New people enter the market all the time.

That update is for those that don’t already have a Fairphone, presumably.

That said, I agree with your overall point. They should offer tablets and watches if they can.

Consumer activism, by itself, has rarely, if ever, accomplished anything.

The best recent examble was Tesla, but that wasn’t a mere non-buying action. Tesla action involved vandalism and a massive word of mouth campaign.

Basically if we want to fight for a future we believe in, we must stop playing patty cakes and fight like it’s a life and death struggle.

Symbolic resistance is not enough.

Don’t get me wrong, I still avoid buying Nestle products, and have for years, but I know this is not the way to real change.

I want us to stop suggesting consumer activism as a valid pathway to change.

I think both peace and war are profitable. But those that profit from war may be more pushy than those that profit from peace, and so may get their way even as an unpopular minority .

Unless, the left (usually more pro peace) learns a few lessons from the right and places good outcomes above the holier than thou moral purity. “I’ve never made anyone uncomfortable” is not the merit badge that some think it is.

Of course the left can never be a mirror copy of the right because the left cannot afford to give as few fucks about anything as the right (who represent the already-haves economic incumbents; it’s not called the “fuck you money” for nothing). But the left can be way tougher and nuancedly uncompromising and even calculatingly and carefully millitant.

Might does not make right but might DOES make POLICY.

You need both right and might to live under a good policy.

Lotta good it does anyone to be right and insightful on all the issues and have zero impact anywhere.

Quote from the video, “You can smell it as well,” refering to the turbine opetation.

They emit smell. That comports with the leak being gas and not just heat.

Jury nullification.

Luigi is an idea. An idea is what the people appreciate. We must presume innocence until guilt is proven when it comes to Luigi as a person. But Luigi as an idea or as a meme is a separate thing entirely.

The only thing I want that a gym might have is a pull up bar. Other than that, two kettlebells plus cals plus running give me more than enough challenge. Gymnastics rings on a long belt plus a sturdy tree branch can stand in for a pull up bar.

Unless you are a pro and need access to a climbing gym, which is very hard to completely replace without a trip to a boulder, gyms are rip offs.

I exercise on and off all my life, with at least 20 exercising years. I did college gyms, ymca, paid gyms, and once even a bona fide body building club with a proper hulking ph. d. as a trainer. I have plenty of experience with many modalities.

My two cents, look into advanced cals, and running, and look up “dynamic tension” by Charles Atlas, and screw the gym. If you can, add some kettlebells and a pull up bar. With dynamic tension you can do pulling movements without a pull up bar.

Don’t forget that legally we count corporations as people, and corporations can live on indefinitely.

Originally copyright provided a monopoly for 14 years, plus one optional 14 year extension.

Don’t forget digg.com.

To be fair, if you killed all your politicians billionaires maybe America would be a better place.

FTFY

Capitalism.

Basically entities flush with wealth do not make their decisions out of a sense of economic survival.

Capitalism is all about brutal survival for the lower classes and for the upstarts without any background.

At the same time capitalism is all about a decision making process that is leisurely, capricious, and forgiving for the aristocratic upper classes.

If the company is sufficiently large (don’t know if reddit qualifies, but my past employers have, so speaking from experience here), their own upper management is robbing the company on the inside every day when they make deals with contractors by taking kickbacks as opposed to what benefits the company. Make no mistake, all the upper management that is sufficiently aristocratic are looking out for their personal interests instead of the company’s. In other words the same mentality of personal gain at all costs that supposedly drives the creation of some of the companies is also their undoing. “Greed is good” capitalism eats itself. Large ultra consolidated/merged corps are every bit as bureaucratic and internally Machiavellian as any government can hope to be. Their very existence is a tax we all pay and we don’t get a vote about how these corporate fiefdoms run both themselves and us.

Reddit at this point is a very important and well backed propaganda tool, the backers can afford to pay their CEO and there is no hurry to make profits, and they have plenty of time and resources for every manner of business mistake.

Profit is theft.

Economic rent is theft.

Taxes are not theft.

It all depends on what you measure and what you don’t.

Selective measuring of the economy will let you say whatever you want.

“More jobs!!!11!!1!1!!!1111!1!1!!!”

“More precarity and high turnover, high pressure, shit conditions, shit pay, shit flexibility, shit benefits, no real pension commitment, underemployment.”

Even if all the measures do exist, you don’t have to report them if they go against the narrative.

I don’t like the idea of calling it a non-payment when receiving compensation in the form of valuable assets in addition to money.

Receiving stocks or gold bricks or houses or blow jobs, or anything else of value, is payment, and should be taxed as such.

Copyright infringement was never stealing to begin with. If I steal your pencil, you are no longer in posession of it. If I copy or download your pencil, we both have a copy, and you are not deprived of your property.

We live under a two-tier “justice” system.

“There is a group the law protects but does not bind. And there is a group the law binds but does not protect.”

The source article from a security researcher Felix Krause:

https://krausefx.com/blog/announcing-inappbrowsercom-see-what-javascript-commands-get-executed-in-an-in-app-browser

A real war has risk for all the participants.

Here you bear all the risk, and the counterparty, the internet company for example, bears no risk.

If and when you create the risk for the counterparty, where no risk has existed before, then and only then do you have a right to call it a war. In other words you have to in some way threaten the counterparty and make good on those threats to be at war.

I am enjoying learning how to use the thumb-key:

https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key

I see a lot of potential in it. I miss the escape, control, and the alt keys, and a partial select (in addition or instead of the ‘select all’) would be nice. However, for all the bread and butter typing, it seems great to me now.