Right but if investment relies on regulation to be responsible, and removing such regulation leads to potentially higher profits… And if you’re able to collect profits on future expected returns today via asset markets… Then wouldn’t most try to get rid of such regulation? Most of those people 20 years ago made a killing following deregulation they lobbied for earlier.

I think you’re mistaking socialist critique for right wing. I’ve done that myself in the past. I automatically assumed that the ones critical of centrist or liberal people and politics are rabid wingers. Turns out people criticize “the left” from the left as well. Throughout most of my life such criticism always came from right. And if you don’t ask any questions about why, the short criticism itself can look identical. But if you do, the reasoning and the proposed solutions are quite different. E.g. workers in the US aren’t doing well. A right wing nut might want to get rid of government to solve that. A socialist might want to strengthen labor unions and nationalize healthcare. They both think the Democrats are shit since the party is doing neither. People are .ml are overwhelmingly comrades criticising from the left. In fact .ml stands for Marxist-Leninist.

Not necessarily. The long-term / short-term focus is a red herring. Without intervention, the system drives people to focus on ever shorter term in order to compete. Because firms can fail due to competition in the short run, before any negative effects of the short term thinking of the competitor have materialized. It’s even possible to consolidate the market before “the chickens come home to roost.” And then you have the mitigating factors - once you consolidate a critical market, your problems are the society’s problem and the society will pay to resolve the issues from your short-term thinking. And then you have the ability to get out of the market before the big problems start showing up. Put all of this together and you can see that the completion for profit in a competitive market can easily drive shorter and shorter term planning without the winning players facing consequences. If it’s not profitable to focus on long term planning and the system uses profit to determine success from failure… I think we can’t expect individuals or even firms to focus on the long term.

It would be nice if that was the process. Instead it’s the extraction of ever increasing profit that drives this. The big factory farms didn’t occur out of not knowing how to farm. They were created as the well established way to decrease costs per unit produced, at least initially. Then large factory farms allow consolidation of production, since they can only be built and operated by large capital, and small farmers don’t have it. Then the few owners of these farms are free to set the prices of whatever they produce as high as the market will bear. The owners now also have the leverage to get less regulation, since regulations generally increase costs.

I think Harper sold it to the Saudis. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some provisions that bind Canada to not create a new board. With that said we should absolutely create a new board. Use the crisis. I guess we’ll see how much of a Keynesian Carney is. Assuming we elect him of course.

It’s worth noting that supply management is a type of central planning where we centrally determine how much we’ll produce and what the price of production will be.

Individual, often small, farmers then produce those eggs and get paid this price. The price and quantities are set so that it’s sustainable for farmers to produce. Farmers have the certainty they’ll sell their product at a decent price. They aren’t at the mercy of the market putting them underwater after they’ve spent large amounts of capital to produce.

Consumers pay a generally higher price for eggs than the absolute minimum possible, but we also avoid paying much higher prices during shocks and shortages. Our farming sector isn’t consolidated by necessity of achieving the lowest price.

We do this with more than eggs.

Keep doing that. If you don’t have to travel, don’t. Especially for leisure.

Authoritarian - yes, nazi sympathizing - no.

Welcome!

This is an insightful way to put it and I think could be effective in communicating the fundamental problems of capitalism to people.

By that logic the US is responsible for Israel’s actions. Am I doing this right?

Pretty sure BYD uses LFP. There’s little reason to use NMC unless you’re trying to reach the absolute maximum possible range. I think that’s only really an important factor in North America.

Cool. We also need some action on those contracts with US firms.

I play Shareware

Fuuuuuck, wow, the balls on this guy… 💥

On desktop, yeah. Unity > GNOME, upstart > systems, snap. I don’t fuck with snap, I just use it as intended, I don’t try to remove it. I think I started actively using it in 2016. As a software developer I understand that only the happy path is reasonably tested so I try not to go too far out of it. 😂

I typically wait for the LTS point release before upgrading. I check the release notes. I check if anything is broken after the upgrade, fix as needed. I’m sure I’ve done some stuff when the migration to GNOME happened. But that’s to be expected when a major component change occurs. If you had some non-default config or workflow, it might require rework. E.g. some custom PulseAudio config broke on my laptop with the migration to Pipewire in 24.04. But on that legendary desktop install, the only unexpected breakage was during an upgrade when the power went out. Luckily upgrades are just apt operations so I was able to recover and finish the upgrade manually.

I think a friend is running a 2012 or 2010 install. 🥲

And I’ve also swapped multiple hardware platforms on this install. 😂 Went AMD > Intel > AMD > more AMD. Swapped SSDs, went single to mirror, increased in size.

I mean… once you kick the Windows-brain reinstall habit and you learn enough, the automatic instinct upon something unexpected becomes to investigate and fix it. Reinstall is just so much more laborious on a customized machine.

Interesting. We use it for work since 2016 (high hundreds of workstations) and I’ve used it since 2005 on variety of machines and use cases without significant issues. We’ve also used it to operate a couple of datacenters (OpenStack private clouds) with good results. That said I’ve been using LTS exclusively since 2014 and don’t use PPAs since 2018-20 and it’s been solid. My main machine hasn’t been reinstalled since the initial install in 2014.

Good move doing a public victory lap among friends while ignoring the orange thumb.

It’s not good for his mental health to be in this environment.

This bud isn’t representative of .ml though. They’re generally commies whereas this friend is something quite different. They probably don’t know what .ml stands for. 😂