Fascists worship power. They don't care about hypocrisy, they care about the position that gives them more power.
A prime example of this is free speech. Fascists love to complain about being silenced yet the moment they take power one of the first things they do is silence the press and shutdown dissenting opinions. Free speech is a tool to get them power, quickly discarded when it comes to maintaining or expanding power.
Fascists know they are hypocrites, they don't care. They'll abandon positions the second they don't lead to getting them more power.
Exactly this. Finance transparency should be a requirement for public officials. I honestly don't care if my politician has a NW of 10 million. I do care if that's tied to industries they are supposed to be regulating. I also care if they started out with nothing and became millionaires after joining politics.
That said, billionaires should be barred from ever interacting with politics. Congratulations, you won capitalism, now leave the rest of us alone.
I wasn't fully aware of NVK and where it's at. It's actually pretty exciting. I wouldn't mind dropping my current nvidia binary blob for fully open source drivers.
Not as bad as you might think. The nouveau drivers have come a long way for maxwell. You should give it a shot if you haven't. But, unfortunately, if you are using anything new then nouveau sucks. It's a fun game where you get to wait until nvidia no longer wants to support your GPU and hope by that point that nouveau has progressed far enough that you won't be looking at noman's land.
Standard and swappable battery packs? Yes. All the skateboard style vehicles or ebikes have battery packs that can be removed and replaced.
Making that automated could be nice but isn't necessary to get the benefits of a standard. A standard forces pack producers to compete with one another in terms of quality and price. It makes it cheaper to install new batteries. And it makes it possible to upgrade your cars range with newer packs. With an EV, you won't need to get a new vehicle hardly ever if getting new packs is relatively affordable and easy. Further, the worn packs still have value so swap locations will be incentivized to pay you for the pack they remove.
The notion this needs to be part of a giant battery swapping network to reduce charge times is silly. 10 to 15 minute charge stops are already very short and all you need on most cars for the next leg of a journey. It also introduces a lot of complexity. Like, what if I want or need a 100kWh pack but the standard is 80kWh packs? What about pack wear? Who's in charge of pulling the degraded packs? And what do we do about someone putting in a pack with fake capabilities? You have a situation where you are cycling parts worth well north of $10k. That's a mighty tempting target for theft.
A standardized battery is still a really good thing. I just don't think it needs to be a part of road trips.
Ah yes, because we've all forgotten that time 3 Jewish hostages with their hands up, shirts off, and waving a white flag, were gunned down by Israel's military.
What does "surrender" mean when the current occupiers are killing everything that moves?
I had a family member that nearly died from covid (and one that did). Before they caught it, it was a hoax. After they got it, they were mad that the doctors didn't prescribe enough ivermectin.
Importantly, presidential pardons only work for federal crimes. State crimes cannot be pardoned by the president, they have to be pardoned by a governor.
Schedule III is a good move but also ridiculous. There's no way MJ is just as addictive as codeine. But hey, at least this opens to door for national medical MJ which is a good step forward.
The evidence for it is overwhelming. We can watch it happen with bacteria. We can make it happen with food and fruit flies. We have fossil records of it happening with pretty much every species.
The only way you disbelieve it is you are taught a strawman version of it that Jesus can easily knock over.
For your car repair example, it would kinda be like someone got that and then started going to every crash up derby they could find.
No, it's actually more like you bought the car because you know you're going to rack up a million miles every year. Out of the norm but not an asshole move.
If Google didn't want to lose here, they could have not had that feature.
200TB is a lot of data and a completely reasonable amount if you are doing a lot of filming. HD film takes up a lot of space, especially if it's raw.
This sort of usage is so predictable I can't imagine Google didn't consider it when pricing things out. Heck, they advertised the unlimited storage space being useful FOR preserving photos and video.
Why give a company that spent 26 billion dollars making their search engine the default everywhere because they don't want to spend the 1 million dollars it'd require to continue supporting a product they advertised. They could have ended new sign ups and just supported existing customers.
I'm saying that Google should not be allowed to sell a product with an advertised feature to gain advantage over competitors only to later change their mind and remove that feature when they deem it too costly.
A multibillion dollar advertising company should have to support the products they sell.
If you bought a car and one of the features sold was "free repairs for the life of the vehicle" you'd be rightly upset if a year later the dealer emailed you to say "actually, this was too expensive to support so we are cancelling the free repairs, but you can still pay us to repair your vehicle or we'll sell you a new one, aren't we generous!"
Fascists worship power. They don't care about hypocrisy, they care about the position that gives them more power.
A prime example of this is free speech. Fascists love to complain about being silenced yet the moment they take power one of the first things they do is silence the press and shutdown dissenting opinions. Free speech is a tool to get them power, quickly discarded when it comes to maintaining or expanding power.
Fascists know they are hypocrites, they don't care. They'll abandon positions the second they don't lead to getting them more power.