If the debt was owed to banks, then… heeee hee

So if I understand correctly, the reason it’s outdated is not because we don’t need those pesky banking regulations any more, but that it has been found that banks will just take out their own loans to cover the reserves they need from the central bank, so they can just lend as much as they want, no seatbelts. And the central bank will never run out of loans to give, since they have insane reserves, in their own currency it is technically unlimited.

So money is not really the thing we think it is. If banks overextend themselves and fuck up, the only thing we’ll see instead of failing banks is runaway inflation in the consumer and asset (housing) markets. Wonder where I’ve seen that.

That’s my point, I always have a reasonable suspicion of anything I get from the Internet, but I don’t trust any site just because some underpaid functionary or corporate employee in its respective country said it’s good.

That’s the ecosystem. WordPress itself is pretty basic, these things attack plugins, and their often not-very-experienced creators and users. The thing with WordPress is that this kind of vulnerability comes with the problem space, not the particular solution. If there was a different product in the same space, it would not fare better by default.

Also, I’d bet that a ton of CVEs are filed for C++ libraries, yet nobody is harping on about how insecure C++ is.

There’s a huge industry of people making wordpress sites who shouldn’t.

And this is why I hate the state of the whole hacking scene and that now nation states are also carrying out en masse attacks. Everyone should be free to make a site on Wordpress or whatever. If they can’t, that’s how we get everyone on like 3 corporate platforms like Facebook.

I’d guess it’s not because of the inherent insecurity of WordPress, but the sheer size of the ecosystem and the fact that like 40% of the Internet is WordPress sites.

So what are trustworthy TLDs?

I do like Mull, but I’m also uninformed and I don’t use my mobile browser all too much.

Are they independent from the cancerous management though?

Say that again after you sit the same IT exams as I did.

F-Droid could go through it, the thing that is prohibited is for Google to bar them just because they are a competitor.

In which we all participate whether we like it or not.

The difference is that the stock market has a very distorted definition of value.

If you say that the value of something is what someone else is willing to pay for it, I could trade my house with a friend and say they paid a billion for it, except they paid me with their own billion-dollar house, and we would both become billionaires. Of course, that would be bullshit, but if my friend and I sat on the board of the FED, it would somehow become actually real.

I see how that works, but the question is, how far can that stretch? Wall Street already tells us there is stuff worth more than 40 years of the US GDP trading around in their pockets, so how much more can that get before they get called on their bullshit like me and my hypothetical friend?

On the one hand, I can imagine the family gatherings.

“Why did you block Uncle Pete?”

“He has been viewing my page every 2AM, there is no way he isn’t beating his meat to all the beach pictures I post of my kids!”

On the other hand, Facebook likes engagement, even the weirdo meat-beating kind. It makes them money.

Imagine the creepiness level when as a woman you get a ton of page view notifications every day at 2AM. Some of them from coworkers. Some from family members.

Some things are best left unknown.

Have you seen how much a razor costs nowadays?

Not in Europe, that’s a US thing.

It really broke the ice, didn’t it?

I am the kind of person that always installs tons of mods to everything.

With ME though, especially on the first playthrough - just go in vanilla. Maybe the remastered thing for ME1.

No data means you get the highest rates.

You can’t solve systemic problems without regulations.