Something like Munchausen by proxy?

What thee heck is a destructive device? A can of petrol? This is ludicrous, double and triple charging people.

Well I’ve always hated Visual Studio. It installs so much bloat, it is more like another operating system installed on top of your existing one. It’s an abomination.

And no matter what they call VSCode, for what most people need to create software it’s a perfectly fine substitute. I guess you should call it a DE, a development environment since compilers are not “integrated”. But that is a good thing, to be able to install compilers separately. On the other hand if you install compilers, the addons to integrate that compiler into VSCode. Maybe it’s an “integrating development environment”? :D

Yeah done that now :)

Yeah, I’m just too lazy to reinstall and copy over my settings to VSCodium.

Supporting open source projects by small teams has been the only good thing MS has ever done. Imagine if MS would even partly open sourced part of windows. Like there are bugs in explorer for 3 decades that just don’t get fixed lol. And then there still would be bloat and shitty things, but it still would be better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Shapley

Shapley publicly alleged that the Department of Justice had “slow-walked” the investigation into the younger Biden in an interview with CBS News in May 2023.

But if Musk installed him then he’s probably a corrupt piece of shit

Microsoft Terminal vs the default Command Prompt haha. VS Code vs Visual Studio.

In general software is one of the rare thing where ordinary people can “mass produce” things that compete with commercial offerings.

Look, he’s killing people. He should be arrested and go to trial for criminal negligence and manslaughter. Like the rest of the bunch.

But they can’t even say it lol. “oh, some people touted!”

Yeah I guess the fundamental problem is the scalability because building automated battery factories that automate manufacturing isn’t easy.

Wait, thorium reactors can be build small enough to fit in shipping containers? That would be incredible. I know they are now working on SMR reactors with helium as coolant that are very safe because nothing is under extreme pressure and explode even if there is a meltdown. Reading on wiki it seems there is a SMR with thorium fuel cycle, but EDIT: Copenhagen atomics really is building a thorium molten salt reactor that is safe from meltdown!

I’d love to know the cost of thorium reactors vs some experimental grid level battery technology with solar or wind. Like liquid metal batteries made out of dirt cheap materials, or liquid flow batteries. I’m pro nuclear, but it’s weird that there hasn’t been much progress in scalable cheap grid storage.

It’s not puppet masters pulling strings on a marionette. It’s gardeners watching the fruits of their labor grow.

Interesting analogy. To spin this further, who allowed malicious gardeners to grow poisonous mushrooms here in our community garden? We largely abdicated the power of the state and government to the economic bureaucracy and ignored profit driven news and social media.

You bring up some interesting points about the billionaires and their desire about a new world order (dark enlightenment, longtermism etc) in the US, those who hold the most power. But how in the world do you square that with this:

Anyone who claims that Russia is NOT behind all of this is either Russian, a traitor, or stupid.

So are the billionaires also controlled by Putin? How can both be true? Or do you think Putin holds more influence over US elections that the US billionaires and tech bros do?

PS: Let me make my point clearer: I don’t doubt that Putin helped Trump and sow discord in the US - but who is to blame for allowing this? These are cheap things to do for any foreign actor now because we allowed to run news and social media purely for profit. If greed is good, nothing but money matters, why wouldn’t those companies make advertising deals bad actors? So blaming Putin for this is propaganda itself, because it disguises the actual causes of the democratic backsliding which started way before Trump, and would have happened despite Trump.

But the 63 per cent of the German people who expressed their opposition to Hitler were much too divided and shortsighted to

lucky if Europe and the rest of “the West” survive China/Russia expansion

So who is the enemy we should focus on? Is it Trump? Is it Putler/China? Neoliberal and austerity policies of both parties that created the fertile ground for neofascism?

The OP article is about Trump and US economic policy, and I replied to a comment that segways away from “stopping the nazis” and instead focuses on the evil “Putler”.

Yeah the parallels to weimar are there, but it’s that you can’t see them - you are the ones who distract with this conspiracy theory that Trump is somehow Putin’s asset or his creation. It’s like saying that Hitler is Stalin’s puppet because they want to divide up Poland (Ukraine) - just because they help each other out it’s not reasonable to start persecuting the socialists - which they did and do now! (Tankies bad, defederate).

The issue isn’t Trump. Trump should be in a mental institution. The issue is that we build a world that “allows” for such people to gain power. The issue is that our news and social media allow a (very real) Russian psyop. But it’s not just the Russians. It also came from special interests like fossil fuel, China, and formerly Ukraine too.

You’re loudly yelling at the dog tearing up the flower beds, instead you should be yelling at those who let the dogs out.

But instead of talking about that, we’re talking about the latest bullshit that is being pumped into the ether. Stop the shit-factory. Nationalize the news and social media and turn them into cooperatives run by the workers. Arrest the billionaires. Take the power back. Of course now it’s too late for that, thanks Obama.

But this isn’t even thinkable for the majority. Hence you seek some bad guy you can blame.

There is no mastermind or master plan. If you think Trump is a Russian asset then you’ve fallen for conspiracy theory and you yourself live in a “post-truth” fantasy. Whatever Trump is, he’s not someone who can be handled (except by playing on his megalomania). If you don’t understand that yet, and pretend otherwise, you’re just adding to the noise.

Similarily, that Foundations of Geopolitics is an interesting “cookbook” but it’s just that. Russia exploits glaring weaknesses in our neoliberal society by simply buying their way into social media. Any rational country would prevent news or social media to be owned by oligarchs, spew lies for profit and and generally being open to the highest bidder. The US has failed to get money out of politics and media. And that is a result of the neoliberal world order, so - thanks Obama and all those who came before him.

The liberal mindset has been poisoned since 2016 to think there is some big enemy like Russia or China, that there is only black and white, good or evil.

So you think countries should recognize and punish themselves for “being the bad guys”?

I think people and journalists should be educated and informed so they can see it for the theater it is. If the people of a democracy can’t see the evil their own countries have been doing or do not have the means to change anything, then those leaders pointing the fingers at others for the same shit becomes nothing but a distraction.

This is just propaganda - how objective will this tribunal be when you know what kind of “wars of aggression” the UK, Israel or the US have done and are still doing?

And no this is not whataboutism - it’s about truthfulness and moral standing. Invasion if Iraq and Afghanistan, decades of foreign policies, occupation and oppression of Palestinians, meddling and regime change of countries. If it’s only a crime of aggression if the other side does it, then it’s simply a farce or a show trial that will not prevent future crimes of aggression.

You are first and foremost responsible for your own actions. And only then responsible for holding others responsible.