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Comment Re:n/a (Score 5, Insightful) 57

Nope, not seeing it.

No centralization: One site goes down, inconveniences a few people, problem gets fixed a bit more slowly.

Centralization: A quarter of the internet becomes nonfunctional.

Centralization still seems like a really, really bad idea to me. It makes it MUCH harder for the internet to just route around damage.

Comment Re:Rivian service centers are not dealers? (Score 0) 74

There are still good reasons for those dealership laws, they're designed to keep some money in the local communities and ensure that major purchases which require dealer support like vehicles will not be entirely at the whim of a company that has no significant ties to the state.

The fix is to remove the Turdla carveout, not give Rivian another one.

Comment Re:The jobs are never coming back (Score 1) 64

Nah, there will be a few dozen jobs watching the robots at any automated factory. They won't be skilled jobs, and they won't pay much. And there will be somebody sweeping up.

But people really DO want to work in factories. I know people who used to make t-shirt fabric, people who used to make bluejeans. They enjoyed their jobs, believe it or not. Those factories are closed now, shut down maybe a couple decades ago. The union (actually used to be ILGWU before it was UNITE HERE!) even closed up shop here about a decade ago, the union hall is a pain clinic now.

But yeah, the people who used to make your Levi's didn't hate their jobs. They're not big fans of the service jobs they're working now for less money, though.

Comment Re:Nawww (Score 2) 66

Putin is NOT a communist. He's a capitalist oligarch kleptocrat dictator. Russia was NEVER actually communist, but hasn't even called itself communist since 1991 - over 30 years ago.

I have no idea why this idiocy persists that Russia has any sort of connection to communism in 2025.

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