The EU doesn't have anything close to the police force necessary to enforce a cash ban in the face of public opposition, and doesn't have the money to pay for one.
Can you elaborate why they would need more police to ban cash?
Readit Newsmirko22 commented on Digital euro could drain up to 700B euros of deposits in bank run, ECB says reuters.com/business/fina... · Posted by u/thm
I really don't understand the hostility here. The digital euro seems like a good way to reduce the power of companies like visa and mastercard, and reduce the fees too. If the government is providing a way to pay freely in a digital way, why would I pay a company to do the same (or worse, see the last scandal between the card companies and steam)?
What makes you think that card comapnies/steam scandal wouldn’t happen with digital euro. EU could easily put some constraints on money usage and they wouldn’t need to justify it to anyone…
And the hostility probably come from experience with EU that makes decisions solely in interest of politicians and corporations instead of EU citizens in my opinion.
mirko22 commented on EU proposal to scan all private messages gains momentum cointelegraph.com/news/eu... · Posted by u/6d6b73
mirko22 commented on EU proposal to scan all private messages gains momentum cointelegraph.com/news/eu... · Posted by u/6d6b73
Please stop spreding this bullshit.
How is this BS? Where is democracy in Von der Leyen making deal with USA for example, who voted for that?
Most of the representatives there are local tokens that are there to pull EU money in the pockets of their parties.
EU is artificial state made only out of interest of political elites.
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>Nuclear airplanes
I zealously shill the values of nuclear power 7 days a week, but unless we discover a physics revelation nuclear airplanes are a horrible concept.
There are no forms of nuclear power production existing or theoretical which don't involve health-hazardous amounts of radioactive material. Even hydrogen fusion reactors activate the housing walls with neutrons. Miracle on the Hudson would have been much less miraculous if it meant terabecquerels of activity floating downstream.
As far as I know, in the 50ies the molten salt reactors where researched exactly with long range airplanes in mind.
My point is that for decades we didn’t invest enough into nuclear research in fear of nuclear weapons that all we are doing now is trying to put a band aid on the severed hand.
But maybe I just read too much Assimov…
We could have had nuclear airplanes and clean nuclear energy decades ago but here we are burning coal to power our EVs and acting like air traveling is something to be ashamed of…
Jokes aside, I don’t see how this should work, people with lowest income wont be able to travel yet everyone else will Pay the ticket and go on their marry way. People pay 20$ to select the seat, they will pay 20 more in some made up tax to get where they want to go…
mirko22 commented on The world’s largest wind turbine has been switched on iflscience.com/the-worlds... · Posted by u/thunderbong
Insignificant on many levels. If we should care for that we should stop all fossil fuel consumption right now, stop eating meat, and most importantly, stop putting glass windows into our cute buildings.
Why are these questions always in wind turbine posts before anything els?
Cos some people care about birds?
How does eating meat factor into this?
mirko22 commented on The world’s largest wind turbine has been switched on iflscience.com/the-worlds... · Posted by u/thunderbong
Not trying to pick a fight but just posting because I hear this often from my friends, re birds being happy.
The choice, if between coal-fired plants and windmills should be pretty obvious to birds. Sure we may not see them getting splashed to bits with coal-fired plants but they are silently getting ill/dying over time.
So are people, yet we are afraid of nuclear power…
mirko22 commented on Neural stimulation as a treatment for addiction spectrum.ieee.org/tms-for... · Posted by u/pseudolus
In my opinion and experience, which might not mean much, people react well to addiction therapy while undergoing it. Usually cos they are engaged in non usual processes in their life.
As soon as they return they their usual life old habits kick in.
Only way to have similar lifestyle and drop addiction from it is to dig deep and understand why you have those habits to start with.
You have to replace the triggers for usual behaviour and this is extremely hard for learned behaviours.
To the extent that those who do it, let’s say by doing sport, actually become addicted to sport if they manage to change their original behaviour.