Could also run some World Community Grid tasks on BOINC, that's what I do.

But if you just want to heat your house nothing beats a heat pump for efficiency.

Elon likes his rocket toys, and thus needs money.

Doesn't Elon's pay depend on Tesla revenue? If for example BYD kicks Tesla's ass, Elon gets lackluster pay.

Java's Mono library is a poor substitute for C#'s async/await keywords

The Async/await stuff is just syntactical bloat for most typical CRUD apps. I suspect it's there to help MS save on cloud costs, rarely helps devs.

Yeah, but hard to compare apples to oranges here....

These Nordic idiots are the same folks that ride fucking bicycles in ice and snow in the middle of winter too....

Yes. I remember seeing a movie that took place in rural Arizona in the early '50s. Part of the plot had to do with moving a small herd of horses across country to a dirt road that was good enough that they could drive a truck up it and load the horses on it so they could take them to market and sell them. One evening they stopped at a ranch house that was still lit by kerosene lanterns because the team stringing electric cables wasn't due to get there for another six months.

Fear or corruption?

This isn't some Manhattan style project, with great secrecy over methods, attracting the best and brightest.

It is a MASSIVE wealth transfer though, disregarding law and scrutiny, with some of the most dubious leading the charge.

I would rather that it was fear driving this as there would be more evaluation of how this will play out globally instead of an endless black hole to dump the nation's wealth.

If nothing else they should not be allowed to call themselves a bank, including not a "trust" bank. Stick with crypto exchange or hascode pawnshop or whatever but not bank.

Politicians with crazy blond hair are FUBAR machines.

Banks are financial infrastructure. If they break, they take lots of businesses and customers with them. I'm okay with lone failures, but banks have lots of hooks.Please don't gamble with infrastructure!

Yet the world's average inflation goes around 5%

Economists don't run govt's, moronic politicians do, and moronic voters vote them in place.

D'oh! Willie Sutton, not Willie Horton!
Anyhow, I stick by Leslie Fish's answer.

But, no. It's Leslie Fish who has the answer:
Robbing the Poor

There's a lovely collective facepalm right now as Virgin Gin isn't allowed to be called Gin anymore because the regulations governing alcohol say to be called Gin it has to have certain ingredients in it.

That might or might not be fucking stupid depending on what Virgin Gin is and what those required ingredients are. As an example, I'd think that most people would find it quite reasonable to require that anything called "gin" would have to have juniper berries as an ingredient.

Yep I read it: It's advertisements all-the-way down.

"...1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to methods, systems and computer programs for adding content to streamed media, and more particularly, methods, systems and computer programs for embedding advertising within television programming. ..."