They think it's a real constant physical thing that can be owned like an object and innately just *has* value, and not a really abstract society-wide shared ledger that (pretty clunkily) tries to represent everybody's contributions to the big picture.

Yeah, as a digital publisher myself, I *really* don't understand the thinking behind these. They're so confrontational.

this is, i think, a generalizable point: when trump goes to bat for criminals he’s not just relieving them of accountability for past wrongs, he’s also enabling future crimes

20 years ago a reliable way to get your site to rank higher in search results than it otherwise would, was to get persistent links to it into active discussion forums. Could be that's still the case, and whole fake forums are blackhat SEO plays to boost whatever they're linking to.

I do like that the audience mic stays live during these bits so we still get the reactions

Even more embarrassed to be associated with "football" in even a tiny capacity than I usually am, holy fuck