They can and should ban the currency of it at this point. Destroy all of that "wealth" and make recognize it as illegal. If nothing else it stops people from being forced into using it the way cc does
If it helps it's the payment processors doing this, not Kickstarter themselves. They are somewhat being held to ransom like a few of the other places that stopped allowing sexual nsfw content. Murder and mayhem, as usual, totally okay. Boobies bad. Death and hate totally fine...
9 is not the total energy. The article says the total thermal load is 16. 9 for the electrical usage and another 7-8 in the form of cooling. It also says that's the amount of 40,000 Walmart Supercenters...if you want another non standard American unit of measurement
You can have been informed by other people that things you thought were normal are not and continue to do them though. It's likely that abnormal behaviour is pointed out at some point if it's encountered enough
Literotica.com is a pretty safe and minimalist place to go. You may even be able to still sideload their old app, though not sure if its up to date or if not. Enter at your own risk and learn the check the story codes if they are present BEFORE you start reading a story. For your own health and sanity.
2012 I think Diablo 3 midnight launch.
Total disaster of a launch from blizzards server/network teams