Iran has attacked plenty of civilian infrastructure across the gulf states and Israel. It also has attacked cities with cluster munitions. Desalination plants, oil infrastructure, cities, etc.

My fully automated base will keep exploiting the natural resources.

Dungeon Keeper 2 was just great.

The American use of political terms like liberal and socialist are warped from their original meanings.

Both can mean supporting healthcare for everyone for example. Even though that’s neither a policy following from the theory of liberalism, nor is socialized healthcare dependent on following socialism.

The same is true for progressivism and leftists. All of these terms are often used interchangeably to the previous two.

There’s a deep lack of nuance and specificity.

Actual Marxist leftists and democratic liberals are ideologically opposed to another in many ways. In the US they might agree on better healthcare for everyone and waving rainbow flags. Liberals should be for free markets, (regulated) capitalism, freedoms, etc. A leftist should be opposed to all of these. Freedom to a Marxist means something else than to a liberal.

Nowadays a lot of political discourse across the spectrum is deeply rooted in identity, creating division, virtue signaling, moralist preaching, etc.

Discussion on specific politics and details is often cut short by the above campism and clinging to identities.

This applies to the right and the left equally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E9ftsaHtWw

Westsplaining is western leftists dismissing the lived experience of people from elsewhere, when it contradicts their ideological convictions.

Just a few days ago there was a pile on of several leftists, dismissing the lived experience of a Cuban living in Cuba. Happens all the time.

Haha, Lemmy might have lots of self styled allies, but the number of marginalized people here is low besides mtf trans folk and the neurodivergent.

Typically you get western male leftists westsplaining to the few folks from the global south.

Not if age verification is done by a digital signature from the smart card in your government issued ID.

LibreOffice doesn’t run on mobile.

Im happy with EnPass.

Lemmy is a tankie bar.

Opinions that are center left or center right will routinely get banned on major communities here.

People are called Nazis here espousing views that are mainstream in the US Democratic Party.

An armed rebellion will give trump the opportunity to declare martial law and hold on to power. It’s strategically a bad idea.

Without at least parts of the military on the side of rebellion, it would be crushed quickly.

Protests are also useful to network and build organizations and skills.

Mobsters will always try to gain and then enforce a monopoly with violence. They don’t want any competition. Mobsters want to control the price in high margin business.

Depending on how they operate, they will also scam people, sell low value real estate at high prices, etc. Being organized means they are much harder to catch.

There‘s existing infrastructure, that runs on hardware from the 1980s. Especially in industrial applications there are still plenty of gigantic machines controlled by a 386 or a C-64.

The used vintage market can keep these running for a long time. Eventually you replace them with an emulator or an FPGA that runs the same software.

Big banking, insurance, airlines, shipping, governments, militaries bought huge IBM mainframes from the 1960s onwards. They ran for decades. Many of these were transformed into virtual machines, still running their ancient FORTRAN code.

There’s also the story of (IIRC Minutemen) nuclear missiles needing 5.25 floppies to program their guidance systems. These were still operational in the early 2000s. Lots of military weapons systems run on ancient hardware.

Manufacturers only have a limited capacity of production and want to make money. It’s a much better business to sell all your production’s capability for a few months to one customer for a fixed price, instead of selling to thousands of small customers for a highly volatile price. In the worst case you produce stuff, you can’t sell or have to sell at a loss. A factory standing still and not producing is also expensive.

A factory with all machines running, all people working, all product selling at a good price is the ideal state for a manufacturer to be in.

Big customers bring stability and predictable profits.

Production capacity for in demand products will increase over time. Likely these same manufacturers‘ profits will be invested in more production capacity, optimizations, cost savings, etc.

In a few years this will result in cheaper and available consumer products.

General purpose computers have been fast enough and had enough memory for a decade now. I bought a quad core (8 threads) laptop with 16 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD, 2 GB VRAM twelve years ago. Around the same time I built a NAS with an HP Gen8 microserver, also with 16 GB of RAM for ZFS. That one I recently upgraded with a better CPU for 20 €. Both of these machines still perform really well for most tasks. I haven’t upgraded my phone in 5 years, and my tablet in 8 years. These start to show their age because of the small amount of RAM built in. Last week I bought high end EIZO monitors from 8 years ago for 50 €. These are fine!

Ask yourself, are you even doing things that are limited by your hardware? If you are limited by hardware, could buying a last generation high end machine fill your needs? If you need vast amounts of computing power, renting cloud computing might be a solution as well.

If you actually make serious money with your work computer, then paying 8k for a machine will pay for itself over a few months.

AfD just gained a few points.

leopards eating feces

That‘s what human minds mostly do as well. The overwhelming things you think and say are things you have heard or read elsewhere. Sometimes you combine two things you learned from the outside. Sometimes you develop a thing you learned a small step further. Actual creative thoughts stemming from yourself are pretty rare.