parents are struggling, I accept that you are hurting because of this. I whole heartedly accept the reality you’re living in and empathize and sympathize with it. If that’s what you need right now focus on that.

And we live in the US, where no one gives a fuck about the elderly.

36 cents of every U.S. tax dollar goes to social security and medicare. The elderly being the primary beneficiaries of these social programs. That’s before we start talking about senior discounts, rent controlled age restricted communities, and a long list of other state, county and city programs designed to benefit the elderly.

I’m sorry to hear about your parents struggling. But stating pure lies is unacceptable.

Nothing about what he said would prevent you from using a casual user focused variant like Ubuntu. The biggest challenge you’ll potentially run into is drivers and/or having hardward that just doesn’t play nice with linux. I’d suggest just giving an install a try and see how it goes. The experience has come a long long way in the past decade.

We don’t talk about bubble jet.

Bitcoin: An excel spreadsheet a bunch of people agree on.
Machine Learning: Electrons in a room banging on typewriters.
Blockchain: A marketing term for linked lists.

Thanks Biden ya fuckin loser: https://www.npr.org/2023/09/07/1196787623/federal-workers-remote-office-ordered-taxpayers-telework-science

Lol. I gave a counter argument that had nothing to do with NFTs that blew up your home brewed understanding of what digital ownership is and then you turn around and accuse me of ignorance?

Just because digital content is on your device doesn’t mean you own it. That’s the case for digital movies, music, books and so forth and has been long before NFTs were even a thing. This isn’t up for debate. Until you acknowledge that there’s no point in even having a conversation.

Again, that’s obviously not how ownership works. You can download movies and music too. Doesn’t mean you own them. If your argument is “it doesn’t stop piracy” I’m not disagreeing with that.

If you’re questioning the value of digital receipts for monkey images I’m not disputing that. For me that’s on par with beanie babies, postage stamps and other odd things people collect. I don’t have to be excited about the current application to be excited about the fact that it works and what that means it could be used for in the future.

And of course, it would make sense that such a system wouldn’t be used for something significantly important like property deeds or car registrations right away. NFTs are just another phase of demonstrating the capabilities.

No I didn’t prove your point. Private key signatures are a fundamental component of blockchains. Without them blockchains cannot function.

I figure this will probably be a lost cause but let me try to explains some basics about “blockchain”. I’ll be focusing on Bitcoin specifically since that’s what I have the most knowledge in but every cryptocurrency is based in some part on the way Bitcoin works.

The blocks in the chain are comprised of a series of transactions. The first transaction being the coinbase transaction which is the reward miners receive for mining the block. This transaction is unique in that it has no inputs. All other transactions will have inputs with a total balance greater than or equal to the outputs. Any leftovers are also given to the miners as a mining reward. Transactions are verified by miners using private key signatures. Each input is accompanied by a signature proving the inputs are being spent by the individual or group who owns those inputs. Once all transactions have been verified by the miner and the coinbase transaction has been created the miner sets about to mine the block. They do this by hashing the entire block and hoping for a result that comes underneath the value of the mining target.

I can go into more detail on any aspect of this. But what I’m mainly pointing out is that private key signatures are not something external. You cannot have a distributed ledger without some mechanism for proving ownership. Otherwise anyone could spend anybody else’s bitcoin. You can leverage other pieces of data contained within a transaction output to represent other information such as the hash of a digital content like an image. An owner can cryptographically demonstrate they have the ability to spend an output without spending it. Thus demonstrating they own digital content which hashes to that value. You can do this with pictures, movies, music, books… whatever.

And frankly, that’s the boring part of the capability. Cities and counties could use hashes of deeds or full text of deeds themselves to represent property ownership. Essentially placing the burden of backups, redundancy and lookups on the decentralized nature on a blockchain. This opens the door for better interconnectivity between the way various government bodies track ownership of things like land, homes, cars and whatever else. All this information is already public and stored digitally but the money spent on creating and maintaining these individual systems is incredibly wasteful. The lack of consistency also creates problems in legal spaces.