Very much this, Redhat almost certainly forced SystemD in to boost its services/support contract income, as it made the whole thing hugely less manageable and added a vector for continuous change.

This keeps a mountain of Windows admins in high paying jobs doing very little, and that was 'the dream' I expect.

Many economists were not all saying this, plenty were saying other things.

The problem is, massive inflation is very GOOD for the Elite, the faster money moves, the faster they get their cuts, and it flows up quickly.
They HATE slow economies, and low inflation, because they cannot grow their wealth as fast.
In fact, the only reason inflation has been as LOW as it has been, is because the economies are so engineered to take money to their hands quickly, that much of it is drained out before having much effect.

They have used their power to 'educate' us that inflation, fast economies, is good for the middle/low where most people exist.
Hence, people plead and dream of lower interest rates, more government spending, and higher 'healthy' inflation - because they have been brainwashed into wanting this even though it is destroying the middle class. They are rewarded with leasehold fancy cars, bigscreen TVs, and $1000+ smartphones, while they lose their actual assets of value, and sink deeper into debt to fund the wealth of the elite.

However, it is not, it is good for them, the people at the top, who are now wealthy on a scale NEVER seen before, not even in empires and kingdoms of the past.

The biggest problem now, is that the elites are using both communism (where the unwashed should own nothing) and capitalism (where the elites should we 'rewarded' financially) to try and create a system where the vast majority SHOULD own nothing and therefore be 'equal', while our betters own everything, for our own good, because they are 'better'.

History has shown us time and again that this will fail, and the tower will collapse as the middle classes give up and stop being productive, because there is no reward.. But the collapse is never pretty, or painless.

None of this is new or unexpected, all of it has been clear for some time, however people have blinded themselves to it.

lolz, thats informative? Must be fun living in your echo chambers.

your links are about trillions in pork? no, they are not..
your links are about the 'predictive models' being used for planning now? no, they are not..
your comment about heat islands has ANYTHING to do with what I wrote? no, it doesnt.

as I said, religion.. and yet people think that is 'informative'.. pathetic.

Its worse than that, they are comparing to historical ADJUSTED temperatures, and over the last 15-20 years, they have adjusted the old temperatures lower and lower and lower - for reasons they avoid explaining.
At the same time, temperature measuring stations that use to be in rural and semi-rural locations are now surrounded by tarmac and housing, creating heat islands that make them hotter on average - without any form of adjustment for this effect.

So, we get this outcome - and no one should be surprised.

Is the climate changing? probably, but since the methodologies being used are SO out of whack - we would not know.
Is that change caused by us? all of it? some of it? We should be trying to find that out, but instead we are screaming about climate emergencies, and needing trillions in pork for certain groups, why relying on 'models' that have never ever successfully predicted anything.

As a scientist, the methods are so completely faulty that until that gets sorted out - its all just religion...

Carbon dioxide has a half life of about 120 years, methane 10.5 years.
methane is basically a constant now, as meat production has relatively stable for more than 10 years.
Thats of course ignoring the real physics of saturation effects on heating, but those only make the problem less, so you wont care about that either.
The fact is that atmospheric methane is dropping, CO2 is the thing that is rising.
atmospheric methane has also been MASSIVELY higher in the past, because it tends to be a side effect of a lot of different biological activities, and there have been times when those were a LOT higher that now. Studies show that human impact has resulted in total planetary biomass being reduced by about 1/3 or more from what it would be without us, hence LOWER than natural methane emissions.

Damn that science.

Which is only a few news stories away.
So if we play the game many like, which is correlation is causation, then.....

But no, way over peoples heads.

>Using a gas powered yard tool for an hour (lawn mower, string trimmer, leaf blower, chain saw) emits as much pollution as driving 250 miles. Change out gas >powered tools for battery versions

Please stop spreading this crap. This is based on emissions of hydrocarbons from a small 2stroke engine. hydrocarbon emissions of this type contribute basically zero to climate change. CO2 emissions matter, and small engines, while not particularly efficient, are also not that bad in this area.

Electric replacements emit less (depending on power source), however by the time you include their manufacture and disposal (especially as their rather poor batteries tend to have a very limited life) they often come out worse.

So, no, you would be doing nothing useful for climate change - although they may be somewhat quieter.. depending on model.

There are 4stroke tools with catalytic exhausts that are much MUCH better for hydrocarbons, etc also.. just not that common.

Remember when the US would overfly china/russia with U2 spyplanes and basically row about 'well, what ya gonna do?' until satellites took over.

This is all SO obviously BS. If the Chinese wanted 'signals intelligence' in these areas, they would get someone to drive out there in a camper and point an antenna.
They could do that for years, and no one would do shit.

Sending a highly visible and marginally controllable balloon to do this would be able the least possible way to achieve it.

Why have people become so stupid?

I suspect this is enabled by the fact that in japan you can do nearly ANYTHING and people are so polite they will not stop you, or speak up.
There are up and down sides to almost everything.

However on the flip side, licking a soysauce bottle causes less 'harm' than kissing someone. probably farless, as soy is salty, and will kill most bacteria rather quickly.
It is not some kind of terrifying thing to be horrified by, it is kids being stupid, because thats what kids do.

People these days REALLY need to get a grip and some perspective.

Social media is to blame for more people doing this, and also for hoards of people panicking ABOUT this.
And the upshot of the panic? More public surveillance - good job, idiots.

Yes, you are right, thats why they are expoding left right and center, and the massive fatalities caused (direct deaths caused by Fukoshima: zero)
Thank goodness coal mining, wind power, and solar are all perfectly safe (oh wait, all of them kill far more than nuclear).

So yes, lets just ignore the cleanest safest form of power we have, and regress, because 'OMG!!!!!!'

Because the police sketch artists can apply the require local 'anti-racism' bias to make sure the sketch doesnt look too much like a minority, no matter how strongly the victim identifies them as one.
AI will just do what it is hold, uuntill they tune in a required political bias, probably.
Exactly this lead to a large number of young girls being gang raped in the UK without proper investigation a decade or two ago, and I can only imagine it has got worse.

This

Of course the problem is to keep your new car warranty you have to have them 'service' it.. at which point they will almost certainly check for such things if they become common enough, and they will back this with some 'safety' bs, probably leaning on governments to give them powers to enforce.

Then again, I have never had the remotest desire to purchase a 'new' vehicle. I prefer someone else to take the initial depreciation hit and run the vehicle in for me.

It is also impossible to write useful code in Haskell ;)
well, practically impossible.

The koolaid is strong with this one ;)

Do you have any idea how hilariously pathetic this looks from outside the US?
Perhaps its time for a few more 'mostly peaceful' riots

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Felectroverse.co%2Fdr-william-happer-there-is-no-climate-emergency%2F

Why CO2 effects are close to saturation, and small changes have immeasurable effects?

Sorry for injecting some facts into the rhetoric.. We should just listen to random slashdotters instead, I guess.