Even if we stop climate change, we are going to die from PFAS, microplastics in our brain, heavy metal pollution and many other problems before we can leave earth
That's bullshit, in the NL we are taught the first responsibility of every driver is to get the best outcome for the entire situation, not just blindly follow laws/rules. You're supposed to help the merging by shifting at least 1 lane to the left if it's busy, or by slowing down or speeding up to make space.
It's a solution in search of a problem. Currencies are government backed because the vast majority of people have faith in their governments' enforcement of legislation regarding use of that currency. It's good to be able to make class action lawsuits against scammers and most in the population will choose anything government backed if they have the option.
So if the goal is to get away from government backing, who do you give control to? In the case of a blockchain, it's the parties with the majority of the "proof of XYZ" creation hardware. Which are not normal people. Then there's the possibility of developers of a blockchain choosing to rewrite the ledger, causing splits. So you didn't invent some unmodifiable currency either, the control lies with people who you probably should trust even less than the parties managing EUR/USD.
Then, it's incredibly energy inefficient. Especially proof of work is a ridiculous waste of computational resources, at least tie the problem to something NP-hard with actual value instead of whatever reverse hashing search is usually done. But wasting resources is the design of the system anyways.
That's a decent complaint, but making that a deciding factor for which smartphone to buy seems like shooting yourself in the food because the cheese was too orange-colored when choosing a sandwich
You can change the Google Search bar to another search engine, at least in Europe. You can't remove it entirely, but I just tried it and I can set it to DuckDuckGo
After about 13 years of experience with a lot of Android phones, I'm never buying anything other than Google Pixels again. Every other manufacturer just fucks up the software so badly I can't deal with it.
And no this is not an ad, I hate the state of Android atm, but it is what it is.
Even if we stop climate change, we are going to die from PFAS, microplastics in our brain, heavy metal pollution and many other problems before we can leave earth