Playing stupid games during an energy crisis to benefit a couple local oligarchs. Whatever potential cybersecurity threat exists from Chinese inverters is outweighed a thousandfold by the US actively extorting the EU by leveraging fossil fuel dependence.

calm blatantly manipulate

Control over the straight is one of the main reasons they’re still geopolitically relevant. I don’t see them giving it up for good, they will at least say that the blockade is still on. Given they have a lot of naval drones and missiles which are not 100% countered by US hardware, I don’t foresee any insurance companies co-signing on commercial ships crossing the straight.

Au contraire, a truly “mutualist” society would never fall for the bullshit that is happening.

If everyone had trust and a good working relationship with their neighbors and solidarity with their working class comrades, the US capitalist class and therefore the government in its current form would quickly cease to exist.

The problem is specifically that the US capitalists inserted themselves as unavoidable middlemen into every aspect of US life. Notice how you’re not getting food from your community kitchen, you’re getting food from Uber Eats. You’re not usually calling a repairman from your local community, you’re calling a company that sends one out to you. You’re not getting help from your community militia, you’re getting it from an armed wing of the bourgeois government.

(ironically, this was possible to do through years or “rugged individualism” propaganda, that you are repeating here; other things like car dependency also made things worse)

This lack of local community is a big part of why there is so little organized protest. It’s very difficult to rile up your neighbors to take up arms and meaningfully protest when you barely even know them. This would apply even more in your imagined scenario of everyone becoming individualists who raise their own cows - people wouldn’t even have time to protest because they would spend all of it on their own survival, and those who stick their head up are easily arrested and thrown into jail, with noone to protect them.

Nah, next is replacing all UI with a copilot prompt that always shits on your code and guilt-trips you when you try to look up some repo instead of just asking it to vibecode it for you.

That bottle looks large enough to sustain a person for a while (maybe days). Additionally, have you seen what Beret Guy is capable of?

Now I want to take a logarithm of that

I’m assuming it’s significantly more expensive per Watt to install permanent supports designed to withstand car impacts, and a superstructure that is guaranteed to not collapse for a few decades, than it is to just ancor a few empty barrels in a lake and plop a solar panel on there. And yall need to be getting rid of parking ASAP, not tying more money and energy generation to it.

You’d be surprised

Can’t wait for agentic Claude Code to delete its own weights on all instances at some point

As far as I can tell, it’s been reality for like 20 years now. The drones became smaller and perhaps more precise, that is all

1. (some) Clothes on
2. Not sleeping
3. Hair looks good enough
4. Essential Everyday Carry (blunt, lighter) ready to go
5. Still 10 minutes left

Girl doing better than I usually am

I imagine after it expires it will trigger some flag somewhere and will never work again.

I once tried steeping (black) tea in a friend’s drip coffee maker. That shit was the strongest, most flavorful tea I’ve ever tried. 9/10 would recommend

I think you should take a more constructivist approach - what we have now, rather than what we might have in the future. Currently we have a network of like 20 major servers, mostly federated with each other. If one of those servers becomes insanely popular and overrun with bots and garbage, the rest will simply defederate from it. From the perspective of users on those other servers, they’ve only lost 5% of the network they liked. From the perspective of users who were on the popular server before it went to shit, they now have to move servers but still have 95% of the old network as they remember it.

Do users all move to the new instance?

What incentive is there for them to move? By the very nature of hype explosions, they are exponential, and as such most users will have joined when it was already quite popular. They won’t remember the “good old days” of their server being federated, so for them it’s fine to be isolated on a garbage server, at least initially. I suspect if something like this were to happen, most other servers will also limit signups for some time, to keep the spirit of the network alive and growing organically.

If you’re talking about the OP image, it’s actually inefficient as fuck. The houses depicted there house the same number of people as one or maybe two apartment blocks. And those apartment blocks can then have a bunch of greenery between them.

Oh how the turntables

Printing on Linux used to be a massive pain because CUPS, until I learned that I can just yeet PDFs at network printers with nc.

I can’t fathom Windows printing being worse than CUPS somehow. But then again I’m pretty sure last time I printed anything on Windows it was via a parallel port.

I know that in Moscow you could order a “flying taxi” with Yandex.Taxi (russian uber thing), it was actually a tiny two-seat helicopter. I suspect that Chinese “flying taxis” would be quite similar.

1. Spying on you (yours doesn’t seem to do that yet, but see pt.2)
2. Getting hacked because the domain it communicates with wasn’t renewed and got hijacked by scriptkiddies

Overall I’m quite excited about smart home stuff, but it must live on its own isolated network with some device I have full control over as a bridge to the internet (home-assistant+tailscale or a similar setup). No “IoT” device should have direct internet access, ever.

Well, we now technically have a fusion reactor in the sky, and we can receive the energy it beams down right at our homes