"clutch back pieces of your own freedom"

LOL. I wish I could invest in hyperbole stocks.

You know what? The middle class has - more or less since there was one - gone "to a place to work" and then gone home. Let's remember this has been normal for CENTURIES.

When covid hit, and we'd all suspected for a few years that working remotely was POSSIBLE, there was suddenly a high demand for it. Companies spent PILES of $$ on mostlyshitty remote systems that have by and large gotten better up to "ok". And we worked from home because companies had no choice. Now that the emergency is over, the elite workers (let's remember the real peons in service industries, food service, etc NEVER got the choice, so fuck them, right?) "don't want to go back" - even though almost certainly most of them over 30 originally signed employment agreements that presupposed working in an office every day. (It was so obvious, and so assumed, that no, in fact, most of such agreements didn't mention it explicitly.)

Now it's "freedom", is it? You guys need to work on your narrative, between your therapy sessions.

My favorite bit is that companies - who are on supposedly universally seething with unadulterated greed, mind you, are now somehow uninterested in the $millions per year they could save on commercial real estate letting people work from home, using their own kitchens and offices (for free) rather than the $140 persqft downtown office space?
And this is because, let me see, they somehow get off on flexing on the peons who (supposedly) are just as effective from home?

Maybe roll through that narrative in your head again, see if it makes sense this time:
- allegedly workers are really JUST AS EFFECTIVE from home (according to them)
- they could work entirely from home, easily saving businesses $millions/year
- and yet the pointy-heads don't want this just so ... they can wander around the office with a stale cup of coffee, ogle the secretary's tits, and force the peons to genuflect?

Of course. Makes perfect sense. This is why we can't ever have nice things. Someone always tries to take advantage.

The one thing I can assert confidently is the next time circumstances require companies to loosen the norms a squidgen for workers' sake, COVID showed them "just don't do it, because everyone will start insisting that (whatever it is) is an ESSENTIAL FREEDOM now". Nice precedent.

FWIW, I have 6 employees, all who are completely free to work from home (they were before covid, in fact). I go into the office every day, but I just don't get that thrill without peons to flex on.

In all honesty, he was hardly even aware of it.

the classified reason is the USA economy obviously. It is in bad shape and cheap oil is not helping to keep production going, oil is cheaper now than a few years back. Between covid, the wars, Saudis opening the spigots, the price has been going down steadily. Thus USA is no longer in the way of Ukraine hitting ruzzian oil tankers and facilities and thus the attack on Venezuella (by the way, USA is not worried about ruzzia helping Maduro. Americans have to admit that Ukraine tying up one of America's main rivals, ruzzia, a nuclear power at that, is quite an accomplishment for a non nuclear smallish country, that trump hates so much). Anyway, this is all about oil prices, oil demand and the fear of losing oil revenues, that is the classified part.

Both siding Linux and Windows does absolutely nothing for Linux. Burying our heads in the sand while chanting "proprietary software has problems too" is how we got to this point. Where Microsoft makes the best IDE for Linux, but being open source and cross platform, why use it on a Linux system?

The point where most "Linux" systems don't actually have Linux, they're OSS utilities in a WSL terminal on a Windows desktop. Or Cygwin before that, or Brew on a Mac, or even Brew inside a WSL terminal. The useful bits of a Linux OS transplanted to a better desktop OS.

And actual Linux systems are chromebooks, android phones, steam machines, or kubernetes nodes... because Linux software distribution not being "desktop scale" is the understatement of the decade. None of these are recognizable as a Linux OS. The whole idea of a Linux OS, as in a unix-like OS built with Linux and free software, it's a fantasy on desktop, and its best days were behind it on server.

RE the divorces comment, that's a feature not a bug when you realize that what's being uncovered is 100% deeply dishonest behavior.

Personally I don't know why DNA testing at birth isn't mandatory even if it was only to confirm paternity and then disposed.

OK, so if you disagree with 99.9% of what I write, tell me do you agree or disagree with this thesis I wrote a year ago about Islam being at war with the rest of Civilization:
https://f6ffb3fa-34ce-43c1-939d-77e64deb3c0c.atarimworker.io/journal/3...

this position on the government being 'necessary' evil that needs to be controlled because left to its own devices it causes millions of deaths by war and other means:
https://f6ffb3fa-34ce-43c1-939d-77e64deb3c0c.atarimworker.io/comments....

this position that government promoting consumption rather than production with 0% interest rate policies, getting off gold standard, laws and taxes leads to economic destruction, that there are no savings anymore
https://f6ffb3fa-34ce-43c1-939d-77e64deb3c0c.atarimworker.io/comments....

position that government selecting losers and winners by choosing businesses to fund ends up creating inefficient monopolies (space x comes to mind, but this comment is from 2010)
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fc...

position that USA is printing the dollar into oblivion, gold is real money and should be used as standard to prevent countries from inflating the money supply, that USA bonds are junk, of-course this was 2013 when USA's debt was around 16Trillion, today it is over 38Trillion, things have gotten worse by a factor greater than 2, the world is getting off the USD standard, using other currencies more, bond yields have at least doubled due to the falling bond price:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyro.slashdot.org%2Fcomme...

You can say whatever you like about my intelligence but if you disagree with 99.9% of my comments you are quite a bit off.

well clearly many of your positions are incorrect if you disagree with me 99.9% of the time as you said, that is because it is impossible statistically for me to be incorrect 99.9% of the time, I couldn't achieve that result if I put all my effort into it.

disagreeing with me on anything does not invalidate my positions nor does it make you right in any way, I do not know why it was important for you to add that to your reply, it actually implies that many of your positions are incorrect and it does not increase the chances that my position on flock cameras is more or less valid. My positions pretty much always align with each other because they are all derived from the assertion that maximizing individual freedoms is the most important goal for human life.

I do not think anyone argues that these cameras are not useful to find someone, whatever the reason. Maximum security prisons are also very effective for this purpose. Do you want to live as if you are in one?

really? does USA have a dictator running the place for 25 years, regardless of the rules? Who even appoints State governors, maybe mayors even? Court judges who rubberstamp decisions sent down from him? An actual oppressive apparatus designed to jail anyone and torture and murder? A population poor enough that an offer of a couple of thousand dollars a month is enough for them to go die in a pointless war, where theft and rape and murder and torture is not only for the enemy but is a common tool to force the own military to go forward? There us more, I can do this all day.

This world is upside down, where getting plentyful cheap stuff is considered to be a problem, where tariffs will make something great again. It is like living among amoeba brained monkeys.

Trusted third party that collects and batches multiple orders into lumps big enough to keep the tariff overhead reasonable.

Of course it would have to charge its own overhead for receiving and dispatching orders... never mind.

You don't understand what their lives are, all of them are on the dole, the main value to them is ability to get something from the government for free, be it a public transit pass or government provided housing of some sort or government provided doctor appointment and especially they are worried about their government provided pensions. A government provided pension is more important than anything to them, including their dignity (which does not exist at all there, see any video with them standing on their knees, asking putin to give them as or housing or whatever).

They are descendants of feudal system that have never outgrown it, they are completely convinced that theirs is the best place in the world as well and that Ukraine attacked them somehow together with NATO and that the West wants to steal their land and destroy their values. They love it when putin talks about Sarmat or Burevestnik (Skyfall or more literally Storm Harbinger) nuclear missiles hitting London, Berlin or New York.

Every day on their TV sets they tune into Soloviev, Skabeeva etc. propagandists, who keep telling them that everyone wants to steal from them so they have to attack them first to kill them before the theft happens.

Most ruzzians are poor AF as most of them do not live and work in Moscow, where the wealth of the entire stupid place is concentrated in a few hands and all of the prostitutes who serve these hands.

They are sending their husbands, sons, fathers and brothers (and some women as well) to murder, rape and steal from Ukrainians on daily basis and should they somehow defeat Ukraine, the rest of Europe will be next on the menu.

Do not worry about the 'poor AF ruzzians', worry what will happen if these zombies get their way with you.

I've been reading a lot about this and for the last 20 years largely the agw global warming advocates have INSISTED that food crops wouldn't flourish in higher CO2 environs (despite obvious logical and ample evidence - cf greenhouses commonly run at higher co2 concentrations for just this reason).

www.purdue.edu/newsroom/archive/releases/2017/Q1/rising-co2-due-to-climate-change-may-not-improve-agriculture,-model-shows.html
Rising CO2 due to climate change may not improve agriculture, model shows

https://yaleclimateconnections...
"A recent Department of Energy report falsely states that rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere will boost agricultural yields. In fact, climate change is much more likely to make food scarcer and more expensive. "

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedaily.com%2Fr...
"Carbon dioxide could reduce crop yields" Are we conceding that now? "OK yes it will help them grow but they won't be as nutritious" is th new line?
Just want to be sure I'm current where the argument's at.

I don't care about America and if you are an American you should blame yourself, after all, he is your guy in power.

As to ruzzians, these are zombie cocroaches that allowed their dear leader to be in power for the last 25 years because they are all on the dole and their sense of national pride is above any level of human morality.