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On Teacher Appreciation Day I’m going to make a bunch of memes about how TEACHERS AREN’T THE ONLY TEACHERS.
It’s one damn day out of the year to appreciate moms, who do in fact do a LOT more than most aunties, godmothers and teachers.
Why is this so hard?
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“Dear Members of the Pulitzer Prize board,
My name is Emily Damari. I was held hostage in Gaza for over 500 days.
On the morning of October 7, I was at home in my small studio apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas terrorists burst in, shot me and dragged me across the border into Gaza. I was one of 251 men, women, children, and elderl…
The problem I see with all these crypto solutions is that they rely on 2 fundamentals: - Our infrastructures are working (electricity is on, your internet is running and your ISP is not tampering with your connection because you have been identified as not using the CBDC you are supposed to for instance) - The grubbernment will let that happen. They can come up and prohibit any online shop and physical shop from accepting crypto payments other than the CBDC one and we are done. They did that with the jabs in Australia for instance => people cannot work if unjabbed. simple as that. In Australia too, the CBDC will be launched by the end of the year. ATMs are disappearing at lighting speed. In France, now, every invoice a company emits has to go through a centralised platform => complete tracking. Remember that in 1934 the US gov decided that individuals couldn't hold gold anymore and used the seize gold when found in safes... with a finger snap.
We are headed into a total digital enslavement system and even if the crypto idea is genius and Steve's concept is enticing, it builds upon a paradigm that is being used for our own demise and to me it cannot be a viable long term solution. Maybe short term...
As much as I'd love to see alternatives in the digital world, IMHO, we need to look at the whole picture and realise what we are really facing: digital tyranny. Not sure we can fight fire with fire on this one...
Happy to be proven wrong.