thanksforallthefish @ thanksforallthefish @literature.cafe

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f the federal government set up a replacement program though, and shipped all the JD machinery to Ukraine where hackers know how to modify the software, everyone but JD would win.

Funny you should mention Ukraine, a decade ago (iirc) Ukraine hackers cracked the JD interface and started making available a tool for farmers to manage their own tractors - John Deere sued

https://www.vice.com/en/article/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their-tractors-with-ukrainian-firmware/

https://doctorow.medium.com/about-those-kill-switched-ukrainian-tractors-bc93f471b9c8

Although I suspect you already knew that :-)

But help me understand how it's possible that our "free market" is enabling this, unless it's just a controlled market charading as free?

• There are very few markets in the US that actually achieve Adam Smith's "perfect market" (perfect competition)
• The more expensive the individual item, the harder it is for there to be competition (costs of standing up factories, distribution and support, low volumes of sales etc), it's extremely expensive to set up in opposition to John Deere
• There are other market statuses other than "controlled" and "free" - the vast majority of US markets are Oligopolies (few sellers many buyers). Processed / packaged foods for example - 99% of market volume is done by a couple of players.
• A century ago there were many farm machinery manufacturers - the individual machines were less expensive in real terms, and the complexity much lower. A virtual monopoly (one very large and a few smaller players) has formed through insufficient regulation to protect competition - the big ones gobble up the small and competition gradually dwindles

Sure, you guys get a lot of sugar so anything is an improvement - I just grabbed a UK Heinz Ketchup and checked and it's 11% sugars (that's the 50% less sugar version though).

LOL, no added sugar, we've just added apple puree so there's 12.5% sugar (2/16g) but we didn't ADD any sugar (noting it's 2g carbs then also 2g sugars which doesn't sound right as well, the other 14g can't entirely be fibre and water there will be some complex carbs in there )

And damn is that Daily Value % misleading - it looks like the percentage of the product rather than recommended percent of diet

Next TERF media beat up coming in 3..2..1..

And here comes JK Rowling at a gallop, absolutely frothing at the mouth

Lol. That is exactly what prompted me to comment

Yep, those are the subs in question. A poor substitution at the time when it would have cost less just to swap to the French nuclear subs they initially offered

That's interesting. I hadn't noticed that. It's entirely possible, but then that would have been during the Biden era so all bets are off with the Fanta Felon in office

Yep, unless the Brits can pull a rabbit out of a hat.

At least he gets to blame Morrison, and Macron already called Scummo a liar to his face so there will be some sympathy (albeit along with a lot of schadenfreude)

The French have been getting a lot of "I told you so" in in the last 6 months, particularly the "have your own MIC don't rely on the yanks"

Huh ? Your source for the top (ww2) plane doesn't show that pic. It has a skull with "axis nightmare"

Main reason I clicked because that pic is not at all typical of the art seen on WW2 planes.

They looked more like this

Pinups on ww2 planes

They (CIA) couped Whitlam for trying to regain control over Pine Gap, nothing to do with mining, that was just Rudd (and I'm pretty sure the CIA was uninvolved in that knifing, that was just naked ambition over coming morals).

Mmm, maybe, I'm pretty sure there's pretty solid case law precedent on this. It's been heavily litigated over the centuries.

The parameters around what is within the jurisdiction of the US Federal govt is pretty clear. Fundamentally Article I, Section 8 of US Constitution although there's a few other loose ends (implied powers).

"The enumerated powers listed in Article One include both exclusive federal powers, as well as concurrent powers that are shared with the states, and all of those powers are to be contrasted with reserved powers that only the states possess"

federal law does supercede state law (Art 6 Sec 2)

Only to the extent that the Federal law is constitutional (ie within its powers) and valid

Hello, recent Reddit convert here and I'm loving it. You even inspired me to figure out how to fully dump Windows and install LineageOS.

I am truly impressed that you managed to replace a desktop operating system with a mobile os that doesn't even come in an X86 variant (Lineage that is is, I'm aware android has been ported).

I smell bovine faeces. Or are you, in fact, an LLM ?

I'm all for it because it will split Trump's vote, but there's really no point as there won't be free elections for anything more serious than dog catcher in the US until the fash have been forcibly evicted.

The democratic options expired Jan 20th 2025. Resist.

"The foreign policy expert, a longtime Russia watcher, said she had first made a similar warning in 2015, in a revised version of a book she wrote about the Russian president "

I think in fairness that if she has been warning us for 10 years she's entitled to a little bit of "I told you so" now that it is bleedingly obvious

It's an entire german state cutting off 800k p.a of MS revenue. That's not piecemeal is it ?

Schleswig Holstein (sp?) are doing so, ditto Copenhagen and Aarhaus (DK) and I believe France are looking into it

I'm shocked ! Shocked I tell you ! Ok, not that shocked

<sigh>

I quite frankly detest M$ but keeping your pc patched isn't propaganda.

If you know enough to manage the risk (including proper network firewalls and good internet hygiene) then sure, keep going for a while. Zero days aren't daily, they're a handful per year.

On the other hand if you have no clue about ITSec then you genuinely need to upgrade asap because you're metaphorically running around with your genitals exposed.

Your comment leads me to suggest you probably dont have the skills to do an appropriate risk assessment.

But you do you. I'm not your Dad