ReluctantMuskrat

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[–] ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't doubt the possibility but that's not the situation here and now with defending Ukraine.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Except he's not funding a war, he's funding the defense of a nation fighting for freedom and its right to exist.

Ukraine didn't get in this war as a pissing match with Russia. It was wrongly attacked and is a democracy defending itself. It's had its children kidnapped and its civilians targeted. It will cease to exist if it loses. We don't have a greedy capitalist funding an unjust war for profit as you're trying to suggest. Helping Ukraine is the right thing to do. Refusing to help them will simply result in Europe fighting a better-resourced Russia later.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The need for privacy in crypto is significant and a hinderance to wide adoption. With most crypto if you send me money once I then know your wallet address and I can then look up every transaction you've ever made with that wallet and every future transaction you make later. Clearly that's a problem.

The fact that criminals are more motivated by privacy concerns doesn't reduce the need and expectation of privacy for the rest of us.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

To hear you say "Hey Google" it has to listen to everything you say, all the time. While they pinky-promise they aren't doing anything with all the voice data they're getting while listening, do you trust them?

[–] ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Surprising that they're still cut-off since it's the Antarctic summer right now.