In today’s reminder that bitcoin is really really dumb.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...its-residents/

Also rural utilities in Washington are having issues because they unfortunately offer relatively inexpensive electricity to people living there and now miners are flocking there.

Heck Salon is now allowing you to block ads on their site in exchange for using a huge amount of your personal computer power.

libertarian money!

How is it Pat Sajak hasn't aged my entire lifetime.

He has a picture of himself in his office which looks like the Crypt Keeper.

OH YEAH SON

Lololololol

https://www.google.com/amp/s/splinte...1822936452/amp

I forgot this thread existed until halfway through February.

Is there a name or a phrase for arguments of convenience crafted to reach a desired conclusion? My canonical example is the argument against doing anything about climate change from the Right, which goes something like: climate change isn't happening. But even if it is, it's not caused by humans. But even if it is, it will actually be a net positive. But even if it won't be, there's nothing we can do about it. But even if there is, it's too late anyway. At every step along the road, if you refute the arguments of the denier, another argument is recruited to take its place. While the denier frequently genuinely believes that they subscribe to these arguments, it's obvious from the way they are jettisoned and replaced by an entirely new argument that they are arguments of convenience. In this case, the real reason deniers don't believe in global warming is that it clashes with their deeply held beliefs that government is useless and liberals are hippy whingers.

Yeah, I have just been in the Mason thread actually, why you ask?

That Obama portrait is legit terrible btw. Why is he sitting in a bush?

That makes even less sense than it did before I looked it up.

I read an article on Ars Technica the other day that the government wants to stop a program where we have been using satellites to track carbon dioxide levels and correlate them to various events.

They have been doing this for a while and I believe the current satellite is the second one so they would literally be stopping something where the majority of money is already spent. Of course the jumbo jumbo about private industry doing it better.

There is zero incentive for any private company to pick up the slack by canceling that project.

Ad-hoc rationalisation.

tommorrow which i guess is today is the first day where i can use my credit card (after fixing my credit score and finally getting an unsecured one) to buy clothes

It's just called "conservatism".

"What if there was a way to ostensibly help immigrants, but that didn't require comfortable white people to make any sacrifices whatsoever?"

I would just show them the Verrit Dauthentication codes that prove climate change is real, but you'll have to wait until the summer reboot.

Pretty amazing WSJ story about oil corruption in Nigeria today. I mean, I think everyone assumed this nonsense was happening, but somehow Shell executives were stupid enough to write it down in emails.

$1.3 billion! The stench was so bad that even Swiss! banks blocked transfers (spoiler, they got around it).

Kudos to Italy for a criminal prosecution, lol that happening here in USA #1.

https://twitter.com/conradhackett/st...20125524725760

I don't buy this "Verrit rebooting" narrative. How can we possibly know if that's what's happening without Verrit around to authenticate it? Real chicken and egg situation.

ExxonTillerson was probably doing the same in Nigeria (and lots of other places).

Check out my new ICO where we authenticate Verrit on the blockchain!

lol, they fired her faster than Scaramucci. gjge, Chez York Times.

haha that's so dumb it might literally be what's going to happen.

I loled