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[โ€“] admin@monero.town 11 points 4 months ago (4 children)

12 upvotes, only 3 out of the downvotes come from this instance.

[โ€“] tusker@monero.town 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

they even downvoted you, looks like I have hit a nerve ๐Ÿ˜

edit: such a stamp would be a good addition to monerosupplies store ๐Ÿ˜‰

[โ€“] Saki@monero.town 6 points 4 months ago

Generally, votes are overrated. Especially if youโ€™re not mainstream, by definition most people wonโ€™t support you, wonโ€™t agree with you, wonโ€™t understand you.

Some things may be downvoted because theyโ€™re too stupid. But occasionally, you might be downvoted simply because youโ€™re a bit too early. Like, if youโ€™d said โ€œbeing gay is not crimeโ€ or something 50 years ago, you might have got downvotedโ€ฆ Just a thought.

[โ€“] gunnm@monero.town 2 points 4 months ago

Is this new?

[โ€“] mister_monster@monero.town 2 points 4 months ago

Vote counts are worthless regardless, doubly so in a federated environment. The fact that they can move things up and down in ranking makes them prone to abuse.

[โ€“] lemmefixdat4u@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (4 children)

If only I could pay for my groceries/gas/utilities/taxes/loans with crypto. Alas! I have to convert it back into fiat currency first.

[โ€“] tusker@monero.town 8 points 4 months ago

Yes, there is a violent mafia that has a monopoly on currency and credit at this time. This is changing slowly as more and more rational people realize the scam that is being perpetrated.

[โ€“] jet@hackertalks.com 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Domain registration, DNS, VPN

Donations: grapheneos, briar, molly.im, Tor, eff

Just a few things I regularly use crypto for today.

[โ€“] Rickard_Nutella@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Never heard of molly or briar before, thanks for the recommendations. What VPN do you use?

[โ€“] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 4 months ago

Mullvad, airvpn accept monero.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/vpn/

Take a look at privacy guides, a lot of the software they recommend lines up with the Monero philosophy

[โ€“] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Regularly" how regularly do you get a VPN? Or donate to TOR?

[โ€“] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 4 months ago
[โ€“] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 3 points 4 months ago

Well, I can pay for my groceries, gas, and utilities with crypto already. Can't do the loans yet though.

[โ€“] gunnm@monero.town 1 points 4 months ago
[โ€“] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't this invalidate the banknote?

[โ€“] tusker@monero.town 7 points 4 months ago

I like how you didn't call it "money" ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] Anonymous@monero.town 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you don't want it to be pulled from circulation, make it a lot smaller. Chop marks don't get bills pulled. Try a small Monero logo, or a tiny getmonero.org, with total area the size of the typical chop mark you already see on $100 bills. If xmr.org redirected to getmonero.org, using that would be even better.

[โ€“] xor@infosec.pub 1 points 3 months ago

iโ€™d put it along the margin tooโ€ฆ.

[โ€“] Lemmchen@feddit.de 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This will be exactly as effective as Operation Lioncash. That is to say not at all effective.

[โ€“] tusker@monero.town 4 points 4 months ago

Your opinion will discourage no one from spreading awareness of a non-fraudulent money systems to help people escape the banker scam.

[โ€“] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 3 months ago

Even if your right, that's no reason not to try.

[โ€“] Auzy@beehaw.org -2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah.. It won't actually increase the value of crypto.. You'll just be associating it with nutjobs like anti-vaxxers or insurrectionists who are the kinds of people who do stuff like this.. The kinds of people who follow URL's they find on banknotes, you probably won't want in your community

You're just decreasing the value of both here..

[โ€“] gunnm@monero.town 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We don't care of the value of USD.

[โ€“] Auzy@beehaw.org 0 points 4 months ago

Yeah. But what about monero? Again, it doesn't help it either.

[โ€“] tusker@monero.town -2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You still believe in "vaccines" AKA toxic injections? ๐Ÿ˜† You have a lot of catching up to do.

The data is clear vaccines are 100% useless and most likely harmful, it has been a fraud from the start. It is based on a nonscientific premise of virology.

[โ€“] Auzy@beehaw.org 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah. I'll believe my mate who studied immunology for 5 years and has a PhD. Who was trained by people with actual lab and research experience. But sure mate. I'm sure a bit of Google and you're the expert eh lol

You can do what you want. But defacing bank notes just is cringe and turns people away from what you're trying to promote, because they will see it like a scam

That's why only crazy people do it

[โ€“] fullmetalScience@monero.town 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

In personal discussions, people of such credentials confirmed that they also just "trust the [academic] process" and "don't have time" to check the foundations of their convictions. And that they didn't know, but "there surely was someone specialized" who does.

More clearly, in this context, saying you trust your mate is equal to saying you trust your recorder that is replaying the cassette that someone happened to have left in it.

[โ€“] tusker@monero.town 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You are right, it is best to trust the experts, they're totally not brainwashed with intense indoctrination and huge personal and professional conflicts of interest.

[โ€“] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Vaccines are very much real and effective.

[โ€“] Juno@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago

What do you have against communicable diseases?

[โ€“] tusker@monero.town 1 points 3 months ago

They are real effective at keeping big pharma profits sky high.