Still, I get the sentiment, because for the first time it feels like his support is slipping among the core supporters too.

Do we?

Allowing them for 2 million a pop, in most cases

I tend to agree that developped countries tend to underestimate the fragility of their systems. But then there still are simple facts like if you spend 10% of your income on food, you can afford significant food price hikes. If you spend 70% of income on food, then a small rise is already lethal.

And the Canary islands too. I wonder if there’s precedent from them going extinct in mainland Africa and the naturally returning

There will always be a space for God behind the curtain of what we don’t understand. And indeed, if you set to stone what God is, then when you lift the curtain a bit, then you have disproved God. But if you’re more flexible about it, then their will always be a space behind the curtain we do not understand. And even if we would ever understand the whole mechanism of how the universe came to be, then we can still imagine there to be a meaning behind that whole mechanism. Add to that: science is about what we can observe. But if you believe there are things you can perceive that are not vested in observable phenomena, you have something that can never be disproved by science.

I think you’re being overly optimistic about the dying part. Folks here are not exactly a random sample - even if many people see the enshittification of Facebook or Reddit, they will feel unable to leave. Especially for social media there’s a huge network effect - the value of the product is in the fact that “everyone” is there. Or for Google products: there are just so many different problems for the user to solve (if there’s a current solution at all!) before being able to move. So yes, the focusing on quarterly profits extracts value at the cost of everyone else, but it might not be enough to kill the product. Or at least not for quite a long time. For me the root of the problem is that we gave up on countering monopolies. This has always been a grave enemy of “efficient” capitalism, but over the last few decades we kind of stopped efforts to prevent this. It automatically leads to worse service for any client, not just in the digital sector. Worse, it leass to concentration of power in such few hands that any political system shifts into an oligarchy.

I wish the Democrats would have a clear agenda on that. A few fundamental fixes to the system to prevent another decent into lawlessness (thins like elections on a Sunday, no corporate money in politics, strong demonopolisation, especially in media,…). But I haven’t seen anything “radical” from them yet.

Still more efficient than a diesel car https://reneweconomy.com.au/tesla-ev-charged-with-diesel-generator-still-cleaner-than-conventional-car-61942/

I remember reading an article about a “race” in Australia where they tested this out. The electric vehicle had lower total fuel consumption than the combustion car. Here it is: https://reneweconomy.com.au/tesla-ev-charged-with-diesel-generator-still-cleaner-than-conventional-car-61942/

Lots of the collateral damage affected plenty of civilians then. I must admit I’ve saw so much about that aspect that I assumed it was intended.

The usa shouldn’t have started this war, for sure, but that’s a pretty heartless statement.

Lots of collateral damage then

The strikes against Qatar and UAE are hardly military in purpose though…

That’s actually a quite condescending thing to say. And also not a surprise at all.

This is low-key one of the craziest pieces of recent news to me

Which polls? No the cancelled Gallup ones for sure.

Having worked in departments providing data all my career, I’m not surprised in the slightest that people do not care in any way about where the numbers they got come from.

Or maybe something stronger than that? Like not making it possible to federate unless there’s at least two admins? Or having some automatic fallback when servers die, so that their communities don’t die with them. Feels like a gamble otherwise, putting in the work of building a community when it’s this fragile…

Sheer incompetence? Gives them the chance to propaganda away all the separate instances one at a time, rather than having a single huge pile of evidence once?