So that’s the value at current prices? What happens when the price crashes due to the addition of this deposit to the pool?

Even the good ones after all that’s happened in the past decade.

All the religious wingnuts will hop all over:

• .god
• .truth
• .holy
  …etc., etc.

I say milk 'em for all they’re worth. They grift plenty enough, so I’ve got no problem turning the tables.

Yeah, there are some issues with that. Ars has a better article.

And the only cost was the USA itself.

As if we need more proof he’s insane - doing the same things repeatedly & expecting a different result.

Nah - you can’t break reddit up into several pieces, but defederating servers from each other into separate clusters of like-minded hives is already happening. While I don’t want an echo chamber, I do prefer civilized & respectful discussions and behavior - as such I’m torn on all this.

I’m not normally one for schadenfreude, but lately I’ve been willing to make exceptions for certain types of people. Does that make me a bad person?

Now I’ve got the last line of this song in my head, modified to: “My name is Ned, and one day I’ll be bed. Yo, yo, yo.”

I can hear it now: “Eventually, but the competition of capitalism accelerates innovation so we can have it now instead of decades or centuries from now.”

Maybe life would be actually enjoyable without the constant forced pressure of having to be “valuable.”

There are genuine uses for it since the imprecise version is (deliberately) so vague, but the privacy laws around it should have long since been significantly tightened. There should be a middle ground with user control over the level of vagueness.

If only this meant all those people would realize how theology is just a means by which they are manipulated & controlled. The fact so much effort has to be expended just to (attempt to) explain away all the inconsistencies and just straight up nonsense should be enough, but no - the allure of being one with the mob mentality is too strong for logic to overcome.

I dunno. I’m just an overly tired & poorly educated idiot who’s watched too much sci-fi. I really should be asleep, but my natural inclination has always been to fight it until I inevitably lose (sometimes the battles are incredibly intense and drawn out). I know one day it’ll be different, tho - one day I won’t wake up and be forced to admit defeat.

Change the moon’s orbit, or even the Earth’s orbit around the sun? Sure would be an interesting method of dealing with global warming…

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There will be two internets: the first will require proof of identity and everything you do will be tied to that identity - forget anonymity forever. The second will be an “underground” one that is significantly more difficult for the average idiot to get onto. It’ll use wherever replaces TOR since TOR is known to be vulnerable to tracking as well. There will be complete anarchy, and it’ll be a real PITA to do anything. Nobody & no site will be trustworthy, and you’ll have to exchange encryption keys & whatnot offline IRL with anyone you want to communicate with in a vaguely trustworthy fashion.

You read about Digg, didn’t you?

Thank you for the explanation because while Google translate does the job it’s intended to, it doesn’t help with context. I was confused at first because I thought religion was frowned upon (to put it politely) in China. (I frown upon it, too, but I’m not a proponent of how it often gets handled over there, either.)

Yeah, the latter half of my life as an American has been frustrating AF because I’m finally at the point where I get what’s actually going on, and it’s just been an ever-deepening pile of shit that frustrates & embarrasses TF out of me.

Well, when the aliens come across the carcass of a planet we leave behind, maybe a few of these will still be in orbit and actually functional enough to show them what we did to ourselves. They’ll be glad they missed us.

My favorite chapter & verse of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

WTF is with the Kim Jong Un look?