tbf, every time you’re installing basically anything at all, you basically trust whoever hosts the stuff that they don’t temper with it. you’re already putting a lot of faith out there, and i’m sure a lot of the software actually contains crypto-mineware or something else.
the interestingness of numbers is a field that fulfills Laplace’s equation, with the constraint that 0 is infinitely interesting, and the interestingness converges to zero for n -> infinity.
you know what i’ve come to suspicion lately?
actually, rent prices might be so high because there’s fewer houses/apartments than people looking for one, and that drives prices up (low supply, high demand), but the reason that supply is so low is because investors are predicting that the population number will fall in the future (due to low birth rate), so people’s demand for houses/apartments will be lower as well. so if they construct now, it might not pay out for them later on. that is why they’re waiting, and not constructing, and if people do the same, instead of buying houses now, buying them later (e.g. living with your parents), rent and housing prices might significantly go down.
i remember reading that they were the newly-founded, glowing-eyes company like 3 months ago
yes i know, i was well aware of that when posting it.
It’s really about what’s more important to you and where you set your priorities. Or maybe it’s actually about being short-sighted or far-sighted.
The US seems to believe that having “rich” people and a poor-rich divide will somehow foster or speed up technological development. I would say that is an almost religious belief. I don’t really agree with it too much personally, and also i don’t like how they approach their population as “wave slaves” who are threatened with starvation and homelessness if they don’t work; but also i’m not gonna interfere with US internal affairs.
I really do think that all the “corporation” things are short-sighted, and it is wise to take the “long-run” perspective and ask what will be in a 1000 years, in a billion years.
I do think that being a bully like the US is is short-sighted, an in fact disadvantageous in the long run, because it makes people distrust them, and that’s a thing that puts you in a disadvantageous position in general.
yeah me too, i get nasty rashes and stuff
What kind of info do you think they could have had? With boeing, it’s probably something about corruption, pocketing state subsidy money that should have gone to actual projects, or something similar.
People love mocking Russians when their “leaders” fall out of windows, but where are these people when corpos kill plebs within US?
You assumed it was about being fair. People just like to shit on russia to distract from internal problems, it was never about the “people falling out of the window” thing.
According to the police records, the man committed suicide by shooting himself twice in the back of his head.
edit: after reading your comment more carefully, you actually already mentioned that. oopsie.
Did he fall out a window?
define “enough kids” for me please.
do you mean enough kids that their parents can’t feed them off their own little farm, and the kids had to be sent to the cities as slave / poor workers, so that the machines can keep churning for the sake of profit?
edit: sorry but i’m pissed and angry now. “not enough kids” like what? not enough kids to make sausage of them? not enough kids to burn them in the kettle of capitalism? not enough kids to flood the labor market with undervalued workers?
i tell you what, it’s capitalist propaganda that “people should have more kids”, because they think it makes the wages fall. what it actually does is create poverty, mass unemployment, working poor, and civil unrest. may the empire be intoxicated by its own poison. may the corporations fall due to the civil unrest that they helped create.
Like, as much as i have to complain about the US meddled in other countries, i have to disagree that they only were good at marketing.
Lots of technology have been developed in the US, primarily computer chips and everything that has to do with it, including the internet. That can be a good invention, depending on what you use it for.
You should be fair and give credit where due, and part of the US’ power was because of technological proficiency. Of course, other countries also achieved good technological developments, like the Chinese with their solar panels, and the Europeans with lots and lots of scientific groundwork and cultural developments.
Like, what do you personally think about the idea of, say, some blue states seceding from the US?
Would that make sense in your mind?
It’s not a trick question, there are no right or wrong answers, i’m just trying to understand.
The United States is imploding. The reign of Donald Trump is not only challenging and threatening the very foundations of its constitutional democracy, it is calling into question the U.S.’s post-World War II hegemonic role. Empires or hegemonic powers rise and fall. Often they are defeated by emerging powers. Sometimes their decline takes place over time. But rarely do they self-destruct as spectacularly as the U.S. is doing. The U.S. implosion is dramatic in its intensity and rapidity. In just over three weeks, Donald Trump has been able to redefine the United States’ position in the world from a global power to an international outcast. Despite whatever military and economic power the U.S. still has, its image and global leadership have been undermined by President Trump’s foreign policy decisions.
I just want to take a short, though probably unpopular, note that while you present it as something negative, to some people on the world, that’s actually something positive. There are communities all over the world who have suffered tremendously through the US’ global hegemony; and these people (me included) are sometimes actually in a very good mood about the news that have been coming the last few weeks.
or you store the trash somewhere until recycling is economically viable, which it probably will be, at least for some types of plastics, once that renewable energy gets significantly cheaper than the oil required to make new plastics.