Just as a counterpoint, the area burning man is held in is one of the most ecologically inert places you could go. There’s no vegetation and the only life to speak of is brine shrimp eggs, which are about as threatened as mosquito larvae.

There’s still a lot of trash that gets left behind which can travel with wind, but as far as impact on the land goes, it’s likely significantly less invasive than your local county fair. There’s just nothing out there for them to damage.

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I’m gonna go with the step you didn’t list which is soaking them in dichloromethane or ethyl acetate for several hours, or submersing them in high pressure, supercritical carbon dioxide, to extract the pure caffeine. Then adding that pure caffeine into a mixture of artificial sugars, preservatives, and food dyes.

But sure, that’s totally the same as something that’s essentially a type of tea.

Coffee has its beans dried and roasted, then ground and seeped in water. If you’re going to call that artificial, then you are claiming that literally any cooked food is also artificial.

Lol, you want me to spell it out for you dumb-dumb? Ok

4.7% believed to be in the hands of a single person,

You’re talking about Satoshi Nakamoro here. Other than a few test cases, no Bitcoin has ever been moved out of these wallets and Satoshi disappeared in 2010. People have continued to donate to these wallets over the years as a kind of tribute and to burn coins. While it’s technically possible he’s still alive, the fact that there has been zero movement from those accounts and that any movement, no matter how small, would immediately be seen and reported on makes it unlikely that these will ever be touched.

3.1% in the hands of four addresses.

Those are exchange addresses. It’s like trying to say that 4 entities control a percentage of all US currency and then it turns out you’re just talking about banks.

Deflatory so no incentive to use it to make transactions

Except of course the security, the fact it can be used across borders by anyone with an Internet connection, in poorer countries it can be more stable than their own currency, and just general preference.

Value depends on the network effect (i.e. a pyramid scheme)

This is absolute nonsense with “pyramid scheme” attached to the end. As more people use it, the value goes up because it’s accepted more and more places and has a higher liquidity? That’s literally part of every currency ever.

Small transactions now too expensive to be realistic

You show your hand that you haven’t bothered to update your views on Bitcoin since 2019. Not only are fees back to being low on the main network, with the introduction and adoption of the Lightning Network, fees are down to pennies or less.

24% of the supply was created in the first year, 35% over two years.

Yes, that’s how halving works. You present that with an insinuation that any point they could just mint more btc. This is ignorance at best, but more likely intentionally misleading.

Movement of funds takes too long to be useful.

Again, guess you haven’t been paying attention for a few years. This issue has been solved with the Lightning Network with transactions usually going through faster than tap-to-pay transactions with a regular debit/credit card.

Those who got in early are guaranteed to be richer than those who got in late without having made any effort.

Welcome to every investment opportunity. Those who get in early take a higher risk for more reward.

So yea, every point either misleading, or straight up wrong.

I love posts like this, it lets me know most people still don’t have the first clue what they’re talking about. It’s honestly a bit impressive how nearly every point you tried to make is either misleading or straight up wrong.

I think it would have to be B due to the laws of relative motion. It was easier for me to think about when I considered the opposite case. Imagine someone is on a vehicle, for example a boat, with one portal on the boat and the other on the shore. You wouldn’t expect someone casually walking through the portal on the boat while it’s moving to suddenly experience the momentum of the boat after exiting. This is because the person and the portal are both experiencing the same motion.

Going back to the original scenario, the relative motion of the people entering the portal is as fast as the trolly is moving. If there was no portal, they would experience the same force if the trolly ran into them as they would if they ran into a stationary trolly at the same speed.

You have to do funny things with the conservation of momentum when dealing with hypothetical portals because the portals allow you to abruptly change the frame of reference.

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a country that barely has a navy

North Korea has the largest submarine fleet of any nation. Of course most of those are old diesel subs, but the point still stands.

It is technically a movie, sure. But more accurately, it’s the conclusion to a show that’s been on the air for almost 20 years. It’s not a movie made to stand on it’s own. Posting it to a movie sub makes as much sense as posting about ancient Roman senators in a politics sub. It’s technically politics, but you’re not going to get very meaningful discussion because it’s not what people go there for. The only people who would watch this movie are fans of the show, and even if a non-fan watched it, why would I give a shit about their opinion of it? They aren’t going to get it.

Are you starting to see the issue?

Lemmy is getting there but it’s still not a great replacement, especially when it comes to niche topics. For example, the Venture Bros movie came out recently and I wanted to discuss it with other fans, but there’s no place on lemmy for that; or if there is, I have been unable to find it. Meanwhile the Venture Bros subreddit has 3 different megathreads. I’m keeping my reddit account around for things like that until lemmy grows a bit more.

I guess we’re at the normie stage since OP apparently doesn’t know how this meme works.

It’s funny how if you browse lemmy, you might be under the impression that Linux is some huge portion of the market share of OS’s.

You know, rather than the reality which is less than 3% of users due to most people just wanting an OS that works without having to have a CS degree.

If you are boiling it down to the absolute basics, I guess you can try to say that. But at that point, damn near any movie where the main character is trying to stop a criminal of some sort is a “cop drama”.

Die Hard is a cop drama.

Every James Bond is just a cop drama.

Even ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit?’ is a cop drama.

Like yea, you can make that stretch, but you’re using such broad strokes that “cop drama” is meaningless.

Imagine defending advertisements.

Sorry, but I’m not a fucking product. I don’t care who’s pushing them.

Several boys only organizations or programs have changed to accepting all genders. Meanwhile, most girls only organizations or programs have remained girls only.

Which besides your paycheck is… what exactly? Or are these hypothetical streams of income once you get out of the “temporarily embarrassed millionaire” hole you’re in.

How are massive subsidies for businesses “smaller government”?

Remember when their Dumbass-in-chief told them to get vaccinated and they booed him?

Alright, I can think of a few instances given that context. Funny how it’s original usage is now relatively uncommon.