by pkvi
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the-new-style 1 point ago +1 / -0

The computer belongs to the New York Stock Exchange.

Which, in turn, is owned by Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.

You don't know how prices are set in the Stock Exchange, do you?

In fact I'd go so far as to say you had no idea stocks are even bought and sold through an exchange, and not by the listed companies themselves.

by pkvi
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the-new-style 2 points ago +2 / -0

You could do absolutely anything with the digits in the computer that belongs to you.

The computer does not belong to them.

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the-new-style 2 points ago +2 / -0

He is PRC approved.

Unseating him via scandal could be in the interest of many factions.

It's also a centuries long war between Tibet and China

https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/how-china-first-conquered-tibet-621f4a0d1d8f

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the-new-style 1 point ago +1 / -0

Oh.

Well in that case I believe you are wrong and that Transnational Global corps wield a disproportionately large proportion of Power.

Citibank chose Obama's cabinet.

UK prime minister was ushered in from Goldman Sachs and is the son in law to Infosys owner.

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the-new-style 1 point ago +1 / -0

Please just leave us alone

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the-new-style 3 points ago +3 / -0

I think it's more about building a regulatory moat than pure censorship

can't have the plebs getting an open version

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the-new-style 1 point ago +1 / -0

512 x 512, stable diffusion's default size, is a common stock photo size

https://www.pexels.com/search/512x512%20portrait/?orientation=square

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the-new-style 1 point ago +1 / -0

and? you can still specify it

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the-new-style 1 point ago +1 / -0

I don't know for sure but it is usually the reporting that changes, not the frequency of the crime.

e.g. all of a sudden "train derailment" is the story of the month until the next thing, then you never hear of them again, even though that frequency didn't change.

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the-new-style 1 point ago +1 / -0

As what?

  1. You can specify the aspect ratio in Midjourney (the engine that generated the fake Trump arrest photos battling the cops lots of people fell for)

  2. cropping exists

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the-new-style 1 point ago +1 / -0

Tracking is a side effect of The Grift

by pkvi
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the-new-style 4 points ago +5 / -1

It's called "crashing upwards".

Take a look at the Venezuela Stock Market

https://tradingeconomics.com/ibvc:ind

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the-new-style 1 point ago +1 / -0

Not gonna lie, you didn't have me in the first half.

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the-new-style 1 point ago +1 / -0

If you have a bank account with The Fed then it is a CBDC, the blockchain is not really required.

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the-new-style 3 points ago +3 / -0

If you want to get the source material from the Libertarian Perspective then head over to The Mises Institute and Rothbard's Children and Rights.

He argues that leaving your children to starve is fine because they cannot impose themselves on your right to self autonomy.

And selling them is also fine because why not?

If you want the opposite, where children are property of the state, then pop over to The Communist Manifesto

by qclick
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the-new-style 1 point ago +1 / -0

but you aren't a celebrity showman who relies on bluster for his public persona

but again, what he did was not "admitting"

by qclick
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the-new-style 1 point ago +1 / -0

There is a difference between admitting something is true, claiming something is true and reporting someone else saying something.

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