I tought you had to play blackjack/ pontoon/ 21 to count cards?

I disagree that it’s conservative. It’s nazi/ authoritarian/radical. For 50 odd years afer ww2 the cons knew this was a daft tactic. Prior to that (well prior to 1790 ish ) con/feudal/landowners managed their serfs and peasants, they didn’t want infighting. (outfighting, thats a different , maybe lucrative albeit lottery).

Cons are just common or garden cunts. populists are serious, they can mobilise labour .

The traditional cons wil ride the wave because they have no choice and no friends. until they realise they’ll be expropriated eventually, which the nazis won’t do until after they have critical mass. Fucking con Niemollers

cheap and easy.

It’s many thousands of years of solar power , concentated in to a storable, portable and fairly accessible and transmutable form.

Countries don’t “generate” coal and oil, they suck it out of the ground. It was generated by thousands to millions of years of life and accumulated geological processes.

I don’t want them to wait 'til death. The death isn’t important the land ownership reform is.

Do you hoard TVs so that people can’t buy their own, and charge people fees to watch?

Exactly, many people rent because they’re credit constrained - they can’t borrow the lump sum even though they have enough to pay the rent each month.

Banks are shit at supplying houses because they like to protect the (over)value(d) assets of their balance sheet - plus they ration credit inefficiently. (source some papers by joe stiglitz et al).

Council housing / social housing / rent controlled is the thing to fill the gap, the government can borrow againts its much more secure asset and pay the construction workers. Govt should not care about crashing a house price bubble; in fact it should want to - oh hang on . . . govts are controlled by landowners too.

Definately land (ownership) reform needed hopefully to democratise governments at least a wee bit more representative.

Yep I remember the black snot days in the late 90s.

Red Ken ftw! Good luck to NYC with their CC too.

By all accounts, it was even worse the 60s though before clean air acts, gas central heating and when all those art galleries were power stations. I don’t think Alec Guiness actually did blackface, he probably just walked around in the smog for a few hours (/jk).

Things really have got better if you look long enough.

Yeah.

China does hydro too - which is the best by far. In the west we’re far to precious about landowners.

We have a whole area in my country called the lake district used for nothing but tourism and a few sheep, and lots of godawful poetry. (plus maybe one coppermine).

We really need to make it live up to it’s name, flood the whole thing into one giant lake and run the worlds largest hydro off it. Stop pissing around with piddly little windmills, and putting solar panels over perfectly good arable land in s country where we have a lot of cloud cover.

Hmmn, as far as I can tell they’ve not presenrted any de-rated capacity data. I much prefer de-rated capacity for planning electricity supply. Unless you’re doing detailed half-hourly despatch simulations. It’s probably still a large share but I doubt the exagerated growth shown here. Solar in particular needs to be scaled down in relation to say hydro and nuclear for planning purposes.

That’s why the green bit in this supply chart most likely won’t grow as sharply as the OP graph. (Ok it’s change in stocks vs total flows too.) https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-2025/supply

Hydro and nuclear and geothermal will scale near 1:1 from capacity to output. So they are a lot better. Solar will only average 4:1 and wind at about 3:1 from memory.

Here in the UK where there is a lot of wind gen they’re already runnung some pumped storage motors into effectively operating as inertial stabilisation most of the time. It is very interesting that the grid is preferring frequency stabilisation instead of the “battery” function that pumped storage is really designed for. We really need more hydro and pumped storage capacity a lot more than wind and solar. If you only like uplifting news please don’t lookup the recent news about Cruachan power station.

I don’t see it as a paradox, but as rational. But there are people who I think do hold tolerance as some sort of moral compulsion, and get offended by the notion that it might just emerge from people figuring out how and why to cooperate, without any high and mighty guiding morality.

These people will also object to using rational models to understand/describe human behaviours, because they can point to many examples of people acting irrationally. Many of these examples are psychology lab “experiments” so are irrelevant to the real world. But plenty of real examples of things like loss aversion and risk (mis)percepion, sunk costs, time-inconsistent decisions and so on where individuals clearly do behave “irrationally”.

I often come across people who believe that this undermines anything any “rational model” has to say. And so I do try to use such reasoning with those people, or even challenge those observations with examples where collective rationality does seem to emerge as a social (not individual) phenomenon, then I’ll be derided as some sort of neo-conservative capitalist fascist or whatever.

So I find that it’s generally good practice to chuck in some insult about one type of political zealot or other every so often, so as to quickly establish where I stand. I’d rather be vague than waste my breath with zealots.

It’s a great argument for backups. I don’t think clod/DRM based services are the best backup - certainly they’re not a complete backup system.

If you have a local system and/or communication failure, or bandwidth limitation; how long to restore the backup?

A backup on a local storage should be possible to plug into another computer and access fairly easily.

Ideally your backup system will give some resilience against many types of risk scenario, especialy for the data you care most about or can’t go for a long time without. The fact that it’s harder to backup DRM stuff is a limitation - so I’d avoid DRM unless i don’t care about the thing.

Social contract not a moral imperative.

Or seen as a repeated prisoners dilemma, play tit-for-tat, or maybe (N*tit)-for-tat (where N gives a ‘punitive’ damages expectation for breching the accepted norms).

Quite a lot of lefties don’t like thinking about what is “rational” though because “people aren’t cognitively rational” so rationality based social equilibia can obviously never have any relevance.

I’m sure by windows 12 or 13 coprolite will be so good they will get rid of both control panel and command prompt/powershell. The best ui is no ui.

In any case, the users won’t want to mess with settings once the OS already knows which advert they want to see next.

yes

The concept of “the average person” is a good example of the type of crass generalisation that propagndists often use.

You have to be careful to get a phone and model supported by one of the projects. Check all compatibility and install instructions before buying a phone. And if you need a manufacturer supplied unlock code, make sure the manufacturer still gives them out . Some will discontinue that service after a few years.

For graphene os you need one of the gogle devices - i’ve never tried it but i think its the one most people like.

lineageos supports more devices usually older.

I recently got lineageos working on sony experia xa2 - very happy with it. But to get there i had to go try like 6 computers before one of them sucessfully sent the bootloader unlock code over the ADB. For some reason usb is temperamental when doing stuff like that

It is a lot easier on really old stuff like samsung galaxy s3 or s4 if you can tolerate something that old. Maybe you’ll lso end upon an old version of lineage.

Once you get the bootloader unlocked it is generally straightforward. but modern phones make that fist part awkward.

I backup my precious dick pics at several offsite locations by sending them to as many people as possible as often as possible.

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Vital feature.

Just in case your game fogot to put in a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key

One of them will, and the others will ape it.

Repeat this process enough times and more and more of them will get a bit better.

It’s sort of like education; except the students are a bit better motivated.

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