They released cloud backups recently and I believe they are also working on manual exports on iOS too

What about Chinese, Russian or European oil majors ?

The only comparable large-scale extraction projects in the world would be the oil sands in Canada.

This is a super small niche, with oil margins constantly getting squeezed around the world it'd probably be tricky to convince anyone to significantly scale up production in Venezuela even if the US lifted all sanctions and whatnot.

« to bear the cost », not « to bare the cost »

Thank you. I was also wondering which one was correct, but I didn't have the opportunity to check it, so I went with my gut feeling. Thank you again for your help.

11£ a month is a lot. Any way to try it for free ?

Yea it's free. You can sign up and use it. Sorry I guess it's not clear. The membership is a way to support the cause, get input on features, etc. I might have to go the route of Kagi and make that more tied to usage, I'm not sure yet.

I think you underestimate how much speculation, gambling and crime happens in the fiat ecosystem. The forex, just to name one thing, is $7.5T exchanged a day.

In comparison, it’s estimated that Americans spend about $10T per year. I don’t have the numbers worldwide but America is a big piece of the cake.

So, speculation is vastly higher than regular spending, even for “regular money”.

Do you really not understand that the forex market has several real use cases and serves an actual purpose. Unlike crypto, it doesn't primarily or solely exist to facility crime and speculation. If you somehow shut down the forex trade, the global economy would experience severe disruptions. If you shut down crypto, nobody in the real economy would even notice.

Why can’t someone do a carbon 14 datation of the shells to close the debate ?

I can think of several plausible reasons:

- it costs money and no one wants to pay,

- the mystery is more interesting or amusing than the resolution of the mystery,

- carbon dating is unreliable for dates following the industrial revolution because the burning of coal and oil ejected vast quantities of depleted carbon into the atmosphere.

Man, the communist party (and the communist ideology) in France is pretty much dead today. They’re not even that much to the left today. They have no power and their boss has no social credibility outside of its party (see “Fabien Roussel n’est pas un camarade” songs)

Your claim that the judges are red is a popular right wing fantasy

I didn't talk about the communist party. But yes you are right, the PC is dead in France.

France is ultra left-wing ? Wow, the Overton window must have shifted to the right even more than I thought.

You sound like you actually don’t know much about France. For instance your accusations about left wing media rooting for Sarkozy has no foundation. The judges being biased toward left is groundless as well. Many left wing politicians have been condemned by French justice.

This is peak techno-solutionism

If we are not headed to ASI, the spending will slow down and the problem will solve itself.

Open it, remove the battery and put it in a dedicated recycling bin.

Yep.