There are already cryptocurrencies with barely a fraction of the energy use of Bitcoin.

Treason is defined in the constitution.

Fat man said it so it’s true, eh?!

What are you babbling about? I honestly have no clue.

I actually work with batteries in the EU. Which is exactly what solves the problems you’re putting here. Solar and wind can both work with large and small batteries, both in front and behind the meter.

Battery tech is already at the point where it can solve the problem. Yes, it will continue to get cheaper and better, and that’s a good thing - but there’s nothing prevent adoption right now.

we have no real means to tranfer the electricity for long distances

What do you mean? Electric grids and high voltage transmission have been around for over a century.

How exactly is it a Ponzi scheme, when you don’t need to pay to get a share?

There’s other alternatives. But PoS does not reward just by ownership either.

Check out Gnosis, especially Circles, which is creating a UBI type thing.

That’s PoW. With PoS, it is coin ownership.

Which is much more distributed than computing power.

Dems could pack the court as well

Cause I totally invented the term “red fash”

Oh, don’t worry, nobody’s accusing you of actually putting enough thought into things to invent that.

Lenin killed a bunch of communists after they beat him in an election

The bait and swtich of “all power to the Soviets” to “ummm actually the Party is the people” was actually Trotsky’s particular bullshit, but since the Bolsheviks took it, they own it.

so tankies gobble his dick

And you consider everyone who doesn’t swallow your particular brand of ineffective purity a tankie, it seems.

I don’t agree with plenty of things from the Bolsheviks - the critiques of Luxembourg I think were particularly apt and prescient. But, with that said, I also don’t let my very basic disagreement with that justify alliance with something far worse, the capitalist and fascist forces that the left as a whole opposes. And nonsense like “red fash” does exactly that. And usually seems to follow the Parenti phrased criticism of only allowing respect for revolutions that fail. You’re validating horseshoe theory, the most nonsense liberal rewriting of history.

You want, you can go kill all the Bolsheviks you really want to after the revolution. Until then, it’s the same counterproductive and idiotic posturing that the Stalinist for Fashion idiots demonstrate, except with a black flag instead of a red one.

Oh, absolutely. While there’s quite a few things to worry about with nuclear, going to coal instead (which is what happened in many places) is a far more destructive thing.

Solar and batteries are here today. They can be installed today. The only thing missing is the political will to make the fake valuations of the fossil fuel companies, which ignore externalities, diminish.

Yeah, the “only nuclear will solve the problems” people really just seem to be working to keep fossil fuels at this point.

Pretty expensive training cost for the benefit.

Especially since, as Ukraine has shown, buying swarms of little drones can make expensive airplanes like the F-35 a non-factor.

I’m not Canadian, but as someone who doesn’t like the US military, I’d advise you to cancel your contracts with the US, and buy lots of drones from China and Turkey, while you ramp up your local capacity to build them. Let the Americans choke on their own military contractor welfare.

In Spain? I moved to Spain, and use Sanitas. My bank offers additional benefits since I signed through them - but honestly, as an American, they could be overcharging me massively and I’d never notice.

Sorry, I am missing it I guess?

Yes, Russia spent $100,000 on Facebook ads. And probably was tied in with stealing emails. And?

You’re moving goalposts here. There’s absolutely no evidence in Mueller or elsewhere that (a) Trump is a Russian agent (he’s quite possible of being an evil idiot on his own), or (b) that Russian actions in any way altered the results of the 2016 election.

and were found guilty lying about it.

They were found guilty of lying. The fact that’s ALL they were found guilty of is why the Mueller report was such a flop.

You go on defending them as much as you want.

I’m not defending anyone. I’m tired of watching supposed “resistance” to Trump and the GOP fascism be squandered on this idiotic conspiracy theory because it makes people like you feel like you’re living in a Le Carre novel.

They’ll pull themselves up by their bootstraps on the way there!

Yeah, like I said, I grew up with this subject, so you can save the condescending bullshit. It’s pathetic. Apparently you can’t conceive that others can actually disagree with someone as amazing as you, and you alone, find your intellect to be.

and remains in line with fundamental values of liberal justice systems?

Start by actually enforcing laws against the powerful, with penniless and impotent lifetimes spent in prison

powerful interests hijacking the justice system?

The fact that those laws aren’t enforced against the powerful is exactly the “liberal” justice system - the best justice one can buy, and if you can’t afford it, you get none. That’s exactly the problem. It is hijacked now, by design. And why there does need to be a threat specifically against the powerful.

If all of these criminals thought they were facing the death penalty the crimes and corruption would just get worse

This is just a Louis CK bit of ‘at least you get the kid back’.

And no, I’m not calling for the death penalty in general for CSA.

Ok, so you’re taking the fact that the entire Mueller investigation could produce nothing showing meaningful Russian interference to be an issue as proof that there was meaningful Russian interference?

The only charges that came out were perjury.

Per Capita over 21

Yeah, who can forget how Kamala swept the 2024 primaries!