For real. Also, the rainbow fish is trash
If only there was a good way to pepper in high information content that’s surprising to your local model. A way to periodically burst your bubble.
You can pardon deez nutz
Serious question, how do you not participate? No bank account? Don’t vote (though it’s compulsory)? Genuinely intrigued!
Yo I’ll take some popcorn chicken.
Hey #austriches? How’s cashless society going?
https://au.news.yahoo.com/car-rammed-popular-chain-restaurant-215031823.html
I actually didn’t realise businesses could refuse to accept cash… suboptimal.
The best way to know how fukt you are on a scale from 1 to 10 as an #AUStriches is that when the Government outsources to the private sector, you are 12 fukt.
Because if the Gov do it themselves, in-house, with their people, you can safely assume it’s a jobs-for-mates swindle to line people’s pockets because it will never actually work in reality. You don’t have to take this stuff very seriously.
But when the Gov goes to the fully captured private sector and has them do their bidding, well you know it’s actually going to happen. Worse, it’s going to happen in the way the Gov wanted and they won’t have given a single thought to possible second and third order effects because that’s not how they operate - they want sound bites and headlines and shit which builds their profile.
This TEx shit is going to be a disaster. Now instead of Optus leaking everyone’s drivers license and no-one facing any repercussions, now we just have a gigantic single honeypot with ALL your information in it which no-one will be responsible for when people have their lives ruined by massive identity theft at a scale never seen before.
Like a societal timebomb which will detonate at some random point in the future when the parasites in charge are even more inept than those today, where you become completely depersoned from the whole economy because Bill Shorten wanted to have his name in the paper.
https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/commonwealth-banks-revolutionary-new-medicare-mygov-id-program-for-aussies-world-leading-223816155.html nostr:note1gyp6hjszeadz4ggyxkl9tfjeu8xhxuf77yecgeq3k0vexlgygmpq094nu2
I’m as pessimistic about govt initiatives as you. But when you dig into the some of the details of TEx. It’s actually not that bad. I can’t audit their code base, but it’s seems more like a decentralised identifier (like IOTAs https://www.iota.org/solutions/digital-identity).
The result is you can’t just hack a centralised database and get everyone’s information like the Optus leak. The credentials are stored locally on device and you can share a cryptographic token that proves you have a valid Medicare number, or are of age, but don’t actually have to reveal that information.
The classical Roman autist in me craves kikero. The prosocial version of me yields to the sissy version.
Are you a kikero or sissero man.
Hard times make strong men is a partial truth. Hard times are (probably) necessary but not sufficient. There a plenty of people who have had hard times and come out the other end virtueless cunts.
That’s very optimistic, I’m pretty sure we’re still in the back half of the good times.
I think the principles are complexity and entropy. The earth is not a closed system where the energy from the sun stops complete disorder, but we (like nature) tend toward higher complexity because it distributes temporary order and its collapse better.
These technologies decentralise, which increases complexity.
It is the pinnacle of linguistic efficiency. If you can’t see that, then sir, we are at an impasse.
All I want from social media is to be bombarded with information that nudges my mental model in the direction of the global optimum. Is that so hard to achieve?
Look mate, we’re only economically and politically munted, but culturally we’re ok.