blackberry

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[–] blackberry@midwest.social 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

so a more accurate way of phrasing this would be, "taxes and fees are 400% more than the flight"

[–] blackberry@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

DST leads to higher heart attacks and more casualties, especially for locations that are closer to the changing arbitrary lines

[–] blackberry@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

hey, so the US government printed trillions of dollars in the last few years, on top of them printing a few trillion the decade before, on top of them printing a few trillion every year since they're in debt. and that's just what's public information on their websites

[–] blackberry@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

you're assuming businesses would be honest and fair about their changing prices. maybe some local stores will round down from 1.01 to 1.00 but I assume most major corporations will just round up to 1.05

[–] blackberry@midwest.social 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

no. physical currencies have a more complex formula on a good "cost vs use" ratio. it's usually many years of use to justify spending any amount of resources on a physical currency, otherwise the currency would collapse under its own weight of having to create itself

[–] blackberry@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

sorry, was assuming this was broader than just federal. thanks for clarifying

[–] blackberry@midwest.social 20 points 1 week ago (6 children)

a nickel (0.05$) costs 14 pennies (0.14$) to make

[–] blackberry@midwest.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

do you think would influence developers to make their projects open source, with more leaning towards copy left licenses? they won't make much money off the code alone anyways, so might as well try to make others not profit either

[–] blackberry@midwest.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

so is it this way for every relationship or are there some where the other person is always reaching out to you? totally agree, it's nice when both friends are equally reaching out and attempting to nourish the friendship

[–] blackberry@midwest.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm so happy this is back! can't wait to build a watch

[–] blackberry@midwest.social 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

certain states banned them. this would federally make it illegal to ban them at the state level, as far as I understand. you know, states' rights and all

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