Governments don't need to "take control" of things, they get tax payments and can pass laws.
The US has never spent less on its military than it does now, and the military industrial complex has never been less important, because the rest of the economy has grown so much larger. So it's funny to see people still using Cold War-era conspiracy theories from when it actually mattered.
Is the world really that black and white? An unemployed person got a job, is he supposed to decline because someone else didn't want to go to their job because collective bargaining is more important than having a job?
In a society with healthy unions and strike protection, there is also a functional unemployment system. Staying on unemployment benefits another month, earning 80% of your previous salary, allows the potential scab to stand in solidarity with the strikers, and would be the moral decision. Not to mention the strategic decision, as there will be real social and employability costs to choosing to cross a strike line.
That sounds a lot of computing power to record and use language detection on everything the device hears, not to mention storage and bandwidth, that many actions should leave a trail somewhere.
Well before Steam's latest update, it was terribad too, their web engine they used could hardly handle a simple website, but I'm pretty happy about the latest update, took them 12 years or so, so maybe Epic will get on it on 2030?
I admit I don't use the in-app browser much, but the times I have I haven't ever noticed problems opening websites. What sort of trouble did you run into?
I play a lot of games where you need the wiki, so I use it regularly. Before the new update it was slow as molasses, I don't know if it was the rendering or some memory management issues, but it was like IE 11 in experience, especially when the site has heavy javascript, but it's decent since the latest update.
I like to buy products that I'm fairly confident I can use for a long time and/or repair, for example I bought a Dissim lighter just because of that reason even if I don't need a lighter that much. And I would like to buy a phone like the Nokia ones that have good repairability and replacement parts you can buy. But the problem with gadgets like phones is that they always are middle range models, which doesn't gel well with the assumption that you are going to use them for a long time, preferably longer than the average phone. In this regard, it's actually better to buy the flagship phone because they are often good quality and remain usable for the longest period of time if they aren't accidentally broken.
So this angle really doesn't make sense to me, they either have to start offering products that compete with the flagship models, or try something like Framework is doing with laptops?
Any phone will lose software support pretty fast, but on the hardware side a mid-low end android device will last 4-5 years of daily use (n=3). Are you speaking from experience or is higher cost devices lasting longer something that just seems correct?
Yeah it's true that the software support is a limiting factor also, but some manufacturers are better with it than others, like Nokia (HMD Global) which is why I use their phones. I change phones every five years, my current one is about to get to that so I'm on the market for replacement so it's on the top of my mind. My current one is a 250 euro model and I have been happy with it, but I don't game or do any heavy tasks with it so my experience is different, but I'm pretty sure that if I did game or do other tasks I would have had to change my phone way earlier, maybe even three years is pushing in this price bracket.
And I'm not making a blanket statement that higher price is equal to longer lasting, I'm fairly sure the foldable phones lose in average situations to non foldable ones just out of differences in usage and construction, and gaming phones with active cooling I guess too.
Where are all the people who are talking about how to prepare for the future? There are couple of billion people living near shores in very crowded areas, is there nothing planned or are we still hoping that if we do something the emergency will just fade away? Also, why are very smart people buying islands and land near the beach if there is an emergency, are they also hoping that we will fix this in time and their expensive investments are going to be ok?
I'm in the camp of what ever it is that we can sufficiently predict, we should also prepare for it, like it isn't likely that some space rock is going to hit earth in the next yew years, but it's a sufficient enough probability that there is work being done to track them and at least have plants on what to do if it comes to that, but this is not the case with climate change.
It is a very common error of thinking, especially in people obsessed with what Douglas Adams called "the movements of small green pieces of paper", to think that people with lots of money are very smart.
This is mediaeval superstitious thinking: "he is better off than me, therefore he is more fortunate. He has been given good fortune by god. He must be holier than me, and if I become more holy, I will receive god's favour too."
A lot of rich people are of above average intelligence though and they're definitely "smart", particularly if they didn't just get their money entirely from their parents.
Stockton Rush was a rich CEO and clearly smart enough to found a company that could build submersibles.
He decided he knew better than everyone else in the world and built a submersible out of composites.
Turned him into a physics jelly sandwich over the wreck of the Titanic.
Being smart and rich doesn't mean that every idea you have is always right.
More or less the same thing applies to the chemists who thought they discovered a room temperature superconductor or Musk buying Twitter. They're all definitely smart, but they make mistakes just like everyone else. When all is at stake is money they often have enough money that they can make a lot of mistakes and lose a lot of money and people only remember the ones that succeeded.
And A lot of what separates smart rich people from smart not-rich people is that rich people can try 20 different stupid ideas before finding a good one, without going completely bankrupt.
There are thousands of genuinely genius level people buying beach front properties, and climate change isn't that hard of a concept to grasp, even school children get it. And that is exactly the reason why I'm asking what I'm asking, are we all just living in a delusion, waiting and hoping for something to fix stuff and we avoid catastrophe? Nobody is asking how are we going to evacuate the entire population of Bangladesh because that might become a reality in a lifetime, nor are they asking what will happen to my ten million beach front property if the sea level and weather patterns actually get so bad that it's either washed away or just basically worthless because nobody will buy a property in a disaster zone.
> There are thousands of genuinely genius level people buying beach front properties
1. [[citation needed]]
2. There are billions of christians and muslims. Both are foolish superstitions with no evidential support whatsoever. Lots of people believe foolish lies; number of believers is not even loosely correlated with truth.
> Nobody is asking how are we going to evacuate the entire population of Bangladesh
Yes they are, and the real answer is "you don't, and they die."
> what will happen to my ten million beach front property
Yes they are, and the answer is it will be destroyed. But millions play the lottery, although only the companies running lottery always make a profit. Millions commit petty crimes, because everyone tends to think the bad stuff (getting caught) won't happen to them, but the good stuff (winning the lottery) will. Millions smoke, although once addicted it's not very pleasurable any more but it is expensive.
People like and choose to believe comforting lies, but they hate facing uncomfortable truths.
This is not a big revelation. It is not a profound insight and it doesn't prove anything much.
> But looks like everybody hates this question.
A lot of people hate foolish, pointless questions. Perhaps that is what you're missing here.
Well, at least all the channels from my country are either public or advertisement funded channels that you can see for free, can you give some examples of pirated content?
It's time to stop populist drivel like this, if this was just a political decision that was easy to implement and had only positive impacts, it would have been done decades ago, but just like "let's end crime" and "end hunger" this is just another populist political message to basically lie to people and I'm fed with this stuff. Truth truly took the back seat in the past decade.
Thing about Henry Ford is, he's dead. _Some_ people actually will be concerned with historical wrongdoing in their brands (remember the episode of Seinfeld where George's mother won't let his father buy a Mercedes, because it's German?) but people are far more likely to be concerned with bad _current_ behaviour. Ford's current CEO's wikipedia page is three paragraphs of very boring career details. That's the sort of wikipedia page you want for the CEO of a consumer products company, really.
Elon might be a fascist, but Henry Ford got a medal from Hitler and would complain about Jews when hobnobbing with Chuck Lindbergh. So shut up and buy a Tesla, amirite?
