It’s not hydropower that is the problem . It’s living in a desert and wanting to have green lawns and swimming pools.

Likely both.  Worst case scenario nobody bites.  Best case scenario, this exact thing happens and gun nuts piss cash on them.

There is no federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether to accept cash unless there is a state law that says otherwise.

If a country adopted cryptocurrency as a official currency then there would be laws that protect people who use it. Which would undermine the whole “UnreGULATed” usage of it that attracts neerdoweller’s that have been making money off it.

No, because its not real money

If a country were to adopt a cryptocurrency as its official currency, what would stop them from taxing its citizens? It would make it harder to avoid taxes since the blockchain is a public ledger, no?

Well, presumably since evading taxes is an inherent right wing value.

Gun nuts are a special kind of stupid. 

I guess they figure there’s a lot of really, really stupid people out there with a lot of extra cash laying around. They’re probably right.

Do people really put bayonets on handguns? I’ve never seen that before.

Because the Tsuru is so ubiquitous. There are a lot of Mexican market cars, but few (with the possible exception of the Beetle) are as numerous.

There could be bailouts and subsidies!

There’s another sad angle that’s maybe not getting enough attention, specifically in the eastern Washington/Idaho region. In order to irrigate the farmland, especially on the Palouse, they’re tapping deeper and deeper into the aquafer. The problem is that most people that aren’t living in the cities (Pullman, WA and…

Ironically Western Australia has seen the best start to a season in at least 40 years. We seed in autumn and harvest late spring so the crops went in a couple of months ago. Since then we’ve had the wettest start to winter most of the farmers around here are saying they’ve ever seen. And it’s been that good, steady…

What do you mean ‘when?’ That time is *NOW*. Oregon just experienced a mass casualty event due to extreme heat. The shit is starting to hit the fans. And this is just the tip of the mountain-of-shit iceberg ahead of us.

Exactly. People can barely, just fucking barely understand linear progression.

They won’t, so bankruptcy is what will really be in their future.

It’s happened before. And it’s happening again, now. And will happen more often and last longer. In fact, most of the world’s agricultural regions are in imminent danger or will be within the next couple decades, whether through extreme heat, drought, or wildly fluctuating weather patterns.

16k for a very large critical item on a car isnt that outrageous

Yep. The red counties in these states need to do some soul-searching about the weather they’re experiencing, what the weather experts are saying, and what their favorite politicians are telling them. Some cognitive dissonance should be in their futures.