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Walked to the grocery store today and ended up having to haul the backpack with the ten pound bag of flour because my partner had the other heavy stuff and the flour wouldn’t fit in the same backpack as the milk.
I’m dead. I can barely keep my eyes open and it hurt to move my arms for like an hour after i got home.
And yet the SSA insists I can work 30hr/wk.

I keep seeing NSFW artists & consumers be like "Crypto might be the answer" and no it's not. It's really REALLY not. As great as it'd be if it was a lot of crypto is actually centralized and those exchanges are just as susceptible to the pressures of bunch of angry lobbyist as any credit card company. Especially if they want to do business in the US. (Plus the huge amount of other issues that are just inherent to Crypto... sorry is destroying the environment further really worth titty art? No, it's not.)

NSFW artists/Sex Workers can't keep running from the issue forever because the people who want NSFW gone literally WILL NOT stop until they eradicate all of it.

Like IDFK how you actually fight it but Crypto isn't some magical answer that solves all the problems of NSFW artists.

edit: changed the first sentence to add consumers because it's not just artists saying it.

(puts on my job hat)

There are legal, regulated, functional electronic payment methods that bypass credit card processors entirely. They are largely electronic variations of traditional paper checks - direct bank account to bank account transfers - often (but not always) with a 3rd party service provider in the middle handling the details.

In the USA, ACH is the big one. it's slow, outdated, and terrible in all sorts of ways, but it works, and has very low transaction costs. Most of the rest of the world has better, faster, and more modern systems for direct bank account transfers, and the USA is slowly building one of our own.

A single artist couldn't just start accepting ACH payments, but a platform that wanted to serve a niche of artists could absolutely set up an ACH payment channel as an alternative to credit/debit cards. It's also possible that "self hosting" direct transfer payments might be possible with some of the more modern transfer methods available for other currencies today, or that it will be possible with dollars in the future once the USA's fast transfer system is up and running. Not sure.

Even with all that, ACH today is a far more viable alternative than crypto. The pipes are right there, they work, and they move millions (if not billions) of dollars around every single day. Crypto is a speculative asset class with high volatility and tremendous transaction costs. The only things people actually buy with crypto are crimes and other crypto.

At work, ACH is literally how funds get transferred between our clients. I'm not an accounting clerk (but I work with them) and it seems pretty painless once it gets set up. I can attest that we move millions around through it monthly, if not weekly.

I used ACH to make payments on my tuition in college because that was the one way I didn’t get charged a service fee. I think my partner has been using it now as the “e-check” option to pay various utility bills, it’s just not labeled ACH anywhere obvious like the system my college used.

what you gotta understand is when you move to a new website the first thing you gotta do is bitch about the websites culture and how it needs to be adjusted to meet your specific needs and no matter -WHAT- you do you -cannot- recognize that you're being a dumbass, its very important that you commit to the bit until half the website blocks you or you get banned

"lurk more" used to be something we told people. but now we cant because of woke

its just very funny when someone with a "sizeable following" or whatever they want to call themselves moves to a new website due to the exodus of the month and beat the locals heads in with a shovel with their horrid posts. back in the good old days that got you a 6er and they told you to shut the hell up for a few weeks

It is the year 2016. Linkedin has recommended that I follow Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I don't know or care much about basketball. I think nothing of it.

It is the year 2018. Linkedin is still recommending Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I begin to suspect that it is assuming I like basketball because I am black.

It is the year 2024. Linkedin is recommending Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and several other basketball players. I am certain that it is being racist in the silliest possible way. I wonder if the engineer who made the suggested-follows algorithm knows that it is racist, or was warned that it might be.

Each passing year, the suggestion gets funnier. Much, much funnier. To think of how fundamentally incompetent Microsoft's management must be to let this happen.

Each passing year it gets more horrifying. I am forced to confront that someone is using this same technology to make decisions about resource allocation, about policing. The content slop has bled into reality. This post is supposed to be a joke but it isn't. I must make it one. Enjoy a too-zoomed-in picture of NBA player Chris Paul's mediocre headshot, courtesy of LinkedIn.