Enhance Energy and Wolf Midstream’s 240-km Alberta Carbon Trunk Line, which has received $843 in government and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board subsidies, transports captured carbon from a refinery and fertilizer plant to drill for more oil.

It’s 100% a scam just like the others, but if it only cost the government $843 I guess we got off lightly on that one.

If we’re at the point where it takes “economy of scale” to remain in the game then the average miner must have invested in a whole lot of hardware and such. What happens when the cost of financing the premises and equipment outweighs the meagre returns over electricity cost from keeping things running? There could be periods where nobody’s making money. Not that I have any idea if we’re in one.

Bitcoin mining hasn’t had anything to do with GPUs since 2014. Ether, since 2022. It’s the AI people you’re looking for.

Also because of, you know, tobacco.

If only somebody would design an open and federated protocol to replace giant social media platforms in a way that destroys the ability of billionaire monopolists or anyone else to use the network effect to lock people into their psychomanipulation machines.

Nah, we’ll just make them tweak the dials towards less disinformation and more safe-for-advertisers messaging.

The Great Firewall of China serves the discussion about American social media media platforms only by providing an example of how things could be even worse.

When the power was out for over a week a couple years ago, after getting over the initial difficulties the next thing I missed was laundry.

I like to have something with some thermal mass to it in the freezer at all times. (Currently it’s a lot of frozen spinach.)

It takes a couple days to thaw out when the power goes down, usually long enough to find a source of ice blocks.

Around here the traffic lights stop working right away if the power is out. If you’re in the city traffic will suck for a while, but then it will drop to very little and the buses will be fine.

Unfortunately, the call to “do something” about social media will only result in renewed efforts to do the wrong thing, as the previous government attempted. Facebook will be made to behave slightly better at the cost of creating a new regulatory system that reinforces its power and makes Canada legally dangerous for fedi instances or other alternatives.

Go on Mr. Carney, please prove me wrong.

Speaking of the wasting of time, was there any particular reason why you chose this thread to do your trolling in? The linked article is mostly just pointing out the obvious.

The people interpret age gates as damage and route around it.

His whole political career was him showing that he was nothing but a blowhard, but somehow people didn’t notice until the wind shifted.

His campaign of the past six weeks would have won him the election if it weren’t for his campaign of the past two years getting in the way.

Liberal, Conservative, Bloc, other.

Just returned from the polling station and I can exclusively reveal to the fediverse that I did not vote for Donald Trump.

Yeah whatever they improved for the remaster, it pales in comparison to the upgrades available in modded Skyrim.

the doomed king and his armed guards need to escape through a secret passage that just so happens to cut through my jail cell seems a little too convenient

I remember playing it for the first time in 2006 and I had completely forgotten about that guff by the time I got out of the tutorial. My character went on to ignore the main quest for many dozens of hours.

Of course several of those hours were spent struggling to defeat boars that started appearing on the road at level 5. They were insanely tough since I’d accidentally made the most difficult possible custom class. At least the remaster doesn’t have that problem. Instead the combat is very easy — unless you go up one level in difficulty in which case you’ll probably be killed by a mudcrab.

It’s not as if I did an exhaustive search to sift through all the evidence, but what I found was this: https://lemm.ee/post/60365167

That is what their mod was accused of having done, albeit on reddit. If Kev believes those allegations to be unfounded, he’s done a poor job of expressing that.