Helenium_autumnale

Helenium_autumnale t1_j22ym0g wrote

Money is online now; how do you imagine banking works in 2022? Everyone does online banking, pays bills, &c. online. We do that with fiat currency, which, unlike Bitcoin, is fungible and useful as a medium of exchange.

Not 13 hours ago, you wrote:

My prime membership is ending in January. I bought over 1k in presents from Amazon this Christmas.

Did you do that with Bitcoin, if it's so useful?

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Helenium_autumnale t1_j18gl45 wrote

Musk recently had a spat with Hu Xijin, the former editor of nationalist state tabloid Global Times, over comments related to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

He does not know how to conduct himself as a CEO in a foreign country, not only as a representative of an American company but also as a guest in that country, who is making money from Chinese people due only to the good graces of the government. Public spats over politics is not among acceptable behaviors in that situation.

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Helenium_autumnale t1_j0h3sh4 wrote

The results show that bull elephants prefer to walk paths that have or lead to plants called Combretum and Cissus which are only eaten by bulls. Family groups will walk paths that have Commiphora and Terminalia, which are a dietary preference for family groups comprising females and young calves.

Fascinating. Never would have guessed that they have sex-specific food preferences.

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Helenium_autumnale t1_ise4966 wrote

It's a holdover from the pre-Internet age, like travel agents. We don't need them. They're parasites who often know nothing about the properties they're showing (in my recent experience; my middling research found a problematic sewer field though the house salesman had no idea where it was located) who nevertheless want to siphon off some money. Useless people.

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