But.. basically every email provider or hosting service is legally obliged to give the information they collect to the government. It's not like this is exclusive to Proton in any way whatsoever. If anything, subpoenas are evidence Proton tell the truth and do at least stop themselves from having most of the important data so they can't give it away.

To start it's important to remember that money is fictional.

In a very short, simple view, say minimum wage workers were getting 10% of the revenue, while the bourgeois owner gets 90% - After a minimum wage increase, the minimum wage workers are getting 50% more, so they're now getting 15% of original revenue and assuming prices are only raised to cover this rise while keeping the bourgeois owner's income the same (ie 90% of the original revenue), then the total revenue (and thus, inflation/prices) only need to go up 5%.

The effect is that workers are getting a larger slice of the pie, and the bourgeois owner's income effectively goes down in real (inflationary) terms. Prices don't rise because that margin is effectively being taken out of the pockets of the rich (and in a more complex model, out the pockets of higher-earning workers).

However, there is always risk of an inflationary-wage spiral, which is a product of the rich holding society hostage. Where the bourgeois decide they won't be forced to lose money, even in inflationary terms, so the workers get a 50% rise, to cover this, inflation goes up 5%, so the bourgeois pay themselves 10% more, so now inflation is ~15%, so wages have crashed, so workers demand another rise, etc. etc. Essentially a battle between workers and the bourgeois as to who must lose out on their share of the pie.

In western countries, this battle is forced in favour of the bourgeois by raising interest rates (increasing the flow of wealth from the poor to the wealthy) and policies to promote unemployment, making workers desperate enough to not demand any wage increases. And that is not just speculation, these two goals are explicit policies most central banks will actually publically admit to.

I wouldn't be surprised if I was the hexbear user with the most blocked users and comms ever. And I don't have you blocked, so it's a good start.

Fruit is goddamned delicious. But to add suggestions not yet said - deglet noor dates (not Israeli ones), passion fruit, figs, coconut, pomelo, dragonfruit.

And of course the king of all fruit, effectively unchanged in form for over 50 million years - The delicious physalis.

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Pre-politics, they had a few genuinely funny early comedy videos, I'd argue.

Agreed. I liked his early comedy / Youtub drama videos, and that was it.

Though he never had good politics, even by liberal standards, at least he used to just not talk about it. He then just waded into it and wobbles thoughtlessly in every political direction without a single bit of cohesive thought behind anything he says. I still have genuinely zero idea why anyone likes it.

I stopped watching when he started the podcast (especially given one of the earliest episodes had Jordan Peterson on and was just them fawning at his super massive intellect).

Oof, I always hated how the revolutions tended to take your centralised states and leave you with nothin'. I do the same as you in terms of construction sectors, though I still have no idea if it's the right choice.

And yeah the exile and promote agitator actions are fun. I only discovered recently if you have Secret Police you can also try to kill them.

Uncritical support for the save scumming, it's frequently the way to keep a fun campaign going.

Whoop to the endless growth, max that GDP and living standard. Big spoons for all

Yeah, unless you have a lot of construction sectors and a high-tech training rate, I suspect you're not likely to train enough troops before they make significant inroads. That being said, America's mass conscription can be a bit of wildcard sometimes.

I normally only face these revolutions if I wasn't paying enough attention, and so justify my save scumming to avoid it. But if you're going to fight them, you're probably doing the best tactics available. Conscript everyone immediately, ensure your big armies have the extra supplies/support mobilizations, maybe consider a small backdoor naval invasion to put them on more fronts (especially if their capital is on the coast).

Ideally, be economically prepared to fight for a couple years at least. Don't worry if a lot of your soldiers die en masse - that just means you don't have to pay their wages. If you're near a new training rate tech, prioritise that. Bankruptcy is not necessarily loss, a 50% penalty (and penalty to training) is overcomeable if you have >3x their troop numbers by then. You can keep an eye on the bourgeois' debt by looking at the "take their debt" diplo option, if they're nearing bankruptcy, then just play it cool until they do, and push for the win.

As for Marxy boy, just bring the farmers into your government, then promote him to be leader of the party. His personal values should sway those of the party and the commie coalition might be back.

Whatever you do, save scumming or not, a glorious salute to crushing their spirits on the battlefield or in making the new socialist utopia

Nah, not gonna happen. Too many diehard conservative voters. Maybe the election afterwards, when Tories have either officially merged with Reform or admitted complete political defeat. Something major is going to have to happen to not be another easy Labour win because FPTP and the Tory/Reform vote is too split.

Shame it's austerity, anti-immigration, pro-genocide anyway from the working people party.

Americans breached electoralism containment, strict measures must be put in place to restore order.

If there's a serious security bug, like Heartbleed, you should totally update and reboot the service. That is basically the only "must" for staying atop things. The rest is mostly personal preference.

In my job I maintain publically exposed Linux servers, and many of them don't get rebooted for years. I think our record is about five years.

Yes, if you want your server to be theoretically the rootinest tootinest securest setup ever, you should update about every 6 hours, but even then you're just more vulnerable to repo attacks (which have happened a few times lately). Apt upgrade every month or three is probably good practice to keep on top of bugs.

So really, how frequently do you need to reboot? Eh. So long as it works, there are no critical kernel vulnerabilities, and updates are available, I really would argue you should never "have" to.

Servers are horses for courses, if you're being heavily targeted by hackers, obviously stay on top of updates, but if your server is pootling along without harassment and doesn't contain life-altering stuff if it got leaked, then don't worry too much. A standard, barely-changing, 'stable' build is usually a very secure one.

You have a chance to vote for someone better right now.

Let me tell you something I'd bet my life savings on: Trump isn't going to dismantle democracy and be a super pooper dictator scooper. Can you really not cast your mind 8 years back to when people said exactly the same thing, and he won, and nothing changed? He'll just be the same decline that the Dems would have been.

I do agree that the focus of argument should really be on dismissing any claim that voting (in the current system) makes a difference. That being said, I think part of that argument can be composed of "look at the choice that voting has driven us to, genocide or genocide".

I don't think EelBolshevikism was saying "you must not vote". You can criticise the idea of voting as effectively pointless, and still vote PSL for the tiniest mind bogglingly little almost-nothing it will achieve.

I do think it's important not to concede to any argument that voting in the current system is important in any meaningful way.

I don't need a supermajority of representatives to say "genocide is bad". Weird that the Democrats seem to still be unable

I'm not sure making a mini-ethnostate is ever a good idea, even if it was to undermine another one.

Still a fun game that I play time-to-time, just to cheat and go on a round-the-world rampage. There's something serene about having Classical music play as you blast in every direction with your tank while zoom zooming through a city.

So long as the foundation and the official "owners" of the kernel are US based, then the real answer is "because it's the law". Despite the fact the kernel is maintained and used throughout the globe, other countries' laws are entirely irrelevant, but people who employed in a country are typically held to its laws.

The real mistake was having a registered company in the US that they're unable to realistically move abroad.

In a world with sense, someone vaguely accountable in a new country will fork the kernel, that just becomes the de facto new kernel, doesn't seem likely. We can only wait and see.

From that same mail thread:

Moreover, we have to remove any maintainers who come from the following countries or regions, as they are listed in Countries of Particular Concern and are subject to impending sanctions:

• Burma, People’s Republic of China, Cuba, Eritrea, Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan.
• Algeria, Azerbaijan, the Central African Republic, Comoros, and Vietnam.

For People’s Republic of China, there are about 500 entities that are on the U.S. OFAC SDN / non-SDN lists, especially HUAWEI

Some patches are linked where it looks like they're trying to remove vast swathes of Chinese maintainers as well. If they insist with being a US lapdog like this then Linux kernel (as maintained by the Foundation/Torvalds etc) is fucking dead, no contest.

This is kind of a necessity of capitalism. There must always be "better" things/activities that the proles can't have, otherwise what was the point of money? Doesn't matter if they're only better by an entirely arbitrary standard, the point is that it must be overly wasteful and consequently too expensive for others.

See: Every car that costs more than like, 10k tops. Utterly wasteful and basically never meaningfully better. But a good social signifier of wealth.