Oh yeah, hard agree here! It had such a dramatic backlash that I actually waited more than a year to play it after it came out. Then when I finally did I was like, “Oh actually, this is really great despite some of these rough edges!” And you’re right, instead of looking at any of the strengths, everyone took lessons…

Most of these carbon neutral and negative schemes fake it by using carbon offsetting, which is basically a book-keeping scam where a company says “sure, I’m pumping out tons of CO2 every day but I planted (or preserved) some trees so it all balances out”. It’s complete bullshit, they’re still spewing CO2 into the…

Your first point ignores that mechanical efficiency of bank transactions is a net positive where block chain has no centralized need to attain efficiency. So even if its true they both use similar amounts of energy one will always try to use less to save more money, the other just exists.

Imagine a group of nerds having the same interest and putting money together to bring to life a project, while everyone has a share in this project via tokens and can vote what and when to do stuff. More like shares in a company, but now everyone can have access, not just accredited investors with 100k+ of funding.

Even if any of that was true, the difference is that credit cards provide a useful service. A distributed blockchain does not provide anything useful that you can’t do with an old-fashioned SQL database. It’s worthless.

sorry you got scammed, I hope you can get some of your money back some day :/

It’s becoming apparent that the greatest potential of crypto, NFT, and the blockchain is to immediately poison whoever tries to utilize them, making any company toxic and untouchable.

I mean, it’s Kickstarter. They’ve been blatant conspiracy theorists and assholes for nearly a decade. Probably the first sign was their attitude towards GMOs. The point about their size is spot on, they basically stumbled into being huge and then never bothered to do a good job.

The Republic of California, after entering into free trade agreements with Canada, Mexico, the EU, Great Britain, Japan, Australian, Vietnam, Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea, would be an unstoppable economic juggernaut and I would proudly burn my American passport for that vision.

“M*A*S*H* is the story of a man who’s constantly depressed because he saw a chicken die on a bus this one time”.
-Sammy B

It reminds me of the people who tuned into Lost’s last episode then hurriedly typed their reviews “I haven’t watched this for years and I tune in and I don’t understand anything!” 

Barsanti with a disingenuous, ill-informed, and just bad take; film at 11.

“That’s the problem, though: If the upcoming season finale is really good, you won’t be able to recommend it to someone who hasn’t seen at least one or two of the other episodes that set it up.”

He is the Marvel version of the Kristen Wiig SNL character who’s always saying “Don’t make me sing.” The dude loves to interfere. He solemnly swears it off like I do Oreos at the end of each package but both of us are tearing into another one next week. 

The only way you didn’t see this coming is a complete ignorance of the source material. The Watcher, for all his monologuing, is constantly interfering with events that he observes. The whole “I cannot, will not interfere” was basically a Chekov’s Gun line, of course he can and will.

But if every story is just part of the next story, why bother paying attention to any story at all?

I think there’s two reasons this story tracks for me:

I’ll admit, I was a bit disappointed because I was hoping for more of a Ted and Doc-centric episode. After the events of the last episode, I was really looking forward to seeing a more in-depth conversation.

“Wunderkind” is literally German for “wonder kid”! (Well, more like “wonder child,” but the meaning’s practically the same.) I don’t know why Nate saying one instead of the other is any deal at all, or why the reporter even bothered to correct him.

Seems like the lesson here is that Spirit Halloween is the one and only thing Jeff Bezos can’t kill.