And yet it took until 2020 for any MSM to report that all of Crypto AG’s equipment was backdoored and that it was indeed a CIA cutout the whole time. That information was available since at least 1993 when the West German intelligence sold its share to the CIA and the Swiss government as well as some reporters caught wind of it.

Literally speaking, liberal. But nobody except a communist would get it.

I don’t think that section of Capital is discussing the rate of profit, but rather the labour value of a given product. The labour value falls as productivity increases, but since capitalist market prices are abstracted from labour value this has at least initially little effect on exchange value and thus surplus value.

So many of the old people in my life are miserable because they don’t have hobbies, or at the very least didn’t keep doing them once it got a bit difficult.

To astronomists and cosmologists they are, anything heavier than helium is a metal.

In terms of imagery and associations, it doesn’t hurt that it looks similar to the Cyrillic CCCP (USSR).

Yes of course. A portion of wealth, and maybe a community service element could work as well.

I’m in awe of how selfish and stupid people act in their cars on nearly a daily basis.

That said, harsher penalties only work in the way we want them to when criminal justice is reformed, same with increased controls.

One idea for fines is to set the penalty at a multiple of daily wages, thereby much reducing the load on the poorest among us while also becoming somewhat of a check against rich people doing what they want because the fine means nothing to them. Some countries already do this.

It’s always the worst ones who live the longest.

Canadian senators are only good for creating expense scandals and are simple political apointees. Just do away with the whole institution.

Haven’t gotten to the show yet but I really enjoyed the book.

I write notes in markdown (I’m not attached to any particular editor) and push them to a self hosted git server. Git therefore also helps handle any merge conflicts between devices.

The “maintaining privacy” is just a bit. It’s about gaining complete access to everyone’s private communications for whatever rhyme or reason the ruling class wants

Bourgois economics are a smokescreen to justify the actions of the ruling class with big pseudo-scientific words. Just as kings of old used religion to justify their place at the top. Pro-homeless policies are class warfare.

Yes, as the Trump admin clearly proves, they follow the law to the letter.

/s

All very true.

IIRC yes.

Aside from the neo-Nazi anti-immigration policies, AfD is just contrarian. Whatever they perceive the mainstream party position to be, they pick the opposite and run with it.

Art of the deal

The Android private DNS setting is just for a DNS-over-TLS resolver. The only thing about it that’s private is your queries are encrypted en route to the server (traditonal DNS is cleartext). There’s no filtering or blocking.

Some Android versions also have a hard coded DNS server set to Google, which based on my tinkering uses DNS-over-HTTPS. Not only is it annoying but I find it awfully insecure - even if you think you have stuff locked down it might just not be. I fixed that issue by blocking all DNS-over-HTTPS servers in my router, and also have all outgoing requests to port 53 redirected to my local resolvers (Pihole + Unbound).

If the NYT would stop cheerleading imperialism we’d be off to a great start.