I pay to avoid ads on Amazon Prime… Now i have to endure unskippable ads every 10 minutes, and my annual fee is up over 50% since i started.
Fuck them. No matter what, these mercantilists will extract everything they can, and they will break any promise or contract they sign as soon as it bemefits them. We, however, cannot do the same.
Numbers are less relevant when the other side has the most sophisticated surveilance system on the planet coupled with the most deadly military.
Key people inside the system have to defect in order to short-circuit that power.
I had success using openVPN. I set it up, generated certificates, installed it on my phones, tablets, and laptops.
It won’t work when using an external vpn like Express or Mulvad, but while using it, you have secure connection to home. Once done with the home network, turn off the vpn, turn on your commercial vpn.
Translation: we’re about to attack your ships, but we want you to blame U.K. and Ukraine for it.
I suspect it just isn’t well known. I used it for a while in my early days in Linux, which was back in the late 1990’s, and i honestly haven’t heard much abiut it over the years.
I do remember being impressed at the time. I think most people stick with the defaults for whatever distro they first choose. Since i was using Slackware back then, there was not a default choice, so i searched and experimented.
The problem with these tariffs, implemented in this way, is that the less wealthy has to shoulder the shock and most of the loss of wealth, while the most wealthy solidify their place in society on several levels. The social balance of power further shifts toward the billionaires.
Tarriffs are better applied for protecting existing small and mid-size businesses in danger of being wiped out by huge foreign operations, and protecting industries that have national security roles.
The key here is they would be applied before we lose the capacity - not decades after we already adjusted to the loss.
On this side of the curve it is more productive to subsidize operations that can (re)build the capacity we seek. Biden’s work with TSMC was a prime example. This approach is less disruptive. Even then, targeted tarriffs can be productive.
We could have saved our solar industry. We decided to let China sell priduct at a loss until their competition went out of business or left because no profit could be achieved. This is where tariffs make sense.
Are most people in “the west” worse off today than they were 150 years ago? Are there fewer well functioning democracies than there were then? Has no minority group seen any improvement in their freedom? Has there been no improvement in how people interact with each other? No improvement in poverty?
Yes, of course. Capitalism is an economic framework. A good political framework is needed, just like i said for socialism. This is a failure of the U.S. political implementation not of capitalism as a system of commerce. I would never say capitalism is the answer to all social ills. Your statement feels like a way to say I am wrong, so if I misunderstood, sorry.
Man, i try so hard to clean up. I’ve used up, tossed out, donated so much stuff. I reorganize, repack bins, sift out useless stuff. I’m not buying new stuff, either.
And yet the place always looks cluttered. I always have trouble finding something i know i have…somewhere.
When i de-clutter i always struggle with “where should this thing live?”
The cognitive load is devistating.
Profiteers foregoing the largest source of profit? Not likely.
It is authoritarian. Communist system devolve to authoritarianism because it is a natural progression (easy to do). Socialists can, but a good democratic political structure makes it harder.
Well, there goes ProtonMail. Let’s hope it is not enacted. I’ll wait for other neutral reports since Tuta is a major competitor. Should be a quick search.
He said Capitalism, not Corporate Capitalism. Pure, unfettered Capitalism leads to the same place facism, communism, and feudalism go.
The issue is “unfettered”. Regulations enforced upon the operation of the markets, maintained by rule of law, enables achievement of greater agency and success upon much larger parts of society.
People understand they can prosper from creating real value, which pushes society toward greater advancements to quality of life and enable more individual freedom than any prior economic and political system.
Kill the illness, not the patient.
Exactly. Just like they never tracked and stored our movements when we turned iff location history.
The class action suit they lost on that was fake news /s
Racism is a powerful motivator, unfortunately.
It also means you are presented with a Faustian chouce: walk away, or give up any hope of privacy. “You wanna see this? Give me full access to your metadata, and a way to hack your system”.
Qubes is starting to look like an everyday use requirement rather than a security nerd tool.
Article said it caught his interest, which to me means he took notice and will likely try to own it and enshitify it soon, not that he is currently behind it.
You are describing removing individuals. I’m referring to the system. Sure, over time if enough people sacrifice themselves to remove individuals in the power structure, maybe something could crack open.
That’s a very long shot. As time goes on, the security improves, the surveilance improves, and fear will stop most.
However, my intension is not to squash hope, but to shed the light of realism. This is serious, and keeping our Democracy alive has to be tackled with deliberation and coordination. Murder is the near unthinkable last resort.