As miners can not make money they stop mining. The number of miners reduces and the difficulty of mining adjusts downward. It is part of the system. Almost like someone thought about it when they designed the system.

Unfortunately at this point if the internet goes away so does the value of just about every major currency. It isn't like the bank has a stack of dollar bills sitting around.

The dairy tariffs are agreed to and part of the agreement that Trump negotiated. Trump is such an amazing negotiator that he managed to allow Canada to charge those tariffs. And now Trump is reneging on the agreement he negotiated and signed. So yes. It is a bad thing. Trump's word is word about as much as his signature which should only be used on toilet paper.

Except in Quebec.

My parents were glad I was pirating, they knew I wanted to see the world and sail seven seas!

Hey man when your extent of research is half reading a Wikipedia article you have to accept what you get.

Wow, I wonder if Nintendo is now going to sue him for the free advertising :D

Who ate these mice and how do they taste?

Wait a second.... The government of the US can fly stars now?

This is the kind of nonsense an AI system will generate. "Sure we can create an application that adds pounds and gallons...."

The oil companies are going to produce so much oil that it drives down the prices and reduces their profits? Sounds logical.

I vote for Townie McTownface.

The problem with these systems is rarely a backdoor. It is rarely an insecure password. It is the people who are either incompetent or are compromised. It sure is nice to get some cash deposited to your bank account instead of having to work for close to minimum wage for horrible overlords. It used to be a requirement to have skills and knowledge to work on these networks. Now whomever we can pay the least wins! You get what you pay for.

Or, what if the government just starts flooding the market with super cheap drugs driving the cartels out of business? Now that is how the capitalists do it!