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I've started to see it, they're going to just start lying straight-up. "Oh, we never said that, we never did that."

It is absolutely essential that we never ever forget what they did to us, and that we never ever let them pretend that it didn't happen.

I have a gaming PC at home, and for that there's a reason to update every few years since video cards do change. For anything else? Nope. A 10 decent year old laptop with a bit of ram and an ssd is basically going to run perfectly for most tasks.

And as for video, unless I'm specifically looking at something, 480p is just fine. Who needs that detail for most things?

I think that changes a lot for a lot of people. It's great that we can have more power, but we are unlikely to need it for anything. At that point, making stuff that lasts sounds like a better deal to me.

Remind me in 2025 to look up Kivalina Alaska. Not long now until they were claiming it would be gone forever.

Honestly, I've considered that the contagion from Europe is likely to dramatically affect fuel prices in Canada and the US this winter. The fuel may be here, but if they're willing to pay more there, guess who gets the fuel?

I expect that if natural gas blows up, it'll mean that electricity grids see outages even in areas that don't rely on natural gas for electricity generation as people try to switch seeing their heating bills blow up (including the carbon tax which is set to triple in january up here)

I'm recommending people to plan ahead accordingly. Either I turn out to be wrong and you've got some extra supplies, or I turn out to be right and you're well off while others are struggling. I call this the day of the ant and the grasshopper.

Curious what that actually means.

My gas tank is presently 100% full, but I can't last the winter with it.

https://nypost.com/2021/01/21/twitter-sued-for-allegedly-refusing-to-remove-child-porn/

We MUST MUST MUST remember this story any time they're pretending they won't be able to moderate CP if you fire a bunch of people from twitter.

>not emitting more co2 in the future than expected in growth is equal to actually reducing it (government already does this when talking about budget deficit and debt)

The "My wife said it was on sale" school of reducing costs.

Protip: She usually spends more money when it's on sale.

A big thing to keep in mind is how our markets are so badly warped, not free markets at all.

The reason that there's so many investors with so much money to throw at useless crap is that the government created stuff like central banks, bank insurance, deposit insurance, and so on that allow money to be pumped out without any regard for the risk of an investment.

All this money is trying to find a place to grow, so it all goes into index funds, and if you can get your stock on there, you're golden.

This is all a result of "make the numbers go up at all times", because if the numbers didn't always go up because the state wasn't propping everything up, then capital would only grow if it was smart and chased smart profitable works, which is a lot harder than just creating unlimited money and letting it slosh everywhere.

I suspect we're going to see this hard if central banks continue to reduce liquidity to fight inflation.

Just imagine: Trudeau imports a bunch of gang members from New York, they bring crime with them.

Then Trudeau tries to ban the illegal handguns they're using as if it's the guns that are the problem.

We always sort of knew we elected a retard, but I guess this just confirms what we knew...

C'mon, don't you want the local duke to be able to bang your wife on your wedding night before you?

(Uh oh... I think many neo-feudalists would...)

This sort of thing is exactly why I migrated to a self-hosted nextcloud.

Why is it Google's business what I store on my drive? Oh wait, it isn't. And you know what else? I don't need to pay myself a per-product monthly fee for the privilege of having access to my own server. There's an upfront hardware cost, but when you start to look at the potential monthly cost, you come out ahead quickly and you've got freedom as well, which in my view is way more important.

The other thing I love is that nextcloud has a lot of optional apps that let you host all kinds of useful services in addition to just being a drive replacement.

I'm convinced that solicitation of random women is a core piece of their business model. Before I deleted my account, facebook would routinely ask me "Do you know this person?" and show me the account of some random hot girl. I guaran-fucking-tee you that this was entirely intentional to get me harassing random women so I'd spend more time on the site.

I suspect that if the government was no longer sticking its fingers everywhere, a lot of very rich people would very quickly find themselves destitute. None of them have ever had to run a business where they weren't being chosen as a winner because of their connections to the largest and most powerful state in the history of the world.

It's so ingrained into the systems of the moment, we're both writing this on a global network built almost exclusively on government money.

"I uh found 17 trillion dollars in redundancies" - Actually increases spending by 1 trillion

God damnit elon...

Liz Truss is in trouble because she just stepped in and tried to do the conservative playbook. Cut taxes, ignore spending. The problem is that neither the progressive playbook nor the conservative playbook are going to work in this environment. You're gonna need austerity, tax increases and spending cuts.

Nobody is going to be happy, but the budget must be balanced because credit is finite again. You actually need to convince someone to buy the debt, and nobody is going to accept unlimited debt purchases at rates under inflation.

Many countries in the past have discovered this, but the UK is just one of the first and won't by far be the last.

Sort of interesting that 1lb of gold was 5 years of a legionnaires wage, but that would represent about 23,100 USD today, or less than 2 years at minimum wage (presumably a legionnaire would make more than federal minimum wage)

>tfw people complain about mods and admins on a distributed platform anyone can host

Not just vaxes but lockdowns.

https://susankatzkeating.com/doug-ford-net-worth-age-height/

"Ford’s net worth in 2022 is believed to be around $50 million. What is surprising is the fact that it jumped more than 15 times from his $3 million recorded net worth in 2019. During Covid-19 pandemic his net worth increased as well."

https://news.yahoo.com/fauci-net-worth-nearly-doubled-154225312.html

"Fauci’s Net Worth Nearly Doubled during Pandemic"

https://freebeacon.com/democrats/the-stock-market-made-nancy-pelosi-rich-now-she-wants-to-ban-her-colleagues-from-trading/

"The speaker also reaped a significant return during the COVID-19 pandemic, seeing her estimated net worth jump from $106 million in 2019 to $171.4 million in 2021, an increase of 60 percent."

You don't double your money on a new prophylactic rotavirus vaccine. You double your money by shutting down the entire productive economy and holding it hostage until your demands are met.

Politicians wanted to use what appeared to be the biggest crisis ever to gain more power. The more power they have, the more they can sell favors. The more they can sell favors, the richer they get.

May politicians increased their net worth by orders of magnitude during the pandemic.

And I'll give you that they weren't rounding up the unvaccinated, but you get to a certain point where the audacious abuses of power put anything on the table. The camps did exist, they bragged about it. They were threatening to cut off unvaxxed from the economy altogether, to keep unvaxxed lockdowns in place for years. There was just a tiiiiiiiiny line they hadn't crossed yet, but they did cross all those other lines.

Ffs....