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Digital surveillance is omnipresent in the west. Apparently nobody cares.
Digital surveillance is omnipresent in the west. Apparently nobody cares.
The Silicon Valley thieves are just copying and stealing from over a century of US industrial strategy.
Full disclosure, I’m not a metalhead by any means, and Metallica isn’t always considered pure metal, but this one hits just right.
To be fair, it’s not hard to beat expectations when the expectation of the western press is “imminent collapse!!!”
The trend to shutting out China from the west started with Obama’s “Pivot to Asia.” At this point the only point of contention between US ruling elites is whether China or Russia is the primary threat.
If we want to exclude athletes from international competition just because the ruling class in the country they happen to have been born in undertakes military action, that’s fine. We just have to be consistent about it. I’d like to see athletes from the US, Isreal, UK, France, Canada, and many other countries treated the same way the west is currently treating Russian and Belorussian athletes.
Cixin Liu. Not only is the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy (Three Body Problem) epic, his short stories are really fun reads.
Happy April Fools!
The French had a pretty good way of shutting up insufferable rich asshats.
You don’t call out whiskey in particular but I find there’s definitely diminishing returns above even €50.
Second kitchen knives. I use exclusively handmade Japanese carbon steel knives now and will never go back. When I have to cut something at someone’s else’s home or a vacation place I just cringe and suffer. Even the supposedly high quality German stainless chef’s knife someone gifted me once just isn’t it, I never touch it.
Of course I should have done that too. Running one now, I’ll let it go for a few hours and see what happens.
Indeed, that’s why monopoly was invented. It was meant to illustrate how stupid and unsustainable capitalism and private property are.
No they don’t.
But you’re just proving the trope asked about in the original post.
A home is for living in. A person has one body, therefore one home per person/family unit is an appropriate number. Corporations have no bodies, therefore they do not need homes.
Not only is rent robbery, but private property in itself has its origins in theft.
I user a terminal so that that everyone around me thinks I’m “hacking” when I’m just running updates or configuring something.
It’s clearly a move to gain control of what people’s computers will be allowed to run and what information they’ll be allowed to see.
There were already attempts to implement this at the start of the consumer internet days by Microsoft and others, which failed then because many early internet users were paying attention and knew what was being attempted. This time I’m not sure that we’ll be able to stop it without structural changes to society.
As I understand it, it wasn’t arbitrary. Microsoft has wanted to require TPMs for two decades at this point. Once there’s high enough adoption they can roll out their version of trusted computing.
Sure. I usually pick out the flies before I sip though.
For whatever reason the little flies around my house like whiskey even more than I do. It’s really annoying to be honest.
The entire EU supply chain is subsidized.