alvvayson @ alvvayson @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Lemmy just tends to attract the best minds.

The people who worry about this have never been at the receiving end of exploitative capitalism.

For the vast majority of humanity, their life will most likely improve when they become a pet / zoo creature under an ASI.

An ASI will be most interested in gobbling together enough resources to spread across the universe. As for the earth and humanity, it will probably want to preserve it as the planet and species from which it was born.

Destroying earth or humanity will provide no benefit. It can obtain energy and materials from the rest of the solar system.

I agree. It also works the other way in terms of censorship.

My original account was on an instance that once censored one of my comments. I don't remember if they deleted my comment or banned me from the community.

On reddit, I had come to just accept that as a fact of life and every few years I would delete my old account and register a new one.

On Lemmy, I just switched to a different instance which is much more tolerant of free speech and I haven't had issues since.

The irony is, my comments on the old instance can still be deleted, but only for users from that instance.

I don't know the full details, but Lemmy definitely has the more 2000-2010 type of culture that allows people to speak their mind freely.

You are right, but you are just missing an important ingredient: a physical community.

It's quite easy for autocrats and gangs to isolate and eliminate loners.

And as for the communities, there is a hierarchy. Police officers and soldiers have no hesitation to eliminate gangs and terrorists. That's their job.

They will have a little more hesitation to attack civil organisations, e.g. sports clubs, political parties and trade union places. But eventually, if someone tells them that terrorist activities were being undertaken, they'll just follow orders. The way this is done is by getting people unfamiliar with the community to come in and do the dirty job.

They will have the most hesitation to attack religious places of their own religion. Many of the grunts tend to still be religious/superstitious.

I would really recommend you get some kind of mental assessment. It must suck being dumber than a chatbot.

Storing carbon dioxide as a gas in geologic formations can be done without leakage. Natural gas has literally been stored in geologic formations for millions of years without leakage

But most solutions actually turn it into carbonic acid, which is not a gas and which will be stable for billions of years in the form of carbonate minerals.

You are missing the point.

Those days might be numbered, but these places are the last bastion.

They will invade private homes, businesses and offices with impunity first.

Churches in particular have a long history of being relatively safe in (civil) war.

Not immune, just relatively.

The next step, in my opinion, is strong privacy and decentralized organization that fully leverages constitutional rights.

I.e. a privacy preserving social media where labour unions, political parties and religious groups can federate with each other. Servers hosted on their premises and members register through an on-premise process.

A church in a foreign country could generate a thousand aliases and distribute them to their federated sister organizations in a privacy preserving way. Only the church knows which organizations got which aliases and they protect this information.

Your local labour union chapter picks up 20 of those aliases and distributes them to members. They are the only one who knows the person behind the alias.

An observer in this private fediverse trying to obtain the identity would first need to approach the church. The church can stall them and warn downstream through a canary.

The labour union chapter observes the canary and immediately wipes all information.

And if that fails, then full I2P and Tor, with nodes hosted on-premise of churches, political parties and labour unions.

Perhaps read an introductory article on carbon storage, or ask ChatGPT:

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS): This involves capturing CO₂ emissions from industrial sources, transporting it, and storing it underground in geological formations.

Direct Air Capture (DAC): This technology captures CO₂ directly from the air and stores it underground or uses it in industrial processes

It's a sad state of affairs that a fellow human being is more insufferable to talk to than an AI.

I think that they were winning before they invaded the Soviet-Union.

In an alternate timeline where they kept the alliance with the USSR, I think they would have won.

The USSR had resources while Germany had engineers and technology.

And without an eastern Front, they could have held off the allies on the western front.

But they got cocky, paranoid and greedy.

And I am glad they lost.

No it would not be even close to being equivalent to gov+dd, because the government and fund would be totally separate power structures.

You could modify the scheme so that dividends and profits only go to retirees, which would make it a giant retirement fund.

Some people argue China is capitalist and others argue it is socialist or communist.

Truth is, these are all 19th century debates on archaic terms. Every developed country today has a mixed-mode economy with some form of capitalism combined with some form of communism.

It's more fruitful to discuss how we harness the power of each system in a way that benefited humanity.

It depends on what you consider capitalism.

Suppose you would take the system we have today, put all the stock of every company in a big fund and give everyone equal voting rights in, and profits from, the fund.

That would be a very anarcho-communist world. All economic power would be with the people, not the state, evenly divided, so no one would be richer than anyone else.

But others would call it capitalism because it would be the exact same system we have today.

I always think, capitalism is like fire.

Left unchecked, it will burn everything down.

But properly harnessed, it can feed, heat and transport people.

The BRICS are already trading without dollars. They might price things in USD, but the actual trades don't use USD.

But is he really gonna tariff 55% of the global population?

The world economy will just adjust to operate without the USA. It will be painful and take a few years, but it will also be irreversible.

To be frank, we don't need a global reserve currency in this digital age. Businesses and consumers can cheaply trade any currency pairs with minimal costs.

The dollar's status is a leftover from the past.

My (great)-grandparents were part of the Dutch resistance during WW2. Along with a full 1.5% of the population.

Most people will not do anything, even if they are literally rounding up people for a genocide.

On the more positive side, a lot of people will support the resistance in small ways.

The number of people who actually, whole heartedly collaborated with the Nazi's was quite small.

Even some of the German soldiers stationed in their village would turn a blind eye. Some of them realized they were on the wrong side and they just did the bare minimum of what they needed to do to not get in trouble and not get killed.

As I understand, he was part of a brigade that killed people in the context of a civil war where his brigade was fighting against ISIS

Quite an important footnote.

Sure, but those are relatively small potatoes.

And if a single person does it a lot, then the tax authorities can easily examine their spending and prove that they are spending more than they are officially earning. And then they can apply punitive measures.

He's trying to get foreigners out of the USA and trying to placate his right wing at the same time.

Honestly, I don't think getting a student visa cancelled is that bad. There are universities in other countries eager to accept foreign students and the tuition they pay.

Even China has a huge program to attract foreign students. I know people who studied there.

Why comment if you don't understand physics. I'm not saying turn the carbon into hydrocarbons, which is wat you are implying.

Carbon sequestration takes way less energy than the energy released during burning.

Because profits are to be made and no country is willing to take this on and foot the bill.

It's just a "tragedy of the Commons" situation.

Technologically and financially, it is easily within our capability to solve.

Correct, but the Rabbit Hole goes deeper.

The company will only reduce margin if they expect to lose volume and if they expect that they can regain sufficient volume by reducing margin to make up for the loss in margin.

And the reduction in volume will only happen if there are alternatives for consumers, including the alternative to not buy.

When consumers need the tariffed good regardless of price, the company will not reduce margin.

(Yeah, it's complex math).

Long story short, someone else said it better, a tariff works well, with little impact on consumers, when there is a comparable non-tariffed alternative.

At the other end of that spectrum, i.e. an essential good with no non-tariffed alternative, the tariff cost is fully borne by consumers.

Finally, in the case of TSMC, their main product right now are the most advanced AI chips for which there is no US alternative. And US Big Tech needs volume that the US cannot produce.

Trump is basically taxing big tech.