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Bureaucratic malfeasance, error, or just plain bad luck, can loose people their accounts, even with government not silencing them.

e.g. a fly landing on a sheet of paper, blocking the print head long enough to generate "Tuttle" from "Buttle", resulting in a long chain of violent events for some unassuming individual…

I want to be able to have multiple IDs that are not linked. I shouldn't have to give government ID to make an online purchase

But how will your benevolent rulers be able to socially gamify your behaviour and direct who gets to interact and mate with you? If social credit systems are to work, we need KYC and centralized ID.

Which is why the system needs to be built on consent, not extortion.

In the military we had a saying: "There is only one thief; Everyone else is just trying to get their shit back."

The same applies to the monopoly on force, extorting individuals and corporations, but corporations can actually afford paying off and directing government towards their competition (and us individuals).

As Youtube amps up their aggressive campaign to disable Ad-Blockers... they simultaneously fail to moderate verified advertisers using their services to push tens of thousands of scam ad campaigns onto their viewers.

At a certain point the level of moderation failure becomes very hard to ignore, especially if they are attempting to remove the primary tool by which people avoid engaging with these deceptive and sometimes criminal advertisements.

915 square feet is still enough for some solar cells, a bio digester, an aquaponics setup with vegetable garden, a cabinet full of quail, a cot, a rocket stove, and a small shed.

It's really simple.

The universe is based on Murphy's 1st Law: Anything can go wrong, including nothing.

"In the beginning there was nothing… Then something went wrong."

Cow Magnets 2 years ago

I mean, insurance should pay the patient, so the doctors are incentivized to serve the patient.

Cow Magnets 2 years ago

Governmemt should not be involved in ending someone's life; Not at their own choosing, nor at forcing them to continue living.

Cow Magnets 2 years ago

Is it too much to ask for that I want to be the customer paying the treatment, instead of the insurance agency? Put the incentives where they count.