Same at my organization. Boss is circling the drain, all the jabbies are progressively doing less and less, and the things they complete are all broken to hell. The 30% of staff that resisted are holding it together, but it's a lot of pressure.
Scarcity = value, and in any world where things are so bad we've fallen back to a materials physical properties to exclusively assign value, we'll have problems way worse than BTC losing worth. As long as civilization and the internet stands, BTC will always be considered to have value as only a limited supply exists, and people want in on that, regardless of any reductionist points that illustrate it's vulnerabilities.
None of the gold bars sitting in vaults are getting melted down to make electronics and jewelry. It's a method of storing value based on a multitude of human nature factors, as is BTC. Both have limited supply and attrition - industrial usage for gold, and permanent loss of wallets for BTC. It's a lot more complex than 'haha imaginary numbers, how stupid'.
The concept of 'actual value' being zero is correct, but to get to that point so many things need to utterly collapse, it's a meaningless point to make in the context of a society that will realistically continue on for the moment. That may well change, but until then it's ridiculous to write it off.
Oil is fundamentally worthless beyond a certain point of collapse if we forget how to make combustion engines and plastics. Uranium is worthless if we lose nuclear technology.
Gold just happens to be one of the lowest levels of collapse proof, because as you rightly pointed out it's shiny and pretty to look at. All the other uses came much, much later. Status symbol was first. BTC is exclusive and pretty to look at on a screen, so as long as screens are here, that desire will remain and there's nothing you can do about it. To deny this fact is to deny human nature, and the foundational attraction to gold.
Not even slightly, Clayton from Redacted regularly says equally if not more spicy stuff, and they're both good friends. Just a weird face and missing context is all.
Highly recommend checking out their live broadcasts on Rumble.
Plenty of QR codes just take you to a weblink with a table number associated with it. You already have your phone in your pocket, 'they' already know you're at that exact location. VPN, or even a privacy focused browser like Brave on your phone will limit the weblink's ability to associate your device with the specific request. This isn't a big deal, the Trojan horse is already in your pocket, regardless of whether or not you scan a code.
Restaurants aren't in league with the government, they're just taking advantage of technology for efficiency and to reduce printing costs.
Data privacy is already way more out of control than the average person could even begin to imagine. This just shows a fundamental lack of knowledge regarding the technology we all carry and use.
You gotta update your picture of this conflict. Go listen to some talks by Colonel Douglas MacGregor for some proper analysis. Plenty on YT that covers this topic in depth.
Losses are at least 8:1 in favor of RU, their initial goals were stated to limit as much damage as possible and try to force a relatively peaceful resolution. This obviously didn't pan out as they underestimated just how keen for open war the west was, so they fell back and initiated the grinder, almost now achieving their second goal of demilitarizing UA.
The media, and your own, conditions for 'winning' aren't lined up with what they're actually trying to do. At no point have they ever indicated they want to take and hold all of UA, and RussiaManBad has stated multiple times that he believes western UA would prefer to be under Polish rule anyway.
The Duran and The New Atlas also have great objective coverage on this topic.
Yeah, every time it goes over 45 degrees C (113 Freedom Units) here in Australia, everyone just starts keeling over dead.
Oh wait, no they don't.
I've been out in the desert at over 57 degrees (134 F) in the direct sun and I was perfectly fine, if a little unhappy. Same for -38 C (-36 F) on my coldest day in Canada, I'm still very alive.
Humans are extremely adaptable, resilient and durable. Anyone who's spent more than 5 minutes outside will see right through this nonsense.
It might be where the intel for the dirty bomb FF came from, and if so might have avoided nuclear armageddon. I think we can all agree that would be a good thing. There would be all kinds of crazy data going through those sats, and anyone with the ability to tap into that ocean of information would be a fool not to. For whatever gain they may want. Data is king in this modern world, that's why these social media platforms exist in the first place.
Not every move in a chess game is going to take out the opposing queen.
Quite possibly received the data at an earlier date with a schedule set to fire the alert at the specified time?