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- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 10 months ago:
Photographers are it an obvious term to search for on maps. “Photo studios” sure. But event/wedding photographers are a google search not a maps search.
- Comment on Why don't laptops have proper low power states where useful stuff like downloads can run during sleep/with the lid closed? 1 year ago:
As does Windows and Mac. The both have states that are “asleep” but connected to the internet. Whether they will keep downloading - it’s not a thing I have tested.
- Comment on The iPhone 15 gets USB-C, a redesigned Cybertruck surfaces and California considers banning AV trucks | TechCrunch 1 year ago:
Because of apple’s size. And because we just witnessed a death of a proprietary connector. A major win for the consumer and for the universtal serial bus projects overall mission.
On a side note. Apple has been part of the usb c project from the beginning and based on some biographies - they worked hard to never release Lightning. But they needed to drop the old 30pin connector and found usb C not ready when they needed it - so they release the lightning port instead. Then stuck to it for obvious profit /ecosystem reasons.
- Comment on Alaskan fishers fear another bleak season as crab populations dwindle in warming waters 1 year ago:
And yet. They likely all vote republicans. “Socialism” sends USD 200m to help to help people who will then shout “Let’s go Brandon” and do everything in their power to undermine any ability to actually slow down the warming of the planet.
I am clearly running out of sympathy here.
- Comment on I trapped a raccoon in my chimney. So... what now? 1 year ago:
There’s bound to be either an government funded animal control or private animal removal service in your area. You can search of true public service first. They can tell you if there willing to handle this. And if not can likely point you in the direction of the private service.
Or are you asking for options other than calling animal control?
- Comment on Microsoft now has implemented "compare with Bing chat" button when you visit Google Bard in Edge 1 year ago:
You mean like when you visit a Google service (Gmail, Google, Maps …) on a non Chrome browser it bugs incessantly to switch?
It’s pervasive and it stinks, but it’s not Microsoft. It’s our current capitalist gestalt.
- Comment on Why isn't there a "Spotify premium" for news? 1 year ago:
I agree the convenience would be great. But the reason it’s rare is that the business model does not work out for the newspapers.
This would lead to reduced revenue for the newspapers.
We already live in the world where news is behind paywall and disinformation is free. This would lead to collapse of more newspapers and further deterioration of the landscape.
We need a better model than Spotify to apply to news.
- Comment on Are American tv shows stuck in Act 2 for their entire runtime between season 1 and final season? 1 year ago:
I think the point of the question is that the producers get greedy midway. And stop the progress so they can go indefinitely. Then when the show is cancelled the finish the story arcs in the final season.
- Comment on Lemmy is popular nowadays, yet is losing its active users 1 year ago:
There are also conscious efforts to weed out bots and other measures that try to remove potential cancer from spreading.
There was a post recently that outlined not weeding efforts on a couple dozen instances that tanked user number by something like 1/5 - clearly visible on graphs.
Lemmy doing great. Even if plenty small communities are still not big enough here.
- Comment on SpaceX's Private Control Of Satellite Internet Concerns Military Leaders 1 year ago:
The problem for me is that Musk is an unreliable partner to any government. He is for sale to the highest bidder that strokes his ego.
But I guess that is a risk the feds will have to deal with in due time.
Honestly I waiting for the moment when a stunt gets Space X banned from government contract until the boot the Muppet.
- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
Exactly. It’s Cato directly that it arguing for unregulated market in an oligarchy. So OP needs to be clear who wrote the source.
- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
From 2023 perspective that sides seem like a viable path indeed.
- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
Sounds like your definition of “socialism” is (like Cato’s) “a state that is easy to criticise”. ACS did are some of the most socialist governments. They are clever about it for sure but that is why they are so inconvenient. Hell look as Norway socialising profits a from oil exploration to lift an entire nation out of poverty.
- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
You clearly know very little.
- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
Do not take this as a personal attack but your perspective is naive. All around the world capitalists argue for libertarianism or other forms of state stepping back from regulating oligarchy. It’s a feature of capitalism to aim for oligarchy. At least in practice.
Just like 20th century Soviet/Chinese/Cuban communism did not prevent oligarchs. Neither does the current crop of capitalism. They both - in practice- created easy path to oligarchy.
- Comment on There's Nothing Green About Socialism - HumanProgress 1 year ago:
What a croc - never trust anything “left vs right” from the Cato institute. Cato has never seen a problem that capitalist billionaires could not solve and “communism” did not create.
Either way - capitalism does not care to solve climate change because we allowed the capitalists to externalise the costs. If we prices climate damage into the cost of goods - sure capitalism could perhaps be less than evil. But of course capitalism breed oligarchs and oligarchy and thus markets were deformed to benefit the oligarchs (and socialise risks while privatising profits).