A Random Collection

If you think about it, the fact that Oliver Tree got a Post-Mortum Post Malone shout-out technically means that the Dixie-cup/vape/scooter rapper had significantly more cultural relevance than Charlie Kirk lmao

I wonder to what extent cryptocurrency has contributed to the current inflation crisis. Like. We have this whole secondary economy where every day millions of extremely-low-confidence dollars are being converted into a deceptively-high-confidence commodity currency which is either hoarded without being spent or gets converted into more commodity currency. That's a nightmare scenario. That does really bad stuff to economies.

No, if I understand those studies correctly, the ones that indicate that crypto can't be used as a hedge against inflation simply find that when money is put into crypto as an investment, it does not generate a significant return on that investment above decrease in value due to inflation. This doesn't lead deductively to the conclusion that crypto doesn't play some causal role in inflation, I guess, but I was thinking that if we could blame crypto in some regard for the inflation crisis, some justifying evidence for that might be found in some correlation between the value of crypto holdings and the value of the dollar. But if they both change value at roughly the same rate, in roughly the same direction, with inflation, then that reduces my confidence in the claim that crypto is exerting an effect on inflation any more than the existence of the US dollar is, relative to the US economy. Of course, crypto could still affect rates of inflation somehow. As natalieironside suggests, economic actors might be evaluating crypto as a good investment and then investing and reinvesting into cryptocurrencies (to keep their value out of government-backed currencies) at a scale that spirals into the value of that (or those) government currency falling. But that still seems unlikely to be the case to me if cryptocurrencies that non-insiders would want to invest in (i.e. the ones that are more stable) are affected by inflation just like traditional currency. Especially since some of those more stable cryptos do, iirc, maintain that stability through some mechanism that responds to the value of the dollar? Again, though, I'm not a crypto or economic expert. I'm just curious about the possibilities of economic damage caused by crypto.

I was thinking more in terms of good money in competition with bad money. My suspicion is that dumping your assets into crypto has a similar economic effect to exchanging all your dollar bills for gold coins and burying them.

i flipping hate ao3's layout there's too many goddamn words

This websites hatemail game is insane

HEY i deactivated this for a while because I was super depressed (no it really doesn't make sense), and then I was trying to use reactivating it as an excuse to make some new stuff, but that was taking too long so I'm just resharing this with an actually functioning link for now.

Good sticker to put over Ring doorbell cameras in your neighborhood.

Getting down on my knees and thanking the humans who invented dishwashers and washing machines.

InsNe that dishwashers are more efficient and easier than just washing them manually but they also use less water. It’s a win win situation

They ALSO sterilize dishes, due to operating at a far higher temperature than human hands could ever tolerate. It's a win every way.

and femininity looks so different from culture to culture (to subculture) across geography and also history, so how can anyone pretend it's any kind of objective truth? it's literally all just locally crowdsourced social convention

it must be so freeing to be as stupid as a ceo. not a single thought echoing through that hollowed out skull. you get paid more money in 20 minutes than a handful of small countries make in a year combined to say the biggest number you can think of and if your company doesn’t hit that number you get to fire all of them