FirmwareBurner

If only you knew the ecosystem in China and Taiwan. Even a fraction of the Chinese domestic market alone is enough.

IDK mate, I care more about the utility than the looks since I spend my time using the DE, not hanging it on my wall to admire its artistic attention to detail.

Like I'm sure those inconsistencies exist, but am I the only one whose brain just filters them out like they just don't exist? Kind of like how your brain filters out your nose from your eyesight and you only become aware of it when you look for it.

And to me and my use case and formed habits, utility wise KDE >>> Gnome by a wide margin, though KDE still has some annoyances I wish they would tackle, but for a free product, I can't complain.

Mr. Stark, I don't feel so good about this type of democracy.

So the short answer is "YOU can't".

OK. How do I vote out Ursula vd Leyen?

What about AIPAC members? Which is about 80% of congress.

There is ONE winner here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Israel

Basically, the UN can declare whatever they want, but there's nothing stopping the likes of US and Russia to ignore it and do the opposite of that.

It's the League of Nations all over again. Nothing has been learned.

You don't think many people are judgmental on appearances or at least think they are being judged?

That's the main reason why people get a better paying job, buy a fancier car, fancier clothes, nicer haircut, go to the gym, take Ozempic, etc so they can influence how they are perceived.

Maybe some people need a car to get to work, plus maybe they also want good optics with it, not wanting to be perceived as "broke" by the rest, so they splurge on a new car without any thoughts on financial responsibility just to keep up appearances.

When you put down all the dots and they form a line that trends in one direction, it's just reality. Ignoring it and calling it "self fulfilling" as if it's a thing that you personally have control of, IS what's ignorant.

>If you really believe it then please go out in the world and engage people in a positive way. Go do some volunteering. Not to make a change in the world but in yourself.

Being a decent human being does not undo the politically induced global economic issues related to the "late stage capitalism" you mentioned. It's two orthogonal things that are unrelated.

The only problem is even with the data in plain sight, government regulators still don't do anything.

NGL, would love to see techbros battle to the death for our entertainment.

Hey, if we're already near the fall of the empire, we might as well get some bread and games out of it.

Though Suck and Bezos would easily kill Musk since Zuck is a martial arts expert and Bezos is roided out of his mind, while Musk is kinda doughy like a human slug monster.

Austria's high groceries price problem isn't due to a fault of EU market integration, it's due to the cartels that own the retail sector in Austria and milk consumers for all they're worth.

In other words it's a domestic self inflicted problem, that Austria can solve but chooses not to, not an EU problem.

No way. I'm shocked.

>Equal opportunities can't be achieved without equal outcomes.

And how is 'equal outcomes for everyone' as the end goal, different than communism?

Even if you think it's not communism, the results will still be the same: poverty and famine for everyone but the elites since, news flash for you, people don't want to be equal as humans are hierarchical creatures just like our ape ancestors, and if you force equality of outcome upon them, you take away their opportunity to try to better themselves in respect to their peers, so then society spirals downward into everyone refusing to work or at most doing the bare minimum since there's no incentive do work harder if you'll end up equal to Bob the uneducated alcoholic.

>Wealth gives opportunities, so differences in wealth mean differences in opportunities.

Yes the lottery of birth in life is unfair, welcome to the real world. Some people are born rich some are born poor, some are born tall some are bone short, some are born pretty some are born ugly, some are born smart some are born stupid, some are diligent and hard working, some are lazy and procrastinative.

You can't EVER equalize outcomes because everyone is born differently and will have different physical and metal abilities and will max out at different skill levels. The only thing you can do is tax inherited wealth better, and try to equalize opportunities so that everyone gets a shot at the same opportunities regardless of birth RNG, but you still want the best one to win regardless, if you want society to progress through fairness.

>I'm hoping technological breakthroughs like LLMs will eventually enable new forms of democratic decision-making that could function as effectively as a small group of experts could.

Yeah, no. It's gonna be the exact opposite of that: more surveillance, more targeted propaganda, and less democracy. See Palantir.

WHAT?!

Maybe you mean the dynamic range clipping caused from the bad mastering that happened during the loudness wars, but CD as a medium is impossible to have audio distortion due to its impressive 44.1 kHz sample rate at 16 bit depth.