Came here to say this. They withheld because El Salvador dared try to find their own way out of trouble without becoming a financial vassal of the West.

They make poor base load but good instant 'gap fillers'

And then you have to ask where the energy to pump the water back up into the reservoir comes from...

Never respond to Anonymous Cowards, but seriously WTF are you on about?

Guy quotes someone else and you want him to qualify the person he was quoting?

Do you even understand how language works?

Was that after a double-blind placebo controlled trial?

I canâ(TM)t actually tell what you really believe from your poorly written sarcasm.

'looking less likely there was a lab leak'

Except for the early sequencing, lack of animal reservoir, 13 base pairs found in a patent that pre-dated the official sequence release, tribasic furin cleavage site known to be used by human researchers, HIV motifs

Yeah, just pure coincidence each and every one of these 1,000,000-to-1 occurrences

It doesn't have to have been a weapon at all, just honest research that happened to jump to a human host

Not the first time it would have happened at the Wuhan facility either

Pickleball AKA slow tennis

I'll never understand the collective hate boner a group of supposedly tech-positive people have for blockchain technology as a whole.

Thanks for the dumbest take on this

Youâ(TM)ve been manipulated into thinking a real metro system wouldnâ(TM)t work by myths of âAmerican exceptionalismâ(TM)

Now vegas will be left with a pointless gimmick that benefits nobody but daddy Musk rather than actual useful infrastructure

The early investors in Apple also held most of the shares

Guess Apple must be a Ponzi then.

Alternatively, you donâ(TM)t understand what a Ponzi actually is, but you think using the word makes you sound smart.

Where are you getting that they want special products produced?

They're just choosing not to legislate on the issue.

Just because we can, does it mean we should?

Building this infrastructure allows for non-benign parties to rapidly shut down any content they desire, for any reason, without public disclosure.

Tyranny is always first dressed up as something 'for our own good'.

What gives gold its value?

And you know how to accurately and precisely discern between the two?