wastrel7
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wastrel7

That’s just insane to me. My aged grandmother used not to be a fan of seatbelts, but even she just resorted to intentionally wearing them wrongly, rather than not wearing them at all. In the UK, seatbelt-wearing is legally required.

“a spoilt, entitled brat who’s had everything handed to him on a silver platter rather than a professional racing driver.”

There’s definitely a joke to be made about “Zero Manson”, but I don’t know which it should be. Coke Zero, the Zero fighter, Zero Mostel, Zero the Lobby Boy, zero, Charles Manson, Marilyn Manson, there’s just too many options...

Ah, but what if all the banks “flew off the planet” AND the US government suddenly disappeared overnight! Eh? Didn’t think of that, did you!

What baffles me about these Russia apologists (because oh, what a surprise, the moment Putin’s assets get frozen suddenly Republicans care about asset freezing!) is that fact that seemingly they’ve not been paying attention for the last *checks watch* 3000 years.

The fundamental problem of “you’ll be able to launder money at every cash point!!!” is the paradox of “fuck you I’m the government”: EITHER you can have an opaque financial system that the government can’t scrutinise to detect money laundering and tax evasion, OR you can have a financial system that the government

No, Ethereum does not have “intrinsic value”. Water has an intrinsic value; the value of ethereum (like any currency or financial asset) could be zero tomorrow.

It’s a bit like Heisenberg: with a dollar, it’s always clear who can spend it right now, but there’s no way to tell how it was spent in the past; with a bitcoin, it’s always clear how it was spent in the past, but there’s no way to tell who can spend it now...

In theory, crypto doesn’t need to be transferred into ‘real’ bank accounts: you can buy things with it directly. In practice, you can’t, because people don’t accept it as payment. And you’ll probably never be able to, because gresham’s law will prevent it from being widely used as currency. And because the two most

In the short term, bitcoin is conceptually a better vehicle for value than a fiat currency, because its supply is less volatile. A fiat currency, a government could literally ‘print’ a million times more of overnight than currently exists, and because price is where supply meets demand a dramatic increase in supply

In the big picture, fractional reserve banking does not actually create capital out of nothing. The capital creation is in the development of financial technologies and social institutions - of communication, norm enforcement and so on - that allow extensive credit transfers. This is a form of social capital - the

I’m shocked to learn that it IS still a conversation that needs to happen in the US. It would never have occured to me that anybody would voluntarily NOT fasten their seatbelt (other than perhaps for very short, slow journeys to the end of your drive or the like). Is this widespread over there?

Bahrain Winner: Verstappen. Red Bull look miles ahead.

I liked the old days of Commander Keen and the like, which actively taunted you for your cowardice and boringness when you tried to quit. At least they stood up for themselve! The modern multiple-stage quits are just the passive-aggressive version of that...

Alpine seem to love him - great team player; willing to give everything to help his teammate; puts a lot of work into giving advice to his teammate; gives good feedback to engineers.

People have short memories; it’s only been just Mercedes vs Red Bull for two seasons now. Ferrari nearly beat Red Bull in ‘19 (they did in the constructors, I think?), they could have taken the title in both ‘17 and ‘18, if not for Vettel making constant catastrophic errors.

The hype around Russell is less his (very good) performances at Williams, and more his previous career. He outperformed talented teammates in lower series, then won both GP3 and F2 as a rookie (soundly beating Norris in the latter). He outperformed Albon, Mazepin (when he and Mazepin were teammates, Russell finished

It’s interesting that Jalopnik sees this as a car story. To me, it’s a corruption story. The council shouldn’t be doing secret deals with preferred residents - if it’s in the best interests of the area to give this company a waiver of some sort, then that should be openly discussed in meetings, recorded in the

It was a whole thing in the early 2010s too, after Avatar. Everyone was certain all future films would be in 3D now, so they felt they had to push it further into ‘4D’. Didn’t make my local cinema, but I knew someone who worked there and he said it was in some of the bigger cinemas in the chain and the idea was to

I’d actually call it tone deaf in a different way: it’s praising herself by comparing herself to other people. That’s the sort of thing that (true or false) someone else might say to praise Campion, but Campion shouldn’t say it herself, to cameras, while being praised by others - that’s just gauche. “Thanks for