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overtonwhy··on Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 hours
High speed rail infrastructure would be new and modern.
overtonwhy··on 3M to end 'forever chemicals' output
What about the benefits of high levels of hydration?
overtonwhy··on What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me
The son of a Russian computer scientist who cloned Bitcoin as a teenager definitely all by himself?
overtonwhy··on DVD sales surpass Blu-ray in 2021: Physical format market
What are you talking about blurry? Upscaled DVD is perfectly fine. For most movies from the 80s and 90s it's not like you're going to notice a difference going to Blu Ray or UHD streaming.
overtonwhy··on The smash and grab of Kroger-Albertsons
Goodwill is pretty neat. They save a lot of stuff from going to the dump. You can find some really interesting and inexpensive electronics there sometimes.
overtonwhy··on Stablecoin Mechanics 2: Tether-Celsius
"according to a blog post" they must be trying to get ahead of something pretty bad
overtonwhy··on The Ethereum merge is done
Over a Russian cryptocoin? Weird spot to draw the line. Ethereum Classic is still running with billions of USD in market cap after the last fork that happened years ago. Why does anyone think this fork is anything except another way for the controllers to cash out before their scam bubble pops?
overtonwhy··on Twilio to lay off 11% of workforce
Bunch of new accounts commenting doing it too.
overtonwhy··on Blockchains by number of nodes/validators
Or "estimated cost to DDoS nodes". For a 51% attack can you DDoS rival nodes offline?
overtonwhy··on Lenovo’s Glasses T1 let you bring a private big screen display with you
Protecting your eyeballs from UV is probably pretty important.
overtonwhy··on Lenovo’s Glasses T1 let you bring a private big screen display with you
How far away from 4k120 x 2 are current video cards?
overtonwhy··on Mainnet Merge Announcement
Look up Ethereum Classic. It is still running. Why is this any different?
overtonwhy··on Undeclared pools in France uncovered by AI technology
In Greece it was nearly 17,000 pools undeclared https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/world/europe/02evasion.ht...
overtonwhy··on Stable Diffusion is a big deal
Movies and TV shows from classics should be relatively easy?
overtonwhy··on Mainnet Merge Announcement
What about a DDoS attack?
overtonwhy··on Mainnet Merge Announcement
And now there's a split where the miners keep mining and everybody gets a new duplicate coin account and the grifters cash out more?
overtonwhy··on Saudi Arabia sentenced a woman to 34 years in prison for tweeting
"Russia used Republican political operative Paul Manafort and the WikiLeaks website to try to help now-U.S. President Donald Trump win the 2016 election, a Republican-led Senate committee said in its final review of the matter on Tuesday."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-senate/s...

overtonwhy··on Ethereum Goerli testnet merge goes live before move to proof-of-stake
Another stage of the grift where all the scammers get double the coins and cash out even more. The miners aren't going to stop mining. There will be another "classic" fork situation. Maybe we're near the end after all?
overtonwhy··on A looming copper crunch and why recycling can’t fix it
Mostly only required for drugs and gambling these days.
overtonwhy··on 2022 Amish Population Profile
There's value to random encounters with ideas and content (sometimes).
overtonwhy··on 2022 Amish Population Profile
The misuse of television for pure unrestrained capitalism seems like it was a pretty significant setback both socially and environmentally. Was radio much better? Is it parasocial relationships?
overtonwhy··on We haven’t killed 90% of all plankton
You need to research long covid: https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/05/more-than-1-in-5-cov...
overtonwhy··on The entertainment value curve: Why TikTok is on fire and Quibi isn’t (2020)
TikTok is on fire because it shows young girls dancing in their underpants. That's it.
overtonwhy··on The Great Green Wall
A bunch of wild claims with zero references to back them up. Poster is making massive assumptions about how these organizations operate. They clearly are talking out of their ass if you research the established organizations working in this field https://www.internationaltreefoundation.org/our-work
overtonwhy··on News engagement plummets as Americans tune out
NPR and PBS
overtonwhy··on Ethereum Proof-of-Stake
Convenient feature especially for countries that are heavily under sanction. Isn't the alleged creator of Ethereum Russian? His father is a Russian computer scientist?
overtonwhy··on El Salvador’s Experiment with Bitcoin as Legal Tender
Presumably people in the government got bribed. Did they also make their banking system crypto friendly?
overtonwhy··on Only 6.8% of adults have optimal cardiometabolic health
A grocery cart or two can transport a lot of weight. (not a cart from the store but a bring your own one. Some fold up for easy storage!)
overtonwhy··on The crypto crisis has created an advertising vacuum
Russian
overtonwhy··on The crypto crisis has created an advertising vacuum
Tether is not regulated or licensed by any body AFAIK so they aren’t required to process payment requests with any sort or timeliness. lul

Same with the unlicensed and unregulated exchanges that they do business with. You want out? Take a number and get in line.

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