Passthrough SSL exists. And although it is harder to do, it can be load-balanced. So it's not as black-and-white as you assert.

Let me turn your own side's words back on you: Fuck Your Feelings.

Of course it was a problem. DHH got called out for his performative liberalness, and he (and his co-founder) did what he always does: throw a tantrum.

You're failing the Reverse Turing Test. Hard.

Of course it does. Here's a very good heuristic: if a right-winger posts a link to a bad source (Breitbart, NYPost, Daily Mail, etc) it's bullshit. If a right-winger posts a link to a mainstream source, it will invariable contradict him.

Bit Coin and other Crypto-Currencies, have a supply limiter built into the algorithm [...] However we are not using Bit Coin as a currency like it was intended

And that makes it a bad currency. Limited backing means it's deflationary.

but it being horded and locked up

QED: people are treating it as a deflationary asset: holding it.

Also note that among those protesting release are fisherman. Releasing the tritium-infused waste water directly onto the coast may dilute it at first, but fish have the nasty habit of concentrating pollution.

Yeah, that's what they said in the 1970s in the Netherlands. If you look at photographs of Amsterdam in those days it was tin cans all over the place.

50 years later, after decades of integrated traffic planning including bike traffic as a main category, the entiry country is considered a bicyclist's paradise.

For sure suburban sprawl (and suburbs designed for car use) does not help, but there are plenty of spots in the US where sub-10 mile commutes could easily be done by bicycle if the infrastructure were in place. In fact, the big cities are the ones most likely to improve in liveability if intra-city traffic planning were more bike-friendly. You'd still have some cars feeding into the city from the suburbs, of course. But that's a different problem.

But you know what the worst part of your post is? That a 21st-century American is going 'We cannae do it!"

We already have that infrastructure. It's called rail.

Congratulations, you reinvented (light) rail!

Based on all reports when the virus was isolated that this was a new variant of a known family of coronavirus strains. It may have been around longer, but hanging around in animals and not drawing attention to itself.

Saying categorically that we know of this particular strain for 10 years already is...bold, to say the least.

You're not helping by overstating your case. The virus has not been found for 10 years. Obviously related viruses have been found. SARS-CoV-2 is not special, it's a run of the mill coronavirus, part of an extensive family of simple viruses endemic in animals, which are known to easily mutate, and have been tagged by epidemiologists for decades as a potential reservoir for crossover infection to humans.

Here's another cracker, Polly

All I read is blind regurgitation of Heritage Foundation talking points.

Here's a cracker, Polly. Now fuck off.