Flash otome game creator makes her games open source
Link to announcement post, alternate link, and in case those go down, the original Twitter link.
FINALLY!!!! years of blood sweat and tears are OPEN SOURCE and PUBLIC‼️what to do with these (.fla) files?
☕️ exhume the corpse of adobe flash
☕️ make fun of how i code
☕️ whatever the hell you want
Figure it's probably relevant to plug !otomegames@ani.social, a community for otome games—think dating sims aimed at women who want to date men. (For transparency purposes, I mod it.) I have a feeling otome games are not what usually gets posted here, but it is open source and I think open source coming to something niche like otome is a victory.
Tesla demand is nosediving in EV-friendly Europe amid Elon Musk's endorsement of the far right
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Tesla's European sales are plummeting, with Germany seeing a 60% drop despite strong EV growth. Similar declines hit Norway, Sweden, and France.
While some blame the Osborne effect—buyers delaying purchases for a refreshed Model Y—Musk’s endorsement of Germany’s far-right AfD may also be repelling customers.
Online backlash has linked Tesla to fascist imagery. In contrast, UK sales fell only 7.8%, suggesting political factors play a role.
With strong domestic EV competition in Europe, Tesla’s reputation crisis could further hurt demand.
Tesla demand is nosediving in EV-friendly Europe amid Elon Musk’s endorsement of the far right
Popularity has plummeted in markets like Germany, where Tesla's share of EV sales plummeted to just 3.7% last month versus 14% a year earlier.Christiaan Hetzner (Fortune)
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Your tea bag is likely releasing billions of microplastic particles, according to a new study
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A new study from Spain’s Autonomous University of Barcelona reveals that tea bags made from nylon, polypropylene, and cellulose release billions of micro- and nanoplastic particles when steeped in boiling water.
These particles, which can enter human intestinal cells, may pose health risks, potentially affecting the digestive, respiratory, endocrine, and immune systems.
Researchers urge regulatory action to mitigate plastic contamination in food packaging.
Consumers are advised to use loose-leaf tea with stainless steel infusers or biodegradable tea bags to minimize exposure.
Your Tea Bag Is Likely Releasing Billions of Microplastic Particles, According to a New Study
Research from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain found that individual tea bags steeped in boiling water can release billions of micro- and nanoplastic particles. Here's what to know.Stacey Leasca (Food & Wine)
No it doesn’t. This study is unscientific garbage and should be retracted.
Their “simulation” of making tea involved 300 teabags boiled in 600ml of water at 95 C while being stirred at 750rpm for an unspecified amount of time. They then took counts using undiluted samples of that liquid.
It isn’t clear why they chose such an absurd methodology, but it is absolutely spurious to draw conclusions from this about teabags used under normal conditions.
Just a broil (is that the word?)
And also leave it longer in the “stew”
The word you would use is “steep”. It means to put something in a liquid to extract its flavor into the liquid.
Maybe you were thinking about “braise”, which is when you half cover something in a liquid and cook it all just below boiling, but then the liquid turns into a sauce.
Anyone Know What Happened to GalaxyRG265?
TorrentGalaxy's release group GalaxyRG265 used to be my go-to for movie releases because I thought they were the perfect balance of size and quality. However, they haven't put out anything since mid December.
Anyone know what happened? I know the site has had uptime issues recently, so maybe they're focusing on that instead?
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I don't have any information about them. However if anyone would like to replicate their encodes, they did post how they do it last year: torrentgalaxy.to/forums.php?ac…
I've copied the post below.
How to make GalaxyRG265 rips.
We took the RARBG x265 as a base and modified it to our liking.
Biggest difference is DDP audio instead of AAC and CRF encoding instead of target bitrate.
GalaxyRG265 rips greatly vary in size as CRF encoding targets a desired visual quality and only uses the bitrate required for that.
This results in movies with unsophisticated and little motion to be small and complex high motion movies to be big while both visually the same quality. We set a 4500K max bitrate cap to prevent overly complex video from bubbling to ridiculous sizes.
We use ffmpeg ffmpeg.org/download.html but other x265 encoders are fine.
ffmpeg parameters
ffmpeg -i INPUTMOVIE.mkv -map 0:V:0 -map 0:m:language:eng -map 0:s? -disposition:s:0 default -c:a eac3 -ac 6 -b:a 384k -c:s copy -c:v libx265 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -preset slow -crf 22 -maxrate 4500K -bufsize 9M -x265-params "max-merge=5:limit-refs=3:rd=4:rc-lookahead=48:bframes=8:aq-mode=3" -vf "scale='trunc(min(1920/iw,1080/ih)*iw/2)*2':'trunc(min(1920/iw,1080/ih)*ih/2)*2':flags=lanczos" OUTPUTMOVIE.mkv-map 0:V:0 -map 0:m:language:eng -map 0:s? -disposition:s:0 defaultSelects first video stream, ditches any image/cover stream.
Selects English audio stream (use -map 0:a? to select all audio streams).
Selects all subtitle streams and sets first subtitle stream as default.
-c:s copy -c:a eac3 -ac 6 -b:a 384k -c:v libx265 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -preset slow -crf 22 -maxrate 4500K -bufsize 9MCopy any subtitles from selected source. Encode audio to DDP5.1 at 384K bitrate.
Encode video using the x265 encoder at 10bit with slow encoding preset set to CRF 22 and 4500K bitrate cap.
-x265-params "max-merge=5:limit-refs=3:rd=4:rc-lookahead=48:bframes=8:aq-mode=3"Couple x265 tweaks. Some will argue against them. It's safe to leave this part out and stick to the default x265 parameters.
-vf "scale='trunc(min(1920/iw,1080/ih)*iw/2)*2':'trunc(min(1920/iw,1080/ih)*ih/2)*2':flags=lanczos"This scales any input video to 1080p while retaining the proper aspect ratio. For quality encodes only use 1080p or higher input resolutions.
Don't be a douche and use this to upscale videos.
Link to more info on ffmpeg parameters ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html
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Hundreds protest against Chinese ‘mega-embassy’ in London
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Over 1,000 protesters, including Hongkongers and Uyghur activists, gathered outside the proposed Chinese "mega-embassy" site in London, fearing it could be used for surveillance and illegal detentions.
Tower Hamlets council previously rejected the plan, but Beijing resubmitted it under the new Labour government. The final decision rests with Deputy PM Angela Rayner.
Politicians like Tom Tugendhat warned approving the embassy would be a "grave mistake."
Demonstrators clashed with police, highlighting growing UK-China tensions over human rights and security concerns.
Hundreds protest against Chinese ‘mega-embassy’ in London
Demonstrators at the proposed site included Hongkongers who fear it could be used to illegally detain dissentersSammy Gecsoyler (The Guardian)
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Rayner is not popular with Londoners right now. She might think about saying no.
Something tells me she won't though.
Lucky for her, a distraction just came up.
Andrew Gwynne: Labour health minister sacked over WhatsApp messages
Gwynne apologises for the "badly misjudged" messages and is suspended as a Labour party member.Leila Nathoo (BBC News)
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OP is referring to this: jamestown.org/program/the-long…
China operates clandestine police operations out of their embassies that harass Chinese citizens living abroad.
The Long Arm of the Law(less): The PRC’s Overseas Police Stations - Jamestown
Introduction In April, the FBI charged two Chinese-Americans, both U.S. citizens, with conspiring to act as agents of the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) by establishing an “overseas police station” on behalf of the Fujian Public S…Jamestown
Air pollution causing 1,100 cases a year of main form of lung cancer in UK
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Air pollution is responsible for over 1,100 annual cases of adenocarcinoma, the most common form of lung cancer in the UK, according to new WHO data.
The UK's rates are higher than the US and Canada, with experts calling for urgent government action.
Lung cancer charities and health professionals warn of devastating consequences, urging stricter air quality regulations.
Despite a government pledge to improve air quality, critics argue that recent policies, such as Heathrow’s expansion, contradict efforts to reduce pollution-related health risks.
Air pollution causing 1,100 cases a year of main form of lung cancer in UK
Exclusive: Health experts and cancer charities say findings should serve as wake-up call to ministersAndrew Gregory (The Guardian)
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I was hoping the article would say what were considered the important targets were in reducing pollution.
Is it?
- Personal transport (cars, motorcycles)
- Heavy transport (Trucks, Buses, Trains)
- Industry
- Aviation
- Heating
- ...whatever else there might be.
Yes, you can say all of the above, but I'd like to know the priorities.
At least 110 Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza since ceasefire: Monitor
The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has documented at least 110 Palestinians killed by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip since the implementation of the ceasefire agreement last month.
That means at least six victims per day, including both new ones who were killed directly by the Israeli army, along with those who succumbed to their prior wounds after Israel denied them the right to travel abroad for treatment.
More than 900 others have been injured since the ceasefire, averaging 47 injuries per day, the Geneva-based organisation said.
LIVE: Israeli troops complete withdrawal from Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor
The Israeli army has moved to the buffer zone it created in eastern Gaza, allowing north-south movement in the Strip.Urooba Jamal (Al Jazeera)
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How China became the world’s new nuclear energy superstar
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China is rapidly surpassing the U.S. in nuclear energy, building more reactors at a faster pace and developing advanced technologies like small modular reactors and high-temperature gas-cooled units.
The U.S. struggles with costly, delayed projects, while China benefits from state-backed financing and streamlined construction.
This shift could make China the leading nuclear power producer within a decade, impacting global energy and geopolitical influence.
Meanwhile, the U.S. seeks to revive its nuclear industry, but trade restrictions and outdated infrastructure hinder progress.
How China Became The World’s New Nuclear Energy Superstar
China is on a clear course to become the world’s first “electrostate" — and is likely to eclipse the U.S. in atomic power in the next decade.Alexander C. Kaufman (HuffPost)
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Nuclear energy has a long tail of recent and less recent horrors. These horrors affect the globe in their consequences and should give great pause, despite the passive meltdown aversion systems being implemented in modern reactors. Being slow to implement nuclear energy plants is a feature, not a bug.
An important aside, humans generally have a problem with funding regulatory structures involved in keeping the public safe, constant vigilance gets an ax when budgets are manic. I certainly do not trust the US government to maintain regulatory pressure on nuclear power to keep the public safe from grave harm. Until the manic bipolarity of the current political climate subsides, this will be the case at the very least.
FWIW, if it is not clear, I see absolutely no reason to trust China on nuclear energy regulation either.
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Including disasters like Chernobyl, nuclear energy causes several magnitudes less deaths than fossil fuels. It is utterly fucking insane for the concern to be “the horrors” of the three meltdowns you’re thinking of, of which the only one to kill or injure any civilians was Chernobyl. Fukushima did have some workers undergo significantly higher than usual radioactive doses - I invite you to contrast this with the mortality rate of, say, working on an oil rig.
Fossil fuels are killing this planet before your very eyes. I am thrilled by the progress renewables are making, and small scale nuclear is quite likely the only new nuclear we would benefit from constructing these days. But we could have saved an ungodly amount of fossil fuels being burned and thus lives if it wasn’t for this argument.
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Chernobyl killed around 4000 people locally and contributed to 16000 deaths on the continent. Normal coal operation has killed half a million people over the last 20 years.
All I'm saying is that accidents are possible, sure, but the laxity of regulations regarding coal has killed way more people than that towards nuclear. And it's not about "one person not having their morning coffee", Chernobyl was dangerous by design, modern reactors simply can't fail that way.
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True or false: a nuclear reactor failing, for any number of reasons, can do a lot more damage than a coal plant or any of the processes to gather coal can.
By that same logic, we should dismantle all our cities, since a natural catastrophe can wipe out so much more people if they are clustered up. Or drive instead of flying, because one airplane crashing is worse than one car crashing.
Nuclear reactors failing make for better headlines. You would literally have to build a reactor design that was not safe even back then - they built it to prioritize weapons grade material refinement - and would have to mismanage it systematically for decades in order to get at 5-10% of the death toll coal generation will do 100% in that timeframe.
The big picture is, if every reactor was Chernobyl, was built like Chernobyl, was operated like Chernobyl and would fail like Chernobyl, that would still cause less deaths than the equivalent coal generation. That's the big picture. Fixating on one accident that can provably never happen again is the minutia.
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there is no coal plant incident even remotely theoretically possible that can render massive regions inhospitable for centuries
If you ignore the incident we’ve all been watching slowly unfold for centuries with our thumbs up our asses, and oil spills to a lesser extent, sure
Fossil fuels are killing this planet before your very eyes.
And the only way to save it is nuclear power? Every thread about this topic makes it look this way.
Thing is: Fossil fuels are killing our planet NOW. Spending 10+ years to build a new state-of-the-art nuclear power plant is simply too slow. Just take the money and dump it into technology that's already available at short notice: Solar, wind, geothermal and tons and tons of battery storage. I'm not sure about the situation in other countries, but here in Germany there isn't even a permanent storage site for the nuclear waste we ALREADY produced let alone one for which we'd produce in the future.
Additional factor for not going nuclear in Europe: Do you know which country exports the most fissile material around us? It starts with an R and ends with ussia.
And the only way to save it is nuclear power?
Not sure where you got this from what's written there
Not sure, maybe from the posts where everybody argues that Nuclear is so much better than coal but totally missing the point that yes, it's better than coal, but so much worse than renewables.
- Huge upfront costs
- Long build time (We need to get CO2 down now!)
- Waste disposal time measured in aeons.
- Risk of contamination (again for aeons)
- Yes, coal kills more people, but
- Scale our usage of nuclear power by 100 and watch the casualties scale as well.
- That's not the frigging point. We want to get rid of coal ANYWAY. The question is which one is better: Fossil nuclear or renewables.
- Yes, coal kills more people, but
The question is which one is better: Fossil nuclear or renewables.
Both, whatever we can build faster, whatever makes it easier to reduce coal and oil. It shouldn't be an either-or decision. Also, nuclear is not a fossil fuel, you can debate if it is renewable or not, but nuclear fuel is not made from compressed organic matter.
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Both, whatever we can build faster, whatever makes it easier to reduce coal and oil. It shouldn't be an either-or decision.
You are kind of contradicting yourself. Because in both aspects nuclear energy looses to renewables: They are faster and less complex to build. Easier to maintain and dispose of if necessary.
Also, nuclear is not a fossil fuel, you can debate if it is renewable or not, but nuclear fuel is not made from compressed organic matter.
Ok, if you want to split hairs, yes nuclear energy is not fossil but also then there are also no renewables because the energy in the universe is for all we know finite.
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Fukushima did have some workers undergo significantly higher than usual radioactive doses - I invite you to contrast this with the mortality rate of, say, working on an oil rig.
Not injecting my own opinion in this thread of conversation, but if you're expanding the scope to include oil rig worker adverse health effects, which introduces the fuel supply chain, then you need to also include the fuel supply chain health impacts and deaths with nuclear fuel extraction, such as the tens of thousands of uranium miners that have died digging out uranium.
Mortality among uranium miners in North America and Europe: the Pooled Uranium Miners Analysis (PUMA) - PubMed
Whereas there are important obstacles to the ability to detect adverse effects of occupational exposures via SMR analyses, PUMA provides evidence of excess mortality among uranium miners due to a range of categories of cause of death.PubMed
Nuclear apologists love defending this expensive, hazardous industry. In Texas, mining the uranium for these plants is ruining the water table just like fracking does.
Meanwhile solar, wind, and geothermal are cheaper and cleaner.
In St. Louis, nuclear waste in a landfill has caused cancer in north county black and brown neighborhoods for decades.
It is generally those who have not witnessed the ramifications of nuclear waste and/or disaster that are its proponents. Something that takes tens of thousands of years to decay, considering climate change, climate change catastrophe, movements in human population, and geologic change, we are full of hubris to consider it a green power option. But all the rose-tinted know-it-all tech bro will vote me down. Idgaf.
There is nothing wrong with trying to make this work, but a more accurate statement is that the US has failed in its initial efforts to develop SMRs, and the outlook is grim.
With the DOE being gutted and no current commercial path forward, this state is unlikely to change in the near term in the US.
Helion Energy Breaks Ground on Site of Its Next-Generation Fusion Facility in Everett, Washington | Helion
WA Governor Jay Inslee and Everett Mayor Cassie Franklin attend in support of the company’s expansion and creation of new clean energy jobsHelion
So that's a fusion reactor, not fission reactor like SMR. It's both way, way better and way further away than SMR.
I applaud all of them making headway, but none of them are anywhere near as useful as actual solar and actual batteries that are being actually deployed in mass now.
Ohh, I get it. The thing with Ukrainian power generation being a military strategic thing though is not that homes can be kept warm - that is great - but that military production is powered. I don't think you can power a munitions factory from scores of smaller reactors, since that would need insane infrastructure that is just not there, and would still be an easy target.
Also, in Ukraine, it would mean a legitimate military target in every backyard. The Russians would be back to carpet bombings already. I'm not saying it would not help, but I think it's a dubious advantage in wartime - which by the way, the US won't be - and even more problematic at peacetime as again, most consumption is industrial.
The thing I don't see is how do you route power from Bob's small reactor to Bezos' AI farm so that Wall Street can keep pretending the American economy exists?
You saw in Ukraine what can happen if you rely on large plants.
So, I don't disagree that, especially for some environments, bombing resistance is a legit concern.
However, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that if we find ourselves in a situation where China is bombing US power generation infrastructure, that probably means that World War III -- not some kind of limited-scale fight, but a real all-in conflict -- is on, and I think that the factors that determine what happens there probably aren't mostly going to be "who has more power plants".
World War II was a multi-year affair, but a lot of that was constrained by distance and the ability to project power. From the US's standpoint, the Axis had extremely-limited ability to affect the US. The US started with a very small army and no weapons that could, in short order, reach across the world. That meant that, certainly from a US standpoint, there was not going to be a quick resolution one way or another. There, industrial capacity was really important.
Today's environment is different.
I've not read up on what material's out there, but I'd guess that in a World War III, one of two things probably happens:
- The war goes nuclear, in which case nuclear (weapons, not power generation) capabilities in large part determine the outcome.
- The war remains conventional. One or both sides have the ability to pretty rapidly destroy the other side's air and/or missile defenses and subsequently destroy critical infrastructure to the degree that the other side cannot sustain the fight. My bet is on the US being in a stronger position here, but regardless, I don't think that what happens is each side keeps churning out hardware for multiple years and slugging the other with that hardware, being able to make use of their power generation capacity. Electrical generation capacity is a particularly important part of that, sure, but it's not the whole enchilada. Water production and distribution, electrical distribution, bridges, industrial infrastructure.
That doesn't mean that power generation capacity doesn't matter vis-a-vis military capacity. Like, let's say that China has a really great way to convert electrical generation capacity into military capacity, right? Like, they have some fully automated mega-factory that churns out long range AI-powered fighter jets, has all the raw resources they need, just keeps pouring electricity into it. And China decides -- in peacetime -- that it wants to build an enormous fighter jet force like that. Say, I don't know, a hundred thousand planes or something. Then the US, which in our hypothetical scenario doesn't have such a fully-automated-mega-factory, has a hard decision: either attack China or wait and find itself in a situation where China could defeat it in conventional terms. The ability to expand military capacity does matter.
But at the point that bombing is happening and the ability of power generation to passively-resist that bombing is a factor, you're already in a war, and then I think that a whole host of other factors start to dramatically change the environment.
China is rapidly surpassing the U.S. in nuclear energy, building more reactors at a faster pace and developing advanced technologies like small modular reactors and high-temperature gas-cooled units.
Okay, yes, very broadly-speaking, I agree that US nuclear power generation capability relative to China is something to keep an eye on. As well as ability to construct nuclear power generation capacity. There might be a way that China could leverage that in some scenario. However.
At least some of that is tied to population; China has over four times our population. One would expect energy usage per-capita to tend to converge. And for that to happen, China pretty much has to significantly outbuild the US in generation capacity.
If we in the US constrain ourselves to outpace China in expanding generation capacity, then we're constraining ourselves to have multiple times the per-capita energy generation capacity.
Now, okay, yes, there is usage that is decoupled from population size. AI stuff is in the news, and at least in theory -- if maybe not with today's systems, but somewhere along the road to AGI -- I can imagine productivity there becoming decoupled from population size. If you have more electrical generation capacity, you can make effective use of that electricity, convert it to productive capacity.
But a lot of it is going to be tied to population. Electrical heating and cooling. EV use. You'd have to have a staggering amount of datacenter or other non-tied-to-population power use to dominate that.
These statistics aren't from the same year, but they have a residential-industrial-commercial breakdown, and then a breakdown for each of those sectors.
eia.gov/energyexplained/electr…
Commercial use, residential use, and industrial use are, on that chart, each about a third of US electrical power consumption. Of the commercial category, computers and office equipment are 11%. So you're talking maybe 3% of total US power consumption going to the most critical thing that I can think of that represents productive capacity and is potentially decoupled from population. And that's all computer and office equipment use, not just stuff like AI. A lot of that is going to be tied to per capita usage, too.
About half of commercial use of electricity is space cooling. Almost everything else is either cooling, lighting, or ventilation. Those are gonna be tied to population when it comes to productive capacity.
If you look at residential stuff, about half of it is cooling, heating, or lighting, and my bet is that nothing in the residential category is going to massively increase productive capacity. Up until a point, on a per-capita basis, air conditioning increases productivity. Maybe it could provide an advantage in terms of quality of life, ability to attract immigration. But I don't think that if, tomorrow, China had twice our per-capita residential electrical power generation capacity, that it'd provide some enormous advantage. And it definitely seems like it'd all be per-capita stuff.
In industry, you have some big electricity consumers. Machinery, process heating and cooling, electrochemical processes. And with sufficient automation, the productive capacity of those can be decoupled from population size. Given enough electricity, you could run a vast array of, say, electric arc furnaces. But I think that "American industrial capacity vis-a-vis Chinese industrial capacity" is a whole different story, that it's probably better-examined at a finer-grained level, and I think that there are plenty of eyeballs already on that. Hypothetically, you could constrain residential or other use, pour power capacity dedicated to it into industrial capacity in a national emergency, but I can't think of any immediately-obvious area of industry where exploiting that is going to buy that much. Unless we expect some massively-important form of new heavy industry to emerge that is dependent upon massive use of electricity -- like, throw enough electricity into a machine and you can get unobtanium -- I'm probably not going to lose sleep over that.
If your concern is that there might be ways in which China can leverage its population and so per-capita statistics matter, then sure, I get that, but again, I think that that's probably better considered in terms of metrics of human capital rather than in terms of just energy generation capability. And I think that the constraining factors there, if you're talking ability to increase existing capacity in percentage terms, are probably (a) fertility rate, (b) immigration rate. I am pretty sure that if we wanted to get power capacity built and tied into the grid, it could be done on a shorter timescale than we could get people to have children and then raise those children and provide them with a necessary skillset, so I don't think that existing electrical generation capacity or ability to increase it in the short run is the bounding factor. Maybe we could do immigration at a higher rate than we could expand generation capacity, making electrical generation capacity the bounding factor, though there are -- looking at popular irritation that drove voters to support Trump -- some political limitations. The last time we were seriously looking at going balls-to-the-wall against another country was World War II versus principally Germany, and war plans included, after mobilizing large portions of the American population, hiring huge chunks of population out of Latin America to fill in the now-absent farm labor need in the US to keep US productive capacity ramping up. As World War II played out, Germany ultimately didn't conquer the UK and then initiated a fight with the Soviet Union, so a lot of the levers never needed to be pulled. We ultimately only used it in a considerably-scaled-down form.
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The Bracero Program (from the Spanish term bracero [bɾaˈse.ɾo], meaning "manual laborer" or "one who works using his arms") was a U.S. Government-sponsored program that imported Mexican farm and railroad workers into the United States between the years 1942 and 1964.The program, which was designed to fill agriculture shortages during World War II, offered employment contracts to 5 million braceros in 24 U.S. states. It was the largest guest worker program in U.S. history.[1]
But I think that that maybe provides insight into what the US would be willing to do in another situation where we wind up in a serious power struggle with another country. If we had to pull tens of millions of people from abroad into the US in short order in a balls-to-the-wall situation, I'm pretty sure that we would.
So, okay. Maybe, if you think that you can make use of extremely-high-rate immigration capacity, you might want to have a certain amount of electrical generation capacity available or ability to ramp it up very quickly.
However.
China could do the same to some degree. But it's also more-difficult for China due to her larger size relative to the pools abroad from which she might draw -- if she wants to scale production proportionally to her population -- and I suspect what China would be able to offer in terms of environment, if a contest were predicated on our respective abilities to draw labor from abroad.
So, in summary:
I'm not sure that I'd be concerned about "what China could do in the short run in terms of dramatically increasing her capabilities in a way that threatens the US if China had large amounts of electrical generation capacity in absolute terms, and then started a massive immigration program". I don't expect that that sort of contest would play to China's strengths.
In the sense that China could make use of more electricity to produce more industrial output, sure. China has significantly more steel production capacity today. That's not really new, and I would expect that it's been taken into account, that one doesn't expect steel production capacity to be some sort of bounding factor that's of special concern. Going back to World War II again, steel production over an extended period of time mattered there...but I'm skeptical that we'd find ourselves in some kind of sustained conflict with China where steel production capacity mattered. It's too easy to knock out steel production infrastructure or the like in 2025. Maybe someone could identify some kind of concern there, but I don't think that one would express it in terms of electricity. I don't think that there's some sort of way in which a country can translate steel into productivity in a peacetime environment to the degree that available steel is the limiting factor, either, where we'd say "Oh, no, China pulled ahead in steel capacity and steel is now mainly determining a country's economic or military strength, and we cannot catch up."
Having electrical capacity might matter if it's the bounding factor for something like AI, which potentially has productive capacity decoupled from the size of the labor pool. I think that keeping an eye on the critical resources governing AI capacity is going to be something to do moving forward in the years and decades to come. But as things exist today, usage there is a very small portion of electricity consumption. I don't think that we're looking at the limits imposed by electrical generation. Maybe if technology advances and we do enough buildout of capacity, that would change. But I think that we're also some ways away from electricity being a serious constraint there.
Paradox of tolerance license
Or maybe a catchier name would be a "basic human decency GPL extension"
I can't help but notice that organisations constantly co-opt free software which was developed with the intent to promote freedom, use it to spread hate and ideas which will ultimately infringe on freedom for many.
The fact that hateful people who use such software may then go on to use it to promote or otherwise support fascism which prevents others from enjoying the software in the way it was imagined, is one potential manifestation of the paradox of tolerance in this respect. I think this is particularly true for e.g. social media platforms and the fediverse.
My proposal to combat this would be the introduction of a "paradox of tolerance" license which says that organisations which use the software must enforce a bare-minimum set of rules to combat intolerance. So anti-racism, anti-homophobia, anti-transphobia, etc. The idea is then to make overtly hateful organisations legally liable for the use of the software through the incompatibility of the requirements with their hateful belief system.
This could be an extension to GPL and AGPL where the license must be replicated in modified versions of the software, thereby creating virality with these rules.
Is this a thing already? I understand OS and FOSS have historically had a thing for political neutrality but are we not starting to find the faults with this now?
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The Open Source Definition
Introduction Open source doesn’t just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open source software must comply with the following criteria: 1. Free Redistribution The license shall…Open Source Initiative
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I am already banned from half of the Internet due to sanctions against the asshole leaders of my country. And GitLab has already banned Iranian IP addresses.
This license will not stop those big bad organizations or governments, but the average citizen from accessing the projects. I know it is not the purpose of the license to prohibit the citizens of hateful regimes to use the projects, but I can't be optimistic about the effect it might have on people living under tyrannical regimes.
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I think such a licence would need very careful wording. Wording that concentrates on the entity or organisation using rather then jurisdiction.
GPL claims free as in speech not beer. Whereas this would be removing that very concept. By suggesting use for some ideas is not allowed.
I can def see the advantage. Especially for people developing social software. But trying to form a licence like that. While not running fowl of existing GPL restrictions. Would take some seriose legal understanding. As making gpled current libraries incompatible. Could totally remove existing work to expand upon. Removing most developers desire to place the effort needed for the new software.
Would be interesting to watch the project form though. Unfortunately it would be very much like watching a dangerous stunt. Facinating as much for the risk of failure as that of hoping for success.
There are licences like this already
None of which have ever caught on, and none of which are open source.
You would also be making it potentially illegal to use in many countries.
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Strictly speaking these all do something similar-ish at face value but actually quite different in terms of mechanism and target. I think the unpopularity of a lot of these licensing structures is also down to lack of legal verification in a lot of cases.
The illegality possibility does warrant careful consideration, but I suspect in many cases regimes which would oppose this kind of license would be making the use and enforcement of software fairly selective in any case. If it is made illegal, it's made illegal by the respective government, not the software author or license writer.
A question is then raised as to what degree the implied open source requirement that open source should be leveraged by e.g. Nazis actually benefits developers and users. Or whether it is in effect a kind of appeasement as no doubt use which contradicts those values (and hence promotes freedom) is illegal already. Those uses which are orthogonal to that aim may be selectively targeted for arbitrary reasons such as the identity of the user.
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The Organization for Ethical Source is a global, multidisciplinary community devoted to centering justice, equity, and human rights in the practice of open source.ethicalsource.dev
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How about instead of restricting use of the software, adding in a clause that states "Use of this software is a formal acknowledgement and agreement by the user that race and gender are a social construct, gender identity and sexual orientation is a spectrum, humans can not be illegal,... " etc.
Thus use of the software is not restricted and is still open source, but forces groups, organizations, and people who disagree with the above to acknowledge something counter to their system of power.
I think you underestimate the hate.
For the organisations that want to deny the ideals suggested. Using software under such a licence would lose them support. So when developers select such a licence. The software itself gets recognised as such. Meaning any shitty organisation using it gets labeled unacceptable to their very user base.
So requiring the acceptance of these facts would have the same effect as anything else.
The issue is, you assume your view of decency is an absolute truth. I'm not saying I disagree, but there should always be the option to do so.
I'd rather people use open software because they care and acknowledge what you represents by their own volition, than effecticely license an opinion. That's borderline deranged.
In reality, what you propose directly contradicts the spirit of open software. Open software and open systems always win in the end.
I think it's important to consider that the GNU General Public License is really only a part of the Free Software Movement, which is "An effort by a group of people to achieve a social or political goal". That movement is defined by a group of people and a goal and has "infrastructure", such as "The Free Software Foundation" ("a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization"). "The idea of the Free Software Movement is that computer users deserve the freedom to form a community", but if you want to accomplish a different goal, it might be useful to clearly communicate that goal to other people to create a different movement (and create new "infrastructure" to support your effort).
Changing only a part of the GNU General Public License might make it incoherent or otherwise a hindrance to your goal in a way that you might not expect. It might be better to focus on talking with other people about a goal of yours, and you might discover that you can be most effective without investing any energy in creating a new license for software, but if you determine that creating a new license is important you can create a comprehensive design for one to match your efforts more closely.
It seems that your goal might be summarized with "I want people to be able to help themselves (using software) without contributing to spreading hate" ("putting a motion in the positive is a rule in parliamentary procedures").
See also "Chesterton’s Lamp-Post" (a suggestion to only start to act when you actually know what you want the final result to be) and "Chesterton's fence" (a suggestion to not change things when you don't know what the final result will be) for some context about what an undesirable design/plan is.
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‘Many teachers don’t want to do this, but they’re trapped’: film shows extent of Putin indoctrination in Russian schools
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The documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin exposes how Russian schools are being used for pro-war indoctrination.
Directed by former teacher Pavel Talankin, the film captures students forced to march, study propaganda-filled history books, and attend speeches by war veterans, including ex-Wagner fighters.
Some teachers embrace nationalism, while others feel trapped. Facing mounting threats, Talankin fled Russia in 2024 with footage documenting the militarization of youth.
He hopes the film, which won a Sundance award, will reveal the extent of Putin’s ideological control over education.
‘Many teachers don’t want to do this, but they’re trapped’: film shows extent of Putin indoctrination in Russian schools
Two years after he started documenting the effect of the Ukraine war on his pupils, Pavel Talankin reveals how it led to accolade – and exile from homePjotr Sauer (The Guardian)
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Is this written in an old fashioned idea of cyclical history of mankind?
It can't be, history has been written down, documented and now even filmed.
So in the end they use a psychological need for a protective figure to fool an entire population?
On the other side you have Ukraine who could not obtain too much from the European ally due to his own corruption and national issues, so they asks protection to the old enemy of their attacker, who are also fooled by their daddy figure.
Despite we see an aging population, it's like they're all orphan kids.
Anyone else think Mr Nobody has pretty much committed a delayed suicide, his best chance is probably to live somewhere very remote with new credentials.
Brave guy though trying to make a difference but he's almost certainly put himself on Putins list.
So what I'm reading, is they released a documentary for Trump to follow for America.
He'll have a much easier time seeing it on TV than being given the orders by putin in verbal or written form.
Kurdish officials fear Islamic State revival as US aid cuts loom
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Kurdish officials warn that US aid cuts could trigger an Islamic State (IS) resurgence in north-east Syria, where thousands of suspected IS members and families are held in camps.
Blumont, a Virginia-based aid group managing the al-Hol and al-Roj IS detention camps, received a stop-work order on 24 January from the US state department, causing panic when aid workers failed to show up.
The US granted a temporary waiver, but future assistance remains uncertain.
Officials fear worsening conditions could lead to radicalization and IS sleeper cell attacks.
Kurdish officials fear Islamic State revival as US aid cuts loom
Humanitarian groups worried north-east Syrian camps holding suspected IS members will lose basic facilitiesWilliam Christou (The Guardian)
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The camp holds the relatives of suspected IS fighters and is mostly populated by women and children. Rights groups have for years warned that detainees are held arbitrarily without charges in inhumane and substandard living conditions.No charges have been raised against the camp’s population. Despite this, they are unable to leave,
Article headline is absolutely disgusting propaganda.
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200,000 march against far right in Munich
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Over 200,000 people marched in Munich against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, with organizers claiming 320,000 participants.
The protests, held under the slogan “democracy needs you,” warned against any party collaborating with the AfD, particularly the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), ahead of legislative elections.
200,000 march against far right in Munich
With legislative elections two weeks away, massive demonstrations took place across Germany under the slogan 'democracy needs you,' warning against any party working together with the far-right AfD.Le Monde with AFP (Le Monde)
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They have an economic system where they can take days off without losing their homes.
We don't. It's part of the plan. Can't have mass protests when you're about to lose the roof over your head.
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Infographic: Americans Work Nights And Weekends The Most
This chart shows the percentage of workers in the United States working nights and weekends.Statista Daily Data
I can't give you one solid answer because it's a situation that has nuance.
Not everyone owns a car. Not everyone is educated well enough. Many times people are exhausted by the time they have a day off.
I'm not letting my KIDS put themselves in danger. That's insane.
But okay. This is a black and white issue with easy, simple answers. Like most issues are.
You are simply making excuses. There are sacrifices to peoples time and energy to attend a protest, that is true. They may even be a bit higher in the US.
This big problem is culture. North Americans lack the culture of protest. We're all too wrapped up in our lives with little thought for the collective at large. We live in urban sprawls where we feel disconnected. We need to get together to change this culture or we're going to get trampled.
Okay
You literally said points I made but I guess they're better when you say them
It's not that they've better when I say them, it's that they're true but ultimately unimportant.
I'm not refuting its harder to protest in the US, but I am saying that it needs to be done regardless. It's unfortunately not fair, but it is what it is.
If westerners don't learn to overcome the obstacles in place and organize then we're done for.
You told me "I'm simply making excuses", when all I'm doing is trying to do is bring nuance to the conversation. Something people have a severe problem with. They'd rather win an argument than have an actual discussion.
There ARE protests happening all over this country. Get off your butt. I was in Louisville last Saturday at one. There's also a KKK rally that's we're heading out to counter protest. You want the details I'll be glad to share em
But you'll have to find a way there. And you'll have to have the day off. Depending on where you live you may need two or three since our country spans from one ocean to another.
There's so many points people keep making without even taking into consideration the huge differences between the US and Germany.
Germany is small. Takes nothing to hop a train a wait a couple hours to protest. You think everyone there lives in town? Of course not. They're using their much superior infrastructure and education to get there. Really easy to get a large mass of like minded people when you aren't spread out across an entire continent.
You think being educated is unimportant? That not having public transportation or the ability to take more than one day off is unimportant? Bullshit. Absolute bullshit.
Yeah, we need to wake up a huge swath of the population. No one is arguing that. The entire point (that keeps getting missed) is that we, as a people, have a lot more obstacles to overcome in order to see the results we want.
But nooooooope. Y'all have decided easy answers to nuanced situations are definitely the way to go here.
This is day three of people trying to convince me of a black and white answer and I'm not wasting another second on this conversation.
If you want to join the Klan counter protest hit my dms.
I would implore y'all to practice what you preach instead of complaining that others need to do something. Be the change. Cause that's the biggest problem we face right now, the idea that someone else is going to help us.
Have a good day.
You can't take days off for protests in Germany either.
Which is why protests are almost always held on the weekend to allow as many people as possible to join them, since significantly fewer people are working.
Sure, but I'd argue the largest aspect is cultural.
There's a reason France's protests are significantly more disruptive than those of other European nations, despite similar social resources and significantly worse police brutality.
I mean, the US has denser cities than most of Europe. It's not impossible to have large-scale demonstrations with hundreds of thousands of protestors in them.
I suspect it's just that most Americans aren't all that interested in changing the status quo for the better. The amount of apathy is perhaps only topped by Russia.
Ah, turns out I'm somewhat wrong. From what I can tell, the city centers in the US are denser but if you include the entire city Europe has generally denser cities.
Most US cities are significantly taller in the center due to skyscrapers and highrises. Most European cities are more "horizontal" in that regard by having many multi-story apartment blocks instead of a handful of highrises.
Most American cities aren't New York.
We have no real public transit, and many of our cities were urbanization following the invention of the automobile and are spread out to accommodate the automobile infrastructure and longer commutes.
Houston is our third most-populous city and has a metroplex with a Combined Statistical Area of over 12,000 square miles. That makes it roughly the size of the Netherlands, with around 40% the population of the Netherlands. Soon, Houston, Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio are going to form one giant metroplex that's 60,000 square miles.
Munich's virtue carnival hits 200k clowns – unions and churches suddenly care about 'democracy' after decades of enabling the same neoliberal rot they're now protesting. How quaint. The AfD's deportation fantasies are just the latest distraction pantomime – focus on the real witches: a system where all major parties gut social programs while waving rainbow flags at cameras.
This protest reeks of legacy media's last gasp. Remember when these same orgs called anti-war marches 'naive' in 2003? Now they're rebranding obedience as 'resistance.' Democracy isn't dying – it's a Weekend at Bernie's corpse propped up by people who think hashtags count as civil discourse.
Ah, the classic "too social" complaint—because heaven forbid a government prioritize basic human dignity over corporate dividends. Bürgergeld isn't some utopian giveaway; it's the bare minimum in a system that already demands your soul for scraps.
What you're hearing is propaganda-fed resentment, weaponized to pit people against each other while the real looters—banks, multinationals, and their political puppets—laugh all the way to their offshore accounts.
If "too social" is the problem, then maybe the solution isn’t harsher policies but dismantling the rigged game that makes people beg for crumbs in the first place.
Unpaid state actor? Bold of you to assume anyone would waste resources on your level of discourse. Your projection is showing, and it’s embarrassing. If this is your peak rhetoric, I’d suggest retiring from whatever game you think you’re playing.
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Schrödinger’s socialism? Cute attempt at intellectualism, but it’s more like Schrödinger’s wit—alive in your head, dead on delivery. If you’re going to throw around metaphors, at least understand the physics behind them instead of regurgitating half-baked memes. The only paradox here is how you manage to type while so thoroughly missing the point. Stick to your lane; this isn’t a sandbox for amateur philosophers.
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You know why I dig into you? People like you always poppig up close to an election spouting discouraging propaganda of a dead democracy and implying that people should better stay at home instead of voting.
Coincidentially with a core message most of us would agree with.
You are spreading the propaganda we should be aware of that you pretemnd to warn me from.
Do you actually have an idea, or are your just minimizing stuff you don't agree with?
Why are your so angry with the people you are supposed to convince to join you? Or are your just trying to cyinically convince everyone that nothing is possible by criticizing everything that isn't a molotov?
Ideas? Sure, here’s one: stop mistaking performative outrage for meaningful action. If 200k people can gather to wave placards but can’t organize to challenge the system that keeps them in chains, what’s the point? You’re cheering for a parade, not a revolution.
Angry at “my people”? Who are they? The unions that sold out workers for decades? The churches that moralize while hoarding wealth? Or the hashtag warriors who think posting is praxis? If you’re looking for someone to pat them on the back, keep scrolling.
Criticism isn’t cynicism. It’s clarity. If your big plan is to chant slogans while the machine grinds on, maybe it’s time to rethink who’s really convincing everyone that nothing is possible.
I think all your criticisms are valid, but I sense a generalized vitriol born from disappointment of specific entities or people, while you're criticizing what's possibly the first "big" political for many of those people, and you risk of alienating everyone potentially capable or willing to do more by talking this way. No political community is sustainable if there cannot be clemency for the inadequate actions of ignorant people.
Accountability is important, criticism is important, but self criticism and self accountability are the most important of all.
Acting high and mighty towards the "less politically pure" than you will not pressure anyone into doing more, you might not like to hear it, but to many what you wrote can be equally seen as virtue signalling.
I write this with no animosity, just trying to form a constructive criticism for your justified frustration
Aren't the AfD only doing well in parts of East Germany, which had previously been under decades of Soviet rule?
This would be a more substantial counter-protest if it occurred in Leipzig or Dresden.
To claim that "Nazis are only relevant in the ex-GDPR" is part of what gave us this mess. Yes the AfD as a Party and other Fascist organizing still benefit from a lot of factors stemming from the History but fascist have a foothold and are gaining ground in the whole of Germany, as well as all other partys trolling to the right in "response" to the AfDs popularity. Friedrich Merz's latest escapades are just a new lowlight in the "mainstream" Partys attempt of claiming they can deport better.
So no I would say protest is substantial in every part of the country and 300000 people taking to the street in one Major city is nothing to sneeze at. (There are protest happing all over the country by the way).
It's young men voting for AfD, also in East Germany, i.e. unrelated to presence of "soviet rule" (DDR was an independent state, not part of the USSR). It's precisely the people being educated in the contemporary glorious western democracy that are turning to fascism, unsurprisingly not the ones who were drilled with antifascism since they were kids in the Freie Deutsche Jugend.
The rise of the far right is taking place all over western Europe and more so in the US, which currently has people in office doing the Sieg Heil and was, until last month, funding a genocide in an apartheid state. Blaming any of this on the Soviets (who actually defeated Nazism at tremendous cost) is ahistorical bullshit.
New version of AI New Bot
New version of AI news bot is available github.com/muntedcrocodile/ai_…
The program scrapes news articles from RSS feeds generates an AI summary of the article text and posts the article link along with the api summary to a Lemmy community.
You can find an example deployment of the bot !news_summary@hilariouschaos.com
No the AI summary is not as bad as it sounds. The summary is 60% identical to human generated summary and >95% accurate in meaning.
GitHub - muntedcrocodile/ai_news_bot
Contribute to muntedcrocodile/ai_news_bot development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Although this is getting some downvotes -- likely because of the 'AI' and 'bot' nature of it -- I can image the benefits of running this on your own personal Lemmy instance, leveraging it as a sort of RSS skimmer to determine which article were worth diving into or not.
In the roadmap of this project, there looks to be a political alignment feature, which is the big benefit of services like Ground.news and why I subscribe to it as a news service. As well: a feature to summarize a day, week, a month, etc., of news, which may well have the ability to be topical.
I try to bring as much of my reading into an RSS app as possible, rather than leverage algos on social to spoonfeed it to me. And while I love Mastodon, I also have to do a lot of scrolling and manual visiting of profiles to catch up. The same applies to Lemmy.
This may well be a tooling to make the kind of RSS experience I have been wanting, so kudos to the author.
Less of an axis and more of general left-center-right, all with regards to which news outlets tend to lean one way in tone and language choice vs. another. You can select summaries of each bias to understand those choices in the app. It also helps break down a few other items of note:
While this may be beyond the scope of your efforts, it does do some solid highlighting of news sources for me.
There are a few Ground.news bots floating around Lemmy -- or at least there used to be -- that would comment on posts to provide some or all of the above.
Japan PM Ishiba's Donald Trump study sessions pay off at talks
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Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s meeting with Donald Trump was surprisingly smooth, avoiding controversy or confrontation.
To prepare, Ishiba held study sessions and sought advice from predecessors. Ishiba's homework paid off.
The two leaders agreed on trade and defense cooperation, with Japan pledging $1 trillion in U.S. investments and boosting LNG imports.
Trump welcomed Nippon Steel’s planned investment in U.S. Steel. For Ishiba, the visit was a political win, bolstering his shaky leadership.
Japan PM Ishiba's Donald Trump study sessions pay off at talks
The Japanese prime minister gets much needed reassurances that his country is still America's top ally.Shaimaa Khalil (BBC News)
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"Ishiba followed a play book to flatter Trump personally and offer him economic investments in the US instead of confronting him", said Mr Hall.
No, no. A fiddle isn't that easy to play. He played trump more like a carrot.
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Even if you can, you're fighting against a company that has annual revenue similar to some country's GDP.
No company should be allowed to get this big.
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Old people and overreacting to normal things because new ideas are scary and confusing
Name a more iconic duo
My parents told me that I’d understand how the world works when I get older, but I just hate it more and more.
That's how you know you're understanding it.
So far my dad is like this as well.
I strive to become like them, they're both pretty great people all-round!
Can you handle shorts well? I am not (hate them) and I am from 97, like feeling pretty old
🤣this tiktok shit is crazy
Well in the Social Network movie and chapter 2 of the Accidental Billionaires, Mark Zuckerberg used wget in shell scripts to get copyrighted images for private servers.
Can we give punish him?
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I'm with you right up to the ageism. The folks who persecuted Aaron were older than him, but they were not boomers, and what they did had nothing to do with his age or theirs.
Bigotry is always wrong.
When it is used to denigrate a "mindset" that you don't like, it is most certainly a slur. When used to refer to folks who were born between 1945 and 1960, it is not.
We've all agreed (almost all) to stop using the word retarded to refer derogatorily to folks who do not have that medical condition.
Any word can be used as a slur.
You realize there is a difference between derragatory and slur right? Boomer is meant to be an insult. That doesnt mean it should be put in the same category as words like the F, N, or T slur.
Boomer is used to point out an outdated mindset or way of thinking in an insulting way. Slurs are usually a way of drawing upon a history of oppression or pain to hurt someone. They arent comparable.
All someone has to do to avoid being called a boomer is to not say some boomer ass shit. By comparison Fa---- and tr---- are slurs that will follow me no matter how successful I am or how insightful and well meaning my words are.
All someone has to do to avoid being called a boomer is
Everyone born between 1945 and 1960 (in the US) is literally unable to do anything to avoid being known as and called a boomer. The word was around for decades before some stupid mean people tried to redefine it based on their ageism, or in other words their ridiculous belief that old people are evil.
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isn’t a slur more than that?
Not really. I could provide actual specific examples, but I don't really want to start saying like, slurs, so. I think maybe if you think that you couldn't make a slur out of almost any word, then you're not being creative enough, or, you haven't acclimated to how creative some of these other guys can be.
Here, I'll come up with a theoretical example. You could probably make a slur out of, say, calling someone a banana-eater, right. I can even imagine two ways to do that.
You could have it be, okay, well, monkeys eat bananas, so, the banana eater is like a monkey, and then obviously comparing people to monkeys is gonna be a little bit of a red flag, is maybe racist, especially depending on whether or not you're using it to be racist, or applying it disproportionately to one group of people. I've seen people just throwing out, like, the specific lego number piece of the mass produced lego monkey, whenever they see a black guy online. I think, at that point, that's basically a slur, in how they're using it, and that's like, just a sequence of numbers.
Or, you could say, okay, well, bananas are kind of a phallic type of food, right, like hot dogs, or whatever, so, people eating bananas are gay, as a kind of substitute for a cock. So, it could also be a homophobic thing.
This is all dependent on the context of use, too. If you're exclusively calling one group "banana-eaters" based on their intrinsic traits, that's gonna turn that expression into a slur more. It could also be a statement of fact, right, oh, chuck over there, he's a banana-eater, he eats bananas, sure. It depends entirely on use. If you need evidence for how this shit can progress then you need only look at websites like 4chan or some other such nonsense.
On top of all this you kind of have the complications of, say, slurs only really applying to particular intrinsic traits that people have rather than others. Slurs can apply to black people, but calling someone a "cracker", despite being still based on an intrinsic trait, of white skin, isn't really a slur. Neither is, as upthread, calling someone a "boomer", because we all age over time, where it's sort of used generically just to refer to anyone older than you, or because it's usually applied as a reference to a very specific class of people that have a specific socioeconomic context, more than just being based on their age. You'll usually only hear people call, say, american boomers "boomers", in that context, but you won't hear that in, say, china, or africa, or most of south america, or whatever. It's a reference to the post-war boom years, explicitly.
There are also certain subcultures which re-appropriate slurs, which basically means that those words aren't really slurs in how they're being used in that subculture. I'm sure you can think of examples of that.
Yeah, I think he setup his laptop in a private server room to ensure that he had maximum speeds, so they called it criminal trespassing.
Such a fucked up incident.
Crazy idea:
If copyright was invented to prevent printers from scooping authors’ work and out-competing them for sales…
Maybe copyright should only apply if you’re trying to compete with the author?
So like, not if you’re just a lowly individual trying to keep up with the references all of society is making, or understand the world you live in.
out-competing them for sales…
Boy that is a really mental gymnastics way of saying "profiting from someone else's work".
LotR should have entered the public domain in 2023.
Instead we got the Rings of Power.
Back when I worked as a designer, using work without paying for usage rights leads to exposure of being civilly sued for copyright violations.
You’re wrong. Confidently wrong.
Any discussion/advice community that allows low-effort meme slop will inevitably become choked out by it. I understand I am in the minority and the mods like having the memes, but eventually we'll need /c/piracydiscussion if content of this formatting is permitted.
Obviously 99% of people here would agree that Aaron Swarts' story is a tragedy. But simple low-hanging fruit content is not what I want this place to have. And like it or not this community is likely to become the single biggest place to discuss piracy as Reddit inevitably cracks down on it.
Memes keep us going during dry times...
But yeah once we have sufficient amount and quality of discussions, threat actors will use memes to suppress that.
The Bible is well past the copyright period which IIRC is 70 years in America. The Bible is free use at this point. No different than the original Mickey Mouse which is also out of copyright protection. Or the Mona Lisa.
The fact that you reference the Bible of all books shows how unbelievably confidently incorrect you are. Are you chatgpt?
disgusting.
rip aaron schwarz, your ideas live on.
he didn’t kill himself, he was murdered and they framed it to look like he did.
for one, he was very vocal and political, he would’ve at least left a note….
for another, he was too smart and rich to think he couldn’t at least fight the charges….
i might have believed it if he had been sentenced, but he hadn’t even begun trial.
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Unfortunately I can't listen to podcasts. If I only listen to something without visual stimulation my mind start to think about unrelated things, and I just can't follow what they speak about, I loose track after a while.
Before podcasts there were radio talk shows, I hated them similarly, and I tuned to another station where they were playing music.
Meta hoards the commons like a dragon, pillaging open archives to train its soulless algorithms, while Aaron Swartz—a true steward of knowledge—was hunted down for daring to share.
One gets a slap on the wrist, the other gets a noose of legal threats. Justice? No, this is corporate feudalism, where the lords rewrite the rules and the serfs pay with their lives.
Aaron wanted liberation; Meta wants monopoly. The system rewards the parasite and punishes the visionary. Remember that next time you scroll through their ad-soaked wasteland.
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This is like the worst example possible, considering Aaron himself was rich, which should tell you the obvious, that being rich was never a sole differentiator.
But that might be too disruptive to the current echo chamber.
Aaron himself was rich, which should tell you the obvious, that being rich was never a sole differentiator.
you must be rich, white, and not too disruptive
I can only listen to podcasts and I really dislike the trend of everything being videos. Especially when it's about how to do some technical thing and you have to watch someone using a terminal or doing a physical repair.... I literally CANNOT. I can't attend to the visuals. Just zone out. I mostly listen to TV/movies. When I was a kid you could get TV stations on the radio at night and I was totally happy to just listen to them.
So you enjoy your half of the media and I'll enjoy my half. :)
Revealed: gambling firms secretly sharing users’ data with Facebook without permission
Gambling companies are covertly tracking visitors to their websites and sending their data to Facebook’s parent company without consent in an apparent breach of data protection laws.
The information is then being used by Facebook’s owner, Meta, to profile people as gamblers and flood them with ads for casinos and betting sites, the Observer can reveal. A hidden tracking tool embedded in dozens of UK gambling websites has been extracting visitors’ data – including details of the webpages they view and the buttons they click – and sharing it with the social media company.
By law, data should only be used and shared for marketing purposes, with explicit permission obtained from users on the websites in which the tools are embedded. But testing by the Observer of 150 gambling sites – including virtual casinos, sports betting sites and online bingo – found widespread breaches of the rules.
Revealed: gambling firms secretly sharing users’ data with Facebook without permission
Betting companies secretly track visitors to their sites before sending data to parent company MetaJon Ungoed-Thomas (The Guardian)
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Pregnant Palestinian killed by Israeli gunfire in West Bank, Palestinian ministry say
JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH, Feb 9 (Reuters) - A pregnant 23-year-old Palestinian was killed by Israeli security forces on Sunday in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.
Sundos Jamal Mohammed Shalabi, who was eight months pregnant, was struck by Israeli gunfire, the ministry said in a statement, adding that the foetus also did not survive and that Shalabi's husband was critically injured.
Details of Shalabi's death were not immediately clear. Israel's military had no immediate comment.
The Palestinian state news agency cited eyewitnesses as saying that Shalabi and her husband were shot by Israeli forces as they were trying to leave their home.
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in reply to The Quuuuuill • • •Tiefling IRL
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in reply to Tiefling IRL • • •WideEyedStupid
in reply to The Quuuuuill • • •FiveMacs
in reply to Lucy :3 • • •Lucy :3
in reply to FiveMacs • • •Mobil is german for Mobile, so it still fits imo (that's a lazy excuse for my brain not red-flagging the word for being wrong as it is correct in a language I speak, therefore being legit)
Also, "too big a word" afaik means the symbolic, so that calling Teslas "cars" overvalues them. They are not cars, they are merely mobile. Nazimobiles.
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in reply to wewbull • • •Kyrgizion
in reply to MicroWave • • •I hear a lot less from them now. I wonder why...
krimson
in reply to Kyrgizion • • •bitchkat
in reply to krimson • • •Tja
in reply to Kyrgizion • • •I'm probably not your coworker, but it was the case with me. I liked the guy when he was a weird nerd and I liked the car.
I still like the car to be honest but I'm seriously considering buying a bumper sticker with "I bought this before I knew he was a Nazi".
No way I'm buying another one as long and he's related to the company in any way.
Laser
in reply to MicroWave • • •Flying Squid
in reply to Laser • • •Zahille7
in reply to Flying Squid • • •andrew_bidlaw
in reply to Zahille7 • • •qprimed
in reply to Laser • • •still too close. send the sob on a Voyager parts replacement mission.
nevermind. thats probably one more step on the path to v'ger.
Chainweasel
in reply to Laser • • •Habarug
in reply to MicroWave • • •chilicheeselies
in reply to Habarug • • •My understanding ia that they get carbon credits for producing EVs which they then sell to carbon producers to offset. They also produce batteries.
That being said, its not going to take a deep dive unless they have consecutive missed eps targets. Even then though, part of Elons MO is to promose some visonary tech that takes year to peoduce so just sitbtight man becauae im telling you its coming...
This time around its robots for the home. Laughable not because we dont have the technology, but who has the disposable income to afford it? Even if they come out, and it turns out people buy them (which also means not heing turned off by musk); where is the moat? What stops a competitor like boston dynamics, samsung, etc from seeing it as validation of a market and then entering it?
lolcatnip
in reply to chilicheeselies • • •Even if Musk wasn't a Nazi, he's still a big enough douchebag that I wouldn't want to buy a car associated with him. And even if he wasn't a douchebag, the Cybertruck has demonstrated what kind of stupid shit Tesla does when they take orders from him. And even without Musk's influence, I still wouldn't buy a Tesla because there are so many other options on the market, and people have gotten very vocal about things like the build quality of Tesla cars.
That's gotta start hurting their stock price at some point.
Strider
in reply to Habarug • • •In my opinion this shows how fucking unrelated the whole financial sector is to reality.
It should be shut down or unrelated to the real world.
Gsus4
in reply to Habarug • • •suigenerix
in reply to Gsus4 • • •"In the short term, the market is a voting machine, but in the long term, it is a weighing machine" - Benjamin Graham ("father" of value investing and mentor to Warren Buffett)
Meaning that in the short term, stock prices can be swayed from a company's true value by investors' emotions and opinions.
But eventually the stock price will align with the company's actual profitability and growth potential.
And you're right that these are crazy times, and the "short term" irrationality can last a lot longer than past experiences.
Historically, we've used examples like the 17th century tulip mania, or the dot com boom, but it won't surprise me if Tesla becomes the poster child for this quote in the future.
Grandwolf319
in reply to Habarug • • •prodigalsorcerer
in reply to Habarug • • •The share price isn't based on car sales. If it were just about car sales, it would be about 10% of the price it is now.
The share price is mostly ridiculous, but it is also people trying to get in early, on the assumption that they solve FSD, battery storage, Optimus (their robot), and battery manufacturing.
If they solve all of this, then Tesla could 10x again. It's very future dependent, and I think that future is a lot longer away than a lot of other shareholders think.
I got in at ~$20 per share. I've significantly reduced my position over the last few months, but I do still believe in the original mission of Tesla. I just don't think they're going to get there with Elon.
Tja
in reply to prodigalsorcerer • • •IMHO only FSD is something they could potentially achieve, but it took them so long the competition is catching up. At least in Europe (where Teslas have barely functioning traffic sign recognition) other manufacturers have level 3 ADAS in production. Like legally certified and everything.
Their batteries ( both mobile and grid storage) are nothing special, the 4680 is MiA, catl and BYD have bigger market shares already, I don't know about Panasonic and other manufacturers, could be too.
And the robot is vaporware unless proven otherwise.
I'm not a gambler so I won't short it (Elon can give himself trillions in government assistance now), but sure as hell wouldn't hold it anymore.
prodigalsorcerer
in reply to Tja • • •Their batteries may not be special, but if they can scale to what they were promising a few years ago (which is a much bigger "if" than it used to be), their battery business could easily surpass BYD's, which could justify its current market cap on its own (but not much higher).
I've got mixed feelings on FSD. I think it's nearly "solved" for places with nice climate, but I think there's a lot of work needed to deal with inclement weather like snow and slush and even heavy rain. I don't think any company has any idea how to solve that issue, so they're just pushing it down the road until someone else solves it first.
Tja
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in reply to Habarug • • •PrettyFlyForAFatGuy
in reply to Habarug • • •I imagine that the federal government will be buying Teslas by the shipload
The army will be replacing humvees with cybertrucks.
Tesla will announce a CyberTank to replace the M1
i'm only sort of joking
Edit: HA! fucking called it
x00z
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in reply to x00z • • •x00z
in reply to TheHiddenCatboy • • •That's just a straw man argument.
I'm saying every news article now has the same thumbnail so half of the time I don't even notice the new evil stuff he is doing. That's BAD because it's the opposite of what we should be doing. Which is to recognize all the bad stuff he's doing. But now it's all just "oh he's saluting again".
I even believe there is a small chance they are forcing this image down our throats to make us immune to it.
So again, stop using the same thumbnail all the time, add it somewhere in the article or or post it in the comments or wherever. Because that's all absolutely amazing and I support that.
It's like your phone would have the same icon for every app. At some point you don't even notice the new ones.
heavydust
in reply to x00z • • •blakenong
in reply to x00z • • •/s?
They are.
Flying Squid
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in reply to MicroWave • • •tal
in reply to floquant • • •Boycotts by individuals are legal.
What he was complaining about before was that competing companies were colluding to limit demand for a supplier's product. That might run into antitrust law. But antitrust law doesn't govern the buying decisions of individuals.
AgentRocket
in reply to tal • • •For now...
Ziggurat
in reply to MicroWave • • •Blackmist
in reply to MicroWave • • •When it comes to EVs, the US is on the wrong side of history. Tesla may be there, but the US main export is oil and has been for at least 15 years.
Tesla is valuable because they're looking to put taxi drivers out of a job forever.
China on the other hand has hardly any oil. Same with most of Europe. On this issue at least, we should be allies.
Between them the US, Russia and Saudi Arabia will still boil the Earth, but at least we won't be fuelling their war machines while they do.
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TheFriar
in reply to thefluffiest • • •Dude every single time one of my uber/lyft drivers picks me up in a Tesla, I alwats have some kind of issue. The door handles fail to extend to let me get in (what problem was this design even solving?), when I’m inside the way to open the door is so counter-intuitive even after doing it a few times it still takes me way too long to get it open (dumbest design ever…it’s just a button?), the seatbelt buckle doesn’t click, etc.. Cheap fuckin construction.
Just terrible, stupid, designs. Add in the fascist bullshit? Fucking forget it. This asshole is ruining a good chance to cut down on emissions by being the face of EVs
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in reply to TheFriar • • •Tja
in reply to TheFriar • • •Not that much, but definitely measurable. A Tesla competitor did some tests and they got a 1% range increase.
Replacing side mirrors with cameras also has a similar impact, but costs like 3.000 euros as an option.
So your choice of wheels has a bigger impact, but it's not totally pointless. And cheap to do.
xmunk
in reply to TheFriar • • •Flying Squid
in reply to xmunk • • •A button which requires the car's power to be working.
Don't worry, there is an emergency release! It takes a little while to get to, so I hope the burning Tesla you're trapped inside doesn't burn too quickly.
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in reply to Flying Squid • • •"Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand, and I will move the earth" - 287-212 BC
"Just give me a damn lever" - 2025
Tja
in reply to xmunk • • •To give the car time to lower the window a few millimeters and avoid damaging the seal. Plus someone probably thought it would look cool or something. There's a manual release in case the car loses power, or something breaks.
It's not unique to Teslas either, a few other cars have done the same thing.
reksas
in reply to TheFriar • • •maybe that was the plan
meowmeowbeanz
in reply to MicroWave • • •Musk’s clown car of leadership finally careens into reality. When your CEO’s political acumen involves cosplaying as a far-right edgelord, even Europe’s EV adopters—historically tolerant of overpriced gadgets—start side-eyeing the brand. Tesla’s not a car company anymore; it’s a vanity project for a man who thinks “free speech” means platforming Nazis.
Meanwhile, European automakers are quietly eating Tesla’s lunch with actual innovation, not just empty hype. Musk’s fanbase? A shrinking cult of tech bros and crypto gamblers. The rest of us? We’ve moved on to cars that don’t come with a side of embarrassing billionaire tantrums.
Democracy’s broken? Sure. But watching Musk torch his own empire? Chef’s kiss.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
in reply to meowmeowbeanz • • •meowmeowbeanz
in reply to WhiskyTangoFoxtrot • • •The difference? One is a poser draped in the aesthetics of reactionary outrage to court attention and controversy, while the other is fully marinated in the ideology, living and breathing it. The former plays dress-up for clout; the latter believes the costume is their skin.
But let’s not split hairs—both are toxic. Whether it’s cosplay or conviction, the result is the same: amplifying regressive garbage under the guise of “provocation.” One just happens to be better at monetizing it.
Saleh
in reply to meowmeowbeanz • • •MonkeMischief
in reply to MicroWave • • •Oo I hope this starts a wave of catchy mockery towards everything he touches and everything like him, like:
Go fash, stonks crash.
bean
in reply to MicroWave • • •Aceticon
in reply to MicroWave • • •Having lived in a couple of countries in Europe, including a decade in Britain, I would say the UK is one of the most Fascist countries in Europe (for example having a citizen surveillance system even more extreme than the US and Press censorship in the form of D-Noticies), though elites there are extremelly good at being subtle and posh about it so the will keep up appearences: you won't see goose stepping on the streets but for example in peaceful demonstrations the police will charge the crowd and News will report that - by showing the footage in the inverse order - as people first charging the police who then responded to it and you won't see an overt Secret Police but once in a while out pops a leak of a special group within the normal police infiltrated Ecologist groups with undercover police officers (which came out because some female Ecologists ended up pregnant) or how their surveillance organisation kept Greenparty leaders under surveillance.
Back during the Nazi times the British elites were even pro-Nazi (there's a picture of Queen Elizabeth as a child being tau
... show moreHaving lived in a couple of countries in Europe, including a decade in Britain, I would say the UK is one of the most Fascist countries in Europe (for example having a citizen surveillance system even more extreme than the US and Press censorship in the form of D-Noticies), though elites there are extremelly good at being subtle and posh about it so the will keep up appearences: you won't see goose stepping on the streets but for example in peaceful demonstrations the police will charge the crowd and News will report that - by showing the footage in the inverse order - as people first charging the police who then responded to it and you won't see an overt Secret Police but once in a while out pops a leak of a special group within the normal police infiltrated Ecologist groups with undercover police officers (which came out because some female Ecologists ended up pregnant) or how their surveillance organisation kept Greenparty leaders under surveillance.
Back during the Nazi times the British elites were even pro-Nazi (there's a picture of Queen Elizabeth as a child being taught by her uncle - then King - to do a Nazi salute) and it was only the Nazi invasion of Belgium that changed their minds, so geopolitics rather than a dislike of the Nazi ideology of ethnic superiority (notice how over the years British elites kept supporting white colonialism and their violence, from Appartheid South Africa to Genocide Israel). More in general, the elites over there (which are overwhelmingly dynastic in nature, and I don't mean just the Royal Family) are strong believers in their own inherent superiority over others as justification for their wealth, so the whole ubermenschen and untermenschen thinking applied along class lines rather than just races (but races too: Brits tend to believe themselves superior to just about all foreigners but Americans and for example some of the most celebrated heroes of Britain - such as Churchill - actually ordered the execution of Genocides in the British Empire possessions).
All this to say that to me, having lived over there for a decade, the British's minimal response to Fascism compared to the rest of Europe isn't surprising - they live in a Society than in many ways runs along similar molds, harbours similar ideations about the inherent worth of people and is (including the Press) controled by elites who mostly are the same families that supported Nazism before Hitler invaded Belgium.
Deway
in reply to Aceticon • • •Let's be clear that WW2 didn't happen because of the Genocides but only because of the invasions of other countries. The UK is not special in that regard.
Aceticon
in reply to Deway • • •My impression from living there is that the UK never ditched the mindset that some people are born inherently superior to others, and that's both for different parts of British society along the axis of class (and in many cases also the different nations of the UK, with the English often seeing themselves as superior) and towards foreigners (Brexit did not happen in a vacuum).
I have the theory that is because the UK never really had a Revolution started from below (the closest they had were the Barons rebeling against the King leading to the Magna Carta or the Catholic-vs-Protestant fighting which was mainly different factions of the elites re-approportioning power) or Occupation by a foreign power that crushed the existing elites and loosened their power over the entire system, hence the established elites never really changed and thus the power structures in Britain, who those structures serve and who controls them, has changed a lot less over the last couple of centuries than elsewhere in Europe.
They're not as much Fascists in a traditional sense but more a contin
... show moreMy impression from living there is that the UK never ditched the mindset that some people are born inherently superior to others, and that's both for different parts of British society along the axis of class (and in many cases also the different nations of the UK, with the English often seeing themselves as superior) and towards foreigners (Brexit did not happen in a vacuum).
I have the theory that is because the UK never really had a Revolution started from below (the closest they had were the Barons rebeling against the King leading to the Magna Carta or the Catholic-vs-Protestant fighting which was mainly different factions of the elites re-approportioning power) or Occupation by a foreign power that crushed the existing elites and loosened their power over the entire system, hence the established elites never really changed and thus the power structures in Britain, who those structures serve and who controls them, has changed a lot less over the last couple of centuries than elsewhere in Europe.
They're not as much Fascists in a traditional sense but more a continuation of a Monarchic semi-Autocratic system were the power of the King was weakenned centuries ago and divided amongst the rest of the Landowner Class and later the Trading Burgeoisie without really reaching the lower classes in full (the closest to it ever happenning was post-War Britain and that has been reverted in the last 4 decades).
Fascism in Europe one of the reactions to Republicanism, but the UK never had a Republican phase and so a lot of the ideas on power and the worth of people in Fascism which are really just re-hashed monarchic thinking on who are the proper rulers and justifying it are still present in the British system in their natural (though more sophisticated in means and appearence) form.
All this to say that, yeah, I agree with you, it's just that I don't think their love for the Nazi ideology back then was quite driven by the same reasons as many other countries in Europe (though remember how even in Germany the Nazis had some support from the Monarchics) and that whilst elsewhere in Europe the elites that held such thinking were dethroned, in Britain they held on to power to the present day.
RidderSport
in reply to Aceticon • • •Weirdly though while that is still very much an authotarian system, it will always be a hard break on any too unhinged ideas of populism. It simply is not in the interest of the Elite.
That isn't meant to be an excuse, but it will mostly prevent the hateful or ignorant to grasp the majority of power and change the state beyond the point of no return. The point we fear might be passed soon in the USA, as well as Italy, Germany, Austria and all other countries where the far-right populists are on the rise, without being kept in check
Aceticon
in reply to RidderSport • • •I think Brexit disproves all that.
I've lived in Portugal, The Netherlands, Britain and Germany and the most unhinged ideas of populism I ever saw upclose which were the most widespread amongst the population, were in Britain during the Leave Referendum and afterwards - the same unhinged Racism of the Far Right all over Continental Europe which at the time had less than 20% overall support, in Britain yielded to the Leave faction of the Tory Party one referendum and two Parliamentary Elections and would've won them a 3rd one if the Populist Rightwing vote hadn't been split due to the rise of the (even more unhinged) Reform UK party and a First Past The Post system that turned that split vote into lots of constituency losses (to the point that Labour got 64% of MPs on only 34% of votes cast).
Don't confuse the quality of image management that results from the training most British Politicians got as children in very expensive and very posh private schools, with them not being populist - somebody like Boris Johnson was spreading the same kind of ideas as Trump, Orban or
... show moreI think Brexit disproves all that.
I've lived in Portugal, The Netherlands, Britain and Germany and the most unhinged ideas of populism I ever saw upclose which were the most widespread amongst the population, were in Britain during the Leave Referendum and afterwards - the same unhinged Racism of the Far Right all over Continental Europe which at the time had less than 20% overall support, in Britain yielded to the Leave faction of the Tory Party one referendum and two Parliamentary Elections and would've won them a 3rd one if the Populist Rightwing vote hadn't been split due to the rise of the (even more unhinged) Reform UK party and a First Past The Post system that turned that split vote into lots of constituency losses (to the point that Labour got 64% of MPs on only 34% of votes cast).
Don't confuse the quality of image management that results from the training most British Politicians got as children in very expensive and very posh private schools, with them not being populist - somebody like Boris Johnson was spreading the same kind of ideas as Trump, Orban or the Far-Right in the rest or Europe, he was just much smoother at it, mostly because whilst for example in the US the idea of "important person" is somebody who is loud, cares not about manners and sounds confident, in Britain it's somebody who is posh, has soft upper class accent and sounds confident, so populist leaders in Britain, being well adapted to local prejudices, project a different image than the loud and brutish common abroad, whilst defending the very same ideas.
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in reply to MicroWave • • •Not sure if it's just the promotion of the far-right parties.
For me at the latest after his "Heil Hitler" salute I'd be completely ashamed driving that car.
Might be interesting to see the exact daily timeline of the sales, if it collapsed after the 20th january.
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in reply to MicroWave • • •The thing is that the far right in Germany is nowhere near as popular as the Republicans in the US. And the intersection of Tesla buyers and far right voters is very small. Musk made a grave mistake in the marketing department here.
Comparable to endorsing Jill Stein in the US as company for small arms.
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in reply to Zink • • •Zink
in reply to blady_blah • • •I wasn’t thinking of it that way, but you are probably right.
I was thinking he can’t have real immortality so he settled on being as memorable as possible. But in his twisted conservative mind, maybe this is him wanting to be remembered as a hardass rather than an [insert slur for gay men].
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in reply to MicroWave • • •jumponboard
in reply to Willem20 • • •Of course, you can't brag about your 40k car anymore because it's only 35k now. And other smaller effects like the ads are different now.
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