They should’ve made the company into a worker owned cooperative, but they prioritized personal profit.

It likely wasn’t federated to lemmy.zip. Try subscribing to it and then reloading it a few times. Otherwise you can go to it directly from https://slrpnk.net/c/money to see what should be showing up once it’s federated.

Since Taler isn’t operating in the same way as the wild-west of crypto, and needs to secure the adoption of existing banking institutions, its rollout is going to be much slower.

It hasn’t been widely adopted yet, but the big change that occured is it only just recently released a stable 1.0 version that makes wider adoption possible, and passed some essential security audits, including for iOS.

In addition to recently being approved and available in Switzerland, it is also planned to be added to a Ko-fi-like payment/donation system thanks to a grant by the NLnet foundation, which will hopefully enable it to gain wider adoption by creators or youtubers, as an example. In the future, it could become a replacement for Zelle if more banks adopt it (I suspect credit unions would be more likely to give it a try, if they became aware of it by their membership, and it was requested a lot).

There’s a bit more discussion of it over at !money@slrpnk.net, if you’re interested.

It likely does have more representation and mind-share here on lemmy since it aligns with the ideals of many users here in particular, we’re going to be more tuned into alternatives like that compared to the wider population.

I think it’s supposed to resemble Maggot.

GNU Taler is an anonymous digital cash, but it’s not yet widely adopted, I think only a few banks in Switzerland are using it. Hopefully if continues to gain momentum.

Extremely unlikely he survived, that shot severed a carotid artery.

The administration:

They want us to breed while not paying us enough to live and gaming our healthcare to massively increase the odds of bankruptcy and homelessness.

Evil.

Dude is demonstrating his absence of a spine and eagerness to prostrate himself into a bootlicking position.

All the restricted states listed by law follow the federal recommendations. The states not affected can make their own decisions. The governors of the restricted states could pass new legislation that allows them to act independently of federal recommendations, hopefully they do so.

I got that notification for the first time today as well, guessing it’s just a tactic to get people to create accounts they can data mine to sell to AI companies.

You’re right! That gives a clue as to who the perps were…

Big Balls (the DOGE kid musk hired) got beat up in DC while supposedly saving a woman from being carjacked or something by 10 people. Somehow that’s an adequate reason to take over the city.

We’re living in a joke.

I’m not being defeatist. I’m saying in a straight up open confrontation, civilians would lose without the military fracturing with them.

The Troubles is asymmetrical guerrilla warfare, which is sustainable, but very costly and certainly something to avoid if possible.

Appreciate it :)

The only other option is civil war, which relies on the militarily joining the rebellion, otherwise it would be a massacre if done openly, or simply become similar to The Troubles if done underground.

We’re hoping the non violent general strike works instead.

The next step is a general strike. If you currently work in an non union job, consider contacting the IWW. They’ll train you to become an effective organizer to unionize your workplace, so that the general strike is more effective.

The protests are not to convince the fascists to stop, they won’t. It’s to help show to others that there are millions against this out in the open public ally defying the new regime, so that others aren’t afraid to stand up as well.

It helps shape public opinion, especially if the police brutalize peaceful protesters.

It’s a place to build connections for future resistance as well.

It’s one piece of a larger puzzle, in addition to unionizing in preparation for a general strike, and building local community for prefiguration and to be better able to resist.

The exact effect of these chemicals is still not known. Microplastics seem capable of limiting crop yields, so that’s certainly a horrific issue combined with reduced yields from climate change as well. But chemicals in general, as horrific as they are, are not quite an existential threat capable of completely destroying our ability to grow food.

Current farming practices depleting topsoil is a bigger threat to food production than chemicals, generally, except for pesticides likely causing the collapse of the bee population, which is an existential threat.

PFAS is a massive problem certainly worth tackling, but as bad as it is, I don’t think it’s an existential threat with a very short time window to prevent devastation of the species like climate change is.

Theoretically there’s no reason we can’t tackle both problems at once, but personally I would advocate pumping as much resources as humanly possible into preventing climate change first, if that’s the only way politicians will deal with it.