There are whole-ass companies selling laptops with Linux preinstalled now. They work. Even with Bluetooth.

The dollar is representative of the work you contributed to the economy

If that's true, nobody on Social Security Disability would be getting money.

So basically, the more people who believe in the value of some thing, the more that thing holds actual value?

Yes. That's how value works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_value

The paradox of value (also known as the diamond–water paradox) is the contradiction that, although water is on the whole more useful, in terms of survival, than diamonds, diamonds command a higher price in the market.

Real money is backed by a country’s respective economy

True.

its an IOU from the government

False.

An IOU from the government is a bond.

If someone says something that a lot of people want to be true with no evidence... it ain't true.

Even the descendants of slaves are living in a country slavery helped build.

Nothing they do will ever mean anything, because nothing can redeem the past.

That's a whole mess of differing theologies, some of which (many of which) have been declared heretical.

The general term for this branch of theology is Christology and lots of stuff has been written about it.

And HTTPS does that. It's encrypted.

I'm aware of how you think it should work (Usenet, basically) but how does moderation actually work on Lemmy? Can someone be banned from a sublemmy on one instance and not banned from it on another?

I don't want to share an instance with the nutballs on the tankie instance or the nutballs on the fascist instance.