Dutch minister Christianne van der Wal is in charge of slashing a large part of Dutch agriculture to reduce nitrogen emissions.
The policy is 100% model based (no measurements) and has been contested by highly reputable scientists.
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This is the reason for this week's protests of farmers who stand to lose their livelihoods, often built up over generations.
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Minister Christianne van der Wal, is the sister-in-law of Bouke van der Wal, owner of Finci, which is the family holding of Dutch supermarket chain Boni, (one of the supermarkets whose distribution centers were barricaded by the farmers this week).
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1/ Last week: Mexican President @lopezobrador_ threatens to cancel his participation in the Summit of the Americas in June, as have done several other Latin-American leaders.
1\ #Ethereum and most other #altcoin network infrastructure runs predominantly on Amazon servers because their additional "functionality" requires a lot more computing power.
Why is that a huge risk in today's reality?
A thread 🧵⬇️
2\ Marketing of most #cryptocurrencies relies strongly on emphasizing how their #blockhain is better, faster and more versatile than #Bitcoin.
99% of these projects' newbie target audience don't understand that bitcoin's seemingly limited utility is a feature and not a bug.
3\ That's because their huge VC backed marketing teams carefully avoid pointing out that the advanced features they are promoting and the way these projects are funded and created imply strong centralization of both infrastructure and governance.