I legit think the state/oligarchy will kill him silently. Taking it to trial and giving this guy a voice could make things so much worse for them. They’re afraid of creating a robin hood, and class solidarity; of giving the working class a hero and cause to rally around.
They’re so close to creating a robot army that can suppress the masses. They just have to bide their time until revolution is impossible.
But that would be communism, and we all know communism is the devil. Meanwhile, let’s all celebrate freedom and democracy with a toast to genocide in Gaza, and the increased profitability of the war machine in 2025.
Yet none of them really paywall you for using an adblocker.
Actually come to think of it, porn sites are the only place I allow ads (obv blocking the pop ups and other dark pattern fuckery)… probablys because I learned to ignore them entirely as a teen before ad blockers existed.
So you can doom scroll faster… duh!
The millions of free porn sites would beg to differ…
I doubt that would be terribly relevant. The lions share of the surplus energy should be predictable based on recent grid data + 24 hour weather forecasts.
Based on nothing but wikipedia the primary methods for desalination are distillation (boiling) and membrane; neither of which sound like ramp up time would matter.
Fuck bitcoin. It should be allocated to desalinisation so less water is pulled from the rivers of the driest continent on Earth. The ecology around waterways is already in the shitter, and global warming is going to 10x that clusterfuck.
Seriously… If he’s spending ~3k a year on gas and even half of that is cooking, an induction stove would pay for itself within a few years.
Same for the water heater. The fossil fuel industry didn’t spend decades promoting gas because it was the most efficient option.
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No country needs rent controls. They need ownership controls. As in, nobody should be able to own more than 1x primary residence and 1x holiday house &/or investment property. Period. No company should ever be allowed to own residential land/property, except for the duration of a build (with hard limits for development/build/sale that prevent artificial price controls).
Neoliberalism/conservatism have failed humanity for housing security, financial & economic security, national security, employment security, mental and physical health, education, civil liberties; the list is endless. Continuing this several-decade failure any longer is insanity.
Nah. All companies should be required to provide updates for a minimum — say 5 years — and whenever they choose to EOL, they must open source everything related to the products feature-set. If you can’t do that, then you don’t deserve to compete, or waste humanities finite resources with your dead-end greedy planet-killing civilisation-ending narcissism.
Planned obsolescence needs to be exterminated with extreme prejudice.
“It’s not a lie if you believe it” — George Castanza
Concepts like “fair”, “balanced”, and “democracy” can not exist under Capitalism, because money is speech and power, and the small elite who control thousands/millions more capital than average control everything thousands/millions times more than average.
This is why capitalism requires aggressive regulation. Corporations will always choose walled gardens and proprietary protocols. There can never be any guarantee that any org — whether FOSS or for-profit — won’t enshittify a product in even moderate timescales; there are a hundred reasons why.
Therefore, they should never be given that option. If you build a product, you either build everything to be interoperable with an open source, lossless spec, or you don’t get to waste humanities finite resources with your narcissism. If you can’t compete on a level playing field — without holding users ransom and creating artificial barriers to their attrition — then you don’t deserve to compete at all. If you stop supporting/updating hardware, you open source all code required for the anyone else to take over, for the entire feature-set of that product. If you fail to meet the very basic requirement of “don’t be a fuckwit”, your company gets seized and your source code/protocols/patents become public property (FOSS).
This will never happen though, because we live in capitalist plutocracies masquerading as democracy… Sure, you can vote for whoever you want, but 90% of the names on any ballot are a curated, pre-vetted, pre-financed, list of corporate whores.
Luckily you can buy several USB-A to USB-C adapters for ~$1 each, instead of demanding manufacturers persist an outdated spec — that’s been superseded for a decade — and creating significantly more e-waste and headaches for everyone in the long run.
And even in the case where there is actual separation, and competition, it will only be temporary!
For the entire planet, prior to the last few hundred years. Religion agreed, because pedos are attracted to power and religious leaders were the most powerful.
It’s cute you think fascists care about borders, and that the US doesn’t have a history of persecuting foreign political opposition.
What are you, 12?
Trump will designate Reporters Without Borders a terrorist org, and terrorize their reporters using the state.
Can’t he just do what America is known and loved for? … Denying entire countries their basic human rights, sovereignty, and democracy?