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Corporations can do whatever they want with regards to limiting speech and throwing people out. Depending on or demanding fairness from corporations is the fundamental problem. If you want fairness, nonprofit hardware and software platforms are the only way out. Unions, petitions, and PACs aren't going to change the profit motives of FAANG/YT.

Yep. You can make friends with crows, and they will remember you for a very long time. If you get shiny things, then you're the crow's meow. Bones maybe just "meh."

https://youtu.be/dg3ApNJct6Q

https://youtu.be/0fiAoqwsc9g

https://youtu.be/HWXe7Js6GnI

https://youtu.be/VOmRNeYZVfE

Furthermore, crows can be sneaky. A murder of them hanging out behind my mechanic's goaded the dork of the group into stealing a bag sunflower seeds on top of a rolling toolbox 30 ft / 10 m on the other side of the shop from the roll-up doors. It had to figure-out how to sneak-in, hop up on the toolbox, and sneak-out without being detected like a bloody ninja. The group of them had a sunflower seed party in the alley and one mechanic wondered where his snack went to. And there were 3 people in the shop at the time! xD

I love bacon, burgers, hot dogs, fillet mignon, and porterhouse too, but I don't eat them because they're suicidal and omnicidal choices, like slurping down 256 oz. of HFCS, smoking 6 packs a day, or weighing 200 kg.

If there were really good Impossible Bacon, I would go for it.

We need alternatives that don't create more externalities than they solve, whether that means cultured means or substitutes.

Furthermore, I think you're right in the underlying sentiment in that we need leadership to make tough, "austerity-like" choices to outlaw certain things that are leading us towards certain doom because most people won't change unless they're dragged kicking-and-screaming. Easter Island had trees, North America had megafauna, the ancient world has slyphium and those are all gone now because of humans.

Two things.

Wage slavery and lack of ownership of the means of production are huge problems, among many other problems.

However, there is no single, prescriptive utopian panacea; this would be an unserious, rhetorical ejaculation. If it "worked," anarcho-syndicalism would be everywhere. What works sustainability in the real-world is between socialism and strongly-regulated capitalism, but with highly-engaged participants and co-operative owners who get dividends and a stake.

Banks need to exist, but not as they are predominantly in concentrated wealth, power, chicanery, Wall St. speculation, and economic warfare. Credit unions, nonprofit networks and investment funds.

In order to make any lasting changes, first the power expressed by the 100k or so of the $100M+ to billionaires must be removed as the aristocratic cabal who buy power outright through lobbyists, politicians, tax dodges, PACs, and legislation favorable to themselves. Any real change must first eliminate the influence of their reckless, antisocial, vampiric greed.

How is this any different from hybrid vehicles still burning FF? Yes, it makes it slightly better, but eating certain protein sources is a choice, whereas transportation infrastructure is an economically-limited choice.

Animal ag still causes:

- climate change

- inefficient allocation of calories and fresh water

- water, air, and ground pollution (lakes of poo, runoff into rivers)

- pandemic and other zoonotic disease accelerated evolution (many animals in close proximity, including humans and occasionally wild animals)

- increased food prices

- usual also including animal welfare and cruelty

It seems like putting a happy face on coal, smoking, asbestos, or DDT

Yeap. It's basically semi-interactive, TV-on-demand and not much better. Theoretically, individual creators can start from nothing but they have no power when megacorps come along and claim videos they didn't make at all to extort creators. Depending on YT would be a huge liability.

Corporations gonna corporate.

How YT abuses creators and viewers, it would be better for all to go to a non-profit, sustainable platform that has clear, straightforward processes and doesn't ban people without a reason by algorithms.

Corporate platforms will always devolve into Kafkaesque hells because their motives are aligned with rent-seeking extraction, not promoting the arts or creativity/monetizing fairly.

Something's gotta give. If your business can't survive paying livable wages or the rent is too high, move or do something else.

Also, the amount of residential and commercial back-rent, and pending evictions stacking-up is another socioeconomic disaster waiting for the other shoe to drop. And when tens of millions lose their housing, it could be Brazilian favelas-bad.

Not all government is "bad." It's impossible to live in a society without enforcement of rules because anarchy is a wishful utopia that doesn't scale (Tragedy of the Commons). Nuance in what policies and government processes are part useful and/or part hinderances is needed.

Louis Rossmann discussed this in a video recently: https://youtu.be/vt_3OLs_lXE

Also, I would add that customers and stores are like a symbiotic population ecosystem. You kill one, you kill the other.

And then as people shift to nearly permanent WfH and the buildings go vacant, the restaurants become redundant too.

Also, pandemic or not, commercial landlords charging $200-300+ sq ft compared to $50 are repeatedly murdering whatever foolish business moves in.

It'S nOoOoOt LyYyInG, iT's CoMmMmMmErCiAl ReEeAl EsTaAaTeEeEe.

Yep. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Actual exceptionalism ended coinciding with the end of WW2. It's America's slow and steady decline like Rome. 250 years / 10 generations is about all a civilization typically lasts. Apathy, corruption, incompetence, disorder, inequality, poverty, decay, tyrants, and ultimately: dissolution.

Here's an insightful prognostication by the late, great Chalmers Johnson around 2005: https://youtu.be/Q2CCs-x9q9U

Depends what one means by "mainstream." RT and Sputnik do a little coverage.

Also not mainstream, TJDS and Chris Hedges cover it.

Furthermore, the growing problems of conspiracy theory cults is partially due to incompetent leadership and lack of journalistic integrity by those at global microphones leading to a dissolution of trust in authorities. The obvious solution to better journalism isn't an alternate reality, but by higher-integrity journalism that is sustainable and independent on the whims of mercurial "family products" executives with undue influence to have anchors fired. And that can had only by outlawing corporate, ad-supported journalism that creates evil, corrupt business model-reinforcing dark patterns and replace them with grant- and subscriber-based journalism.

Also, government-supported news, like BBC, RT, and Sputnik, is a terrible idea because it creates the appearance of a conflict-of-interest in holding government accountable. The Fourth Estate must be separate and independent.

I can't wait for the "If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear" refrains to be trotted out yet again.

Inverted totalitarian klepto-plutocracy wins against any individual who doesn't take extra-ordinary measures when it builds a panopticon. "Let's see your 30 year search history and find a crime in there to persecute, I mean, prosecute you with. Or even a professional technical illegality would suffice. Searching all records." It won't be used so much to target the "baddies," but for unaccountable, omnipotent, NSA-style mass-surveillance.

The banks service all of them and nothing much happens to them. Who are the real crooks?

For many years, there has been ShieldsUp by Gibson Research that scans your ports.

https://www.grc.com/shieldsup

Economic apartheid. Justice isn't blind, some people only pretend it's a meritocracy. Just ask Chris Hedges about the students he teaches in prison who are mostly black and poor who will die there because they couldn't afford decent lawyers. The US, for example, has the highest incarceration rate in the world of every country except Seychelles and has for-profit prisons, immigration detention centers, and legal slavery of convicts working for corporations and as firefighters for slave wages.

For fixed locations, there are cheap P-wave detection earthquake alarms based on mechanical pendulums that will give seconds of warning.

Example: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001D8NMY4

Also, cat alarms: https://youtu.be/VJ-p9qOhBv4

Maybe I'm wrong, but it comes across as encouraging knowledge-hoarding, omitting documentation, and other job-securing, second-stringer games like writing obscure code no one else can understand. That would be the mark of the unprofessional Milton jerk to be eliminated at the first opportunity. In general, always be working yourself out of a job so you can get promoted or find a better job elsewhere. Corporate employees retreating into their own worlds are a dime-a-dozen, professional badass go-getters are the indispensable ones.

Yep, the science is in. Lead, asbestos, DDT, PCBs, and PTFE/PFOS/PFOA.

3M Scotchgard (spray-on water-repellent for materials) was mostly PFOS, now it's PFBS.

Hipora, OTOH, is silicon-based. SympaTex is polyester-based.

On another note: I felt extremely stupid paying $300 for a Columbia Elite running rain jacket with Gore-Tex, with a lifetime warranty and bought from their store in Seattle, that subsequently disintegrated into god-knows-what and they wouldn't honor it. Never again: Gore-Tex or Columbia.

Comparison table of water-resistance and breathability of water-resistant fabrics:

https://www.sierra.com/lp2/waterproof-guide/

In a cool world, Apple would have an optional, unmonetized un-curated community app store that allows everything but criminal facilitation, is scanned for malware, and possibly requires open source.

How come the cover was censored on QI but there exists things in the UK like page 3 girls? Is a newspaper/tabloid somehow different or less accessible to minors than the tele?

Wait, they employed people to censor individual items of commercial art manually?

Swimming trunks is a pretty funny way to do it.

Meanwhile, The Stones' Live Licks European cover is better because the American one has a bra.

TL;DR: Smartphones with either productivity or socialization don't mix.

I don't doubt it. During work, notes should be taken on paper and smartphones should be left away as a general guide.

I also think the same should apply to social gatherings and meetings because the point of being with others hinges on attention. (Otherwise, it could've been done over email.) What does it say to others when someone doesn't appear to be listening or their speech slows because they're trying to read a notification?

Yes, and it happens when there are no apparent viable alternatives, when there are alternatives such as The Grayzone, TJDS, Chris Hedges, Ralph Nader but they are buried, undiscoverable, inaccessible, and/or banished from the mainstream for going against nationalist fervor.

So, it's much easier for people to make up an imaginary bogeyman or "they" that they don't have to and can't do anything about because it psychologically excuses them from internal locus-of-control and taking the initiative against powerful forces who would likely crush them, i.e., Assange, Manning, or activists and reporters in Mexico or Russia. Conspiracy theories also give people a chance to tribally bond over some "secret, forbidden knowledge" when their lives are otherwise so entirely horrible and devoid of a sense of community.

Maybe they're:

1. trapped in their Whole Foods NYC filter bubble?

2. they've seen too much in their densely-packed, urbanite existence where there is little community or reputation management?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2C5rnVC8QE&list=PLmiHNp6eb6...

3. American and so presume they have it "good so everyone must be good too," when the society is actually more unequal than ever like a Brazil or a Russia?

This looks like an under-recognized, purposefully-anti-competitive gambit to lock people further into Apple's hardware ecosystem, limit consumer choices, and purposely ruin a customer's product if they stray outside the walled garden.

Both of the "tristar" and "hydra" chips are fragile and prone to degradation, when they are connected directly to the Lightning port.

https://store.rossmanngroup.com/ics-components-and-chipsets/...

https://www.ipadrehab.com/article.cfm?ArticleNumber=32

iPadRehab mentions a tester, on which site also explains the causes and symptoms

http://tristartester.com/en/

More technical discussion about Lightning

https://nyansatan.github.io/lightning

Replacing these fragile chips isn't a solution in the long-term because it reinforces an artificially-constructed monopoly. In the short-term, it may get a user's device working but it doesn't help but throw them right back into debt peonage.