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  • Trump and Rubio have said they’ll coerce the remaining government to open up the oil fields to US companies.

    Trump also said that the vice president can remain in charge as long as she does what the US wants. Understand the implication here - the Venezuela government are bad people who stole an election and commit human rights abuses, but that’s all okay to the US. They can keep doing that - they just have to open up their oil fields. If the US had said “we’re making Venezuela a democracy again”, that would at least provide some moral cover. They’re not though. It’s just oil. The US doesn’t even pretend to value rights and freedoms anymore.

    When I was a teenager during the 2000s, I bought the BS that the US’s motivations around the world were actually benevolent. The Iraq war might have been started on faulty information but at least they were spreading democracy. I thought the people saying the motivation was oil were overly cynical. Guess I was wrong.



  • These corporations are producing emissions as a byproduct of them producing products and services for consumer lifestyles; reducing these emissions will require them to compromise on price or quality, necessarily affecting consumers.

    Consider - suppose that to reduce emissions, the government shut those corporations down and prevented others from increasing their emissions. You think your lifestyle would be unaffected? You might be unable to buy a car (or unable to fuel it). You’d be unable to fly overseas. Beef would probably be more expensive, causing people to eat less of it. Regardless, your lifestyle would be impacted. Like it or not, but if you’re buying products and services from these corporations (directly or not) then you’re part of the problem too.



  • I understand the argument that government services shouldn’t have to run a profit, but government funding should still be for meaningful services that people actually use. I only get maybe 5-6 relevant pieces of mail per year, and then a ton of junk. I don’t need service 5 days a week straight to my doorstep.

    Our civilization has changed and mail delivery has lost much of its importance - how much we fund it should reflect that change in importance. A somewhat contrived example, but we don’t expect the government to continue paying for lamplighters to go out each evening and light streetlamps, because the need for flame based streetlamps (and their lighters) has decreased. Similarly, the demand for mail service has decreased (because of email) and we can get by with less postal carriers. Someone saying “the lamp-lighting crown corporation shouldn’t have to run a profit” completely ignores that maybe we don’t need as many lamplighters.




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    I believe the levels of radiation are several orders of magnitude different. I don’t think you can even use a digital camera for a robot near these open reactors as the signal is completely swamped by the radiation, while in space you would just have a couple of inaccurate pixels at any point in time.









  • Jellyfin can’t go closed source as it’s a fork of Emby from before it was closed source, licensed under the GPL. They don’t own that code so they can’t change that license, thus the whole project is GPL. In addition, Jellyfin isn’t being developed by just one company (it’s all volunteers), so every new contribution is also GPL licensed, owned by each contributor. The only way Jellyfin could go closed source would be to cut out the Emby backend and for every single contributor ever to agree to change the license, or have their code cut out. In short it’s not happening, and if somehow it did the project would just get forked regardless for everyone to switch to (the community did it once already!).