Their posting history reveals them to be a racist troll.

That depends. For example in a lot of Europe there aren’t any air conditioners in houses, so it only controls heating.

No AC here, only heating. So it is off during summer.

The line is that you don’t criticise tankies/hexbear on lemmy.ml. They don’t take kindly to that sort of thing.

I am not familiar with the band, could you link the buzz feed article you are referring to?

Just because that is the origin, doesn’t mean it was a scam then or now.

It can have legitimate utility, for example I want to exchange money for international services without a credit card or mailing an envelope of cash/cheque.

It does it infinitely more inefficient, slower and insecure than all other existing alternatives that can do this (and there are a lot of alternatives which doesn’t involve blockchain). Which is also why people doesn’t use it for this.

It is not a belief, it is fact.

Nope, those are called faculties here.

In most countries, a university is a collection of colleges (although most people don’t know that).

That is not true at all.

For me it is probably a tie between Sid Meier’s Civilization and Doom. Both were groundbreaking in their genres and they had immense influence on the type of games I since became interested in playing.