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Comment US regime asset (Score 1) 203

By pretexting US imposed sanctions to de-list maintainers he just proves that both him as individual and the resources his controls are an asset of the US regime.
By barging he is Finnish and therefore has some ground to resent Russians shows he is a brainwashed tool no more sharp than someone that would discriminate Germans today because of 3rd Reich.
By using the war in Ukraine as excuse to kick out Russians, means he approves all other aggression that happen worldwide.

In the end he is just an asshole, a technically competent, meritorious, asshole.

Comment Plain old capitalism is being phased out ? (Score 1) 112

The basic capitalistic premise is that the capitalist who owns the production means hires the worker's time hence a "fixed" pay regardless how much profit the worker generates.
Is the pay becomes function of the productivity the "employee" becomes a business partner and the "employer" should no longer have a say in how the time is spent.
This can go even further: the worker should be able to re-negotiate his tariffs at any time, after all if his pay is based on performance rather than assiduity, then he might decide to discretionary lower his performance at a key point in time unless the hiring company accepts a higher tariff, the only possible retribution at this stage would be a lower payout.

So in fact this is a two-edged sword.

Comment Re:It is Possible to Continue Growth (Score 1) 323

Unfortunately physics laws don't care about mind tricks.
A average individual is consuming more energy than the planet can provide.
The energy consumed is not only what You put in our truck tank or Your electricity bill, it's also the production of the food You eat, the construction materials of the house You live in, the shipment of the clothes You wear. It is also the energy consumed by those who took part in the production of those goods.

You might think Your job doesn't involve a lot of energy consumption (let's say You are a yoga instructor, so You only need to heat the room where You practice) but actually You are living on the surplus of Your customers revenues whose job is more productive and as consequence more energetically demanding, so You share this consumption with them.

At the end of the day, no economic growth is possible without increasing the energy input.
Don't even think about some "added value" green business that happens somewhere in the matrix outside of the real world.
If this business is supposed to bring benefits to it's participants, those participants will at some point trade those benefits to get food, shelter and other actual goods that require energy to be produced.

The standards of life or the population will have to be adjusted to what our world can provide sustainably.
This adjustment will happen ether way controlled or chaotic.

Other bad news are: democracy, equality, tolerance, support of the unproductive are all conditioned by the abundance and surplus. Once we enter in a world of constrained resources, these luxuries will become unaffordable. The society will have to regress to more efficient structures: specialized roles based on natural aptitude (no more equality), streamlined decision processes (no more democracy), no more wellfare (back to traditional families). Because there will be no surplus to subsidize the state structures, less protection (defund the police anyone ?)

Comment Re:Driving culture (Score 2) 178

I live in a Paris suburb, I'd say it's a matter of habit, if You drive there daily basis it's not a big deal. But once You get a couple of weeks off (in France we have 5 weeks of holidays) and drive on the countryside and Then get back in the capital, I'll admit it, it's a bit scary.

The funny thing that in Marseilles things allegedly are even more virile.

But compared to what You'll experience is Mother Russia, french drivers are actually a placid bunch.

Comment Re:How will this end well? (Score 1) 154

"We bankrupted the Soviet Union, we can do it again to Russia."
I presume doing so comes with some cost that needs to be considered, otherwise it would already be done.
Alternatively, the attempt is undergoing but didn't bring yet the expected results.
Russian economy is certainly not as striving as US' but isn't in shatters either, oil price is raising.
How exactly will You bankrupt Russia?

Comment Not so ecological at the end of the day. (Score 1) 202

This carbon credits business puts a lot into perspective Tesla touting them self as an ecological business:

Their business model involves profiteering from polluting technologies of their customers (car makers that purchase the credits) and facilitates the perpetuation of non-electric cars.

Keep that in mind next time a self-righteous Tesla owner tries to lecture You about Your fossil-tainted pick-up (that probably subsidized his glorified toy).

Comment Document (Score 1) 730

If you still have access to a word processor, open a new document and write down every thing you could think off that could ease the task of your soon-to-bee-ex coworkers when you're gone. IMHO this is the only morally acceptable behavior in your situation. And hurry up because 9 years of experience is quite a lot, 3 week wont suffice anyway.

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