I'd rather just have a real live person. I will try to make a mental note to not eat at Wendys if this goes live. I don't eat there anyway so it doesn't matter.

US House has voted to equate anti-zionism with being anti-semitic. This means that Palestinians who don't agree with the settlers/Jewish state of Israel to taking their land are by default are considered to be racist. Nothing to see here....

"More reasons to be hopeful than people realize" Yea, that says a lot. As a doomer I now know some theoretical solutions with no real talk of lowering consumption. Who wants to change their behavior? We behave the way we want because thats what we want.

The 3 examples, healthcare, education, and energy are all necessities. I didn't know education and energy were all that regulated. mmmm could there be more to it?

Well self-custody would imply that they don't control it or otherwise it isn't in your custody. You're right about stablecoins. I'm not sure it is ridiculous but it is a hard problem to solve. I worked on the first stablecoin pegging project and it is a bit comical how such a beast winded up being exploited. The tokens don't have to be backed by actual dollars but they need to be backed by something.

No mention of the nature of custody. Is this something you keep on their website or do people have their own wallets? I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't the former. Paypal is the worst. They like to randomly confiscate money. Easy to pass on this "token".

My guess is fraudsters starting using the platform to cash out stolen credit cards. It puts Etsy in a spot. They can eat it or raise prices or do this. It is a shame really.

No mention of just not upgrading your laptop every other year. Not buying more junk. Hibernating your computer overnight. Never on the direct power consumer side. Salesforce promoting greenwashing junk. AI is going to help us cut our carbon emissions because people have to do less carbon intensive work!?? Can't make this stuff up. Laughable ideas in Tech fo' sho.

It is a laughable idea to pair with instagram. If it only had an opt-in to instagram features instead then maybe it would have worked? I go to twitter to specifically avoid that sort of memied up tripe.

I was and am a victim of competitors abusing my ads. Google currently seems to have it under control by post-processing the clicks and removing a suitable amount off my bill. The reality is there is no transparency and I can only hope this to be the case. This is one way to fix the battle where Google is losing. I have my theories on how they can detect the click-fraud but it is only a guess. Talented Russian programmers will be going to war with Google from here on and there is only a limited amount of things Google can do.

This. I have given up on using search for words that are directly monetizable. I am so tired of reading through multiple pages of text just to find my time completely wasted. Google has already lost this battle.