> which adds a great deal of UX complexity to the end user

Not exactly, L2s are being abstracted away, end users eventually wont even be aware what chain they are interacting with without tracing the tx

If you don’t know which chain you’re interacting with how can you trust your transactions are secured by a chain at all?

How does this differ from e.g. online banking? Does every user manually check encryption algorithms and keys?

they let it happen

Why vote down the cease-fire then in the UN?

As best as I can tell, the main reason for that was internal USA politics.

Biden will run for re-election and needs to accrue political capital.

The USA came up with a lame excuse to veto the Brazilian resolution in the Security Council. At the same time, Biden was there "trying to convince" Netanyahu and al-Sisi to allow humanitarian aid through the Rafah crossing into Gaza.

In the end, even though the agreement Biden got was a lot weaker than what the resolution was trying to achieve, it gets spun as a diplomatic victory for Biden.

This is all very simplistically explained, of course. Reality is more nuanced than that and I could be wholly wrong, but this is more or less my understanding of the situation.

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Edit to add: here [0] is Alonso Gurmendi [1][2] explaining to an opposition Brazilian senator why Brazil was right not to cave to the USA's veto excuse. Along the way he shows how even the previous administration, of which he (the senator) was part, also stood by the same principles.

[0] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1714781170100003061.html

[1] https://www.some.ox.ac.uk/our-people/alonso-gurmendi/

[2] https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/alonso-gurmendi-dunkelberg

Because the people in charge seem to know about as much as a headless chicken for what to do about it.

(Edit: For context, for anyone here who has never seen what happens for the minute after you behead a chicken...)

It limits denial of services attacks on onion services

There was evidence that north korea specifically used tornado cash to hide stolen crypto, which is where this has all stemmed from

I wouldn't be surprised if crypto makes up a good chunk of their cash right now. They have definitely stepped up their hacking attempts in the last decade.

Using your phone feels strange too

Every study under the sun shows drug criminalization causes more public health issues than it solves. It should be treated as a public health issue rather than a criminal issue. Portugal is a fantastic case study of how this succeeded.

You can offer censorship to users who want it, everything stays up but some people dont see it

Then someone on your ignore list starts posting all sorts of false/defamatory comments about you with know way for you to ever see it. You have no idea what's happening but your reputation is turned to shit. It's a reverse shadow ban and just about as broken.

thats a bit of a stretch

momentum going down is usually what makes people unhappy, blowing up your life up kicks momentum in a new direction

I disagree. Lost momentum is lost. Blowing up your life means you start from a low state, and have to start all over again.

It absolutely can be positive. But it is not at all guaranteed.

Sometime it all works out. And, sometimes, you throw away what seems to be “bad” in the moment, and find yourself much worse off with your new choice.

I hope to blow my life up in a few within a the year sometime. Maybe not as drastic as others, but my life has been at a pretty low state. Finally have managed to crawl myself out of a nasty burnout/depressive period, and things are finally starting to work out. In the end, I do not have much to lose that I haven't lost already. I have no momentum or anything really.

What's the saying?

"When you hit rock bottom there is no where to go but up."

I guess my whole point is that blowing up one's life isn't always blowing up a "good life" so to speak.

Nope, it just changes direction. It can be entirely for worse

>collapse of civil and political life

civil and political life is terrible and still better than it has ever been

Depends who you are, and depends how long a timeframe you're averaging over.