humanspiral

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

Saving the economy will need more spending, even if some efficiencies in government is fine. Don't hear about anything about economic boosting other than dead ender energy pipelines.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago

They ended up with Javascript trademark (afaik, because the name was too close to Java) too. Sued node.js over something related.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

June is a milestone as well. Even though its highest solar production month, there is often a decent AC demand that can use peakers.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Can we sue Oracle back for any of this?

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago

"12.1" is interpreted as the date December 1st, and as before for dates with no year the default is 2001 because of course.

it gets better and more coherent the deeper you go :P

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 4 points 12 hours ago

Cow's gonna rage like a rat in a maze.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 17 hours ago

Most of it wind/hydro/nuclear. Sure coal and NG combined was higher. But they are both declining rapidly.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Headline is aweful and misleading. In April, Solar was highest energy source FOR TRAILING 12 months. That it was more in June, likely means solar was highest energy source for trailing 12 and 14 months. FF electricity is dropping off significantly in Europe. Even more down this year than it was in 2023/2024.

This is such extreme incompetence in reporting from Yale.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

European EVs doing well in EU. Headlines so far this year has been surge of Chinese EVs in EU, but EU doing better.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Screw the bank I work for, screw the bank, and I'm squishing your head are references I make regularly.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Home owners/capitalists do appreciate scarcity. More/denser housing units is more city property taxes, more retail availability and income taxes/revenue, and more jobs, also more tax revenue. All of that supports more housing demand and higher property prices too. If you were the only one left in Toronto, I guess you wouldn't need/have any services. But property value would go down from $200/sq foot rental value to $1.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Our leaderships tried appeasement and appeal to "fortress Can-Am". Maybe they are all paid/programmed to be loyal CIA colonists, and had to at least try keeping the same political capital that brought them to leadership. Fine, we are open to joining EU in context of CIA colonies and NATO subservience, with absurd 5% of GDP spent primarily on US weapons, but that EU proposition must change.

Yes, Canada, EU, and Asian colonies should coordinate on US war against them. It has to be in the context of an alliance with China against the US, or the serious threat of that as a negotiation stance, and full detente with China until negotiations are successful. Removing US from NATO, Council of Americas, and NORAD or charging them significant rent for any bases/presence/services. We must end the US project of a proxy war on Russia, and the delusional fear manufacturing that Russia is a bigger threat than the US, that we only make true through US programed suicidal hatred towards Russia. Joining EU for purposes of distracting population that a war on Russia is more important than economic collapse, just because political power can be rallied behind instead of rejected as cause of collapse, it a bad reason to join EU.

Carney's "The special relationship with US is over" has to be followed up with different behaviour than begging to be a more subservient colony. Maybe this is the final wakeup call? If not, just more abuse to follow.

 

PikaOS maybe too "hobby oriented" to expect "sleep stability", but I understand most/all bugs to be debian or kde upstream ones. Is gnome still much better at stability? Is there a distribution that fixed sleep problems for you? open vs closed nvidia drivers?

Are there motherboard manufacturers that suck less at linux?

 

16gb ram. nvida GTX1650. Triple monitors

want to run existing windows 10 installation in VM, with write access. This is mostly for tax software.

plan is new SSD drive. Make 2 partitions for windows, with backup to both. Let it be C: drive? Then reformat PCIe M2 drive for linux.

I only care about the VM not FUBARing the windows installation, even if I have a 2nd backup of it.

I play one game that has a linux version: beyond all reason.

I've used debian/ubuntu based linux before. I don't need/want to highly customize performance/features. Just working out of box.

 

US has had incredible success so far this year in further colonizing Panama, and made big subjugations of Columbia too, in terms of deportations cooperation.

Columbia is key to expanding Pacific/Atlantic trade with a railway if Panama is subjugated to refuse the ideal route. Canal capacity is reduced from drought, and global warming is designed to make more drought in Panama.

US has funded anti-BRI terrorism and sabotage throughout the world. Nowhere as aggressive as Panama. Panama government cooperation is certain to doom its people to permanent poverty.

 

There is still BS fentanyl tariffs. China only slightly higher than other 2 biggest US trade partners.

I don't expect any energy, agriculture, or boeing purchases by China until fentanyl tariffs removed. Same with Chinese mineral export restrictions.

Objectively, US looks weak to walk back its measures, that were, somehow, supposed to unite world on its side, while getting nothing in return.

Would be hilarious if other nations get liberation day tariffs for 1 month while China doesn't, but if it was stupid the first time, and US is weak, then only bigger losers like UK, agreeing to buy more US stuff seems about right.

 

Canada relies on foreign auto executives for its auto industry. It already provides huge taxpayer subsidies per job. There is certainly a possible future where all of those foreign loyal companies side with US to destroy Canadian auto production/investment.

  1. China could help save Canadian auto industry by providing motors and batteries for Canadian made EVs. Chinese investment to make goods from Canadian resources in Canada is a path for scale that includes global export potential of autos and other industrial goods to whole globe including China.

  2. If it doesn't make economic sense to make our own tube socks, it doesn't make sense to make overly expensive cars, either. There is a stronger national security argument for apparel, that needs yearly replacements, than solar, batteries, and autos that last 20+ years. More so, when they are not dependent on continuous international fuel supply chains/geopolitics.

Pressure on foreign executives to support Canadian production includes access to Canadian market. The stability of status quo will appeal to most people. But the threat/plan B of cooperation with China is both a path to manufacturing and resource FDI paid by China instead of taxpayers, and better quality of life through better value goods.

 

US maximalism vs Japan suggests that other trade deals are not anywhere close either. US is also threatening allies on datacenter/AI access, that civility towards China would fix.

Canada is the most braindead auto fight. US has a (small) trade surplus with Canada, and making US cars more expensive with metal tariffs and supply chain turmoil, is not going to make Canadians buy US cars even if they didn't feel attacked.

 

Cash on hand at end of Q1 (not in link) was reportedly half of what was forecast in last statement. $400B instead of $800B

US Debt screaming higher.

 

US exports are 2% of China GDP. It is likely to have higher GDP growth than US this year, while the US has shortages of things it cannot quickly replace. LNG, agriculture, aeroplances are easy to replace for China. Humiliating US has more value, than figuring out what they can boost 2% of GDP on.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by humanspiral@lemmy.ca to c/economics@lemmy.ml
 

Unfortunately it only sells Agriculture, Fossil fuels, airplanes, and war. Plenty of other stores for the first 3. Trump is "setting the price" like its 1999, as if everyone needs Bloomingdales.

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