Imgur is going off the cached location, restart the Lemmy app or clear browser cache.

Of course not, they’re either using VPNs or not bothering because they’re being compensated by vested interests one way or another.

Ay, fellow UK user! It’s simple: use a VPN to get around Kier’s wanking licence requirements.

He’s not even in office yet and us on the left are already trying to purity test his actions.

Jesus Christ, let’s judge Zohran & his team by their policy actions when they take office. Anything until then is just rampant speculation that’ll only serve the far-right and the foreign interest and big-money interest astroturfing bots trying to divide the left again!

Yeah they do that because the people who own the media know two things:

1. The Dems will get criticised by both people left of them and people right of them, so raking them over the coals generates a lot of outrage which equals to clicks and views.

2. They can use this public perception pressure to ensure they keep passing policies that are, if not aligned with, don’t affect the super rich owners and donators. Because the media owners can always dial up the jingoism and get the republicans elected again at the subsequent end of second term election.

Lib-right: We’ll just make them work to cover their upkeep.

Buying stuff from the US? That’ll most likely return though at slightly reduced numbers because it doesn’t hurt to have multiple suppliers.

Investing in US facilities? Depends: Distribution for consumption, sure, minimal risk so long as the economy is doing ok there’s a large consumer market to access.

Manufacturing facilities? Much more risky and less likely to return.

Does the Alucard at least say “Bitches love cannons”?

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The un-made bed

If anything the fact that the value increased is even more of a mockery of the high art world.

It reminded me of that one artist that was arrested for fraud because they were commissioned thousands for an art piece and just took the money and ran. If I recall correctly, the charges were dropped because they successfully argued that the whole situation was the art piece and a parody of the high art world.

I wouldn’t mind an AI powered clippy I could run locally (or at least a server easy enough to rent) that I control where it connects to and gives out data.

Same here. I’m this close to getting a cabin in the woods, pack up my whole library of books, move there with a couple of cats, and a shotgun to deter uninvited guests and news bringers.

If anyone wants to join me, great, we can grow food together.

Honestly, not having to work to survive, food, clothes, shelter all taken care of and given my level of education I could actually help some fellow inmates learn.

Even with the possibility of being killed in there, at least then it’s a way out other than suicide.

I’m getting real close to wishing for that.

Since I’m also in a country that hasn’t got the death penalty, I could take out one of these cunts who horde riches as well.

What does Lemmy think? Should I set my quietly miserable future on fire to do some good in the world?

Tankies. For the first two you’re thinking of tankies. They’re not leftists, they’re commie-boos who simp for regimes they were lucky enough not to live through just because they’re anti-US and have the same oppression kink as the right-wing trolls.

Yes, correct I do. Engineer brain working in dBs constantly.

I agree with this 100%.

Capitalism is exceptional at finding ways to provide value when there is a new market. The issue comes when capital gets accumulated and concentrated in the hands of a few.

We’ve seen it dozens of times throughout history where a healthy merchant class with lots of opportunity for upwards mobility ends up in an oligarchy as the market becomes saturated then monopolies, duopolies, and cabals (guilds) form.

The state needs to use the “P” and “L” in PESTEL forces (Political, Economical, Social, Technological, Environmental, Legal) that businesses (from single to large multinational) to identify new markets that need investment.

An examples would be new clean renewable electricity and one way of giving preferrence to this green energy by minimally taxing profts on this energy sold in the national market or international market via grid-interconnect networks (“Gridternets” if you will) with a clear plan to increase the tax to a normalised amount slowly overtime as the green share of the market approaches 100%.

It also has to be used to more aggressively dissuade markets that are more harmful than good now. An example of this is dirty power.

Coal, Oil, and Gas have done wonders for increasing people’s quality of life because they unlocked a new energy density previously unattainable. Now we have alternatives that are by every metric better; more efficient and less polluting.

Therefore, these industries need to be taxed out of existence by using a logarithmic energy carbon tax that keeps increasing year on year. Corruption needs to be rooted out like a weed as much as possible using a politically independent organ of the state to keep it healthy.

Then there’s markets that are stagnant in some state of capture: crumbling infrastructure, food retailer hypermarkets, etc. Windfall suprise taxes on incumbents and grants / zero interest loans for new competitors would reignight competition in those markets and the additional tax revenue can be used to fix the crumbling infrastructure these markets rely on.

And finally, I’d like to see a strong preference for co-operatives where ownership in a free market is much more evenly distributed by making them the least taxed commercial entities with businesses that have a higher concentration of ownership are taxed more through some sort of profit tax multiplier.

It’s much harder for a business to act in a pure profit motive to the detriment of society if the employees have more ownership as it allows morality to be expressed through political power within this business. These employees also then benefit from the profit share as well which gives stability and upward mobility in exchange for their labour.

There, that’s three proposals that could help towards decarbonisation, investing in underfunded infrastructure, and reducing inequality.

I am not a policy expert and there’s bound to be problems with each of those proposals that I haven’t thought of, but we have so much more to gain by working cooperatively together to build a system that aims to better humanity as a whole by using the best tools correctly and safety.

Until we reach an energy density which unlocks technology that enables things like a resourceless economy (a la Star Trek luxury space communism), we’re stuck with the tools of money and capital as the ways to transfer value.

I personally can’t wait for the day where “reputation” rather than money becomes the currency of society, I am willing to work with the tools we have right now to build that future, and I have faith that others are willing to build it with me.

“America Party”

Americans really are the ultimate parody of themselves. Have fun with your civil war.

If I was a US citizen, fucking gladly!

I’ll happily die for being the first one with the FUCKING BOLLOCKS to do something and go down in history. What about you? Do you have the stones or are you happy to wither away under a fascist banner to be forgotten?

Home of the brave? Nah land of the scared cowards, what a failed colony!

Then grab the guns and see if they fire. If they do, then civil war it is. Let these MAGA fucks fire the first shot and then the last will be fired when they’re lined up against the wall.

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