TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)

Hi I’m Tim.

I’m AuDHD - officially diagnosed ADHD and self-diagnosed (for now) with ASD. I also suffer from a great deal of Imposter Syndrome.

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  • I’m sure this 100% about Snoop’s crypto interests with Captain “money laundering” Trump about to put someone in charge of picking what the whole crypto scene looks like.

    Snoop Dogg has been active in the non-fungible token (NFT) space, mostly in 2021 when he purchased a handful of NFTs. Snoop Dogg spent 4,185.5 Ethereum (ETH) tokens in 2021 on five NFTs:

    • “Right-click and Save As Guy” for 1,600 ETH in December 2021
    • “Some Asshole” for 1,300 ETH in September 2021
    • “CryptoPunk #3831” for 850 ETH in July 2021
    • “Destiny” for 225 ETH in October 2021
    • “Fidenza #351” for 210.5 ETH in September 2021

    Snoop Dogg likely spent around $15 million to acquire the NFTs. The collection is currently worth between $5 million and $10 million.

    Snoop Dogg created his own NFT project in 2022. Called “Snoop’s Stash Box,” the project sold around 9,000 NFTs for $5,000 each, allowing the rapper to bring in $45 million in less than a week.

    Source: Jay-Z, Eminem And Snoop Dogg’s Crypto Portfolios Revealed: Who Owns The Most




  • You could claim that mine is in bad faith yes, but to do so would be in bad faith. And pretending you can have any meaningful discussion around the topic of “flat earth” in a forum format such as Lemmy is naive. If these people can stick their head in the sand and not listen to indisputable science, Lemmy is not the format to try and convert them. And to use such an argument as the basis for new “rules” who’s sole purpose appears to be so that they can be wielded against a few mods in a community (or communities) that apparently people think are being moderated to harshly seems like a bad way to go about it all. Either replace the mods, or someone move the community. Don’t make these vague policy changes to try and “catch” them into changing their viewpoint when this whole dog-and-pony show is supposedly about censorship.

    And stop trying to conflate real topics with wild conspiracy theories, unless of course the goal is to drag the value of real discussion as a whole down, because a “policy” like this using bad faith language and only backed by this censorship boogeyman talk does nothing to further discussion anywhere.


  • The two examples given, “marijuana” and “flat earth” are two completely different topics, and should be handled IMHO in two completely separate ways. Marijuana you could have a discussion/debate about because it’s a real thing and very little real medical research has been done on it. On the other hand allowing bad faith discussion/debate about “flat earth” is pointless and a waste of time and energy for anyone with critical thinking. Those types of comments should just be shutdown as you can’t argue a bad faith topic and leaving it around only reinforces these bad faith view points creating an eventual decline in a community.

    Bowing to those that use bad faith arguments as a way to “prove” this fake sense of censorship should not be tolerated, and deserve to be called out and removed. Removing posts in bad faith is not censorship, and claiming it is, makes you a bad faith actor.



  • It’s almost certainly like Musk having Tesla buying up crypto, that almost certainly isn’t going to be used to do shady things.

    …though Tesla continues to hold around 10,000 bitcoin worth around $1 billion on its balance sheet.

    Earlier this year, Trump floated the idea he could use bitcoin to “pay off our $35 trillion—hand them a little crypto check, right? We’ll hand them a little bitcoin and wipe out our $35 trillion,” he said.

    In July, Trump promised to create a “strategic national bitcoin reserve” and predicted bitcoin could eclipse gold’s $16 trillion market capitalization during an appearance at the Bitcoin 2024 conference.

    Earlier this month, Trump confirmed he plans to create a U.S. bitcoin reserve.

    Forbes Dec 27, 2024