The ONLY effective revolutions in all of recorded history, against authoritarian regimes, have *required* violence.

India, 1947.
Or are you going to try to make the excuse that England wasn't authoritarian?

Generally, it is possible for part the periphery of collapsing empires to break off without violence, but then I guess it doesn't qualify as a revolution. When the Roman Empire collapsed and could no longer control its provinces, was England in violent revolution? When the USSR dissolved, the newly freed nations weren't engaged in massive violence, so the only question is whether they engaged in a revolution.

Your implied claim that the US is an authoritarian regime needs to be taken in context of all countries on Earth in all recorded history, and then evaluated by some reasonable standard that doesn't result in 90% of all countries being regarded as being authoritarian. You're going to find it difficult to honestly support your claim.

Right now rich people own the machines, and the workers have to sell their time to live. That is not fair.

That's how I've lived a good life. It seemed quite fair to me to be able to support myself without having to buy a lot of machinery.

There are many occupations that don't require a big capital investment to run your own business. To be a house painter, buy a ladder and some brushes. Buy a lawnmower and cut grass for a living. Buy a vacuum, a bucket, and a mop and clean houses. The investment to be a fine arts painter isn't large.

The claim behind the massive buildout of AI datacenters is that they will be massively profitable because they will allow development of new technologies and find ways to make existing technologies more efficient. That's a long term increase in the economy and a benefit to society. FWIW, I believe the claim is overblown and possibly entirely mistaken.

People seizing and living in unoccupied houses make the news occasionally. Most of them treat the houses they occupy poorly, some of them trash the houses -- what have they got to lose? Generally, people responsible enough not to damage the building they occupy are responsible enough to find a way to pay for a place to live.

"We need to seize them...". "We" is a pronoun that includes the person generating the statement, in this case drinkypoo. By your own statement you have put yourself into the category of people who need to be seizing and consider themselves morally justified in doing so: thieves.

Some old tech has been successfully banned when proven dangerous, such as most uses of asbestos.

The "drinking bleach" claim has been thoroughly established as a hoax, achieved by editing out a critical section of the video. It was not a mistake, it was a deliberately fabricated lie.

Electric is safe when it's not being used. Gas is never safe: some gas stoves have pilot lights which are inherently polluting 24/7; all gas stoves can fail and fill the house with explosive and unbreathable gas.

Corn, peas, broccoli, onions, tomato, apple, celery, and many other fruits and vegetables: 3 to 40 grams carbs per 1 gram protein.

Beef: 0 gram carbs per 1 gram protein.

Getting adequate protein from only fruits and vegetables requires care. Adding nuts might make it easier, but nuts have a lot of fat.

Taxes involve taking money from people. Poor people have very little money. Trying to take money from people who don't have money is a plan that most Republicans are not stupid enough to try to implement.

Poor people spend a disproportionately large portion of their income on food and housing. Housing is mostly not imported, hence not subject to tariffs. In the U.S. most food is grown in-country, not subject to tariffs.

Alas, both parties are in favor of high taxes. The Democrats are more honest about wanting to steal from everyone.

The English slang "drinkypoo" was what an alcohol abuser might call an alcoholic beverage, to hide from himself that he is about to increase his inebriation. Alternately, "drinkypoo" might be used in a flirtatious or humorous manner, also to lessen the mental impact of an invitation to drink.

Dick Tracy's 2-way wrist radio dates from 1946, his 2-way wrist TV from 1964.

Unconcentrated conventional solar cells might run 25% efficiency.

If the space mirrors are properly designed, they could reflect to Earth only the wavelengths that solar cells can efficiently convert. Is 50% efficiency possible? The Earthside solar farms could be smaller.

Microwave rectennas can do better than 75% efficiency, so a rectenna farm could be even smaller.

Microwaves are invisible, so in principle a rogue beam could cook you before you knew you were in danger, The light from space mirrors would be visible, so when you see a bright spot in the sky where it shouldn't be, run for cover.

Sometimes, all you want energy for is heat. Reflect light to targets in Alaska and Norway in the winter.

I ran a dedupe on my drive and eliminated 8 redundant copies of the goatse guy.

#SaveWaterWithGoatse

AI should have solved the problem.

FF 140 won't even open www.nasdaq.com, claiming "authenticity of the received data could not be verified." There's no override for this.

It works fine in FF 137.0.2.