I agree but at least the PoS cryptocurrencies seem to have solved the energy use problem.

By this argument any website is wasteful. There’s always a “better thing”.

Google is a tech company.

It’s always only going to be useful for things like buying drugs, cases where you want to skirt regulation or you really want privacy. Which is fine. It can have it’s niche. Pretending it was ever going to be more than that was a mistake.

They have rescinded this policy according to the article.

They can. It’s in the TOS when you make your account. They own everything you post to the site.

It’s fine to praise people for doing the right thing and also criticise them for doing the wrong thing.

Interesring that it’s already so high, don’t most countries have conscription at 18?

the idea that the original inhabitants are gone and the people living in Palestine now are descended from Arabs is a myth.

Anywhere I can read more about this?

I get mailers from local political groups with their voter guides. They recommend different people based on if the group is moderate or progressive, lol.

If you didn’t get any of those or your town doesn’t have those groups you can try just googling “CITY NAME voter guide”.

Please vote. There’s an open seat for Senate (no incumbent) which is one of the best times for your vote to have a real impact. This doesn’t happen very often. In California there were no open Senate elections for over 20 years (1993-2017).

McDonalds gonna start selling bread

As long as there’s enough for your remaining lifetime that’s fine. We don’t have to worry about anyone else’s lifetime after that.

All that energy for bitcoin only supports 7 tx/s. Digital dollar payments do tens if not hundres of thousands per second.

It was also useful when the page had changed inbetween google indexing it and now, so if you loaded the page and couldn’t find the text you were searching for because it was deleted, you could find it on the cached page.

This is semantics. International law is a concept. You can say that disobeying the treaties you mentioned is illegal.

That’s what everyone said about them invading Ukraine.

Because all the shops, museums, restaurants, music venues, and public transit hubs are there?

Unless the government shuts down because they can’t pass a budget and voters blame Biden.

Primaries use public voting infrastructure, at least in my state, so I can see the argument that courts can decide who is a legal primary candidate.