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  • Look it really doesn’t matter what some crazy people thought in 1580 or 1844. Trying to condemn the entire modern-day nation of Israel and its inhabitants is on par with calling all of Gaza terrorists.

    I’m not saying Israel doesn’t have deeply rooted colonialism nor that we shouldn’t study its history, but making blanket judgements about entire peoples based on random historical nitpicks, is the weapon of the enemy.















  • 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.