Could someone translate wtf he is even trying to say with this? Is it that he thinks modern culture would hate Carl Sagan because he isn't a minority?
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tbh I don't remember why I'm using TypeScript
I think you can get it with a credit card through the Cake Wallet app by buying a different crypto first and then swapping for XMR, this is probably the most user friendly way, though I can't personally confirm. You can buy it directly on Kraken, though the account setup is some effort. Here is a curated list of reputable ways to acquire, trade and use crypto without KYC, if not providing personal info is a priority for you.
I don't think it's actually that terrible for privacy to get it initially with KYC, because all they will know is that you purchased $X of crypto, so it's comparable to withdrawing cash from a bank.
I use it to pay for VPN and stuff, works pretty well IMO. There's potential scaling issues if too many people use it, but you can get around those by using XMR to privately purchase a different cryptocurrency with higher throughput. Tornado Cash was pretty cool too before they made using it a felony.
YouTube dies with a domino effect on the industry of small time streamers
If YouTube died, people wouldn't stop streaming, it would just boost competitors and/or open the possibility for new platforms to come into existence.
On web you can get the full resolution by clicking the title instead of the image.
I don't see how you can acknowledge this being relevant but also consider it whataboutism, those seem like opposite positions. If it is whataboutism, that's a claim that it isn't relevant. It is relevant because partisan affiliation is not a reliable predictor of how someone will approach this issue, which matters for whether considering it in this context makes sense.
Same but it is relevant that there is bipartisan support for stripping away our rights to privacy and general tech/internet freedoms.
The point is it keeps passing goalposts for intelligence. Feels like people want to move those goalposts to wherever we have it and AI does not.
The issue is that the surveillance state is actively bad, and expanding it and making it more official is a much bigger problem than the problem of ill-conceived verification systems, which could be better solved other ways. I don't want things to be perfect, I want to prioritize moving away from a dystopian panopticon.
That's just subtext tho