avidamoeba

avidamoeba, 9 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

The old default. They’ve been a part of market economies for a very long time. If anything we might have learned to tame them a bit as of late.

avidamoeba, 10 days ago

Sounds like they could hire more well paid unionized labor to help with the backlog and make bank.

avidamoeba, 10 days ago

Sir, this is not Boeing.

avidamoeba, 11 days ago

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/9e18ef0a-77d8-47a4-9ce9-a92d069a7782.jpeg

avidamoeba, 11 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Most countries have unlimited finances. They only have limited real resources like labor, concrete, copper, glass, etc. The fact that we still don’t understand this and behave as if the metadata of the economy accurately describes reality puts artificial brakes on the solutions of many problems, climate being one of them.

avidamoeba, 11 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Inflation is a symptom of the lack of some real resource. There are many parts of the economies of many countries where there’s unused production capacity which simply “turns more natural resources into more stuff” if more money enters that part of the economy, without producing inflation. It’s not “just spend more”, it’s “spend as much as you can on things that you want done, which aren’t limited by real resources.”

I found Randall Wray’s lectures on the topic to be eye-opening. If what I wrote sounds strange, and it might, I highly recommend watching some of them. There are a few recordings on YouTube.

avidamoeba, 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

This road were going down, it doesn’t look good. Putting the content into a black box that rarely links the original source, let alone other sources is worse than Facebook content previews.

avidamoeba, 14 days ago

Taiwan-made Giant ebikes (and others) just got more competitive.

avidamoeba, 14 days ago

In 2, there’s generally no difference whether they go under or not. If they had anything valuable when they went under, it’s absorbed by a competitor. Machines, labor, etc.

avidamoeba, 15 days ago

More ad impressions.

avidamoeba, 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago)

What modem? Surely Google hasn’t built one and the modem is one of the most crucial components that puts Qualcomm’s SoCs a level above everyone else’s in efficiency. It’ll be interesting to see if they’ve licensed QC or still use Samsung’s. Or someone else’s.

avidamoeba, 15 days ago

Strange stuff. It would be interesting if the USW calls a strike vote over this. It would also be interesting to see how the members vote.

avidamoeba, 16 days ago

Upgrade. Have been upgrading my main machine since 2014.

avidamoeba, 16 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

Upgrading Ubuntu LTS since 2014. It’s always a good idea to read the release notes in order to know what’s changed. In general LTS-to-LTS upgrades have been trouble-free.

avidamoeba, 16 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

There are multiple US firms that are actively researching solid state batteries. I think at least one is in the manufacturing scaleup research phase. The auto manufacturers aren’t generally into the cell research business and they don’t need to be. Once a firm begins mass manufacturing, the autos will buy the output and use it in their cars. Protectionism is needed for other reasons. Meanwhile they’re all working on their platforms.

avidamoeba, 16 days ago

Yup. Same with all of them. I’ve been reading solid state battery hype for at least a decade.

avidamoeba, 16 days ago

So what everyone else has been doing but smaller while calling it giga. Let me buy some TSLA shares.

avidamoeba, 15 days ago

I was being sarcastic but yeah. 😁

avidamoeba, 16 days ago

Would you have accepted someone slicing the territory your people lived in as far back as you remember, expelling you from your home and telling you to move someplace else? I wouldn’t have. Perhaps that’s why.

avidamoeba, 16 days ago

That’s weird. I watched it straight on DW’s YouTube channel in October. Well maybe not so weird.

avidamoeba, 18 days ago

All of us.

avidamoeba, 20 days ago

Stating the actions of the Israeli government and calling for a ceasefire is, hate speech… 🤦 People like the letter author truly are racist. It’s just good ol’ a part of this ethnicity believe X, therefore all people of this ethnicity believe X.

avidamoeba, 21 days ago

This isn’t why I created several communities that didn’t exist. I created them because I wanted to post something into a community that didn’t exist. Any new user who wanted to do the same would look for such a community in order to post it. Or in the case of readers, they would look for the equivalent subreddits they’re used to frequent on Lemmy. Assigning malice is strange. Of there are any problems with a community mod, I assume the admins can assign new ones and/or remove mods.

avidamoeba, 22 days ago (edited 22 days ago)

The position of support for creating a famine (or not giving a shit to stop it) seems to have wider support than just Bibi. This guy’s move puts in focus that creating a famine is a war crime, and he’s forcing the Israelis players to face that and state their support or lack thereof clearly. Getting rid of Bibi alone might not increase the aid in Gaza. If the other party leaders aren’t willing to throw Bibi and Gallant under the bus for this and/or shift gears on aid, then perhaps the Israeli political class is too far gone and the world should increase the pressure till someone gets it and starts telling the Israeli public that what’s happening is wrong and is extremely counterproductive for Israel as whole.

Also, some polling shows Bibi’s coalition being neck and neck with the alternative so the narrative that Bibi is certain to be ejected by Israel’s democracy isn’t so solid.

avidamoeba, 21 days ago

What are you talking about… Arab countries didn’t stop food and water going into Gaza, Israel’s leadership did.