> But when crypto dies, what it will leave behind is bad Austrian economics and worse monkey JPEGs.

i’m crying

@offby1 @glyph Pretty sure being a truck-driving, god-fearing American living in liberty is virtuous to them and owning the libs that keep forcing clean air and health care on them is their way to preserve that (again: to them). It’s about showing their truck buddies they share the virtues! […]

@offby1 @glyph That’s my exact point tho: virtue and vice are in the eye of the beholder. They think they’re signaling US virtues, you think they signal idiot vices — and vice versa

@glyph @offby1 What I’m saying is that we should just call their virtue signaling for what it is and make the term meaningless as it is. Remember that next time you see a rolling coal with southern flags

@glyph @offby1 I find this whole discussion entirely moot because no matter what your stance on virtue signaling is, it’s not a leftist thing. What one considers a virtue depends on one’s values and having a bible verse in your bio or a Roman statue for avatar is indistinguishable to me from […]

@coderanger *ahem*

@bitprophet Either way 🤞!

@bitprophet you could be an expert in Mesos who memorized the Visual Basic APIs or top notch Flash expert who never heard of Big-O. 🤪

(Most of what you enumerate doesn’t sound like expertise in anything practical but interviewing tbh 😔 It’s so stupid.)

@bitprophet Generalist still >> expert in something nobody cares about

So I’m watching the lies, the denial, the wishful thinking, the culture war, and the economic illiteracy with fascination since I’m along for the ride either way – and I’ve got a family history of high blood pressure to watch out for.

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Once this circus collapses it will leave a black hole in the world economy, unveiling the camouflaged US recession en passant.

But what can I do except avoiding further exposure to its effects by stopping investments into overvalued AI-heavy indexes (aka US of A; this is no financial advice).

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