Yeah, I think their CEO might have QNAP stock or something.

It’s hilarious how dumb this is.

For anyone interested, there are multitudes of videos on YouTube showing commie blocks and why they are bad, so don’t feel bad for focusing on work.

Anyone interested can find the information with an easy search.

Indeed. There is a hierarchy.

Commie blocks are better than tents.

But proper social housing is better than commie blocks.

And proper social housing mixed with middle class owner-occupied housing in the same neighborhoods and even within the same buildings is the best.

Literally Auschwitz. The pictures are the same.

It also shows, they want the hostages dead. No way the hostages survive if Hamas starves to death.

Yeah, I agree.

On reddit it seems the remaining human commentators are those who have taken over the mannerisms of the bots and adjusted to talking to the bots.

And you always get stuck in these endless loops of hostile disagreement.

That’s just not how normal humans argue. Even on the internet.

Normal humans either agree to disagree or just give up. In both cases ending the conversation after all useful things have been said.

I agree. Very much like Reddit in the early days.

Also, the level of civility and intellect in the comments is relatively high.

Bingo.

The idea that CEO’s will put morals over profits is hopelessly naive.

If you want companies to act morally, you need to implement legislation and be willing to enforce that legislation. And not small million dollar fines, serious fines like 10% of revenue and personal liability and even jail time for executives.

But the American public only cares about having the stock market go up. They don’t care about their data.

That’s what they’re trying to do.

It makes most sense to switch the email+office users to Linux and reserve MacOs and Windows for users who really need to run specific applications.

More or less, yes.

Germany and France have been trying this for more than two decades.

But every time, there is pressure from the US government (the stick) and Microsoft arranges a short-term deal to make Windows cheaper than the cost of transitioning (the carrot).

But this time, the EU is serious about decoupling from the US, so I think it will actually happen.

We have long passed the point where lobbying and bribing were just doing your fiduciary duty.

And indeed, it seems we are back to feudalism and you have to pay tribute to the divine king and kiss his ring.

I’ve said it often before.

LLM’s are really great for many use cases. Transcribing, translating, summarizing, editing, code generation, etc.

But the marginal difference between the cheap models like DeepSeek and the top-of-the-line is low.

So take transcribing, translating, summarizing and editing. Why would anyone spend top dollar when DeepSeek does it basically free?

The potential market for the state of the art models is very limited and will never recoup the 100s of billions being invested.

And how will they know if you’re a fundie or not?

What they’re doing is checking phones and social media. If they see you are a member of some antifa or BLM org, they’ll get you.

So don’t do those things via Facebook. Use meshtastic and hide your receiver.

But if you practice good OpSec and all they see is baseball, BBQ and church, then they won’t be able to tell the difference.

Thanks for the effort post with great tips!

I would also really recommend having a physical community near you, not just online contacts.

I would even go so far as to say: join a progressive protestant church It’s not a silver bullet, but the fascists in the US are Christian Nationalists and some of them will hesitate to mistreat a Christian. And some of them will feel an obligation towards a Christian.

This is a big part of why Martin Luther King wasn’t killed earlier. The thugs in the 50s had no problem persecuting “godless heathens” in the McCarthy era, but black Christians were Christians.

And yes, they were also mistreated, but it would have been much worse if they had been atheist or communist.

Fascists divide the world very black and white. Us v. Them

Looking like them provides a survival advantage.

Also, the tradition is the exact opposite as I understand.

In Finland they like to be alone and be left alone, so you don’t just intrude on someone if they are in self-isolation.

Agreed, this article would have made sense in 2020 or earlier.

And now we have the fediverse, which is causing a resurgence of content that is independent of Reddit or Discord.

Most people use seedboxes for private trackers, which are superior and just as private as a VPN.

But yeah, it’s a different ecosystem and it’s not for everyone.

I do think it has replaced the old DC++ hubs of old.

Most of them, along with most houses in general, are in cities where the unhoused do need them.

Yes, people are sadly dumb and fall for bad messaging. I recognize that as a weakness.

The messaging should therefore be: lower property taxes for normal people by making it progressive and combating tax evasion by foreign investors.

My scheme significantly empowers normal people vs. speculators/investors. Speculators need a positive return to justify their investment.

Therefore, it will basically put a moat around the housing market that greatly benefits owner-occupiers.

I like your thinking. Personally, I prefer easier schemes that are difficult to avoid.

Schemes like yours, while good on paper, are often circumvented through shell companies and foreign residency.

I prefer a scheme where we just tax all real estate at a quite high rate, somewhere in the 1-5% range. Let’s say that a simple apartment would then result in €5K tax. A family home €10K.

Every citizen gets to subtract up to €5K of property tax from their income tax. So a family might pay €20K income tax, but can subtract €10K.

End result is a progressive property tax, which actually decreases tax on normal people.

People with expensive homes, foreign owners of homes and people who own multiple homes would be paying significantly more tax without the possibility to subtract it

Here in the Netherlands, the government agency for housing has the figures on how many second homes people own, but refuses to publish it.

Journalists have estimated that the number is about equal to the number of people looking for a house. About 400K on a population of 18M.

The scarcity is artificial.