So, both an massive arsehole and an idiot at the same time, anyone with half a brain would realise that these decisions are money losers. Share holders should be asking for CEOs head before they do more damage.

Nature is just nature - it will adapt and continue to do its thing.

What will break is something in the margins of the natural environment that Human civilization has adapted to over the last 5000 years. Our crops, our livestock, our dwellings, our livestyle, energy consumption and other infrastructure... the margins are shifting and some of our adaptations will eather stop working or become much less efficient.
This will require readaptation, the question is what will be faster: climate changing or human adaptation. If the margin shifts become too rapid or extreme, at some point they will outrun our adaptation or we will just not have the adequate strategies to cope.

Corruption in Western democracies exists, as it exists everywhere. But it is not even close, not even in the same ballpark as corruption in autocracies like Russia and North Korea, where there is completely no oversight and the ruler is basically a king.

I use Pocket. It's a nice way to store things away for later, without cluttering your bookmarks or keeping to many tabs open.
Also, it gets past the paywall on some websites and saves the whole page for reading.

I don't understand why people bow to the corporate overlords instead of using an open source browser, that while not perfect, is very decent and gets the job done.

The Russian Ministry of Truth is acutely sensitive to social tensions in the US and the West in general. Every time an opportunity presents itself, they fan the flames of discord and polarization through official social media channels backed up by bot farms.

Popular topics: immigration, the Woke movement, BLM... the Russian side presents itself as the last bastion of conservative values: a strong-man leader taking care of his own people, with complete contept towards "societal degeneration" presented as gays and wokes. This clearly appeals to conservative and right-wing circles in the West.

It's all bullshit of course, since Putin is really a former KGB turned mafia boss, whose inner circle is bleeding the country dry with corruption - ordinary Russians struggling to cope, while the ruling class spends their time in yachts and palaces. The ruling class who by the way send their children to the "degenerate West" to live and be educated - it's where they own most of their palaces and where they spend their leisure. Not even they want to live in Russia.

Then there's of course the full spectrum authoritarian rule - Italian mafia style. Real journalists and political opponents are in exile, in prison or murdered. There is barely a country with a higher murder rate against journalists in the world. Russia is on the lowest ranks in any type of freedom - speech, press, religion - but conservatives turn a blind eye because they admire strongman Putin.

It's a hypocrisy that is simply staggering in its scope and implications. But it already begins with Trump, who is an admirer of such anti-democratic, authoritarian strong-men, would probably like nothing more than becoming one himself, and is about as far away from traditional, conservative values as you can get, but still the far-right and conservatives love him. There is simply no reconciling all of it. People have been successfully propagandized to the fullest, and its utter madness from there.

https://www.theguardian.com/en...

Melting Greenland etcs ice so fast will likely cause an ice age and the scientists say the climate could flip fast. "The Day After Tomorrow" may not have been so inaccurate after all.

Of course they do happen, but it is exceedingly rare. Rare enough that I haven't experienced one in my entire, middle-aged life.
When the power went out, it was due to a fuse.

Technically, the UK is no longer part of the EU...

Every time I read something like this, I remember the regular power outages in different parts of the US every time there is a storm, or it gets too cold, or too hot, or some other natural disaster hits.
I never experienced a single power outage in a EU country in my entire life. Not an expert, but I think this has to do with the stuff going underground and not being suspended on flimsy poles that are exposed the forces of nature.
Last time I checked, Internet connectivity and bandwidth was on average also much better in the EU:
https://www.google.com/search?...

It's still not right. Sundar could be making 1000x the salary of a good engineer or manager, and they would be able to hire 2000 additional good people with the rest of his inflated salary. Imagine the projects 2000 people can work on. That's a whole company there, but also families earning a living. It's still crazy and obscene, even for the CEO of one of the biggest corps in the world.

These CEO salaries are obscene. I'm sure Sundar is an amazing fellow, but there are really great managers and engineers with a 100K salary. Even if these were only 5% as capable as Sundar, Sundar should be making 20x their salary, which would be 2 million, which is still a lot and sounds reasonable. CEO's shouldn't be making almost 3000x their salary. That is fucking crazy.

With great power comes great responsibility. You are responsible for your own finances and actions, yes. There's noone to bail you out if you mess up, so you better know wtf you are doing.
On the other hand, there's also no banks to bail out with taxpayer money, once they have evaporated billions due to greed, corruption, deregulation and sheer incompetence. Which happens with some regularity. There is no "too big to fail" in a decentralized, self regulating network.

That is what some lawmakers certainly would like to do. But combating crime and terrorism would only be the pretext for the real goal of protecting the incumbent financial industry from democratized, decentralized rivals. Blockchain and Bitcoin are just tools.
How many terrorists have used the Internet to plan attacks? How many use Smartphones? Mobile networks? How much crime and terror is financed with USD cash bills, which unlike blockchain is intransparent and untraceable?

At the very least, Bitcoin is valuable because it has value. It's worth 45k USD at the moment, and that allows me to transfer value to anybody else in the world with a Bitcoin wallet, without an intermediary. Independent of banks, SWIFT, all the bloated infrastructure, or some bureaucrat who thinks I shouldn't be able to move my own money around. Nothing can stop me from transferring BTC from my wallet to your wallet, only using the Internet. It is safe, secure, uncensorable, and before you say it's for criminals only, it is also fully transparent because in the public blockchain.

This, at the very least. Many more utilities for blockchain in general.

[Face Palm.]

I was watching a video recently about Saudis trying to get us to use more oil via more ICE cars and yes, supersonic jets because they use boatloads of oil. https://youtu.be/aT0r_yJafmg?t...