I found a wallet with a nice amount of money in it.

It was 69 €.

15% yields when inflation is around 20% is laughable.

Europe is also still buying Russian goods. Funding the war in Ukraine.

Come on Europe! Get your act together.

Duck season

Outlook doesn’t use email addresses to route e-mail with Exchange servers. Instead it uses some internal “address” that is longer than the actual e-mail address. This becomes a problem when an e-mail account is deleted and then recreated later. And the old internal address is still in some users Outlook addressbook. Because the internal address changes when the account is recreated.

Equating Nazis and Zionists, if the shoe fits. You should be allowed to say it.

If only it were that simple. I’d attribute it to lack of media literacy, lack of critical thinking, tribalism, propaganda saturation of the media, lack of proper education and understanding of the world we live in.

The 105000 in Tokyo not enough? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo The 25000 in Dresden not enough? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden The 246000 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki not enough? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki Post war casualties? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

But those civilian casualties aren’t in the millions unless you count the post war casualties. That makes the US a “Good guy”. Right?

Or they know that there weren’t any “Good guys” around.

The Japanese war crimes are well known in the West. The US ones are routinely glossed over or ignored.

Wars don’t determine who was right. They determine who’s left.

Yeah, the secondary effects of a drop of that magnitude are going to be catastrophic.

Millions of people dead. Wars popping up everywhere. Hoarding on an industrial scale.

This is why I love EU’s GDPR. Reply to their spam with an official GDPR request to be removed from their records.

It doesn’t work all the time. But it works well enough.

Musk wants Trump to pull the subsidies. So that the legacy auto makers won’t benefit from them. This will just slow the adoption of EVs. But it will not negatively impact Tesla.

Know when to walk away. Know when to run.

Democracy doesn’t have to be a tyranny of the majority. In its purest form it is. And that is why constitutional republics ensure citizen’s rights in their constitutions. We need a similar system for economy.

A sketch of that would a be a system where you’d have constitutional republic with independent legislature, judiciary and executive branches. Separated from the economic players as well as possible. They would provide the the outer bounds of a level playing field. Economy would a market economy, where ownership of companies would be distributed among the stakeholders of the system workers, customers and the executive. Similar to how governments ideally function. Workers would have “legislative” power in the company. They would be responsible for company policy. Executives would implement those policies. Customers would decide how well the company performs by either buying their products or withholding their patronage. This would need a lot of guard rails in place. But this would prevent centralization of power in the hands of an “owner”-class.

Transitioning to this type of system would not be that difficult. As most of what it has is already there. In western democracies. At least on paper. There would be a lot of resistance to this from the “owner”-class. I have no doubt of that.

Viva la Révolution !

For a growing economy with an excess of people and resources it’s pretty good.

Our current world, not so much.

The problem is that there isn’t a currently viable alternative.

The problem is that most heretic versions were intentionally and efficiently destroyed. The only ones that survived were by accident.

Most of the work on the Bible was done in a committee hundreds of years after the alleged events. So most probably just plain old fashioned alcohol.

If I ever wanted to ruin a megacorporation for ruining my life, I’d start going after the lowest wrung of the ladder. Give two warnings and then execute the plan on them. Non-fatal accidents and the like. Warn again. Move on to the next one. Warn them etc. Repeat as long as necessary. Never go for the higher ups that can afford security.

This will probably never happen to me, because I don’t live in the late stage capitalist hell-scape.

By that logic we should be happy gazing at our own navels, shouting to the void, looking at empty pages.