Michael BaconAug 12, 2025

The UK government saying "delete old emails" to save water. 🤦‍♂️

Most emails average about 50k of storage even for someone who gets a lot of attachments, and will have exactly zero effect on data center consumption.

"Don't use cryptocurrency" and "don't use generative AI" would of course be thousands of times more effective.

Show threadRaraAug 12, 2025
@MichaelTBacon correction: dont use cryptocurrency to get rich. People using it for privacy reasons, especially in light of the visa/MasterCard overreach is a fair use case in my opinion.
Show threadMichael Bacon

@raracool

There are so many better ways to pay outside of the credit card system than crypto. Any of the payment apps are superior.

Besides, the blockchain never forgets. If you want to hide transactions, it's a pretty rotten choice.

Aug 13, 2025 at 12:11amWeb
Show threadRaraAug 13, 2025

@MichaelTBacon the payment apps are region dependent and subject to government overreach and lobbying just as Visa and MasterCard are. PayPal alone gave us two of the worst tech oligarchs in the world (Musk and Thiel)

Blockchain is a ledger of all transactions, yes, but coins like Monero are specifically designed for privacy and can be obfuscated well.

Show threadRaraAug 13, 2025
@MichaelTBacon for the record, I have no monetary investment in any cryptocurrency. I can just foresee a future where, for example, trans people may have to resort to the dark web to acquire hormones.