Tell me anything of value that crypto has brought about...
Crypto has been around for 17 years and all I see is:
Senseless energy expenditure and damage to the environment mining proof of work coins
Electricity prices going up for ordinary folks trying to use it to do something useful with it in areas where mining operations use it all
GPU shortages and price hikes
People who don't understand crypto losing their shirt on it
People who do understand crypto sitting on it and waiting for the value to go up thanks to the suckers above, contributing nothing of value to the economy
People who understand crypto and actively use to scam the suckers above.
I have NEVER heard anything good come out of crypto for the economy as a whole.
Does it have the potential to be a game changer and a force for good? Yeah.
Has it been used as a force of good? No.
I have to say, I knew I wasn't quite old enough to make it to my grave without seeing the beginning of WW3, but the last thing I expected is that it would come from the US turning into a raging fascist dictatorship.
Zelensky knows Trump secretly - although less and less secretly - roots for Putin. He pretends to offer this deal to save face, but he really doesn't want to provide any aid to Ukraine, which is probably why he and the couch fucker were so quick to get ill-tampered and call off the negotiations at the White House on Friday: the last thing they want is to find themselves in a position to have to help Ukraine against Putin.
Zelensky is calling them on their bluff and cornering them: either they don't sign a deal after all and Trump's duplicitous dealings will be exposed for all to see, or they do sign a deal and Trump will have to kill Russians in Ukraine, which is bad news for his relationship with Putin.
The Republicans are making a real effort to convince themselves that we're now at war with Eastasia. But it doesn't seem to work too good: however much they're trying to integrate the newthink, their brains are working against decades of anti-Soviet and anti-Russian indoctrination.
It's really painful and embarassing to watch them try to reprogram their own brains to please their cult leader...
First off A man is using his child as a prospective bullet sponge
Honest question: how did you come to that definitive conclusion?
What I saw was Musk putting his son on his shoulders. My dad used to do that with me, and plenty of dads do that with their children, and they don't use them as bulletproof vests. Did you deduce this is what Musk was doing because he's so obviously a psychopath, or did you see something physically different from what other dads do in his handling of his son?
I'm not trying to stir up controverse. I can well believe Musk did use his son to protect himself, knowing what a terrible man he is. It's just that I really didn't see anything out of the ordinary when he put his son on his shoulders - aside from the fact that doing that in the White House was inappropriate. So I'm genuinely curious to know how everybody has come to that conclusion.
In Trump-speak, "pause" means "stop".
As in, "pause" USaid. Just look at how ready it is to restart...