Disclaimer: Not an expert on this.

It was previously not really possible to send money digitally directly, except in the form of cyptocurrency. It always goes through banks or intermediaries. If you transfer money between bank accounts, the banks have to talk to each other to do so, and the “real” transfer happens between their central bank accounts at a later point in time. There is indeed only spreadsheets with numbers going up and down. Effectively the banks are in control of all of it. In most cases we don’t want a slow bank transfer but some sort of user-friendly payment portal like PayPal or wero, which the banks also need to have contracts with (or, operate themselves).

My vague understanding here is that this process is completely detached from banks, and that you are thus transferring actual money. It’s not just numbers in a spreadsheet going up and down.

If anybody understands it better please correct anything I got wrong.

What does that mean? Without looking it up I would say, “pretty case”, so a good example?

People assume you’re being a dick, I read this as a joke from one parent to another lol

I think the dawn of neoliberalism under Reagan and the 2008 crisis are essential. 9/11 was just a great sensation to focus on

Left unity: Working together despite disagreements, and engaging in discourse to make compromises and reach agreements

Tankie left unity: Nobody disagrees with me

(That’s my real problem with tankies. I don’t care that much if they’re delusional, it’s that there is no space for other leftists in their worldview)

I’m German but became fluent in English before school so I consider myself native. Anyway what I’m trying to say is I’m really good at being bad in two languages at the same time

You’re not wrong but that’s not quite decentralization, that’s just not building a walled garden, but retaining the power to put up walls at any point. If most users are on BlueSky, then BlueSky retains the power. If they decide to end support of AT or to extend (break) it, they keep their user base while everything else is left in the dust.

This is why people are saying not to create an account on mastoson.social - it’s getting too big. And mastodon.social is run by a non-profit, whereas BlueSky is a for-profit company. True decentralization and federation are against their interests.

I’m a native speaker I’m just dumb

I just wish there was a normal German meme or shitposting community but there isn’t

I’m constantly switching back and forth between Hack and Fira Code.

OnlyFans verbieten aber pornhub mäßig Porno über Werbung finanzieren geht noch? das ist so lost

Edit:

Ah okay. “Wie Euractiv weiter ausführt, geht es in der Neuregelung explizit um live ausgestrahlte und von außen angestoßene beziehungsweise beeinflusste Aufnahmen, vorher aufgezeichnete Videos bleiben demnach legal.”

Das heißt doch, dass OnlyFans nicht verboten ist, sondern nur Inhalte die auf Anfrage gemacht werden? mMn trotzdem kontraproduktiv

People have offered great advice, one special case: Does your phone still have microUSB for some reason? In that case you might just need a new cable

“Wait I remember borrowing that to somebody, but who was it again?” - it’s gone

“I swear I saw it yesterday” - search as long as you want, you will find it by accident mere moments after you no longer need it

“I remember I put that in a specific place for safekeeping” - will resurface when you move

The real ADHD thing is to make ADHD your entire personality and assume that every single thing you do is only because of ADHD.

jokes aside I am definitely far more likely to misplace items than most people I know

Wäre ein EU-Ausschlussverfahren nicht sinnvoller? Gelder streichen stärkt doch am Ende nur wieder Orbans narrativ dass die EU Ungarn ausnutzen würde

wait did that get edited or did somebody spray “maurice yo” on the arc de triomphe?

There was some drama recently due to some moderation practices. feddit.org isn’t quite zionist but they do have to comply with German law which is. I don’t have the exact details unfortunately

fair enough

Clown ass move picking the Marlin rather than a Narwhal

Society always taught me that it’s creepy or annoying or objectifying to compliment women. (I’m a man)

Which never made sense to me because I love compliments. But I guess the experience is different for many women.