Used to like Dvoraks articles and Cranky Geeks back in the day.
Unfortunately he joined up with 'v-jay' Adam Curry to do a podcast. That show is basically Alex Jones lite. For example laughing about the white supremacist terrorist killing of Heather Heyer, edge lording it didn't happen, "Crisis actors" etc.
I don't think this works on Windows 11 Home (or or perhaps in S mode). I have set up a desktop this year where it did work, then more recently I set up two Laptops in S mode where it didn't and I had to follow other instructions.
For that I had to create a microsoft account. I could then create a local account, and delete the microsoft account.
Which frankly is terrible. It has pushed me to now make Linux Mint my main personal OS. I've been using windows and been a fan of Visual Studio for decades.
There is an episode of the "you're wrong about" podcast, that discusses homelessness. In that episode there are several discussion about several projects in California around homelessness. Those projects provided housing. The studies based on those projects showed that overall the cost was less that not having some housing and services. The podcast goes into more details, but as I remember this was because
* It removes much of the medical and police cost
* If people who are struggling don't have a roof over their head, it makes it incredibly hard for them to get a job. Having some stability meant that many could pick them selves up and get a job and so forth.
The end of the episode points out even though the programs were a success by most metrics - including being cheaper overall to tax payers - they were shut down.
> The largely unspoken kernel of this writer’s argument is that Curtis is wrong.
What I'd like to see is some concrete examples of things Adam Curtis gets wrong.
Unfortunately the article referenced doesn't appear to have the goods, and the crux of it appears to be a critique of the style. I like the style. It's accessible. It's interesting. It's engaging. Which was his intent as he has discussed in interviews.
So the majority of trade was/is/likely to remain with the EU?
Perhaps I should clarify on the EU law point. I made the point that most EU laws were copied, but the trade point was not about laws in the Uk. It's that UK companies will and do voluntarily comply with EU laws. They do that so they can continue to trade with the EU - the Uks largest trading partner. Moreover previously the Uk had a large seat at the table in deciding such EU laws. Now the Uk largely complies either by law or by necessity to trade with laws it doesn't even have a say in.
On bendy bananas, it also turns out...
> EU ‘bendy bananas’ regulation to remain despite Brexit
Not that this is some huge deal. It's just another (somewhat amusing) data point in a project that doesn't appear to have any significant tangible benefit.
Moreover I'd claim it isn't going to get much better, because how can it? The UK made trade much harder with it's main trading partner.
This. The Uk copied large amounts of EU law verbatim.
That is not a blip due only having recently left. It's due to their main trading partner is the EU and it will remain the EU. To trade with the EU you have to follow EU laws.
I'm afraid the bendy bananas was all FUD. And the "benefit" was chlorinated chickens.
I use an old ipad2 as a music controller. I have my music stored on a [subsonic server](http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp), and then use one of the subsonic player apps on my ipad, connecting to my old skool amp via a bluetooth adapter.
"The European Union jumped on the electric vehicle craze well ahead of other parts of the world, particularly after the Paris climate accord. But in typical socialist fashion, they weren’t content with simply encouraging people to switch to EVs."
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In an energy crisis, where for example people can't heat their homes, it doesn't seem to be surprising or inappropriate that there might be a need for restrictions.
It's ironic that there might be a restriction during an energy crisis against using an EV which is more energy efficient.
The Telegraph that promoted Brexit, Boris & Liz. Brexit slashed trade with the Uk's biggest trading partner. That created worse trade deals such as with most obviously recently Japan. Boris and corruption - such as the billions given to his mates around PPE. Eroding democracy and norms - off the op of my head with Proroguing. All whilst defunding the NHS during a pandemic. Liz did an amazing job of destroying the economy even further. Now there is a tax load that was only higher directly after the 2nd world war when the Uk was spent. The Tories now plan to engage austerity. How did that work out last time? Oh and people can't heat there homes, and it seem likely they will have to deal with 3 hour black out.
It's unlikely to get much better anytime soon. Brexit alone has plenty more pain to give.
None of this really touches on the depth and breadth of what the Tories have done to the UK in the 12 years they have been in power. All with The Telegraph cheering them on.
High taxes, high inflation, real wage decreases, worse trade, less freedom, less importance. And for what?
Who can blame young people seeing this. For years. Getting worse and worse. And thinking, hmm, maybe I'd be better off somewhere else.
> Facebook is much less than what the technofeudalists make it out to be: It’s an advertising platform that wrings pennies out of users’ scrap time — attention that would otherwise go to waste, at least from the capitalist perspective. Behind all the claims about changing the world with technology is a crew of digital ragpickers.
Hmm. "Scrap time that goes to waste?" Doesn't that depend on how that time is used and the opportunity cost. That time could be a hobby, social interaction or trying something that could be super valuable. To capitalism. To the human experience.
Another common error around surveillance capitalism, is to apply the average to deprecate the harm. Statics on average screen time are pretty large
7 hours - thats the average. Some of that time might have been productive.
What does the 10% worst percent look like? How much of that is "waste?".
I confess I don't know what technofeudalism precisely is. I do think the corrosiveness of tech such as social media, phone use and surveillance capitalism in general is underestimated.
The documentary "Spiders Web" talks about how the UK after the second world war, used offshore jurisdictions as places which desirable place for finance being safe (because UK connection) and opaque (so can avoid taxes), and yet not accessible through courts and the law as not strictly "the UK".
This was by design as a way to keep UKs importance post empire.
> The charity’s list of the “world’s worst” 15 tax havens includes the Cayman Islands, Jersey and the British Virgin Islands, which, like Bermuda, are under the sovereignty of the UK. It warned that allowing these territories to act as tax havens “undermines Britain’s efforts to be an outward-facing, responsible member of the international community”.
The market is artificial. For an example it it operates (largely) within constraints that are external - laws.
Modifying the money supply is a lever that can be used to achieve goals - such as a desired inflation rate.
Whether its a good idea or when and how is the appropriate way to use it is another question. Implying it is bad because it is "artificial" begs the question of what's "natural". The market is clearly not natural.
Unfortunately he joined up with 'v-jay' Adam Curry to do a podcast. That show is basically Alex Jones lite. For example laughing about the white supremacist terrorist killing of Heather Heyer, edge lording it didn't happen, "Crisis actors" etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville_car_attack
Ugh.
I would post the link to the episode, but don't want to give them any traffic.