Mega is a million, Giga a billion, so it would actually be a Terabuck

Don’t be pedantic. I meant that they have to buy a new car if they want to keep driving, which most of them probably will, since they wouldn’t be driving in the first place if there was a better alternative

They can, but will they?

But who checks that?

That would mean lots of people would have to buy a new car, which is much worse for the environment than to keep driving an SUV

It woulf take years and years to pass such a ban in a significant number of countries - assuming they would ever want to cooperate on this, that is

A lot still do, and that’s where the miners would go

If you destroy Bitcoin, another currency would take its place.

Uhh… what?

Except this quote could quite easily be used to justify absolutely any method of achieving a goal

15 thousand million million?

= 15 quadrillion USD?

Yes, that is correct. Therefore, it is no longer considered a pandemic. Doesn’t mean that the disease doesn’t exist anymore.

Why not?

Hasn’t the WHO officially declared it over?

Maybe, maybe not, that really makes no difference here

the human brian is easily fooled

I can confirm that Brian is an idiot

I would have used this definition, though apparently used mainly in literature:

Of a species or life-form, possessing intelligence or self-awareness. [source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sapient]

Since it makes a lot more sense in this context to be weirded out by the cow talking, rather than it possessing feelings.

I believe the correct word here would have been “sapient”, not “sentient”.

You’re exactly the kind of person I’m talking about.

The article is, but this discussion didn’t really specifically mention the US, so I assumed we were talking about EVs in general