hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Bitcoin is Stupid and Does Not Deserve an Emoji (blog post)English
1·
3 months agoYeah I just think it’s funny a Senator took time out of his day to be like “we need a lobster emoji”
Yeah I just think it’s funny a Senator took time out of his day to be like “we need a lobster emoji”
Does anyone remember when one of Maine’s US Senators lobbied Unicode to create a lobster emoji?
Different divisions. This is more akin to when Sony decided to stop making floppy disks. The market is there for now, but it’s just not worth it from a financial perspective.
The amount of people burning their own blu rays is minimal. Even the type of people who emphasize owning their own content just use a NAS system.
The CHIPS bill was a massive disappointment. It was cut down to 1/5th from the intended size due to house committee BS, and then the Biden administration decided to use it as a platform to enact a bunch of wholly unrelated social policies.
I’m not saying that jobs should not offer onsite daycare or have lofty environmental goals. However this was a bill designed to ensure the US maintains an advantage in a critical industry. Maybe put that stuff in another bill.