The ruling class thanks you for hating their designated scapegoat. You will continue yelling about their pawns, paying your taxes, accepting their inflation, and voting for their chosen candidates and parties.

That’ll be one hundred and fifty dollars, please.

That’s been my experience too.

Plex came with my nas, and we never used it because it it was really fiddly and wanted to show everything except my content.

By contrast, my jellyfin is linked up with the jellyfin for android tv app on the big screen tv, and if nobody told you it wasn’t a regular streaming service you’d probably never know because it’s so straightforward. My wife is not techy at all – she still daily drives her Android phone from 7 years ago because she doesn’t want to change to her new one from 2 years ago – but she can pick up the remote and play a movie at any time.

I use it every night on my phone to play videos that help me get to sleep, and the app works well.

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To be fair, it seems like Stampede starts prior to the trigun anime. It goes through the events of lost July but not the fifth moon incident. Therefore, it could be that Millie can come in later as a bernardelli insurance girl and still fit.

Seems like they’ve been getting less and less of the good anime every season.

To be clear, there was once a time that there was no federal income tax and most income came from tariffs and excise taxes. It was just prior to world war 1.

But it’s going to need a fundamental change to the way that people look at the federal government. Constitutionally, a lot of what the federal government does makes absolutely no sense. In spite of the general welfare clause, it should be self-evident that federal government was supposed to be about providing for the common defense and dealing with conflicts between states. The idea that it would take a federal program to provide for example food stamps is really bizarre. The EU has a lot of things that people criticize it for, what is a similar amalgamation of states, it doesn’t directly fund government programs like that.

Of course, changing what the federal government does does not necessarily mean that those taxes go away entirely. There are states was very low internal tax rates that are only able to be so because they rely on federal government funding, so in the event that they stop getting that revenue source they would have to start taxing their own citizens for the services that they provide.

Unfortunately, it’s going to get really bad. People don’t realize how much competence is about to die of old age in the next 10 years.

Yes, and they’re unlikely to drop to where they should in the near-term. Even the 1990s housing crash was really mostly the market going sideways until inflation caught up.

In my own country of Soviet Canuckistan, house prices in some markets have already faced 50% drops from the peak. Not all, of course, but we’re in bubbles that make US housing markets look sane.

Thing is, all the things politicians try to do to make housing “more affordable” just make it more expensive by making more money available to drop on a bid. Higher interest rates result in lower prices because people can’t afford to bid as high for the same monthly payment.

Does Microsoft have less money than Valve?

Unfortunately, during the pandemic we discovered what happens when things are underpriced. Effectively, if you don’t have the original company pricing their products according to the market, the scalpers all swoop in and buy up all the stock and resell it at market rates.

Big question or not, we can only control ourselves.

Everyone always stares at other people’s resources and imagine how great it would be if those resources were used how we like, but at the end of the day, we control our resources.

So is it a big question if it doesn’t really matter because we can’t do anything about it?

The only ones that seem to not be like that are hydroelectric and geothermal, since they’re baseload. Which is why they’re the two I advocate for the loudest – why not use stuff that works?

Big question is: how many of us are funding foss projects?

It isn’t difficult, and with how popular some are, it wouldn’t be long before the projects could hire one or more full time devs at good rates.

I support a few big projects I use every month through liberapay.

Big question is: how many of us are funding foss projects?

It isn’t difficult, and with how popular some are, it wouldn’t be long before the projects could hire one or more full time devs at good rates.

I support a few big projects I use every month through liberapay.

With capitalism proper being a decentralized system, the alternatives are all forms of central planning, so it is reasonable to assume that central planning is what is being referred to when someone says capitalism is a failed experiment. Rejecting decentralized coordination leaves planning as the remaining category.

If you think anything I wrote is a non sequitur, that simply shows you are missing the conceptual scaffolding behind the argument. The purpose of any economic system is to allocate scarce resources among humans who have effectively unlimited desires. Scarcity is the starting condition. Allocation is the problem. Economic systems are different strategies for dealing with that problem.

That scarcity does not come from capitalism or from any human institution. It comes from physical existence itself. There is finite matter, finite energy, finite space, and finite time. Scarcity existed long before humans ever appeared, and it will exist long after. Showing that scarcity is universal rather than human-created is not a tangent. It directly addresses the foundation that all economic systems must operate on. No system gets to escape trade-offs, because the trade-offs are not created by the system. The system exists because of them.

The system we live under that forces people to live with limited means is reality. Capitalism is one method of dealing with those limited means. Central planning is another method. Both are attempts to solve the same basic coordination problem. One distributes decisions through prices. The other concentrates decisions in administrative structures. Neither one abolishes scarcity. They only differ in how they respond to it.

Glad I upgraded before it was too late.

Ran windows 95 on a thin client a couple years ago.

I forgot that you could just end up with a broken install from the word go. I had to reinstall twice until it was stable. I didn’t do anything in particular different, it just didn’t take that time.

The system is called reality.

The problem we face is that there is unlimited desires, but limited resources. That problem was written into the laws of the universe when the big bang occurred and a finite amount of energy produced a finite amount of matter.

Before a single homonid existed on earth, there was a limited amount of material on earth, a limited amount of energy available, a limited amount of space. Before a single homonid existed on earth, animals required food, shelter, heat, cool, and clean water.

The Oxygen Catastrophe is an amazing extinction event where most life on earth was photosynthesizing CO2, and in spite of the early earth having about 20 atmospheres worth of CO2 the Earth effectively ran out and afterwards the atmosphere was composed of mostly nitrogen and oxygen. Amazing to think that there was a resource that abundant, that was effectively completely used up by life, before multi-cellular life even began in earnest.

That extinction event killed almost all life on Earth, and ushered in an ice age that killed even more. That’s life, and it isn’t fair. Much of the life that remained had to adapt. Much life adapted to utilize this new oxygen waste. You and I utilize that waste material. Some photosynthesizers still exist, adapted to high levels of oxygen and low levels of CO2. Today, we live in a world that cycles between O2 and CO2, that’s the only way we can survive.

In about 250 million years, continental drift will form a new supercontinent, which will likely destroy most life on Earth. In about 750 million years, the luminosity of the dying sun will rise to the point that life on Earth will no longer be able to exist. A few billion years after that, the sun will run out of material, and will stop altogether. The solar system will slowly freeze for countless aeons. No life will survive that long. This is the end point of our reality.

Systems that pretend reality doesn’t exist, that this isn’t the end point of everything, they’re doomed because magic isn’t real and every decision is a trade-off between multiple competing and true things.

99.95% of life on Earth died in the oxygen catastrophe. 350 Wendy’s stores might close, laying off all their employees. Unlike the life that died in the oxygen catastrophe, the employees of those 350 Wendy’s can get new jobs, the real estate can be repurposed for new businesses that might not fail, and even capital equipment like ovens or deep fryers can be reused.

Central planners like to pretend they can prevent catastrophe, but all it does is change the terms of disaster. Instead of “Which locations objectively sell enough product to justify their existence”, often it becomes a war of nepotism, favoritism, lobbyists, and political favors. You can ask the empires of the Bronze Age Collapse how that worked out for them, but you can’t because of them, only the ancient Egyptians survived, every civilization of the middle east fell. Some fell and were erased from history altogether by people who wanted to forget the horrors of for example the Minoans. New civilizations rose eventually in the same regions, but new ones that did things differently. Eventually, even the Egyptians fell to the Greeks under Alexander.

Life requires suffering and limitation. Life requires constant adaption. Life requires successfully dealing with reality. Anyone who tells you differently, they’re not telling you the truth, and any system that suggests you can avoid these truths will aways fail against systems that model reality more correctly.

The positive thing is that a system like capitalism when it’s working correctly (I’m not saying it does always, I’m not a modernist who believes you can fit everything in the world in one box) means that the Wendy’s employees don’t die, they just have to find new jobs, and perhaps that building will be bought by a new company that does things differently, or sells something different, and is more likely to provide enough useful goods or services that it can support itself. If it does, then instead of the result being a net human suffering, it’ll be a net human positive. Perhaps that neighborhood actually needed a local restaurant in that spot. Perhaps it actually needed a book store. People who have an idea can take a risk and give it a shot, and maybe it survives and thrives, maybe it fails too and the cycle starts again.