Practically negligible then…

However how the heck have you all been using stack exchange? My questions are typically something along the lines of:

“How to use a numpy mask with pandas dataframes”

Not something that gives me 50 lines of code.

a negative times a negative is a positive?

What do you mean by “stable”? DC just means it has a direction. Flow and Voltage can be changing. For example Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) is often used to control DC devices by rapidly providing and cutting electricity from them. Still the current just has one direction.

You don’t need to know anything about Alberta or the region. This is just how politicians talk.

If this was about honest concerns he would have addressed why the city plans to build bike lanes. Instead he just talks about “tax dollars” and increasing capacity for “all citizens”. Which shows that he has a complete disregard for the existence of citizens who do not take a car for every small move.

Does Muskrat seem like a happy and balanced individual to you? What about Coked up Bezos or AI Zuckerberg?

That is unless the bully messes with the wrong person and gets the shit beaten out of them.

Countries as a whole? That is difficult to say. Typically you won’t here much from such countries, as they don’t enforce themselves on others.

Not necessarily. Problem is when patriotism is not defined positively through your countries achievments and striving for self improvement, but through negativity to other people.

The US patriotism evidently revolves around the latter, so does most patriotism i have witnessed in European countries. I cant speak for so many other countries as i havent visited them enough.

Did it improve? Yes. Did it improve more than the general improvement through advances in technology, medicine etc.? That is at least questionable.

If we look further at unethical experiments done on primarily black communities or prison inmates, again primarily black, such as testing biological warfare agents and pharmaceutics on them, regular lynching and other acts of deadly violence, the whole forced labour in the prison system… It becomes clear, that the government still very much considered the former slaves and their descendants as property, they could largely do with as they pleased.

But you can’t leave the property because you cannot afford rent anywhere else. You can’t get a different job, because there is no different job available in the area. You can’t get a better education because you cannot pay for it or even if it is free you cannot pay for your survival without the full time job, or multiple part time jobs. You get abused by the police or now also the ICE. You can’t afford to marry anyways…

Of course from the formal rights it is a huge difference, however from the practical result, modern wage work for working class people creates similarly unfree conditions. And it is no surprise that the ardent Neoliberals want to go further and establish slavery, by allowing contracts where people sell themselves “voluntarily” into permanent ownership of somebody else. This is the ultimate freedom according to these kind of Capitalists and they work to create such a society.

Why?

Still a better outcome to worker ratio,

If a slave is granted accommodation and food by his master, is it functionally different from a worker in a country with no social security, whose wage does not cover both food and accommodation?

“alleged”

Palantir is also deep diving into Israeli war crimes, helping to operate the apartheid surveillance and designating women and children as targets for assassinations.

It really depends on the company. Some look for any way to squeeze you. Others are pretty decent and probably more efficient as they dont waste as many working hours on bullshit claims and claim resolution.

Also if i rent a car i want things to go smoothly. I got places to be. You make my life easy, ill happily pay again and do my best to make yours easy too.

It als gives healthy bones and natural anti depressants.

Seeing the sun rise over the snow as you take the train to work can be quite nice though. Who am i kidding we only get proper snow every 5 years now.

My argument is that a lot of what we consider “productive” actually is not at the consumption for which it is produced isn’t intrinsic, but artificially induced to produce more. Production became its own end under Capitalism rather than a mean to satisfy needs.

Also we need to consider, see the farming example, how much we currently buy instead of do ourselves for a lack of time and energy. As for the risk of starvation if it wasnt for modern means of agriculture i disagree in part. In many industrialized countries the majority of agricultural land use is for animal farming. Aside from being destructive to the environment and climate, the overconsumption of meat leads to more diseases like colon cancer.

With your example of internet, how much bandwidth is used to feed people advertisement so they consume more? How much computing hardware is wasted on LLMs and other slop?

Capitalism is self reinforcing. Once you break the cycle you start seeing how much of it just goes to reproduce the capitalist system, rather than serve any human needs.

Arguably letting a big weight fall down after being brought into the air somehow is also pyramid age tech.

The US intelligence community kept asserting that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapon as late as Spring 2025.

Nothing of this was based on consistent intelligence.