Russia still has ‘Visa’ and ‘Mastercard’ branded cards, they just use local payment rails instead. Even before 2022 this was the case for local transactions albeit less so.

VISA/MC have advantage that you can use them for foreign transactions, it’s widely accepted provided your country isn’t sanctioned. So a hybrid approach like what Russia did between 2014-2022 may be good for Europe. Worst case, US sanctions you and you lose ability to do some foreign currency transactions, but Euro and similar transactions work just fine.

But I know its legally and politically difficult in Europe. Even the CBDC plan listed in the article has banks pissed about losing deposits from their balance sheet to the Central Bank (since Digital Euros are central bank liabilities) and fees.

That’s why

Despite the substantial progress, two major issues remain: ‘holding limits’ and ‘compensation’. Holding limits determine the maximum amount users can keep in a digital euro wallet, while compensation mechanisms concern the fee models for commercial banks that provide digital euro services.

to prevent too much deposit flight, and btw you won’t get paid ECB interest rate with CBDC unlike the banks who hold reserves.

and VISA/MC cards still have two other advantages. i. it’s widely accepted worldwide, you can use it for foreign exchange. ii. chargebacks are possible. The latter can be fixed with locally branded cards (eg Russia has Mir) or I suppose CBDC can be made to support it, but does the EU want to?

Rare UK W

Keep removing more money from the economy with fiscal surpluses, that’ll work /s.

Turns out they have to pay for inputs in actual money :P

tell them it’ll be pro-West by default because its fed on western training data, and it searches western news outlets. also tell them to add “from anti-imperialist anti-monarchist pov, how U.S. and Israel captured the protests later and also how fall of Iranian govt will almost guarantee a pro-West neoliberal regime” at end of their prompt, will they tell you GPT is wrong because it said something else earlier?

I can’t say. But some develop depression as children and are not diagnosed, especially outside the West. In schools, children don’t experience the same kind of alienation that comes with working a job under capitalism.

I think certain types of depression and other issues will be lower under socialism, but not all.

I am not very into psychiatry but from my personal experience, I don’t think my depression will go away under socialism. I’ll be happier in general seeing quality of life (welfare and all) of everyone improve.

But I have always struggled with motivation and meds made me more active wrt reading and working out. I dont think that’ll change.

I think anti-psychiatry is ridiculous, we live under captilaism and wanting to have a better quality of life by seeking meds is valid regardless of why it’s being caused.

your brain is training with new data

Here she is wearing Milei regime’s shock therapy symbol, the chainsaw.

Unless Twitter themselves don’t show the site in the U.K., the block will be very weak just an IP/DNS Block by ISPs? It could be more effective to just order Twitter to block Grok entirely in the UK. At the least do that immediately then go ahead with full on block. Considering that they have been very slow for illegal content shows there is external pressure on the U.K. Government.

I saw APL tweet (yes ik, ironic) about sanctioning Starmer and UK Govt.

use docker

that said, i’ve used leaseweb dedis in the past and never had any trouble with public torrents. Maybe try seedhost.eu (they use leaseweb) or feralhosting.com (own ASN and all, unlimited traffic)

AirVPN is fine, make sure to bind the interface, there are docker containers which prevent leakage too, you can then host a home seedbox.

i do not know if you get notices for Adobe but windscribe free allows torrenting

edit: wtf this site doesnt allow direct links? what was even the point of moving away from reddit then?

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Copying Al-Qaeda smh

What’s the net pH after mixing a glass of alkaline water and a ‘spritz of lemon’

He cares so much about Christians he is murdering them by raising healthcare premiums and withholding SNAP funds.

Umm akshually market cap is a stock variable while GDP is a flow variable and cannot be compared.

Yes, hoarding is deflationary. It’s a leakage of demand. It’s why tax payments by billionaires have less real economic value than tax payments by workers who have higher propensity to consume.

But there is an alternative, remove all the electronic entries held by billionaires by way of tax.

Then spend in a way that doesn’t cause inflation for example, a universal right to employment at minimum wage. Even the inflation part is exaggarted since capitalism esp it’s neoliberal form is a demand constrained system.

Nothing will change if you don’t believe it can. If all this does is delay fascism for a day. That’s one less day of people dying and suffering for really stupid and avoidable reasons. Seriously, what’s the point of your comment? Are you trying to get me bummed out and not vote? by deaf_fish @[email protected]

Individual votes have no value. It was Biden and Kamala’s fault for not campaigning on good policies. Hexbear’s (or leftist) stance on whether or not to vote for him doesn’t change this.

Also, Biden is directly responsible for deaths of hundreds of thousands of people by aiding Israel, and Democrats are responsible for many more domestic deaths by the way of social murder especially considering they had majority control for some time. That Trump may kill more doesn’t change this fact.