nivenkos @ nivenkos @lemmy.world

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Pacman (and paru and the AUR) and chezmoi works fine, I don't see any reason to switch.

~30km with a walking group at university, from one city to another.

The worst part was the rain near the end.

Also 20km but through the frozen moors - some people that saw us on the way there thought we were new recruits training for the military!

No, Goodwill can even be entered on the balance sheet.

Generally it takes extreme (usually fraudulent) behaviour for it to be an issue to shareholders, and for that to stand up in court.

Whereas for strategic decisions (like employee remuneration, environmental investments, etc.), the dissenting shareholders should try to take over the board if there are enough of them.

Luddite nonsense. AI will drive productivity gains which will help research in photovoltaics, nuclear fusion, carbon capture (also needed for SpaceX's Mars mission), etc. and improve society.

It downloads from YouTube.

Income disparity is a good thing though - it's how you encourage people to study, work hard and invest in themselves and the future.

Accumulated wealth disparity is bad, and I agree with strong land value tax, inheritance tax, etc. to try to address that.

I mean I live in Sweden and in my building we have problems with people damaging common areas, dumping rubbish, etc. - but nothing can be done because only the police have the right to review CCTV here.

That's the sort of issue I mean, just the actions of a tiny minority can ruin a lot of stuff - but it doesn't need to be that way.

I can tell you right now that my luxury bones hurt.

That's the same in Europe though, dentistry isn't covered on public insurance in the UK, Spain, Sweden, etc.

But we have even less net salary to cover it when there are problems.

On the other hand it's crazy that the richest city in the world is plagued with street crime - even to the extent that it disrupts delivery services, self-driving cars, etc.

I think Bukele put it best when he said that the public stuff should be the best. But that depends on enforcing the law well so that public transport and services aren't destroyed by a minority of criminals.

That's how you get technological advancement.

Bureaucracy just leads to monopolies and little to any progress.

It's great though - that's how you get amazing services and technological advancement.

I wish we had that. In Europe you're just stuck paying 50 euros for a taxi in major cities (who block the roads, etc. to maintain their monopolies).

Meanwhile in the USA you guys have VR headsets, bioluminescent houseplants and self-driving cars (not to mention the $100k+ salaries!), it's incredible.

They already tried this sort of nonsense with the encryption controls in the 90s.

No thanks.

I highly recommend reading Sustainable Energy without the hot air by the late David Mackay.

The issues are difficult, and it's often about choosing the least bad option.

I'd recommend reading the EU's reasoning for allowing both natural gas and nuclear energy projects to receive "green" funding - https://www.dw.com/en/european-commission-declares-nuclear-and-gas-to-be-green/a-60614990

But basically it burns much, much cleaner than coal, and is easy to fire up, so works great whilst transitioning the baseload to nuclear and renewable power.

But the methane gets burned to CO2. Sure leaks are worse as a greenhouse gas, but then you'd need to count air pollution, radiation, water pollution, etc. from coal mining and burning too.

Coal is the real enemy, gas is already relatively "green" (albeit still non-renewable).

Unions can't stop layoffs - at best they can just change the order in which employees are laid off (First-in Last-out / seniority), I guess the process might make the company reconsider, but there's no direct intervention.

I'm a member of a union and went through layoffs.

I think it'd only change if unions had power on the board / guaranteed share ownership, etc. as is the case in Germany (board representation with workers' councils) and was proposed but rejected in Sweden (share ownership).

Read How Music Got Free - it's a book based about these same events.

Also 70% of any revenue increase goes straight to royalties, so it's diminishing returns.