Aw Evan Peters. His character was clearly the namesake of one of the executive producers right?

One of the biggest advantages this movie had was a good ending to the books, something very rare (although this is more of a problem with science fiction than fantasy). Note, I would have made this comment even before Game of Thrones.

I saw less road-warrioring yesterday in town and more ten-deep lines to get gas.

Ah but you can pay an 18-year-old driver less to balance the insurance cost. I’m sure that’s very convenient.

I expect it’s also advantageous to a company to allow 18-year-olds to do the job because they can be paid less.

Well Spider-Man was off the table so

Honestly the wig here is much less silly than the Ronald McDonald number from the stinger of the first movie.

The symbiote-kiss-to-transfer was probably the most inspired bit of the movie.

You have something of a point, but on the other hand abstract fame and success aren’t fungible the way monetary reparations are.

“Crass AF” is the name of my electroclash band.

I will seek that out just because I love Svankmajer.

Don’t Sam’s ears get cold when he’s flying around?

I suppose the death of our species is a kind of subversion of the global banking system, but more likely is that it survives while billions of climate refugees are created. Not that crypto is the total cause of the latter, but it certainly is an unnecessary contributor while doing nothing against the former!

Because some things use resources that don’t directly benefit you, that does not justify using exponentially more more resources on a per-person basis to benefit yourself.

Indeed, all online human endeavors consume power. Not all endeavors have such wildly outsized carbon footprint.

No it doesn’t. See above Frinkiac for the utility of currency. And there is no comparison between the scales of carbon output from Bitcoin mining and traditional currency printing.

You didn’t specify investment banks. Normal banks hold people’s money, a useful service. I don’t know much about finance, but even traditional investments represent an economic function - capital for the business. Commodities have some use other than existing as commodities, at least that was the rationale.

Whereas Bitcoin is a made-up commodity that in practice is rarely exchanged for anything.

I watched the first episode of The Outsider knowing nothing and was completely hooked, completely. “Amazing set up! How are they going to write their way out of this?” Then the credits rolled and I saw it was a Steven King thing. “Oh so a ghost did it.” Yep.