Yep, if you want to use social media for your communications, spin up a Mastodon instance that you control instead of relying on some foreign corporation. Especially now that you can’t even properly load Twitter without an account anyway.
Yeah, the electorate also punished Carter for being straight with Americans about oil dependence and energy security. And instead of following the path of energy transition, they went with Reagan who promised Americans everything while undermining the middle class.
A lot of voters are basically like children that want to be lied to.
Cutting a cable costs you just a few tens of thousand dollars while fixing a cable costs millions. If you can just claim it’s ‘just an accident’, you can basically do it without consequence.
It also forces internet and possibly military communications to reroute, possibly over channels that can be intercepted.
Is this article an AI summary or something?
How did I guess he was white? Any other colour wouldn’t be asked politely to lower their weapon.
They should try again and replace the word Gaza with Sudan. I bet the NYT will have no problem running it then.
If they managed to dump out everyone’s phone numbers, yeah. Can’t read the article so I can’t tell if there will be consequences.
Jesus, the way they paint him and his mates as heroes for fleeing to Argentina like some former Nazi camp commander is really something.
Lame that they let him get away, but I do like the strategy of making sure war criminals are essentially going to be forced to stay in Israel or strongly allied countries.
It was probably one of those fancy electric ones with remote access. Cities will pay millions for something like that instead of the low tech solution of just having a guy with a key there that’ll set you back a few tens of thousands a year.
Yeah, wouldn’t mind that for the next 4 years or so, possibly longer.
Even if people stop doing vehicular attacks (which they won’t, see the Christmas market one in Germany and countless other ones globally), it’s a good investment in safety to have a hard barrier between people and cars for normal ‘accidents’ as well.
I think they had those, but they broke because they stopped paying the maintenance company.
Prices for other goods have gone down (TVs, computers, etc) in the past without being disastrous for the economy. You’re right if we’re talking about deflation generally (ie. ALL goods), but that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about tackling prices in specific, anti-competitive sectors like food, health care, etc, where there’s plenty of room for prices to go down. And all of those things are necessities where consumers can’t delay spending on them, so deflation wouldn’t even have its disastrous effect there (which is customers withholding spending because they can get more with the same money if they wait a month).
If you were to introduce competition within the whole chain all at once between farmers and consumers, prices would definitely go down. Obviously that will never happen because the government acts slowly and it can take a decade for a case to make it all the way through the courts, so within the current political context of the USA you’d never see prices go down. Economics itself doesn’t dictate that, and it wouldn’t be harmful if say the prices of eggs halved overnight due to more competition in the market or price controls, as long as it’s still profitable for the producers of the good.
Prices would go down if the government was serious about taking on the monopolies in the supply chain (meat packing, industrial farmers, grocers with local monopolies, etc.). If they were serious about antitrust, prices would go down and you wouldn’t get a recession, on the contrary, it would create jobs and grow the economy.
Fat chance of that happening under this administration (or an alternate universe Harris one either).
Yeah, his full suicide letter came out, and it looks like he was still fully on board with Trump and Elon. Doesn’t make sense why he’d blow up a cybertruck in front of a Trump building, but yeah. Lots of railing against the 1% while supporting a whole bunch of billionaires.
Amazing how many people you find are Hamas terrorists if you’ve got an electric stick up their ass. Pretty sure Netanyahu himself would admit to being Hamas in those circumstances.
Yep, some carbon capture tech is even used to extract more oil. They push CO2 down a well to push out more oil, then they get carbon credits for that. Does the carbon stay in the well after it runs dry? Who knows, it’s not the oil company’s problem any more.
That’s fucked up. They sign up for a job where PTSD is basically a given, and then they’re not allowed to go to therapy?
But not Catholic enough to take the pope’s lead when it comes to Gaza.