Cryptocurrency has a force more powerful than any military hardware or economic warfare the U.S. can bring to bear: math.

Almost everything causes more harm than good. Entertainment is not necessary. It's a distraction from a poorly run society.

That's a dumb argument. I too think things that I don't like should go away. But I don't go around proclaiming specific things I don't like to people and expect them to listen.

The $3M/day they collect in fees (estimate based on volume and base transaction fees) as well as any additional profits they scrape out by sitting at the nexus of the largest cryptocurrency transactions. While they don't officially operate as a market maker, it's generally assumed there is some level of front running or other behavior going on.

Hacks don't devalue cryptocurrency anymore than bank heists devalue the dollar.

But why? Why are plastics special when we litter all sorts of shit all over the world.

Plastics have saved hundreds of millions - perhaps billions - of lives from harmful pathogens.

So, you admit your view is indefensible. Right on.

What is pollution? If it's any change to the environment, then your house is pollution. If it's only harmful changes to the environment, I go back to thr original issue: what's the harm?

Fine. You start by no longer buying food from grocery stores or relying on electricity. We'll all follow.

Even today with the media frenzy over micro plastics and everyone worrying over them, the evidence linking them to harm is still pretty limited.

This is nothing like other industries where there was a clear harm known to exist. This is an unexpected impact that - to this day - we are unsure of in its impact to health.

The entire selling point of plastics is essentially that they are not very biologically active. Their mere presence is not evidence of harm or even danger.

Generally speaking, Chrome has better standards support.

At least if you go by Mozilla's MDN...

"Chocolate Rain and Numa Numa went pretty viral....

You might be in the minority if you haven't heard of them."

Your view of the world's media landscape has been skewed. Almost no one knows who these people are.

Fun fact: unlike many simple states, the U.S. has 51 completely different sets of state laws, and in some of those states, severance and unenforceability of NDAs is the law.

California and many other states also enforce severance when layoffs are of a certain size.

Here the thing about students and parents flipping out over bad grades: the teacher has the final say on what the grade is. The community can whine all they want, but if the new teacher fails the entire second grade class, those kids are going to have to retake second grade, regardless of what you do to the teacher.

Teachers just need to grow balls as a group and start failing our stupidest kids.