People debate energy and emissions costs of cryptocurrencies. They should also debate the costs of fiat currencies, of course.
Fiat currencies are backed by force, much of it in the form of #war torn places most Twitter users don't think about very much.
It's worse, though:
In addition to the wars and "police actions" and international pissing matches, and all the energy waste and emissions produced by them, there's also all the domestic policy BS around fiat currencies also eating up energy and producing emissions.
It's worse, though:
Apr 17, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Both gun-control and gun-rights people should oppose IoT firearms. They'd just be dangerous. All it takes is a couple minutes of thinking about the most basic ideas of internet security, and it quickly becomes obviously this is a terrible terrible idea.
Add to that the less obvious stuff, like poorly secured firearm management systems that show us the realtime locations of people who got concealed carry permits and firearms for protection from potentially murerous stalkers and abusive ex-partners, for instance.
Jan 21, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Adapt and overcome.
I used a bit of good old fashioned hackery for a custom camera cover on the back of my smartphone case.
See following tweets for the results:
I cut a hole in a bizcard holder to expose the camera lens. I used some trickery to pad the back of the card holder where it would hang over the gap in the case.
Jun 9, 2019 • 15 tweets • 12 min read
@SpockResists@HotFreestyle@unlewis "We" don't reward "rappers and football players" to that degree. "We" reward what "we" think of as the *best* rappers and football players to that degree. The majority of rappers and football players basically get nothing.
@SpockResists@HotFreestyle@unlewis The reason the *best* nurses (for instance) don't get the same ridiculously high level of compensation for their efforts is mostly related to the fact it's much more difficult for millions of people to meaningfully judge the quality of work of a single nurse.
