I picture the jury savoring their lunch sandwich and one of them being like, “So… not guilty?”. Everyone nods and goes back to working on their sandwich.

Russell 2000 index is a better indicator of the US economy than the popular things that everyone looks at. Namely the SP500, Dow, or their top performing component companies. The small / mid companies in this index are more reflective of the actual economic state of America. It’s been stagnant for the past 5 years. Basically it shows that real America hasn’t been doing well.

It was stagnated in Trumps first term even. The last big move the Russell 2000 index made was a rally when Biden won. Otherwise it’s been pretty reflective of the past 10 years of Trump era policy. They’ve been fucking over middle and lower American business.

Everyone focusing on the biggest companies is essentially watching the rich get richer. Contrast that with the small and mid size companies is reflective of the disparity. In other words the signs you’re looking for are already there.

Inheritance taxes are pretty high where I am. I won’t get much of what my parents have earned.

With all the free time in retirement my father has actually tried looking for more optimal ways to structure their wealth. There is none for average normies like us without getting butt fucked by the tax man. This kind of thing no doubt gatekept to millionaires and above. Those who can afford to hire people to do accounting tricks. And to buy politicians to make favorable legislation.

I’m pretty sure a big reason for the massive right wing shift over the past decade is in no small part due to this generational wealth transfer. The rich are fighting economic war that the rest of us don’t even know about.

People are distracted by the current bullshit of politics. Nobody ever talks about this generational wealth transfer. It’s the big one.

In the US they’ve already given what is it like trillions in tax breaks to the rich. The poor are funding it basically.

Everyone thinks things are bad already. I think this is only the beginning.

The goal posts have moved. Millionaires used to be considered part of the villainized rich group.

These days it’s not been out of reach for people to become millionaires themselves. Espcially in online spaces with a lot of tech sector workers. Many of them are millionaires. So the goal post had to move.

More broadly speaking we live in a time of great inequality. The people who’ve been doing well are doing very well. Combine that with generations of people having higher education and higher paying careers. There’s a lot more millionaires these days too as well as billionaires. A lot of them post online and get super offended you’re calling them out.

As for those who are defending all that. I got no clue. Why defend them. Yikes.

There’s a world that exists outside of your bubble. It’s real. No matter how much you bury your head in the sand.

Did you read the article? This isn’t about a research paper that talks about theoretical lab experiments. Sodium batteries are in real world application right now. Mainly in China and South America.

You can buy sodium batteries from AliExpress. It’s been available for a while. I was thinking about ordering a few but I ended up spending my hobby budget elsewhere. There’s no economies of scale yet for sodium battery tech. You can get the battery but there is zero electronics available for it. Mainly you’d have to design your own charger and battery management modules. That’s out of my pay grade. I’ve been waiting for Chinese engineers to mass produce such things.

Tech bro libertarians have no limits. No boundaries. Nothing is off the table for them. All they care about is money and power.

They know to get these things they have to start small. Say the right words that people want to hear. They say anything to make the sale. Their words mean nothing. They’re liars every day that ends in “y”. They gradually push boundaries until there are no more.

Chip wars. Probably has something to do with the US telling the Dutch to seize control of Nexperia.

Imagine if China seized Intel. Surely the response from the west would be far more severe.

New media indeed coincides with revolutions. I disagree with your final assessment. We have yet to see how this turn of new media plays out.

Good or bad is a relative. The frame of reference should be contemporary. Just because we ostensibly have technological luxuries not mean things are going well right now. Authoritarianism on another up cycle.

The newer generation of tech users know only of a narrow subset of technology from big tech / ad tech. They know little of anything at all the grassroots era of technology.

There’s going to be a point where the sole goal of escape is more important than what skills and money an individual has. If you can empathize with that then congratulations I believe that is the refugee experience.

There’s absolutely some extremists who would martyr themselves.

Social media as a whole is the infrastructure of authoritarianism. It only needs someone to put it use.

That’s a paraphrase from some talking head I heard a while back. The world has been feeding this machine for about 15 years. It’s filled with everyone’s personal data.

In a sense this is the Skynet doomsday. It’s already in place. All it takes right now is a flip of a switch. Like the Doomsday Clock. We are on the verge of it. Midnight strikes soon.

I have no doubt ICE is already using this to know how and where to pluck people off the street. If I’m a person that could be targeted in America right now. I’d be 100% off the grid. Ditch every electronic device. Go completely dark. Disappear myself to another location before they disappear me.

Will there ever be an app ecosystem for Linux phones. I don’t see how could happen. I’m talking actual apps like banking or payment systems. Institutional software such as government apps that requires a stable platform. Not a janky Linux system that is prone to breakage every few updates or scatter across different distros. Seems like the year of the linux desktop meme could end up morphing into the year of the linux phone.

Bidens infrastructure bill. Democrats do a thing. Nobody notices. People wonder why Democrats don’t do a thing.

The talking heads say the words they want to hear. There are many listeners which results in a herd effect. Someone is saying it while many people are agreeing. Therefore it could be right.

As another reply said, it’s a propaganda machine. It became a mechanism for disseminating political doctrine.

Or to describe it in their vernacular. It’s a virtue signalling wokeright mindvirus.

It was a completely different world having several different search engines. Felt like you were actually on a discovery path. These days Google funnels you into Amazon products listings.

They haven’t had real dialog about real issues in 10 years. Time flies doesn’t it. It was dead the moment they entered the Trump era. This idiotic fascism era.

I don’t see how they’re bringing 1/3rd to 2/3rds the population back to reality. It was over when that half the country reneged on the social contract.

I had a feeling he exploits the 9/11 thing for sympathy.

People were saying to anyone who would listen that Guantanamo was going to lead exactly where we are today. The sane washing as we call it now goes back so far.