People, especially in the last 5-6 years, seem to be led by emotion rather than reason.
If Trump made a good decision, that decision would be shit upon by 200 million people just because it's Trump saying it.... or they might cherish it just because it's Trump saying it. It should be neither of those.

Knee jerk, shitty policies to appease the left extremists or the right extremists are everywhere, and the only way to deal with it is to have something 100% unbiased making rules with no ego, and no personal interests of its own.

In reality this will never work of course, since there are groups of people and organizations out there that pay a lot of money and use their influence to get the governments to do what they want them to do.

> It may be the case that Spotify sees employing Kinzen's tech as a means to help it avoid similar PR catastrophes in the future.

PR Catastrophe? Both Rogan and Spotify gained listeners heavily from the so called "misinformation" Rogan's "GUESTS" were spreading.

It was a PR catastrophe only if you take portion of the population that like to think the government and pfizer has their best interest at heart, or took that position because people like Rogan didn't, and that portion of population do not even watch JRE, they just react to little clips of him that CNN and the likes intentionally edit in such a way to make him look like an asshole or an idiot, like the carefully crafted horse dewormer story.

In reality, Rogan and Spotify viewership went up, CNN and the other "we're the one god you shall listen to -- brought to you by pfizer" lost and will continue to loose support because of their, now, obvious attempts to discredit and destroy everything that their corporate overlords find a threat to their bottom line. Joe Rogan is number #1 threat because he's bigger than CNN and MSNBC combined, so of course he drinks "horse dewormer".

Article is total nonsense.

I been to Japan in January of 2020, so just before the covid thing started, and I loved it. Went to hokkaido / Sapporo for 7 days. It was awesome, and I want to go again. We went as a family and spent quite a bit of money.

However, I will not be doing that this year, or any other year unless they stop with the bullshit. Enough is enough, jumping through "additional" hoops other than the usual airport security / immigration stuff is out of the question, especially with 2 kids and a wife. There are countries that went back to how it was before 2020, and those will be getting my money when we decide to travel.

Thailand is dropping all requirements from Oct 1 ( currently the only requirement is a atk test if not vaccinated). Vietnam already did that 3 months ago.
Or maybe some European country... so many choices.

Sorry Japan. Maybe in few years.

> In short: if you have even a casual interest in cryptocurrency (and since you're posting on this article on /., I assume you do), and yet are surprised by this, then you haven't been paying attention.

If you read comment section on cc/blockchain posts here on slashdot, you will notice the amount of stupid is astounding. People still struggling to explain basic concepts, such as what is PoW and PoS.

Most likely you're talking to a well off older crowd that don't really see a problem with the current banking system and how money is handled/created, so they don't see the point of any of this at all, nor do they care. Their life worked out just fine without it, so why waste time on that "imaginary" money created out of thin air?
And no...they certainly don't mean the dollar.

> A party gathers a lot of etherium, aka money, and then they get to be a clearing house of transactions, also known as a bank?

No, not a "party". Individuals. So if you have 32 ethereum, you can stake it and receive rewards for keeping it staked. And you can do it on a cheap atom laptop that you have doing nothing,compared to high end gpus people needed to mine blocks. The more stakers, the more secure and decentralized the network is. That is not what a bank is. None of the stakers have any rights. You only get rewards if you do the job honestly, and you get punished if you try to lie and cheat. You're not a bank, and the group of individuals that you can call a "party" are not a bank.

"From 1999 –2000 through 2017 –March 2020, US obesity prevalence increased from 30.5% to 41.9%. During the same time, the prevalence of severe obesity increased from 4.7% to 9.2%. (NHANES, 2021)" link

This is just obesity, being 20-40 pounds overweight, while not extreme as being obese, is also very bad, and the problem is people that are 20-40 pounds overweight actually think they are doing OK, comparing themselves to the obese. In IT it's rampant, especially among the older, and everybody is dismissive of it like "oh, it's just age...". No it's not, it's laziness, bad food, and lack of desire to move.

Somehow we normalized it all, especially since such a large percentage of people are now overweight, we have ads on TV with fat people advertising whatever product. Of course life expectancy falls... what the hell people expect? Drinking coke and eating chicken fried in 2 week old oil is OK?

They did, and they do... And they will take their kids to have a "happy meal", turn them too into an overweight mess that their parents are. Hey, it's normal now!

I just read the summary, Not sure if they actually said why but it seems that in most developer countries birth rate is down

Could be environmental, microplastic in food and drink, air pollution, poor quality food... and there are some studies about testosterone level in males going down due to exposure to certain chemicals

Low T levels are associated with low fertility and significantly reduced desire to have sex, and if we keep it up like this, we might all disappear sooner than we think we will.

> You're begging the question with your post that postulates that people eat bugs because there's no other alternative. Heck last time I ate mealworms and grasshoppers I was tossing up between that or a smoked salmon burger. The girlfriend wasn't as keen, she had a smoked chicken burger.

You're full of shit you are.
You choose grasshoppers over smoked salmon? I just want to smack you over the face you "look at me i'm so progressive i eat bugs, screw your salmon" twat. Or you are just so spoiled by choice and your privilege in life that you can say something like "oh look... bugs...hehehe let me try that, i have salmon any day i please anyway" in some 3rd world country where they sell that, while the poor locals salivate over your nutritious, healthy and out of their reach salmon?

I live in Thailand, where people have no problems eating crickets and other insects, and my wife occasionally (once a year) buys a little bag of it, but they would *NEVER* say something fucking stupid as what you just said. NOBODY will rather eat bugs than salmon filet, chicken breast, fish, shrimp or beef steak. Only the entitled privileged middle upper class westerner can say something as stupid as what you just said, because you're totally disconnected from reality in which you *have to* eat bugs to survive.

The only people that want to eat bugs are fucking tourists like you. Your girlfriend had some sense at least.

At the gas station where i live average time to fill up is 3 minutes.

If all the cars, not just mine, needed 15 20 minutes to charge up, the queue to the gas station would be 2 mile long. Every gas station.

Good luck.

When Americans say "everyone", they mean all Americans, not Thais or Koreans, or Romanians..or other people on the planet.

Where I live, nobody I know has an iPhone, and people that do, it's just to show off that they are rich. It's a status symbol. Less than 1% of people own an iphone in a country where almost 100 million people live. That's just one country.

So iPhone 13 is apparently the latest model, and it costs $801 USD.
Samsung M23 5g costs $180 USD. 4 times less.
Granted, they have phones that cost 800 usd too, but the point is that YOU DON'T NEED A PHONE THAT COSTS THAT MUCH, and Samsung or ViVo or Oppo give you that option. An $180 samsung phone will last you 5 years, and you will have everything that any human in the modern world would want of it. There's nothing that you miss out on, and the whole things most likely works even better than an iphone.

And ads? What ads? There are zero ads on my $100 usd Vivo phone I got 4 years ago. There is a lot of bundled stuff that you don't have to use. Just because it's there, you're not forced to use it. You can install and use some other browser, or app, or whatever. I would guess that on iphones things that are there, you are forced and encouraged to use. I wouldn't know, I never seen an iPhone, but it's not like that on an Android phone.

> Going back to SA after shooting her mouth off like that on the internet?

Not very intelligent, is she.

Yes, because they did not loose 1 billion in bitcoin. If they sold the bitcoin, they would have lost 1 billion, but they did not, so they did not loose anything.

Every time there's an article about this guy Boyan Slat, and his decade old effort to *do something*, I already know what the comments section is going to look like

1. But what about influx from China and Vietnam?!?!
2. 100 tons? Meh. That's nothing.
3. Better do X

And if not all, large majority of those writing that never actually did anything even close to what this guy is doing, and improving on it every year. Aren't you ashamed you armchair smart asses, criticizing somebody actually trying to do something positive? Even collecting trash on the beach with a stick is better than doing nothing and bullshitting on the internet about people that do. If you're not ashamed, you should be, and I know how extremely egotistical tech people can be, so I'm sure you won't be, but will find another reason why you're right and smart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Jre Clips - How it Felt for Boyan Slat to See People Cheer His Failure

I live in SE Asia. Tell you one thing about it... Never trust a crypto exchange based in SE Asia. These people are outright thieves, and incompetent ones at that.

Largest and most popular exchange in Thailand, just disappeared one day for 3 or 4 days few years ago. The whole thing, just down. They did explain later on facebook that they are upgrading their network, but you can imagine the level of incompetence when "upgrade" means unannounced downtime of 4 days.

And all these "temporarily suspended withdrawals", all those are arbitrary decisions based on their own profit margin. As long as they're making money hand over first, it's all ok, the moment they stop making money, they just stop everything.

Never trust anything here.

Rebel against it. They only push shit like this when they know people will passively accept it.

If you must own a smart phone, pick one that doesn't do this. Choice is there, you just have to show some character.