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Nah. They won’t ban pervglasses. They will regulate so that Meta has to delete local files when they record police, but keep the online version available to police requests only.

Yep. That’s what Bannon has been explaining. By the book. We know it. Why do we keep falling for it??

Nah, he probably has no idea he included Iceland. You know, geography is very complicated. No one really knows it. He knows more than many. When he talks geography, experts are amazed by how much he knows. They tell him “how do you know so much??”. So he didn’t include Aceland on purpose. But they would benefit so much by joining the US, it’s the greatest country in the world. They…

[Sorry, we cut his mic and now we’ll give him his meds. Apologies for the noise.]

Yeah, but that was under the constitution of the United States of America. They no longer exist. Now they’re the United States under Trump, by decree. Gotchaaaa!

And don’t bother answering. There’s another decree under way claiming you’re wong!!

Hoarding wealth makes you a superstar and gives you influence and power. And that’s what they’re all about: forcing everyone else to acknowledge their importance. And if that’s needed, they’ll demonstrate their power of nuisance so that you can’t ignore them.

Given they’re a danger to others, I would recommend a mandatory internment.

Even Gad Saad recognizes that protecting the children rapist Epstein class is leading to the end of the civilization! Let’s bring out the guillotines!!

Except it’s not rational.
Countries with socialized health care systems do have abusers, but they are a tiny minority of the population, because most people don’t want to spend their life in hospitals.
Roads are socialized everywhere but you don’t see many people just driving around to make sure they get their “fair share” of road using/wearing out of their taxes.

Depending what we talk about, overusing resources does not translate in increased comfort or quality of life.

In France, already 10% of the population depends on food-banks. In 2023, the largest non-profit providing meals and distributing food sent a distress call saying they were close to bankrupcy as the number of people in need is going up fast while donors have less and less to give being themselves crunched.

France’s richest family, the Arnault, largely responsible for turbo-charging the trickle up trend in the country by buying political influence, rescued them by making a big donation.

The leader of the non-profit, who had been vocal about impoverishment of the population and growing inequalities because of the oligarchs, cannot say anything anymore: now he can’t keep going without these oligarchs good will.

That’s the plan. It’s being executed right in front of us, in the open.

Absolutely, but that’s not something you fix at company level.

Am I the only one old enough to remember when we still had homemade products competing with chinese cheap products on the shelves? Consumers picked the Chinese version over and over, until the local plant shut down (or was delocalized in China…).

You could have had exactly the same speech about CEOs at the time: if your market is western consumers (at the time, China was not yet rich enough to have a significant local demand), who are you going to sell to when everyone has lost their job because of delocalization?

Answer is indeed: that’s not my problem to solve. It’s a systematic issue, it should be addressed through regulation.

CEO’s job is not to address that, it’s too maximize values for shareholders. If laying off everyone and use AI does that, then executing is just them doing their job right. If regulation bans or adds a high enough penalty on such a move, they won’t do it.

Look, let’s end the debate easy: if tomorrow morning, the GOP decides to take action to prevent and address mental illness, that means she was a big shot.

If it’s the usual thought and prayers, she was a small fish.

A lot of organizations are local. I get international ones, but western politicians and local orgs do lot have that excuse.

At some point, they will have to realize they mostly address fascists and bots on X. Not much audience to lose.

Have the gov and most parties announce they switch to Bluesky and/or the Fediverse, and suddenly journalists will talk about it, and many more people will hear of it.

Note: far-right parties will tend to stick on X, because algos favor them, and that’s where their audience is. If they don’t switch, I won’t complain…

No, but we could definitely save some trees if we had less papers and more online systems… providing they’re done correctly and not leaking around everyone’s data.

That’s the problem when you live in an information bubble. I clearly remember reports about the ozon layer starting regenerating.

Why do idiots and ignorants still have that much influence? That’s the real mystery!

Oh they now pretty much agree climate change is real and human-made. There are a few exceptions including a prominent one glorifying ignorance and stupidity, that embeds anti-sciencism, but overall, leaders agree on the issue.

The proplem is they also agree on not doing too much about it, because acting could be bad for next quarter’s economy, and of course “I’m not doing anything until everyone else is doing something”, summarized as “collective suicide pact” by Antonio Guterres. But what did he know, only the Secretary General of the UN?

Ecunomics is a science. It is not hard science, and like all science, what you derive from it depends on the hypotheses you made.

True economist can work with unreal hypotheses and get wrong conclusions. The fact that it’s not hard science allows a bench of idiots to decide they know better an come up with flat-earth level theories like trickle down economics.

But while going bankrupt, it will sell all information about you to the biggest bidder. Terms and services for you fryer included sharing data with “partners”, so now your health insurance can jack up your premium because you used the fryer “too much for your own good”.

Also repel transposition of the DMCA in Canada’s law. Time to hack and repair whatever US products we already have by Canadian companies.