? Thatâ(TM)s a real example. You havenâ(TM)t heard of the Genesis II church? https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

And itâ(TM)s not only them - and it hasnâ(TM)t stopped. Another article: https://www.bbc.com/future/art...

THIS is the type of dangerous misinformation that needs to be combatted on social networks. There are people spreading BS that can literally kill people.

This is such BS. Twitter is far from a monopoly - nor is it critical to everyday life. I think Iâ(TM)ve tweeted about 20 times in 20 years of Twitter existing⦠and I connect with my friends and family just fine.

If you donâ(TM)t like the service: donâ(TM)t use it!

Why canâ(TM)t you see the difference between a private company doing what they want with their service and a government not allowing free speech? These two things are NOT the same.

Twitter is a private business. It should have the right to do business as it sees fit without government interference as long as it is not discriminating against a protected class (and, no, whiny right-wing fascists and NOT a protected class). The government has no right to police (most) speech.

Why you people claim to be for the constitution when it comes to the second amendment and then be directly against the _first_ amendment will never fail to confuse me. Be consistent! Either the constitution is a good idea or it isnâ(TM)t!

This is where the right proves itself to be fascist. You donâ(TM)t actually believe in America, the Constitution, or freedom at all. You just want a fascist theocracy that forces everyone to either be white, heterosexual Christians - or to be subjugated to them. When you say stuff like this you show your true colors.

You put misinformation in quotes⦠but it shouldnâ(TM)t be. The dissemination of verifiably false information that can hurt people needs to be curtailed. Weâ(TM)re not talking about political speech⦠weâ(TM)re talking about people saying that you should drink bleach to get rid of Covid.

Donâ(TM)t try to equate these two things as the same: they are not.

Or you realize that it doesnâ(TM)t matter. Buy what you need now and then use it for as long as you can stand.

I was with you until your last sentence - why be an ass? There are lots of reasons for working from home - and 99% of them don't have anything to do with "cowering".

My job has done much the same as what Airbnb is doing here: they gave everyone the choice to work from home, go hybrid, or work fully from the office. Most people have chosen to do hybrid - with my own group working in the office Tues-Thurs and having Monday and Friday be at home. It's been nice to get back to the office and have those spontaneous interactions again... but it's also nice to be sitting by my fire at home today while it's snowing.

We do have some team members that have chosen to be fully remote... and we have set up lots of "collaboration" areas with nice teleconferencing systems so that we can easily pull them into the conversations as well.

We'll see how it all goes over the years - but I'm pretty happy with this new working arrangement.

Yep, I live in a small town in Idaho (50k people). Not only does the telco have fiber at my house - but we also have municipal fiber from the city owned power company: both offer 1Gbps. The municipal fiber is cool because you just pay $15/month as part of your electrical bill - then you can use any of 10 different ISPs to get service.

After trying all the services I settled on using the telcos 1Gbps service. It costs $60 total.

Meanwhile - I lived in Boston for a while and had to beg for 250Mbps at $100ish. Ridiculous!

Same here. Funny how that works.

Forgot to add: of course we got vaccinated as soon as possible - and boosted as soon as that was availableâ¦.

Neither myself, nor my wife got it, despite her being a middle-school teacher and ALL of our friends/colleagues getting it.

How?

We were careful. We wore high-quality masks all the time, making sure they had a good fit. We used copious amounts of hand sanitizer. We washed our hands regularly. We changed habits to reduce contact by doing things like ordering groceries for pickup instead of going in the store. We kept our son out of daycare during the spikes (meaning he had to stay home with me while I worked).

And last, but certainly not least: we stayed home as much as possible. We forewent family christmases and birthdays. We didnâ(TM)t go out to bars or restaurants. We only traveled when absolutely necessary (one family health emergency). I worked from home instead of going to the office. She distanced as much as possible at the school (setting up a âoeclean zoneâ around her desk that no one was allowed to enter).

In short: we followed the guidelines.

What I like about it, compared to a database, is that the entry can’t change unless I take an action.

If someone at the DMV modified the wrong entry in their database and now it no longer shows that you own your car it will be a mess to sort out. With NFTs that is not possible.

Well, the _idea_ of NFTs is currently implemented on ETH⦠but it wonâ(TM)t stay that way forever.

TLDR: _Ownership_ (digital or otherwise) is nothing new - and NFT is just the new (currently best) way to record ownership.

I'm sure I'll get flamed on here... but I don't understand all the hatred of NFTs. They are just a new digital record-keeping system for who owns what.

We have TONS of digital (and paper) systems storing information on what is owned, and by whom - this is no different.

For instance, there is entries in a database somewhere that says I own my house, the land it's on, my car, etc. The idea of "ownership" is that we all agree that who is in those database entries has dominion over those items.

NFT is the same thing - except much more secure. It can be used to show ownership of anything (including houses, cars, etc.). The nice part is that it's publicly verifiable and cannot be changed unless the owner allows it, and ownership can be verifiably transferred between two individuals.

Yes - silly people are currently using this sell digital art/assets for stupid amounts of money. But that doesn't mean that the technology itself is worthless. I predict that _everything_ that we own (digital or otherwise) will be recorded through NFT (or its successor) someday... every single thing. There are simply too many advantages.

Now - let's talk about digital assets (which, I think, is what people get mad about). These are NOT new either. Firstly, every single piece of software we buy is a digital asset. Thinking of normal software, the NFT will replace things like "License keys"... you won't need that because the software will simply check the public ledger for whether or not the company has transferred a license of the software to you.

Newer types of digital assets have been around for a long time too. Every time someone buys a new shirt in Fortnite... Epic records that that person owns it and can use it. This could be recorded via NFT instead... and it would have the advantages of being publicly verifiable and _transferable_.

Think of trading cards - like Magic the Gathering... people buy pieces of cardboard with pictures printed on them for hundreds of dollars so that they "own" them. There is no difference between doing that and buying a "digital version" of that same card that is recorded via NFT.

Anyway: I don't get the hate. It's just a digital ledger to record ownership. It has a lot of advantages and will continue to be used in many facets of life going forward.