Hah! Attempted murder? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?

Well, yeah.

A blockchain is nothing more really than a database.

The use case is when I don’t want or have a trusted keeper of that data.

See, if it’s your excel spreadsheet, how do I know that you’re not going to change the values on it? For some things that doesn’t matter - but for things like funds between different parties, etc, that can be a big issue.

Traditionally this has worked by having a trusted third party - a bank, a court, a escrow company, etc. But all these require lots of effort to have as well, and can be bad actors.

No, your sex partners are fucking stupid.

I mean, currently at least they’re dealing with global warming, and haven’t invaded anyone since the 70s.

So data seems to say exactly that.

or because your conspiracy theory is just wrong, and a distraction

Everfuckingreen

They say that so we remember to treat the disease, and not just get another one

Tankies are fucking assholes, fascists are fucking assholes. Both things can be true at once

Yeah, because you disagree with two things doesn’t make them equal. You want to bitch about tankies, go right ahead. You want to claim they’re equal to fascists, you’re doing the same stupidity liberals do with their horseshoe nonsense, and for the same reason - it lets you take the status quo as a best of all worlds, since anyone who opposes it is obviously an evil authoritarian asshole.

they think anyone who isn’t on their side is on the opposite side

I’m not a tankie, yet you keep referring to me as such. So.

I was criticizing tankies for accusing Mamdani of being a fascist, which is a ridiculous assertion on all levels

It is. You’re also pretending some schizo posting is an article in Pravda, which somehow still exists and is the party line. You make a strawman of what tankies believe, then claim anyone who disagrees with you is such, and pretend that’s not equally ridiculous.

I’m not so fucking stupid that I think communists and fascists believe in the same ideals

The terms you use certainly imply that. So you should probably stop doing that if you don’t want to be considered stupid in that regard.

Not anymore than PoW, which requires specialized hardware that can’t be repurposed for other uses (and thus requires money to enter). I’m not sure if is still true, but I believe at one point less than 10 companies had over 51% of the BTC network.

Because ownership tends to be much more evenly distributed than ACIS ownership, it makes it harder to collude - you have to have 51% of all coins that are staked (and smaller owners generally pool to stake as well). In addition, a move to collude would almost instantly destroy the value of the staked coin (though maybe not assets tokenized on it), providing another incentive against it.

There are already cryptocurrencies with barely a fraction of the energy use of Bitcoin.

I actually work with batteries in the EU. Which is exactly what solves the problems you’re putting here. Solar and wind can both work with large and small batteries, both in front and behind the meter.

Battery tech is already at the point where it can solve the problem. Yes, it will continue to get cheaper and better, and that’s a good thing - but there’s nothing prevent adoption right now.

we have no real means to tranfer the electricity for long distances

What do you mean? Electric grids and high voltage transmission have been around for over a century.

How exactly is it a Ponzi scheme, when you don’t need to pay to get a share?

There’s other alternatives. But PoS does not reward just by ownership either.

Check out Gnosis, especially Circles, which is creating a UBI type thing.

That’s PoW. With PoS, it is coin ownership.

Which is much more distributed than computing power.

Dems could pack the court as well

Cause I totally invented the term “red fash”

Oh, don’t worry, nobody’s accusing you of actually putting enough thought into things to invent that.

Lenin killed a bunch of communists after they beat him in an election

The bait and swtich of “all power to the Soviets” to “ummm actually the Party is the people” was actually Trotsky’s particular bullshit, but since the Bolsheviks took it, they own it.

so tankies gobble his dick

And you consider everyone who doesn’t swallow your particular brand of ineffective purity a tankie, it seems.

I don’t agree with plenty of things from the Bolsheviks - the critiques of Luxembourg I think were particularly apt and prescient. But, with that said, I also don’t let my very basic disagreement with that justify alliance with something far worse, the capitalist and fascist forces that the left as a whole opposes. And nonsense like “red fash” does exactly that. And usually seems to follow the Parenti phrased criticism of only allowing respect for revolutions that fail. You’re validating horseshoe theory, the most nonsense liberal rewriting of history.

You want, you can go kill all the Bolsheviks you really want to after the revolution. Until then, it’s the same counterproductive and idiotic posturing that the Stalinist for Fashion idiots demonstrate, except with a black flag instead of a red one.

Oh, absolutely. While there’s quite a few things to worry about with nuclear, going to coal instead (which is what happened in many places) is a far more destructive thing.

Solar and batteries are here today. They can be installed today. The only thing missing is the political will to make the fake valuations of the fossil fuel companies, which ignore externalities, diminish.

Yeah, the “only nuclear will solve the problems” people really just seem to be working to keep fossil fuels at this point.

Pretty expensive training cost for the benefit.

Especially since, as Ukraine has shown, buying swarms of little drones can make expensive airplanes like the F-35 a non-factor.

I’m not Canadian, but as someone who doesn’t like the US military, I’d advise you to cancel your contracts with the US, and buy lots of drones from China and Turkey, while you ramp up your local capacity to build them. Let the Americans choke on their own military contractor welfare.

In Spain? I moved to Spain, and use Sanitas. My bank offers additional benefits since I signed through them - but honestly, as an American, they could be overcharging me massively and I’d never notice.