sinedpick

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[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

12 skips of 30s each. They really do have some 6 minute long ad breaks.

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 21 points 1 day ago (6 children)

were you not paying attention or have you already forgotten that Honey is scamming the very content creators who shilled it (and others) by hijacking their affiliate links via cookie stuffing? By using Honey you're actively fucking over people who get income from affiliate marketing.

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

The brilliant minds at the orange site have discovered what's stifling research: Academics don't know how to use JSON! Surely, forcing every graduate student to go through a webdev bootcamp is the solution.

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

ah good point. He reads "mature and excellent at communication" as a self-description. After that, there's absolutely no way he can resist writing himself into both characters.

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 14 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Impressive how someone can be so bad at writing after writing so, so much.

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

"Somebody must be doing something." - everyone lol. The US is cooked, maybe not immediately but say goodbye to hegemony, goodbye to whatever shred of upward mobility remained, and goodbye to the possibility of retirement.

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

the funny thing about this quote is that you can post it under anything mildly outrageous and tons of people will go "mhmmm yes that's me the critical thinker" regardless of their actual mental faculties.

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 63 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

can you imagine being a Democrat congressperson who actually wants to do something useful for people and having to listen to this? I'd probably just resign.

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

ooh look at you, so smart!

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

hey hey hey, at least the US is genociding brown people by proxy. You gotta give us that at least.

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 5 points 2 weeks ago

yeah but this isn't about judicial review

 

https://archive.ph/RSQ9T

TL;DR: new regime in honduras is hostile to our dearest libertarian crypto bros, asserts sovereignty and tells them where to stick it.

A group of prominent international economists is applauding the recent move by Honduran President Xiomara Castro to push back against American crypto investors attempting to seize billions in public money from the Central American nation.

Background:

A group of libertarian investors teamed up with a former Honduran government — which was tied at the hip with narco-traffickers and came to power after a U.S.-backed military coup — in order to implement the world’s most radical libertarian policy, which turned over significant portions of the country to those investors through so-called special economic zones. The Honduran public, in a backlash, ousted the narco-backed regime, and the new government repealed the libertarian legislation. The crypto investors are now using the World Bank to force Honduras to honor the narco-government’s policies.

[ image of cryptobros making the face Wil E Coyote makes after running off a cliff ]

The crypto investors are now using the World Bank to force Honduras to honor the narco-government’s policies.

[Castro] has hit upon an elegant solution: She has taken steps to withdraw Honduras from ICSID. The crypto crowd is crying foul.

Among the dozens of signatories to the Progressive International praising Castro’s decision to exit the arbitration court are prominent South Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang; Chilean Gabriel Palma, of the “Palma Ratio of inequality”; American economist Jeffrey Sachs; former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis; British economist Ann Pettifor; and Indian development economist Jayati Ghosh.

Predictably, the international community is going "LOL"

You may be asking, who's winning in all of this?

In its case before the ICSID, Próspera retained a top lobbying firm, employing former Democratic lawmaker Kendrick Meek, to pressure Honduras to pay up.

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