“Again: How many of your last 100 purchases were made directly with monero? Just ballpark, I’m sure you have a sense.”. A reasonable interpretation of this is, “you don’t use it, so no one should”.

Apparently millions of people find it useful. If you don’t that’s totally ok.

I think this is simply a privacy education issue. Here’s how to anonymously buy a steam game, step by step:

1. On an insecure computer, buy Bitcoin or other with your credit card
2. Exchange Bitcoin for monero on an exchange website
3. Send Monero to your private wallet
4. Now on your very secure computer, create a Steam account using an anonymous email, all through VPN/Tor
5. Create a Bitcoin or other wallet
6. Access your monero on this computer and exchange it for Bitcoin or other, sent to your wallet
7. Use Bitcoin or other to exchange to Fiat, Bitrefill looks like an option
8. Purchase Steam game

If your secure computer is totally anonymous, so is your purchase.

Of my last 1 million purchases, exactly zero were done this way. The currency is not worth zero so obviously it’s useful to some. “I don’t personally use it” is an unconvincing argument, you simply don’t care about private purchases which is totally ok.

You can exchange it to another accepted crypto, or convert to fiat depending on what you’re trying to do. If you differ the exact amounts you buy and use, and delay the timing of your monero purchase and final purchase, it gives you anonymity. Or more like plausible deniability. Nobody said anonymity was convenient. You also don’t need every purchase to be anonymous for it to be useful.

When you do most of those purchases you’re not anonymous to begin. But if you want to buy an embarrassing pornographic game on Steam and don’t want your payment provider to have “FURRYDICKS STUDIO” in your name, you sure can use Monero.

That’s how amnesiac it is.

Monero doesn’t need to be mainstream, it’s immediately useful for privacy. Its price could dump 99% and it would be equally useful. You buy some, make your transaction, enjoy your anonymity and then forget about it. It’s a tool, not an investment.

“If my daughter’s skin flap is split, this old book says to throw rocks at her until her skull caves in.”

“Idk how to avoid sounding condescending.”

Maybe we shouldn’t avoid it.

Someone could kill Brian Thompson’s wife with the same fingerprints, turn himself in, and they’d put Luigi in the chair anyways. They want to send us all a message. Like punishing the class when one kid acts up.

They need to play 12 Angry Men for every jury before deliberation, but play it twice for this particular jury. That’s not the kind of evidence you send a kid to the chair over.

It should be 1 penny. It has the same exact effect on childbirth rates, has a greater demoralizing effect on Democrats who understand policy, and allows more money to be siphoned to billionaires in tax cuts, all of which are the real goals here.

When you want to piss off a waiter on Sunday morning after church, you don’t leave a 5% tip. You leave a penny.

Even though Luigi Mangione didn’t actually commit any crime and his trial is a flimsy sham, I agree. He is the public face of whoever really did it, and they are an icon of justice.

You will all make fine parents if you choose. Just slapping in some positivity and love here lol.

They shouldn’t, but also PSA to any parents but modern parenting advice typically is to let your kids use social media if they choose, and guide them through the social and emotional difficulties with good communication. Don’t blanket ban it because they’ll just use it anyways without guidance, and be unprepared the moment they turn 18.

It’s a case of: 99.9% of kids are smoking cigarettes so yours will too. Better to show them how to use a weekly cigar without inhaling, than just ban it which won’t work.

American here, I knew we weren’t the worst!

Uh oh. I just learned about NixOS right now and I’m intrigued.

He’s a hero for standing up to the big guy after being falsely accused. Even more so as we realize what the prosecution is protecting.

Then you’re lucky they had the freedom to donate their time like that.

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Yea but that takes work, and we’d like, have to pay our teachers more.

You’re on lemmy.world, they’re the default landing zone but imo there is better moderation on dbzer0 and others. Keep looking around and report stuff you see if it’s hate content. Good luck…

Well fuc