Got over my laziness
dd will do
stopped using Ventoy
suggesting others to do so too.

Being rich.

As long as there are people without a home or who live in a permanent state of anxiety, then being rich is unethical. Solving the problem of disproportionate hoarding—greed—should be humanity's current prime directive because it's the cause of nearly all our problems.

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Religion.

To consider antireligion instead of atheism
The harm of religion is historically evident whereas the presence or absence of gods is not. Ultimately, the continued existence of religion is predicated on the indoctrination of children and suppression of rational thought. Therefore I am against religion but not necessarily against the idea of gods. For all we know gods are computer scientists and we are in their video game. —https://www.arscyni.cc/file/antireligion.html

"You asked, we built it" = "Your data is profitable, so we slapped AI on it and feign altruism".

It's sad that this is so funny because it's true.

Sorry. Totally right. I can't edit the linked post anymore, but I've added it as a comment.

As @Alaknar@lemm.ee rightly pointed out, this only works for Nvidia GPUs. No idea what the method for AMD GPUs is, if there is one.

It's good, and it's funny. So much so that I'm jealous.
With this potential critical mass combined with the gaming community it's all downhill for Windoze from here.

PS How to force Steam games in Linux to use an Nvidia GPU, because games might unknowingly perform needlessly bad.

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It's good, and it's funny. So much so that I'm jealous.
With this potential critical mass combined with the gaming community it's all downhill for Windoze from here.

PS How to force Steam games in Linux to use an Nvidia GPU, because games might unknowingly perform needlessly bad.

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✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

It's good, and it's funny. So much so that I'm jealous.
With this potential critical mass combined with the gaming community it's all downhill for Windoze from here.

PS How to force Steam games in Linux to use an Nvidia GPU, because games might unknowingly perform needlessly bad.

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✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

"Are you 14?"

Irrelevant.

ad hominem (adjective, ad ho·​mi·​nem (ˈ)ad-ˈhä-mə-nəm -ˌnem)

1. appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect
2. marked by or being an attack on an opponent's character rather than by an answer to the contentions made

"Russia, which is blocked from other international payment systems."

Fair enough.

"We’re still throwing around fallacies like it’s 2010? Okay, I cast fallacy fallacy!"

Guess I'll simply parry with fallacy fallacy fallacy—quoting from your linked Wiki: "That one can invoke the argument from fallacy against a position does not prove one's own position either, as this would also be an argument from fallacy".

Your latter argument for the crypto cult is that the others are problematic too, therefore it's okay to join the cult. This invalid reasoning renders the entire conclusion void. I did not claim your conclusion is false, only that your reasoning is invalid.

"like it's 2010?"

There's no expiration date on logical reasoning.

"Cryptocurrencies are a tool, similar to how money is a tool. You can’t blame money itself for all the scummy shit done using it, similarly for cryptocurrencies."

A knife is a tool. Knives can be used for food and violence. However, knives do not persuade their users to buy as many knives as they can, they do not incentivize manipulating others to do so too, nor do knives inherently encourage violence. The exact opposite is true for crypto"currencies" because these are multi-level marketing pyramid schemes. As soon as one joins the Crypto Cult one benefits from recruiting new members—often by indoctrination and/or demagoguery.

"I guess some random HN user is smarter than the research arms of these companies who are all building on and utilizing crypto"

List of fallacies in the aforementioned statement:

• Ad hominem.
• Argument from authority.
• Bandwagon fallacy.

"I don’t have venmo, so I don’t use it. I don’t get mad when somebody offers it."

Venmo is not a multi-level marketing pyramid scheme, all crypto"currencies" are^["The only example of cryptocurrency not being a misnomer is TU Delft's blockchain euro [15]. But if it is practical remains to be seen since Africa has superior payment alternatives that don't require blockchain at all—which I address further down." —Crypto Cult Science].

"Depending on where users are located, it might be the only realistic option they have if they want to donate."

Could you give us an example of such a location please?

"Besides, traditional payment systems like PayPal, MasterCard, Visa etc are all problematic in their own right."

Whataboutism fallacy.

"There’s a legitimate use for crypto, to support something you use and (probably) enjoy, and you want them to remove it to set a good example?"

Of course they should remove it, for it is the moral thing to do. The only legitimate use is donating to entities who have their access to a bank account removed, e.g., whistle blowers, Z-Library, et cetera. In any other case it is an unethical instrument that brings out the worst in humanity.

"All of this existed (except the bit about nazi coins) already."

Whataboutism fallacy.

This whataboutism is probably the most used fallacy within the crypto"currency" sphere. If A and B cause cancer, and A was first, it doesn't follow that B is less malignant.

Quoted from my Crypto Cult Science essay linked in the original post:

“Strong currencies are not the solution to poor governance. Good governance and democracy makes a country and its currency strong. Not vice versa.” —halukakin, HackerNews, 2021

Never heard of Revolt before, nice.

As a community I'd use Revolt if my game/mod/whatever is built upon extensive bot functionality, and Matrix if not.

Exploited is accurate. But I'd personally wouldn't call Western countries "developing" to avoid ambiguity. Exploiting/exploited packs more punch and is unambiguous.

Imperial core countries causing climate change because of greed. The climate changes first in developing countries because of physics. The citizens of said developing countries flee to imperial core countries because of self-preservation. Imperial core citizens mad at fleeing citizens because of ignorance.

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