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Proof of work blockchains like NFT will never be used for anything on a basis of policy. They are just far too energy intensive. Proof of stake? Sure, maybe, but that's more of an argument for decentralization than anything else. The same crimes happen, they just happen in a different place. You're talking about the difference between faking some documents and taking hold of someone's token. You'd still need a central authority to settle any disputes. Digital theft is far too rampant to make token ownership the be all, end all here. How would anyone go about proving that their token was used in a fraudulent way that isn't just a sidestep from proving registered documents were faked? If your token is stolen, how do you reverse the transaction while being unable to retrieve the token? This is a real problem with Bitcoin and NFT. Billions of dollars in Bitcoin lost to the ether, NFTs stolen by who knows with no means of getting them back. Sure, the current problem is cured, but it just introduces a completely new set of equally troubling problems. This sounds an awful lot like how biometrics are the future of passwords when they just sidestep the issue of weak passwords and don't actually solve the password problem. Both just move the problem somewhere else. Facebook can't manage to keep their user databases free of compromises and we're expecting regular folks to keep their tokens safe? The only reason it's not more of a problem, and believe me, it's a very big problem even today, is because cryptocurrencies are mostly still in the realm of the tech literate.

NFT wouldn't solve title theft in any different way than a transactional database would. At that point in terms of real world use, we're talking about the difference between a centralized versus blockchain database. Even then, no proof of work blockchain will ever become a standard for anything. The energy requirements are a nonstarter. It's a ridiculous way to do anything at scale.

Well then here's a fear we both shared as kids. Nothing quite like having it drilled into you that you're a sinner and everyone good was getting raptured and everyone left behind was getting tortured for years.

Wildly strict, Latin American Pentecostal. We call them rajatabla churches, but I don't know if there's any direct English translation for that. Let me see, Spanish to English dictionaries day "exact, strict, rigorous", so I guess in American terms, a crazy fundamentalist everyone is going to hell because none of you all are good enough church. I'm not any of that. I'm still very religious. I was at church just this morning, but I turned away from that craziness a long time ago.

So yourself a favor and check this one out... The series is based on the Viz licensed series by the same name... VIZ | The Official Website for The Way of the Househusband WWW.VIZ.COM It’s a day in the life of a househusband—only this one is the legendary yakuza “the Immortal Dragon”! Here's my quick summary. It's about a legendary yakuza hitman that hangs up his life of crime to support his new wife's career. He takes everything VERY seriously. It's hilarious. There really aren't enough sincerely great comedy anime that could work well for anybody, but this one fits the bill.

I should note that according to Facebook, this is not the same breach that was reported in September 2019. Unsecured Facebook Databases Leak Data Of 419 Million Users WWW.FORBES.COM Unsecured databases have exposed the phone numbers linked to more than 400 million Facebook accounts. Was your amongst them? Back in 2019 there was a breach of 419 million accounts Facebook attributed to a vulnerability they patched in 2018. This current breach Facebook says came from a vulnerability they patched in August 2019. Forgive me for not believing Facebook can be trusted with anybody's data or that they can be trusted to report on any actual breaches. I mention this because it seems like Facebook is trying to conflate these two breaches as one in the same, but that would run counter to what they said about the 2018 breach back in 2019. I'm thinking that they're hoping most people won't be able to tell the difference since it can sometimes be tricky to pull up old news articles with keywords that match current news.

Cool, 533 MILLION Facebook accounts were breached back in 2019. Facebook is only acknowledging the breadth of that breach now because it's all been leaked online. 533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online WWW.BUSINESSINSIDER.COM The data includes phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, bios, and — in some cases — email addresses.

I don't think she was either. She was listed as missing after the blip, but that didn't mean she was missing because she was dusted. Seems she was just really good at staying hidden.

Now I'm trying to imagine what Lebron, with his build, could do as a goon in the 80s and 90s. Lawd, he'll steamroll everyone and he'd be known as the best defensive player ever before even getting into his offensive game.

Blah. Friends of the family just had they're entire household wrecked with the newer COVID strain. Looks like no one will die, but one of them will now need to relearn how to walk and might be stuck with crutches for the rest of her life. Just had a conversation with family trying to explain, yeah, this is a thing that has been happening since the start. A year of this shit and people still don't get that it's not a black and white live or die thing.

This makes me sad... Space Jam: A New Legacy | Official Site WWW.SPACEJAM.COM Space Jam: A New Legacy – In theaters and streaming exclusively on HBO Max July 16 Looks like they've finally updated the site after 25 years.

She was on the run with Captain and everyone else when the Cap and his side refused to sign the Accords. I always assumed she was pardoned the same as all the heroes, but it looks like that wasn't the case. I believe she stole the shield and Falcon's wings.

Amazon apologizes for lying about pee — and attempts to shift the blame WWW.THEVERGE.COM "This was an own goal," the company admits However, now they're trying to shift the narrative to this being only about their drivers and how it's common for truck drivers to pee in bottles.

If the MLB had is ridiculous protections stripped I would feel so terribly owned.

This is correct. Nothing should ever been done to avoid fueling right-wing anger. Everything sends these people into outrage mode. These were the same people that were up in arms because Biden was said he was happy we might be able to return to normal by the 4th of July.

Yup. I also get a TON of text message spam with obviously malicious links. I just block each one and mark them as spam. It's obnoxious.

The people in this movie are so dumb. The greatest dumb thing in this movie, though? I loved this. I liked that we had Godzilla five minutes in and not dragged out into the middle of the movie. I love that Kong was the legit star of this movie, though now I need to know... The most surprising thing for me was how well paced this movie was. Sure, Wingard has had some great movies, but I want expecting a Godzilla film to work this well and at such a brisk pace. Five minutes in, I pause to get a drink, only to realize we were really twenty minutes in. Somewhere Snyder is trying to figure out why this movie isn't five hours long.

Glad I'm not being hyper sensitive here. My wife is always giving me crap for referring to her younger sister's friends as girls or kids. They're all in the early/mid twenties. The phrase "seventeen year old woman" is just sounds wrong and creepy.

I think the thing they don't want to acknowledge is how recent this is. Nobody bats an eye when Disney is putting these historic context labels on content created in years of Jim Crow. The stuff Peacock is looking to cut out was created in the last ~30 years.

That's fine, but I'm just trying to explain to you that's not the same as someone that lost their job and it's now getting rejected for other jobs because of poor results on their credit checks or people that are trying to move and are getting rejected for RENTALS because of bad credit. Medical debt is one of the top reasons people file for bankruptcy in this country and that's just wild to me when you consider that medical debt isn't really a thing anywhere else in the world.

She was bed ridden for like a week before they figured out what want wrong. Turns out she needed a blood transfusion. A week in the ICU is really expensive, though. We still haven't paid that bill. The best part about all this is that I do believe we'll eventually get universal healthcare in this country. That said, there's no way past medical debts will ever be forgiven for folks. If they were, some dipshit in Congress will demand that count as income, because we suck.

With our third kid, we got hit with more than that with an in hospital natural delivery with the best and most complete insurance package my company has to offer in a state with great healthcare all because my wife had the audacity to almost die shortly after child birth. I should also note that ambulance rides in this country are hilariously overpriced. I've mentioned it before, but my son needed surgery at 1 month old. Our local hospital couldn't perform surgery on someone that young so we had to move him to another hospital. We tried to not do that in an ambulance, but we were required to. It was an hour long drive and we were charged thousands. He was strapped into his car seat the entire way with my wife riding along next to him. The ambulance was literally just a taxi from one hospital to another.

Medical debt is one of the biggest stressors in this country. Even with insurance, people can very easily be saddled with tens of thousands of dollars they have no way of paying. Debt that limits what jobs they can get and where they can even live.

We're the same age. I don't think I've ever said "17 year old woman". I mean, my wife says I sound old when I refer to people in their early 20s as kids.

I have family that works at the VA that tells me the same thing. I've always assumed it's a combination of depression and "therapy is for pussies".