Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in the future

Re:Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in ... by afavour on Monday February 08, 2021 @10:06AM (#26065434)

I didn't ask if you'd be grateful, I asked if you'd take the expanded unemployment insurance. I suspect a lot of people were grumbling all the way to the direct deposit form but filled it out anyway.

And it's not as if governments forced these shutdowns on a whim or because they felt like it. They were the result of scientific examination, and more importantly, the majority of voters were in favour of them (I think 8 out of 10 in the US in April?). In this case the government was just expressing the will of the people, whether it was your personal will or not.

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Re:Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin, may accept it as payment in ... by logifail on Monday February 08, 2021 @10:27AM (#26065765)

> it's not as if governments forced these shutdowns on a whim or because they felt like it. They were the result of scientific examination

[Source: a friend of mine who worked in local government disaster & contingency planning]

I don't believe that government-mandated lockdowns were ever part of any pre-Covid19 pandemic planning. It was assumed that [for instance] schools might well end up having to close if the spread of disease got so widespread that there wouldn't be enough healthy staff to keep them open, not because government would order them closed.

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