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You really think the country has been this fucked up the whole time? You think this isn't new? Don't kid yourself, it has not "always been like this". They want you to forget, they want you to accept this as normal...

THIS IS NOT NORMAL

The current administration of this country is a bizarre, grotesque aberration. If this were normal, there wouldn't be so much to ruin.

That's what we're saying, they'll be getting less money because of this. It doesn't make sense.

It's a leftover from an earlier and more honorable time in American governance.

Oof... Yeah that's about right.

Well I would agree with that except for one thing, the Amazon tablets are still the only product on the market that actually has usable parental controls.

I'm not saying I'll ever trust Amazon, or ever have. But the fact is they had the only usable product on the market, if I had other options I'd use them.

And before anyone says "what happened to just teaching your kids good behavioral expectations?" Let me just say that this isn't always possible. Some kids have developmental challenges or behavioral disorders that make this an impractical expectation. Sometimes you just need parental controls.

You're running off the assumption that the survivors know useful information and that theyre also able to utilize that useful information plus be able to source needed materials since they wont have travel

I think we're assuming books will continue to exist.

I think one of the real marvels of civilization is the redundancy of information. For every college course you've taken there's a text book, and there may have been dozens of physical copies of that book used in your class, but also for many other classes at other schools that taught that same subject. There may have been 10,000 copies of that book in circulation across the globe, in many different countries.

It's not impossible to lose information forever, but we've put in some really strong defenses against that really happening. There are a lot of libraries in coastal areas which could flood, or big cities that could burn after wars or riots. But there are also plenty of libraries in small towns, and at high elevations. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Aspen has a public library for instance, and so do some of the small towns nearby that you don't know the name of.

I mean, why do you say that? I don't know if any other species that lives in a greater variety of environments. There are humans living on every continent, including Antarctica. There are humans living with support in space and under the sea.

We have migrated, to everywhere. And we can adapt, to almost anything.

And to clarify, I don't think we'll all survive, but I highly doubt we'd all die.

Amazon apk store shuts down August 20th.

Huh... This sounds like a huge pain in my ass. What happens to Kindle fire tablets, that you know heavily rely on that functionality?

I can guess what happens to any of us that use that store on other devices (I think it's safe to say we're fucked).

I basically only ever used it because it gave away free apps, but man, the DRM put into those apps was so aggressive and annoying.

This was a really interesting reply, thanks. I'd leave a longer response, but honestly I really need to be asleep right now.

If $120,000 is a bit much for you (it's still far less than would be required for a Bitcoin mining farm)

I will say though, even today the barrier for entry is lower than that for bitcoin mining. You can definitely get started for $1000. I wouldn't really recommend Bitcoin mining as a hobby at this point, but that's basically the low end for a single machine.

Personally, that's about as much as I ever spent on mining equipment, and it was fun, I learned a lot, and it was even lucrative in the end.

Yes, Etherium is very cool and it can do a whole bunch of really cool things! But on the other hand, it can't replace Bitcoin. It's too heavy, transactions are too large, the network can't hope to handle the number transactions per minute that Bitcoin does. I think most people agree that the two systems compliment each other, they each work well in their niche, but couldn't do the others' job.

So yeah, I don't see Etherium replacing Bitcoin. Perhaps a layer-2 could, but I have yet to see any that offer the kind of tangible improvements that would really make it stand out.

You know, I doubt I've seen any movie over 10 times, at least not since I was a kid watching the same vhs over and over. But I've probably seen office space more than any other and I've definitely never noticed that. Good eye.

So you're the guy who liked that movie!

I think it's early to call Bitcoin obsolete, it is still after all the dominant cryptocurrency by every measure.

Other blockchains have continued moving on.

So which systems do you see as offering real utility or innovation? Obviously there's etherium, and it has its own issues, but what else out there do you think is really more than a just gimmick or a scheme?