because I don't have a billion dollars to blow tailoring propaganda to your specific tastes to *make* you like my side.

My actual policy ideas are overwhelmingly popular in isolation.

Like how Americans hate Obamacare and Love the ACA.

they algorithm just hides it making it damn tough to find, but there's tons and tons of cool stuff out there people are doing and sharing online it's just harder to find now.

Where they get to have all the money and all the power and they don't have to sell anything to you. Were you filthy consumers can wallowing dirt and dust and die and they can ascend to godhood.

The ultra wealthy have already noticed how dependent they are on you and me and they don't like it. They are taking steps to sever that dependency without losing their limitless wealth and power. It's the end of capitalism but without the socialism

Time zones and communication are factors. That said there is still a lot that can be outsourced because we don't enforce antitrust law so companies can put out shit products and people have to either buy them or do without because there is no competition.

There's no reason why us Americans have to compete in a race to the bottom it's something we choose to in exchange for culture war bullshit. But even with that companies are still going to want people locally which is why they have work visa programs.

Again though if you want politicians on your side you have to give up hating on trans kids or Mexicans or whatever the fuck culture war bullshit they are using the wrap you around their fingers. And that means you've got to start thinking critically and googling competently so that you can tell who is tricking you.

And you should be embarrassed you fell for it. You're not but you should be.

Your willingness to consume the ultra-wealthy's propaganda is going to doom us all. I don't know why you find it entertaining but I know that you do. I have encountered multiple people who enjoy consuming propaganda.

I could of course easily debunk what you said but that's pointless. Anyone who agrees with you is so thoroughly steeped in propaganda that they are completely untouchable.

I learned that years ago, I would talk to some of the right wingers I knew and they would start to agree with me as I debunked all the points that they had picked up from Fox News or whatever. But then they would get in their cars and turn on Rush Limbaugh and then they would get home and turn on Fox News and any of the work I did was completely undone.

You need to learn to think critically and Google competently and if you can't do that then our species is going to end. Sooner or later we're going to put the billionaires in charge of everything and they are dumb and incompetent and evil. They will screw up and they will handle launch codes to religious lunatics and then it's goodbye humanity.

The inability to think critically and Google competently is the answer to the Fermi paradox.

People ask who will buy their products. The billionaires have thought that question through to its more logical conclusion.

Everybody thinks capitalism can't die unless socialism kills it.

But what if somebody else kills capitalism. And what if they do it for their sake and only their sake? The ultra wealthy are preparing for a post capitalist world where they control all resources. A world where they aren't dependent on us filthy creatures known as consumers.

It's usually called techno feudalism. What they're planning that is. It's a world where you and I do not have a place.

There will be a tiny number of slaves used as toys, a tiny number of engineers keeping things working for the billionaires or strictly speaking trillionaires at that point and then a tiny number of thugs to keep the engineers in line.

Unionization isn't enough anymore. At this point we're fighting over whether or not we get any say in the future of the human race and our own futures.

They have remote drivers used to make corrections as needed. If you did something like that then they would quickly find you and arrest you. I'm sure they can find something they can charge you with. If not then you can bet by the end of that week there will be a law because there is billions of dollars at stake. Hell maybe trillions. If you consider the value of replacing every single professional driver..

When you cause problems for corporations and rich people those problems get fixed very quickly.

I'm not asking for wisdom I'm asking for people to learn a God damn thing in 50 years. I don't think that's unreasonable.

It's not just at most people don't learn it's that they are actively hostile to it. They choose ignorance over knowledge because ignorance feels good.

I think the other thing to consider is State actors attacking infrastructure.

There's also script kiddies doing it for fun and the occasional disgruntled employee.

It is useful to quantify everything though because that informs public policy and allocates resources for law enforcement. If you don't quantify stuff like this then it's easy to see the government's going after script kiddies and disgruntled employees because those are easy targets that make good headlines but that wouldn't necessarily be an effective way to reduce the number of attacks...

Because they stopped thinking about the future. Very very few people are willing to plant a tree whose shade they will never lie in. In other words do not willing to give up much of anything even trivial things to make the world a better place.

As an old person your head gets stuffed full of bad ideas especially between the ages of 4 to 14.

Young people at least have the excuse that they're young and dumb but old people had decades to deconstruct and get the fuck over those bad ideas and they just don't. Instead they double down.

Old people are worse because they have hindsight. They're also much much worse here in America at this moment in time because old people, basically anyone over 50, got the full benefits of the new deal and great society and they yanked that ladder up behind them. Again for trivial reasons.

Basically what I see with old people is you've got somebody to spend 50 or more years on this planet and didn't learn a God damn thing. That's what makes them worse. I can forgive an 18 year old for doing something stupid. Not so much for a 50-year-old.

A 6-year-old could tell you that fake banks are a bad idea and these are fake Banks.

If you give your money to somebody and they hold on to it and you're giving it to them with the expectation that that money will be worth marginally more congratulations that's a bank.

The crash that's going to hit when all these bullshit fake Banks without proper regulation collapse is going to be insane. It's going to be worse than the Great depression.

We're then going to hit ultra high unemployment and then out comes world war 3. Because every time we have a large economic collapse coupled with high unemployment we take all the people we don't have anything to do with who are angry and bitter and desperate and we put them into trenches and tanks.

And the worst thing is a bunch of old people know this is coming and aren't doing anything about it because fuck it, they're not going to draft me right? And those little shits never call me anyway...

If it's one thing life has taught me instead old people suck. And that includes me.

All the other software is Android itself.

Plus I think for us hobbyists we really want desktop OSes and Android is really mobile and tablet. It's possible to run it desktop but I think as far as I know it's pretty rare for people to do that. On the desktop people are going to use google's variant Chrome OS...

I think the confusion is when people say operating system what they really mean is all the accompanying software and even the entire software ecosystem around that. For a modern operating system it's more than just kernel you've got tons and tons of apis to build off of.

Although for gaming kernel is still important because of the anti chest software linking into it. I think the only major game that runs under Linux is the recent marvel rivals. As far as I know the big ones like call of duty and fortnite won't run because of the lack of anti-cheat

To be fair he might have been a lurker. I lurked here for years and years because it didn't occur to me to sign up and comment. Honestly before everything in my life just kept going pear-shaped thanks to America's fucked up healthcare system and semi-annual economic collapses brought on by Wall Street deregulation I don't think I would have bothered constantly bitching on forums.

I don't think I signed up to vent. I can't remember what made me actually sign up. But it wasn't long until that was 99.9% of what I was doing.

And there was very little covid money floating around. If you are well off you got about $1,500 that's not even enough for a down payment. If you were poor you got about $2,500 but you use that for food and rent. As usual most of the handouts went to the top 1%.

Car prices like everything else are shooting up because the upper crust is gradually realizing they can do what Apple computer does and make tons of money selling luxury goods to a small group of consumers instead of bothering with the masses.

There was an interview with a guy in Las Vegas saying that it wasn't worth the trouble of going after the small gamblers versus the big whales that would come in and drop a few million. It's like that

Away from oil so that they can make sure that they've maintained their stranglehold on energy.

If you're a billionaire or a local monarch or whatnot your job is not to run companies it's to make sure that you stay on top. Other people run your companies you're just there to make sure that you remain in charge.

If that means we're going to keep using dirty energy that's causing droughts and trillions of dollars in direct economic damage then that's that.

Now get back to freaking out over whatever stupid culture war issue they're telling you to freak out about this week. I hear we're bringing back violent video games from the 90s. So retro.