BYDs are everywhere now in Australia. Not sure what alternative brands are available in the US, is it just Rivian?

They took over existing publications as well. Still, I’m all for reigning in the social media networks, because they’re basically editorialising through their moderation (like that time Musk decided to boost his own posts so much he ended up on everyone’s ‘for you’ page).

If your moderation is basically taking on the role of an editor, you should be held responsible for any libellous content/ hate speech you boost in this fashion.

All UBI proposals I’ve seen don’t get anywhere near what you’d need to live off, and even worse, it’s sometimes sold as a way to gut other social programs. We definitely need to do something if we really are going into a world where AI is taking jobs, but it needs to be something better (maybe just provide free housing, and other basic necessities if AI can provide us with unlimited stuff anyway?).

But the way things are going, the billionaires just want to make their own personal wealth grow and don’t think what would happen to the rest of us in the future they’re imagining.

To be fair, it didn’t happen under his watch. He’s basically taking the opportunity to put the blame on the Tories for allowing it.

Yes, although this is NZ. But yeah, having it get out of control like that does definitely sound like sovereign citizenship shit.

Yep, that $10000 will be gone with the first doctor’s visit.

Yeah, you’d have to pay me a lot more to even consider it, $10000 seems laughably low.

You could just swap them on day 364 and claim they’re a new installation. Or just say you swapped them.

It’s the only sauce you can use with their printers.

Yeah, but instead of by mining (BTC, ETH, etc) or breng issued by a private company (USDC, USDT, every scam coin), it would be the ECB issuing the tokens. Not too different as to how they’re currently ‘printing’ money by digitally conjuring it up on a computer. Challenging the transaction fees by Visa / MasterCard is big tho.

There’s very little upside to attending a protest in the PRC, and a huge downside (cfr. 1986). The calculation is different in the US, obviously, although Trump is potentially changing this as well. They’re just using their past experience and they’re trying to keep you safe.

You just need to make a decision for yourself, are you willing to go to a protest now, potentially be imprisoned, deported to China, or do you just focus on getting a job and hoping it blows over. In a lot of ways it’s a prisoner’s dilemma: if you’re only a small group protesting, you’ll be crushed and nothing will change. If everyone’s protesting and organising some kind of resistance that can’t be ignored, you can win. The tricky part is making everyone come to the same conclusion at the same time to maximise chances of success.

Yep, the reason for the holocaust was that the initial Nazi plan of exiling all the Jews to Madagascar was deemed impractical.

I had no idea f-droid and let’s encrypt used US government funding. Hope somebody steps in to plug that hole.

They could start selling their inventory to countries they don’t sell to yet. Although I’m assuming they’re just pausing under the assumption that the tariffs are temporary.

There’s backups of backups of everything now. I guess if the people in charge want to do it, they could security delete everything, but a random guy won’t be able to, which is what happened in 1940.

And this time you can’t just go to the archives and burn it down like they did in 1940.

If they ever fixed it, I’m sure Musk fired whomever is keeping score now. He’s going to launch the robotaxi stuff soon and it’s going to kill a bunch of people.

I still don’t know if he’s just stupid or if he’s just doing what Putin wants by undermining NATO. I guess both could be true at the same time.

Yep, that one was purely about hitting a certain KPI of ‘miles driven on autopilot without incident’. If it turns off before the accident, technically the driver was in control and to blame, so it won’t show up in the stats and probably also won’t be investigated by the NTSB.

Yep, they were fine with ‘footing the bill for European defense’ as long as enough members bought F35s and whatever other pointless toys the US produced. Only France basically stuck with producing everything domestically.

Trump never really understood what that unspoken part of the bargain really was about. If Europe is going to actually spend 2% of GDP, they’re going to keep that money domestically as much as possible instead of sending all that spending overseas in dollars.