https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine

foundational Greco-Roman philosophy

You mean the one that was gone until it returned from the Islamic world?

and the values of Christianity

Uh-huh Palestine isn’t in Europe, last I checked.

Slovenia and Croatia have entered the chat

There isn’t a single European culture, and this word is often a dog whistle to racism, especially in Northern Europe.

Not saying you’re using it that way, just telling you.

It’s nonsense, for cooling reasons alone

C’mon Cohegan, give dees peepul aihhhhhh

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.

when even ethnostates won’t support you anymore . . .

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.

Treason is defined in the constitution.

Fat man said it so it’s true, eh?!

What are you babbling about? I honestly have no clue.

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.