The fact that you're reading this means it didn't backfire.

And they keep demanding better working conditions. And yeah we can use the police to beat the hell out of them when they do but then every now and then somebody films the police when they do.

So the real problem with Farm labor is going to be that nobody is going to want to pay people enough to have people who want to live on a farm if you're not picking up refugees from war-torn countries. And a lot of people don't want those refugees anymore for a variety of reasons.

Otherwise you've got to pay people a premium because they are living out in the middle of nowhere and it's backbreaking work.

And then there's all those little social issues nobody wants to deal with like I mentioned above with the unionization and needing to treat people decently.

Now given that a modern civilization needs about 2% of its workforce farming there's no particular reason we couldn't do all that but if you're a billionaire you just don't want to. Frankly at this point the billionaires have had enough of employees and consumers and capitalism in general. They have never been big fans of capitalism preferring monopolies and oligarchy to competition and free markets.

So it's no surprise that there's a automation push here too.

There are three things at play here. You only hear people talking about one of them.

1. Several suppliers mean several sources that you need to subscribe to. That is bad.
2. Few suppliers mean zero resistance to astronomical price rises. That has the potential to be much worse.
3. HBO historically had a focus on quality content. Netflix not just historically, but currently as a policy are focusing on forgettable "background" entertainment, or as their CEO calls it "the second screen". Netflix's corporate direction destroying HBO would be a fucking disaster.

The things you describe are not mutually exclusives. Virtually all cameras come with some kind of cloud ability. A great many of them are still none the less completely local, and a subset of those, even those which "require" a cloud may also have an RTSP stream available which you could read out via Homeassistant or some other tool while the camera flashes it's light indicating that you haven't provisioned its cloud connection.

I just checked it's still 2025, thought I was in 1995 for a minute. No, most security cameras on the market aimed at consumers rather than commercial or professional installations do *not* need power. That said I do need to remove my cameras once every 6 months or so to charge them, a process that takes about 4 hours, but during those 4 hours I can just sit in the front yard with a shotgun in hand.

Once again Slashdot's self professed smartest person again proves he is able to only make the dumbest comments.

More comedy gold from our favourite moron.

Australia is infamously a place which bans certain video games. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make because it certainly seems like Australian gamers don't feel very oppressed.

Kids do not have their own discretion, period. Actually the gaming example is far worse than the social media ban as it affects adults too, and yet you didn't even know about it.

Unfortunately your analogy isn't correct. Hot and cold water don't mix unless you force them to mix or the density differences pushed them against each other. The hot will attempt to rise to the top, the cold to the bottom. It's a physical property exploited by tank water heaters to get more heating power out than gets put in by heating different areas of the water tank differently at different times knowing that the fresh cold water added at the bottom won't mix with the hot. Your bucket example upside down would result in a bucket that is half hot, and half cold. Air on the other hand does mix a bit more chaotically, it's a function of gas's density to be more chaotic.

By the way have you ever swam in the ocean and noticed some spots are hotter than others? It's not because you're swimming through fresh fish pee.

The atmosphere part of your post is correct through. But this "mixing" in water is not an example of this in action. The mixing of air in the atmosphere is the result of air currents created both locally due to localised temperature differences and globally due to the earth's rotation.

A good analogy of how the polar vortex works are the air curtain airconditioning units you find at entrances into buildings. When you turn them off, drafts and currents as well as people moving in and out cause the hot air inside and the cold air outside to be exchanged. When the polar votex breaks down, it is localised temperature effects that causes the colder parts of the atmosphere to be drawn towards them creating mixing.

Apple is nagging with its v26.1 update. V26.2 is coming out any day and will probably be the only update for all iPhones can run it (so no v18.7.3 for my 12 mini since Apple likes to push iOS users to the newer major iOS version).

Billionaires and autocrats have sabotaged both systems. We are going to have to figure out a third way or we are going to descend into techno feudalism and that is going to suck for everybody but about 5000 people on the entire planet .

if you are reading this you are not one of those 5,000

Is socialism? Almost the entire world is against them except Russia that uses them occasionally as a thorn in the side of the United States.

America's gearing up for war with them. Prior to that we had cut them out of the rest of the world and all of the global markets.

So I don't think Venezuela which is under active attack by every capitalist nation in the world is a fair representative of alternatives to capitalism.

I do think we live in the real world though and we can't pretend that socialism works even if the only reason it doesn't work is that billionaires, who are themselves vehemently opposed to capitalism, will sabotage it making it impossible to properly implement.

The important thing to remember is billionaires do not support capitalism either. So capitalism is going to get sabotaged by billionaires too and therefore capitalism is not an alternative to billionaires.

We are going to have to figure out a third way. Because both capitalism and socialism have failed us.

From the Hamas Charter:

There is no fix besides austerity and suffering.

That's because rich people don't want to have to spend the money to solve problems that are mostly your problem and not theirs.

You need to get out of the habit, a habit let's remember you were conditioned into by the wealthy, of assuming that nothing can ever get better and that good things aren't possible anymore.

That habit is an extreme and toxic form of conservativism.

Technically they can't ban them but they can't throw you in prison for using one. And they can throw people in prison for running them of course.

This is the ultra wealthy and the ruling elite moving the take over the last form of media where regular people can access information without their consent.

But hey, the girl who hands you your coffee says Merry Christmas now so that's a fair trade right?

And if you don't understand what that means that's the problem.

I'm not sure about that. It seems the government in this case are the only ones in the world who have the interests of the kids in their heart. God know parents are fucking useless raising TikTok zombies.