Yeah. The only thing I’d clarify is if she is paying rent or contributing to the mortgage. Paying rent is cleaner and she isn’t paying half, but it is important to have an understanding about this in case there is a breakup or death.

That was a design decision by Steve Jobs to keep people from using them as wired mice.

It is also important that the presentation of Shakespeare is radically different than it was in history:

https://youtu.be/2UZ369VYJrY

There was more crowd interaction, actors commonly forgot lines, and the play itself would usually have a limited run. Also, the script was considered to be a trade secret, so there were few complete copies kept.

For consumption of content, phone to laptop use is probably about 70% phone and 30% laptop.

For production of content, 20% phone and 80% laptop, with Lemmy being a large part of the 20% phone production.

Yes it is.

The USA definitely went crazy after 9/11 and has done destabilizing things to the international community. I’m not denying that.

However, the USA has a big stick that has been able to keep most borders frozen. Without the threat of American intervention, I can see a lot of wars between countries start because war became an option.

And this could come to pass with a peaceful China.

This is including the Middle East.

My only concern is that I expect an increase in international conflict as the American security guarantee is gone. The only remaining countries capable of projecting power internationally can’t do it on nearly the scale of the USA. I expect a lot of wars until new spheres of influence get established.

Intensionally, the USA is going to lose its status as a hyperpower. Europe is going to decouple from American defense policy to the point where I can see American military bases close in Europe. An anti-Chinese military alliance will function with or without the USA anchored by India and Japan, but I see that force yielding some territory to China in the near term. There will probably be an increase in the number of wars in general as regions go into conflict without an American threat to maintain borders. Nothing the USA does is likely going to fix this.

Domestically, the administration is the greatest threat to the republic since the Civil War. If Trump is able to be pushed out in the future, there is going to need to be a major re-evaluation of how the American federal government works. This is going to require constitutional changes and the removal of major powers that the President has collected as the federal government grew.

He didn’t fly away?

I thought he would break apart and his powers would go back to their component rings.

And the problem with the area is that there isn’t a good fall back to rely on. And, since the land isn’t valuable for commercial farming, people aren’t as likely to sell the family farm for opportunities elsewhere.

Yes, because I grew up in an area where private pools were very common.

Most people talked about how the system was designed, but I’m going to ask about what you mean from a different point of view. What use would that system be?

Everyone carries around their own personal DNS in the form of an address book. It used to be a physical book; now it is integrated to your phone. There used to be a physical book of most people’s phone numbers, but that practice went away as spam calls became a larger problem and people stopped using the DNS book, the Yellow Pages, for looking up commercial numbers.

Second is phone numbers aren’t as valuable as IP address numbers.

The theoretical limit to phone numbers in the USA and Canada, which has a combined system, is 10 billion while not taking into account special numbers like 911 or that 555 numbers don’t work. That’s still enough for everyone within the USA and Canada to have a personal and work phone number with plenty to spare. If that becomes too much, the system can be changed to add more digita relatively easily.

In contrast, large parts of the Internet still works on IPv4. This is a problem as IPv4 only has about 4 billion IP address and every device has to have an IP address to work. I’ve got at least 5 devices that need an IP address to work while I only have one device that needs a phone number. So, the system of assigning IP addresses gets very complicated and DNS smooths that process to end users.

I’d consider it worse than Edison. Edison’s real contribution to technology was the creation of a company R&D lab geared towards new products. He would invest in the development of the product before it became big.

Kroc took over an already functioning business.

Get from point A to point B without a human.

There are other problems for the homeless, but it makes treating those problems a lot easier when they have a home.

Yep.

To add to that, I’ve found a lot of people in the working class care a lot about class differentiators and will spend a lot of time trying to profess how they should be viewed at a higher relative ranking since they can’t rely on money or heritage to do it for them.

So, if you create an out group for them, a lot of them will latch on to that idea since it raises their relative value in a meaningful way.

I don’t think the Getty things is enshitification. It seems more like a regulatory issue

It depends on the form of employee ownership as to whether it works out for the employees.

In trucking, the industry uses the owner-operator model as a way to push costs onto employees and skirt labor laws. On paper, the truckers are their own bosses. In reality, they are effectively employees of logistics companies where the logistics companies can pay their employees less than minimum wage and push maintenance costs onto their employees.

In this case, ownership is used as a tool of oppression.

Tesla doesn’t just make cars. Tesla also makes batteries and photovoltaic panels.

I agree that Tesla is wildly overvalued and treated as a tech stock, but electric cars isn’t the only thing Tesla makes.