I’m simply always away. It’s less misleading than being randomly away because I do actual work and am not glued to the computer.

Hm, is it just me, or is the vote count for comments gone?

Never mind, it was moved (less visible imo)

Housing is not suppose to be an investment.

That’s supports what I said.

That fact that it is the most profitable investment is a failure of the legislature.

That’s what I said (not the most profitable though, just profitable).

That’s what I do, I only buy bitcoin.

State forces people to invest their money if they don’t want it to be inflated into nothing, people choose housing in the hope to save wealth for the future. State destroys the value of the savers by devaluing housing. A fine example of the failure of central planning.

Most people take it as given that printing more money causes inflation, and they can be forgiven for thinking so, as it has been hammered home to them by mainstream economics professors in every econ 101 course the world over for many decades.

The central banks contradict this themselves all the time, they lower and raise interest rates, which leads to changes in newly created money, to modify inflation.

Wann endlich wieder 0%?

I see, thanks for clarifying.

Thanks, I guess.

http [s] ://getsunset [.] com/blogs/news/aldh2-deficiency

What’s with the blogspam though?

I constantly have to worry about silly shit because I can’t afford not to. It creates a lot of stress as I’m missing out on other things. It’s taking a huge toll on my overall health.

Personally, I never cared about such silly shit and didn’t worry, which created a lot of stress because I didn’t deal with the actual problems. I was living below the poverty line and a drunk at the time. I think worrying or drinking doesn’t improve anything.

Would it be better if everyone had access to nuclear weapons?

I know this one, this is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

Anyway, I think it would be better if a SINGLE PERSON couldn’t launch nukes, decentralization would absolutely be better.

I think everything gets better when it’s less centralized. What does this “misinformation and propaganda” actually attack? A system so weak that it can’t be defended against lies?

Ah yes, the world was so much better when misinformation and propaganda could only be spread by well funded entities!

It’s not surprising. Tech people are more likely to have heard about bitcoin early, but they dismissed it and keep invested in dismissing it. It takes humility to admit that you were wrong.

Maybe I just don’t get banned enough

You may also interact with countless bots without ever knowing, because creating fake identities is free.

I really don’t care about loosing my identity

Fair, some people value their identity.

how decentralized is it when your identity is “centralized” in your key pair?

For average people nothing changes, the app can hold their key for them and even offer email recovery.

On top of that so many people regularly change their display names on social media for vanity and expression purposes that I can’t reliably use them anyways for recognizing accounts.

That’s something having signatures and a web of trust solves.

Besides, you fail to see another problem: Whichever centralized, federated site you use can manipulate anything you read and publish.

Anyway, if you don’t see a need for tools like nostr you don’t need them.

Somebody takes out the lemmy.world server and your identity is gone. So decentralized, lol.

but I’ve also been suspicious of the reported inflation numbers

Check the purchasing power of your money against hard assets like gold, stocks, land, housing, etc. “Inflation” numbers we get are CPI numbers, and those are intentionally doctored to show lower “inflation” values. For starters, they assume “stable” prices that don’t change are normal. That is a lie as prices should be going down all the time due to improved production processes. Once you realize inflation is underreported and that wages don’t even keep up with that…

The future is decentralized, not federated. That’s why I’m on nostr, even if it doesn’t deliver yet.

I’m not drinking with you today.

Do you have any idea what brought you back to drinking after stopping, and if you could do something other than drinking when that happens?

I have a problem. I accept it.

It’s good to see you here, and that you’ve taken the first step. Good luck!