TIL: Nexperia also sold itself to a Chinese firm.

Also:

Nexperia produces large volumes of semiconductors in the Netherlands, which are widely used in the automotive industry and consumer electronics. The majority are packaged in China, from where they are sold back into global industries.

If you’re going to nationalize a firm, its operations better be happening entirely within your borders. 🤦

Republicans cumming in their pants.

Agreed. It’s got notable, outsized externalities like some other notorious industries like the fossil fuel one.

The class war almost invariably underpins the other apparent social conflicts.

Social media algos are a product of late stage capitalism. 🥹

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Luckily I have auto snapshots on the Jellyfin data dir so restoring it to 10.10.7 was pretty trivial.

Friendly reminder to use snapshotting filesystems for your app data. E.g. ZFS, Btrfs. Then most fuckups can be unfucked with a single zfs rollback.

It’s the FOSS alternative of Plex. If you run Plex or were curious about running Plex, setup Jellyfin. Then setup the arr-stack.

That makes sense ans in addition it seems like the research conditions themselves are starting to shift in favour of the other regime.

that’s what the rich will become in the next theoretical cycle of civilization.

On the surface, it sounds plausible. But if you dig into how the resources you mentioned are produced, the ones which would allow them to become kings, there’s a plot hole. The production can only be done in centralized factories where many workers labour. And the inputs for those factories are done in other factories where many workers labour. As long as such resources are required to maintain these fiefdoms, the rulers power would be constrained by labour power. And we know from history that when enough workers are out of a job, when enough live in poverty, workers organize to stop working and take over the factories. Then they start producing for themselves, instead of the rulers. Then the rulers end up with no guns or other technology needed to enforce their power. What’s worse for the prospects of the future would-be-kings, is that the theory which tells workers how to organize and what to do in such cases has been written, and tested, and it works. And so I think we’re likely gonna see more of that instead of new monarchies formed by former capitalist elites.

Yeah, many people, wealthy or not, do not understand what money is, or any other medium of exchange, and where their value comes from.

It helps them stay laying down while the Trump bus drives over them.

NYT’s title makes it out as if he was going to shoot others. He was going to shoot himself.

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I got it from Archive.org. There was a monthly dump. I can’t easily find it but that’s where I got it from.

I did not have a sentence commutation for Kitara Ravache. She gorgeous but criminal af.

I keep a wiki copy as well as Reddit pre-fuckuspez. A Debian archive copy sounds like a good idea.

Capitalism does not require democracy. In fact democracy stands in the way of the incentives people who own significant capital have. Soooo, if democracy stands in the way of profit growth… it might have to go. 🥹 It happens gradually. We say there’s got to be a limit. They say OK and negotiate where the limit is. Sometime later they ask to renegotiate the limit a bit in their favour. We say, not a big deal, fine. Rinse and repeat until the limit has changed enough for them not to have to ask. They just try doing it without us noticing. Then at some point we start noticing. By then our democratic power is eroded to the point where shifting the limit in our favour is extremely difficult.

I’m really afraid of this political operator becoming the president if Trump croaks prematurely. This guy is all-charade and I think there’s a lot of supremacy behind it.

Price controls eh? I didn’t expect to see them arrive this early in the game. They’re a useful and sometimes necessary tool, but I doubt these knuckleheads would use them appropriately.

So the old playbook that in part gave us Hamas. Surely nothing could go wrong with this plan.