TheFogan

So in short the arguement is... over time it should be like corporations in America, we just watch as the biggest eat the smaller ones until we've just got one giant nation? Isn't that basically the plot of 1984... (basically the world is down to 3 super nations... with effectively the same government. In perpetual war with eachother just to make sure resources don't pile up to the point where everyone can survive comfortably.

Because I mean that's basically it, having diverse nations is a good thing. Allows us to actually see differences in laws, learn from different governments, good ideas can be copied, bad ideas can be avoided. Any big nation can trample all the smaller ones. It's a really bad idea to let them.

Ah yes, my state, the one that turned the primaries to hell to Bernie... one that's largely hailed as some reason an important state in the democratic primary, in spite of the fact that we all know there's a zero percent chance anyone who puts a D next to their name is going to win it in the general. Guess it's sort of the practice for democrats general strategy... (butcher the hell out of everything you stand for to try to win over the right.... get zero votes from far right anyway).

Because big corporations tell us what we like and don't like. People who can toss 90% of their income into stocks/investments etc... that can be used to make more money, would rather have as much as possible. Hence they preffer the costs to go onto when you are purchasing things. While poorer people obviously are spending most of their money on things.

In short it's a way to keep taxes lower for people making a good amount of money, Especially makes things better for those who can invest and multiply their money.

I own a percentage of the president duh... that means I can go where I want.

Based on my limited knowledge, but knowing a few people with yards like that. One is certainly something you are right about.

But also, least to my knowledge in this area, junk yards, scrap yards etc... are a pretty good distance away. So selling/getting rid of large, heavy junk costs more than the scrap is worth. Hence old washing machines etc... In rural areas a lot of people are scraping by on food stamps, barely keeping the power on etc.... would have lost the house years ago if it weren't paid off by the previous generation.

Obviously no HOA's, no one worried about how the houses look, and it's common enough that no one is really embarassed by it.

Gee I wonder what nation state currently is known for cyber warfare, and currently isn't in good terms with ICC... perhaps one that may even have an arrest warrant on their current leader by ICC, and/or maybe one of the creators of the stuxnet virus.

802.11a is over 20 years old, fortunately this law isn't talking about shutting down existing routers. the 6 GHZ is the next frontier to expand to, the military already owns the 7 GHZ spectrum... So the 6 GHZ is the one that can be expanded into. Of which origionally was planned to be made for the next generation of wifi... but now is going to be sold off to phone providers to use in the next generation of mobile networks.

So in short, our existing routers will continue to work as designed, but future routers will not be making any leaps forward.

Basically the choice between better faster wireless LANs, is getting killed in favor of better networks for cellphone services... of which the carriers will set the price on.

Gotta love the emphasis on the "outsider".

He says bad words!!!

reminds me a lot of the polar express uncanny valley.

https://i.imgur.com/SW2ch8T.png

Well yeah exactly why I said "the same risk". ideally it's going to be in the same systems... and assuming no one is stupid enough (or the laws don't let them) attach it to the publicly accessible forms of existing AIs It's not a new additional risk, just the same one. (though those assumptions are largely there own risks.

remember a decade ago when Donald Trump was starting in the primaries and it was a joke.

I think you are massively overestimating how many of his fans would go anywhere, and how long they tag along. I used to play a social deduction game town of Salem, can't say I know exactly how large the playerbase was... but I'd estimate it on the lower side, probably significantly under 50k. There were a few times Pewdiepie did a video on the game, and yeah, he was a pain in the ass, because he didn't try to learn the game, so his video was basically him trolling around in the game screaming random stuff, completely ruining things for people who wanted to play the game, and players could basically count on a few days afterwards of, having games ruined by his fans doing the same crap of course. However it certainly wasn't millions of them, within a few days the game mostly went back to normal... with if anything a slight boost to the number of players, because a handful stuck around and actually learned the game.

and again this is with much longer ago pewdiepie... way younger fanbase, way larger more active following. Today's pewdiepie, that's still following, and I guess bothering to pay attention to his videos on rigging up gadgets with raspberry pi's, and installing archlinux with hyprland, and apparently this one on getting off google. I'd imagine... the amount of people following him are going to be waay smaller than that, he hasn't been doing gaming videos in at least a year, seems to be more of basic tech comentary and general lifestyle location things.

So in short, if he did a lemmy push, first off I'd imagine actually the blip from it being very small. Unless steam charts suddenly show 100 million new archlinux users or something, I can guess his influence today is probably pretty small, and second the type of people he'd attract are probably also drastically different than the edgy teen base we remember him for, and lastly even at his peak of popularity and immaturity, the influx wasn't quite as big as you are thinking it is.