MasterBlaster @ MasterBlaster @lemmy.world

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I have to concede that i believe you might be right about that, sadly.

When the only goal by law is maximize profits, the motivation tends to favor minimizing cost. Change the rules, and enforce a new set of values. Only then will the situation improve.

Upon reading the whole thing, it seems Samsung failed to plan for the obvious, as TSMC is doing just fine in the U.S. with the same tech.

I'm incredulous that they only just realized it was a waste of money. Something changed. Either they only built it to get U.S. subsidies, or somerhing the current administration did killed demand. Which is it? I suspect it's the second option.

Yeah, that idea of UPS being a means of access is BS. This is the first i heard about that one.

Perhaps the idea behind that depended on the serial/usb connection to enable the server to shutdown and restart when power returns?

Not sure what UPS is in this context. I've seen some compelling statistical analysis that shows some very weird anomalies vs historical data. That is briefly touched upon in this article about a lawsuit in New York.

Similar weirdnesses exist in Pennsylvania where Democrats voted for Democrats across the board except for the presidency.

I feel this is odd enough for examination. I am not firmly convinced of fraud, but i do find it odd there have been few recounts vs prior elections, and near zero media coverage of such questions.

Good lord, we're still hearing about the 2020 election, but there has been radio silence on the 2024 election.

Yeah. It'll be easy, because they've rigged all of the vote tallying machines. There's pretty damning evidence that the Trump team hacked a whole bunch of voting machines and changed votes.

Blurgh! Embarrassing. Please believe me world, most of us are sickened by this guy.

Effectively, anyone who does not have a lawyer who files a specific suit in a very short period of time can be deported at will. Saying it does not end the 14th Amendment is an exercise in English language mechanics, not in how it ends up affecting the world.

If you are high school student who is shipped off to a foreign prison, how likely do you think it is somebody will fight to bring you back?

You are describing removing individuals. I'm referring to the system. Sure, over time if enough people sacrifice themselves to remove individuals in the power structure,, maybe something could crack open.

That's a very long shot. As time goes on, the security improves, the surveilance improves, and fear will stop most.

However, my intension is not to squash hope, but to shed the light of realism. This is serious, and keeping our Democracy alive has to be tackled with deliberation and coordination. Murder is the near unthinkable last resort.

I pay to avoid ads on Amazon Prime... Now i have to endure unskippable ads every 10 minutes, and my annual fee is up over 50% since i started.

Fuck them. No matter what, these mercantilists will extract everything they can, and they will break any promise or contract they sign as soon as it bemefits them. We, however, cannot do the same.

Numbers are less relevant when the other side has the most sophisticated surveilance system on the planet coupled with the most deadly military.

Key people inside the system have to defect in order to short-circuit that power.

I had success using openVPN. I set it up, generated certificates, installed it on my phones, tablets, and laptops.

It won't work when using an external vpn like Express or Mulvad, but while using it, you have secure connection to home. Once done with the home network, turn off the vpn, turn on your commercial vpn.

Translation: we're about to attack your ships, but we want you to blame U.K. and Ukraine for it.

I suspect it just isn't well known. I used it for a while in my early days in Linux, which was back in the late 1990's, and i honestly haven't heard much abiut it over the years.

I do remember being impressed at the time. I think most people stick with the defaults for whatever distro they first choose. Since i was using Slackware back then, there was not a default choice, so i searched and experimented.

The problem with these tariffs, implemented in this way, is that the less wealthy has to shoulder the shock and most of the loss of wealth, while the most wealthy solidify their place in society on several levels. The social balance of power further shifts toward the billionaires.

Tarriffs are better applied for protecting existing small and mid-size businesses in danger of being wiped out by huge foreign operations, and protecting industries that have national security roles.

The key here is they would be applied before we lose the capacity - not decades after we already adjusted to the loss.

On this side of the curve it is more productive to subsidize operations that can (re)build the capacity we seek. Biden's work with TSMC was a prime example. This approach is less disruptive. Even then, targeted tarriffs can be productive.

We could have saved our solar industry. We decided to let China sell priduct at a loss until their competition went out of business or left because no profit could be achieved. This is where tariffs make sense.

Are most people in "the west" worse off today than they were 150 years ago? Are there fewer well functioning democracies than there were then? Has no minority group seen any improvement in their freedom? Has there been no improvement in how people interact with each other? No improvement in poverty?

Yes, of course. Capitalism is an economic framework. A good political framework is needed, just like i said for socialism. This is a failure of the U.S. political implementation not of capitalism as a system of commerce. I would never say capitalism is the answer to all social ills. Your statement feels like a way to say I am wrong, so if I misunderstood, sorry.

Profiteers foregoing the largest source of profit? Not likely.

Oh, like NAFTA!