> If your debt is denominated in dollars how does depreciation in the dollar make it harder to pay back?

It doesn't, it just leaves the general public holding sacks of worthless paper money or pointless numbers in a bank's database when they want actual stuff, like food.

Inflation as long been used as a stealthy way to tax the public, they see their quality of life going to crap as each new generation comes along, but nobody wants to admit the problem lies with government spending The US had the advantage of pushing a lot of the inflation tax onto the rest of the world, but that's going away as so many other countries want to get free of the dollar.

If tomorrow the government hands out a trillion dollars to everyone, we won't all suddenly have a lot more stuff. We'll have a lot more paper and all the resources that were scarce yesterday will still be just as scarce. Probably even more so as there's a rush to consume more before prices can fully react to such a change.

> We have been hearing these same predictions about the national debt for almost 100 years ... the argument is fundamentally flawed. Mostly because it ignores things like economic growth, inflation and the value created by whatever the debt buys.

The fiat system has collapsed a few times, do you know anything about Brazil or Zimbabwe?

I don't think gold is a magic solution here, or returning to that standard would fix everything, but you do need some level of balance between the amount of currency and the things there are to buy with it and we damn near broke it during Covid with the mass inflation there. So I wouldn't be too cavalier that this could never happen, even as I don't think it's in any immediate danger.

But remember: there won't be a US dollar to peg the US dollar to if we screw it up and that's the only way Brazil got out of its mess in the 1990s.

Meanwhile, you can get $100 trillion Zimbabwe dollars for $3 USD.

> It's a useless technology anyway

I hope this quote someday goes on to be as infamous as "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." but Slashdot probably isn't relevant enough for that any longer.

Yeah, because the customers don't want anything else. Itch.io is great ... if you want random indie stuff. GOG seems to have no idea what to recommend and you either get games from 1992 or hentai VNs with a porn patch so they're not technically selling the porn, with little that's actually interesting.

If they ever want to do that, they should hire Kitboga. He made a digital maze where a bunch of scammers are still looking for some bitcoin that doesn't exist by solving captchas, waiting on hold in ridiculous phone trees, etc.

I do run it for a little bit on gas each week, long enough to come up to temp. My fuel use will be higher in the winter as well. (the electric range with heat on in cold temps is ~ 90 % of my commute vs summer where I still have ~10-20 miles left) Using Ethanol free gas to avoid the separation, and next summer will be filling the tank only partway so it can cycle the fuel ~ every 3 months.

Mine has been about 95% electric. I bought it 6 months ago, and will probably do my first fill up tomorrow.

"Maple Syrup Night at the Hockey game sponsored by Tim Horton's, sorry to all you Molson beer lovers, but your night will be next week."

yea, thats a big problem, so I updated my bots so they can feel annoyance as well.

What about our domestic officials who are currently issuing or threatening arrest warrants and deportation on U.S. citizens , U.S. residents and students for protected speech on U.S. soil?

This is what I did. They're basically indestructible and once I learned how they worked, I haven't needed anything else. They also seem to be easier to clean than the old nonstick pans. Oh, and they give you a little extra iron in your food.

Phones should be modular enough that you can swap in radio hardware, allowing you to upgrade your phone to next generation spectrum without replacing the entire phone. This should have happened in the 2G -> 3G transition, in my opinion

> "Art" that is created by a non-scient, non-sapient entity, that has neither an idea what it is doing nor an artist's intention is by definition not art.

This is how I feel about the banana duck taped to the wall.

We should ask it what the fox says.

> Even if the hardware is already firewalled away from the public internet.

Then just use an internal CA that signs the certs for as long as you want? Why even get a public CA cert for that, if you control everyone talking to it?