Hey guys, so today has been a bit rough, but I powered through and here is today's BuzzSteem!
I talked about:
@berniesanders downvoting all comments made on @haejin's wall and @ranchorelaxo's response.
Andreas Antonopolous claiming himself on Steemit after months of fraudulent accounts abusing his content.
Assholes trying to scam #openmic and @luzcypher.
How Steem and Bitcoin are still in the toilet.
A little talk about mental illness and how to handle those posts here on Steemit.
For my Steemian of the day, I couldn't pick just one, but everyone involved in the #fight4 steem campaign. Make sure you are using the tag so I can keep track of everyone!
Well that's all for today. I will see you beautiful people tomorrow!
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Yay hooray for girl powah!
This was our first.
https://steemit.com/life/@nubchai/laura-lemons
Her streemian was still voting for folks.
I could be wrong but doesn't the internal market follow the external market due to arbitrage profits when it differs?
The relation between the prices of steem and sbd should be reflected by the internal price?
I'm glad you aren't scared of hitting the controversial topics.
Contrarians and dissenters don't find much support here.
Only 'popular' and 'noncontroversial' content gets voted by the gangs.
Wow that's really sad. She sounds like she was a really great person. Depression on top of other difficult life circumstances can be a total shit sandwich. I feel for her on so many levels. That was a really heartfelt write up you did. I don't think I could bring myself to write about my friend, even after all this time, but I suppose it's because I am tormented by the constant "if she did it, then so could I." We had the same family issues, health problems, etc. and I never imagined she would go through with it. Knowing that she did, it always terrifies me that I could too. It only takes everything aligning just right sometimes I think. Just the right things to combine the mundane with something that takes you just past your breaking point. Life is so hard, you are so right, we just need to be kinder to each other.
Rule by force is the disease, love is it's cure.
That wasn't my write up, I only knew her from here, and then only after she made her decision to cross over.
I looked into her after getting some votes, and having heard of her tragic passing, I had to figure out the conflict in my info.
I sure hate it, empathy can be a bitch.
Like you, I think if only,...
Her torment is over now, at least there is that.
"Rule by force is the disease, love is it's cure" ..beautiful sentiment, too bad it has never worked in my life time. Greetings!
Things dont work until they do. It also has never worked in any past lifetimes that i have read about, at least not long enough to stop a repeat in cycle, but since the theory has been tinkered with and come back to so often, I at least have some hope that it may find a workable form 🤓
We are more likely to be lied to rather than informed that peace is an option.
Where it does work is more likely to be bombed than reported.
True, but 'we' is still a collective term meaning 'us' as a species not just 'us' the laboring/lower class . There is no inherent differences between 'them' the ruling class who have the ability to withold options, and 'us' the ruled. The choices they make that are negative we would see most people make if they got to switch power placements. Also, I havent seen anything inherently noble about humans in the lower class, as soon as they are given the option to step on a neighbors head to get out of the pit of poverty and become an entitled dick in the rulling class, most do. Not all, but most still. There may be some more kindness or humility or resilencey in the lower class, but those are often developed by nurture not nature. So the bad news when I think about this is: we dont have any available options yet, because there is basically no one that can be in power for very long without becoming the very thing they raged against (and with reason). The good news is this: there is the very strong possibility that if we changed our organizational patterns we would change these other patterns. Now HOW....🤔 that is the great experiment being played out all over the world and throughout history. And to properly experiment you need to stop repeating the same conditions and being frustrated at the same results.
All the more reason to abandon crapitalism, the incentives are to screw everybody to reward yourself.
Better to keep working, but to stop paying.
The workers already do all the work, why they insist on playing along with the banksters to buy that work back at a loss is beyond me.
It is a testament to how effective the flashylight box, and skools, are at controlling the minds of the masses.
On any given Tuesday the workers can keep working, and stop paying.
This short circuits the bankster paradigm most elegantly.
We only have to make the workers aware that they have this option.
I felt that way when Robin Williams died. Most were sad from the outside but I felt what it took for him to get there and also a little bit of "well he has peace now, god, good for him" sort of like "well at least one of us gets a break". I also had a good old friend I hadnt talk to in several years, named Fury. I have been in an almost year long depression and during worst time I thought of him, like I was in a different dimension and I could feel that he was there too. I heard that I needed to call him, but I was too deep, and I dont like to risk making people feel worse . He passed in his bed two days later of an overdose and it didnt surprise me, although it still hit me in the gut like frieght train. I am pretty empathetic person, and I believe there is for sure some sort of energetic langauge that we are communicating with others, just not sure if we are developing that sense more strongly or losing it as a species 🤔
Hey Beth,
Sorry to hear about your friend, and sorry to hear that you've dealt with/are dealing with psychological issues.
I've had complex PTSD symptoms since I was 17 (I'm 33), so I know the struggle.
It's great that you have a big heart, loving husband, and children who love you.
Ugh that sucks! Yeah, you definitely know the struggle, even more so because I have never had to struggle with PTSD. Yes I have a wonderful family, which makes me that much more guilt-ridden when I am struggling. There is no rhyme or reason to it, it just is. It's just a poison that creeps into my mind and strangles it. This isn't an easy thing to talk about, but I hope one day that mental illness is as regular and normally accepted as anything else. Thanks for your response! You're too sweet.
You're welcome.
(As others have probably said, and you know.) If there's no rhyme or reason, then there's no need to be abusive to yourself about it (eg. abusive self-talk. In an frustrated internal tone: "Why can't I just be XXX" "People would be better off without me, etc." I don't know your specific self talk, so I'm just posting general ones.).
And even if there was a rhyme or reason, talking bad to yourself only makes things worse. From experience and research - one of the best things we can do is be kind to ourselves when struggling (have you checked out Kristen Neff? She is a psychologist who created an actionable concept called self-compassion).
Yeah, psychological issues aren't easy to speak about. I share online, and with family and a friend IRL, but not openly.
You're welcome for the response. :-) I really like your videos, even if I don't look around on Steemit, I check in to see your vids.
The guilt I think comes from outside being angry that you are acknowledging your feelings. So many people are unhappy but they find some pride in "being tough" (i think its a social conditioning, sort of like anti suicide teachings as a way to keep people participating in a slave system) . Then when you feel so strongly that this is not how life should be people say "well look at bad this is ". I dont feel better, because it bums me out that that is also so bad lol. I want everyone to be happy not just me better off than others haha
What we need is an exchange that converts Steem into FIAT directly! As long as we have to use another thing like BTC to buy or sell Steem, we will always be subject to BTC's fluctuations. Use Steem to buy BTC, use BTC to buy Dollars, use Dollars to buy Euros; who is getting paid here? Use Euros to buy Dollars, use Dollars to buy BTC, use BTC to buy Steem, WTF?!? How many bank accounts, passwords, wallets and keys will I need to buy a Banana? There are accounts that upload entire movies; clearly not their own work. Never seen that cheetah putty tat come around those guys, but she will rag on a full post for a single paragraph. Thanks for another good post worth watching, thumbs up!
Better yet... we need to become nore efficient and proficient at using crypto currencies in our purchases!
For now that only works for things like on line Services, Software and Music, but as long as tax is paid in fiat we will continue to have a barrier. We need faster expansion of Steem; faster than it can be regulated and the exchanges by users will follow when there are more Steemians than Fbookers. Right now, to the best of my knowledge, I am the only Steemian in Town and the nearest other Steemian is a 2 hour drive away. Greetings!
True, paying taxes in the 'King's Currency' keeps us enslaved . I've been mulling through these ideas for years, long before I ever looked into BTC. I'm hoping a platform like this will allow all of the minds that have been combing through history, wrestling with how to fix this for real (not just chop the kings head off and install a new king- hope we've learned our lesson on that idea haha). That's why i'm here.... I think we have pretty decent shot, and I'm not all that optimistic about a lot of things x)
I agree. I think we are getting closer to that though, because people are going to grow tired of the countless exchanges and the money lost too. That especially sucks for us smaller earners. Losing 20-25% of what you have made isn't a big deal when you are pulling in thousands a day, but when you only make a little bit here or there, that is a lot of money to lose! Hopefully this gets fixed sooner rather than later!
Yeah, @exile said soon Bittrex will start to trade Steem for $, great step in the right direction. Now all they have to do is carry some other major fiat like Euro, Yuan and Ruble and the possibility to link to international banking systems so I can buy some Steem without paying 10 other people first, lol. I wish I could buy some Steem right now as the getting is good at $3.51. Seriously, I'd buy 400 Steem right now and power it up!
also , I think @cheetah only operates through scanning wording, not accessing videos off site and scanning that. @patrice is that correct? or does it scan images and video also?
I don't know if cheetah is solely text based, but I think YT uses the sound track rather than video to match copyrighted work because the reference file sizes will be much smaller. The channel I was referring to uploads 2 full movies per day, and has been doing so for months. I have no way of knowing if this person owns the rights to the 98 movies currently on that channel, but I have my doubts.
Great video Beth I went full time on steemit yesterday, wondering if you are up for a collab sometime, when I learn how to split a screen. Not cool about the open mic comps, fed up with people trying to cheat the system. Funny story I upvoted someone on a post noticed there was a cheetah comment and checked the link it was word for word I was so pissed with myself, left them a long comment telling them off, needless to say they never replied to me.
Haha a collab would be great! My husband uses the program Zoom to do split screen stuff, maybe we could try that?
Sure thing Beth let me know when you would like to give it a try im on discord too if you want to chat about it.
WTF? That was Justin Timberlake? I thought it was Mark Zuckerberg. lol
In late news: I'm finally on DTube :-D
I doubt you watched any of it, considering I only talked about the whale wars for about a minute. I don't kiss whale ass if that is what you are implying. I think everyone has faults, but ultimately, haejin is a grade A douche canoe, and anyone helping to make him obsolete is a winner in my book.
Well just using @haejin as an example to your question...there is a two fold answer. @haejin isn't going to drain the rewards pool per se, but what he does drain is user interest in continuing to use the website. When people put out fantastic content and make a few cents, and this assclown puts out bullshit ten times a day and makes millions a year, it's pretty bad for general morale. We need morale because it keeps people posting. People posting means more people joining and more people joining means more Steem being created which helps grow the currency, its value and this platform.
As far as the whales like @sweetsssj abusing the platform, that is an actual reward pool rape scenario. If whales like her continue to use their standing to make fake accounts and drain the majority of Steem from its proper place on the website, it could make the currency collapse, and if Steem collapses, Steemit goes down right along with it. Between @haejin and @sweetsssj and a few other whales, their withdrawals make up a huge majority of all transactions that take place on Steemit, and Steem can't keep up with those kinds of withdrawals. Not enough new Steem is created to inherently keep up with the rate that whales and other higher up users are withdrawing it. Then when you couple in the thousands of tiny users who are shi tposting and immediately taking their money out after cashing in and the rampant abuse of bots, if people don't step up to #fight4steem, the people abusing the system will destroy it.
Ok well you definitely make a good point about the whale wars. Ultimately I like reporting on them more than anything, and have only recently sided with Bernie Sanders after I looked into how much personal money he has dumped into this platform. He does make a lot of money on his posts, but he also spends a lot of money too, and I thought his idea to downvote posts was quite clever. I do agree that tearing Steemit apart is not as constructive as contributing to its cohesion. But man Whale Wars do make for some juicy gossip!