Apparently blocked by openai. Not so open after all.

Nobody stops you from rolling your own with init.

And a distribution choosing different software eight years ago isn't the same as a private company intruding on your personal computer to change software without consent. And no, EULAs are not consent.

I'm not giving Mark Zuckerberg money so he can violate my privacy in order to manipulate me into buying more junk at my expense to further stuff his wallet.

I fully agree that the problems can be and will be mitigated by more immigration. However, I am not sure the English language focus is based on reality:

In 2019, while the USA had taken in 50 million migrants, Europe has taken 80 million, Germany alone 15 million. Germany has 25% of the population of the USA, so considerably more in comparison.

France and UK had about the same level of migration, each below 10 million.

Source:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Most podcasts take the form of a bunch of people at a table, each by a mic, who talk about ... stuff. It's unscripted. Unplanned. Shoot from the hip. And, unsurprisingly, it's also very boring. Contrast that to Rogan, who runs a podcast I despise, but who at least has a producer plan set ups to surprise his guest with something about them or their past they'd rather not talk about. To create tension or conflict. Better, think of This American Life, which follows documentary radio format. A subject is chosen for each episode. It's broken into two or three segments with a matching theme. Producers go out and interview people in the field who have something to say and the quotes curated so you get the interesting bits and not a bunch of wandering commentary. Then there's scripted VO to tie everything together.

Podcasters have conflated disorganized talk with produced and informed commentary. And people got better things to do than listen to boring nonsense even if they're stuck in traffic. I mean, there's always music!

Here in Germany the price is less than USD$2 for one self-test kit. (EUR 1.75).

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aldi-sued.de%2Fde%2Fp....

Don't know what they are doing in the USA.

I did not buy this on Ebay. I'm the same person who registered the account all those years ago.

Wait. Are you calling me old?!?!

Yeah. Guilty as charged. lol

Notice how the focus of 'Birds Aren't Real' is that robot birds are engaged in mass surveillance. Which is ridiculous, but with a tinge of plausibility since actual prototype robot birds have been created. But that's not the point. Forget birds. The point here is to dismiss robot birds as replacing all real live birds and in the process diminish or demean the concept of mass surveillance. Which IS REAL. I mean, we're all carrying phones with GPS tracking our every move, audio recording (which has been subpoenaed in the past) , and leaving video records these companies analyze for whatever reasons they choose.

The birds, not so real. The mass surveillance part, very very real. And I get the sense this movement benefits surveillance capitalists more than it debunks fake conspiracy theories.

GraphineOS. Requires a Pixel phone. Is pretty secure.

I have an old Google Pixel 2 which I regularly mount to my Yamaha motorcycle handlebars and I've never had a problem. Camera works fine! Use it with a PacTalk to bluetooth stream music or Google Assistant from the helmet. Would definitely choose an old or cheap phone with enough oomph to do maps and spotify over a mere GPS. Would not buy a $1000 iPhone anyway. $300 will get you a perfectly good last gen phone that will last several years. And if you break it, buy another and don't shed a tear.

China has deployed a one million volt DC electric grid transmission system which, is efficient at several thousand kilometers. They are deploying solar, wind, hydroelectric and nuclear as fast as they can. And not focusing on storage but instead a national transmission grid. Solar in the northwest where it's still light and transmitted to the south east where it's dark in summertime, especially for hvac cooling. Invert that for winter.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fspectrum.ieee.org%2Fchin...

We could do the same thing. And in fact we desperately need to upgrade our electric grid anyway.

A wallet is nothing more than software and a unique crypto key. There's no way to verify identity of wallet holders unless the owner registers a wallet to an official exchange. The blockchain will record chains of transactions to keys, and regulators are welcome to trace those transaction records as much as they like. But it won't get them identity of key holders or the location of a transaction anywhere in the world. Which means, in what jurisdiction did that transaction take place?

Want cash for bitcoin but don't want regulators to know? Trade bitcoin for dirty cash from drug gangs. You get dirty cash and they get bitcoin. They use the bitcoin to buy large quantity drugs. You use the dirty cash to pay fake rent for an empty apartment to get it into the local banking system. This is at least one way bitcoin is used for money laundering. And it won't go away with a mere law. Because bitcoin (and most every crypto currency) is unregulatable at the protocol and intended to be that way.

Liberals play by the rules because to do otherwise is to reinforce the very lawlessness and kleptocracy they oppose. Gaming the system ultimately breaks the system.

Maybe all that bitcoin money laundering of stolen sovereign wealth from Chinese mega projects and then expatriated out to buy residential properties in coastal cities throughout the world might slow down. Go crash crash. Could be a bad time to buy a flat in Vancouver or Sydney right now.