I agree but at least the PoS cryptocurrencies seem to have solved the energy use problem.

By this argument any website is wasteful. There’s always a “better thing”.

Google is a tech company.

It’s always only going to be useful for things like buying drugs, cases where you want to skirt regulation or you really want privacy. Which is fine. It can have it’s niche. Pretending it was ever going to be more than that was a mistake.

They have rescinded this policy according to the article.

They can. It’s in the TOS when you make your account. They own everything you post to the site.

Eating Disorder

I agree. I think ‘two-faced’ is the best i’ve seen based on OP’s various comments in the thread.

All that energy for bitcoin only supports 7 tx/s. Digital dollar payments do tens if not hundres of thousands per second.

It was also useful when the page had changed inbetween google indexing it and now, so if you loaded the page and couldn’t find the text you were searching for because it was deleted, you could find it on the cached page.

Because all the shops, museums, restaurants, music venues, and public transit hubs are there?

Isn’t the whole point of multivitamins to make sure you’re not deficient?

Did Marina Abramović hurt her eyes in that show?