Some BIOSes have a built-in update function that can update from a BIOS file stored on a connected flash drive.

Doesn’t matter which team nominated him. A spook is a spook, anything they touch is gonna get spookified (not that any product from Silicon Valley isn’t already a fancy surveillance and propaganda system).

Good that those things are taught in some places. I can only speak from my own experience in high school - we were required to have laptops for school but were never taught how to be safe online.

Some people put their whole lives on the internet and never once stop to think if it’s a good idea. Then again, online safety and security are never taught or communicated, at least in the west, maybe by design.

So they’ll just start shoveling wood into coal power plants in 2030 and unfurl the “Mission Accomplished” banner.

I remember a heated irl conversation I had about ten years ago with someone from Yugoslavia. That was a time I was peak lib and I couldn’t possibly fathom that what they were saying was true, namely that Russians really like Putin. Since then I have realized the error of my ways, but most people never get that far.

It seems to be Muzhappilangad Beach in Kerala India. https://www.tripadvisor.in/Attraction_Review-g777115-d1198664-Reviews-Muzhappilangad_Drive_in_Beach-Kannur_Kannur_District_Kerala.html

Socialist enterprise and markets can be competitive, in fact more competitive than a capitalist system. China is actually super innovative now, having caught up technologically with the west in part by leveraging the same import substitution policies and general disregard for other countries’ capitalist’s “intellectual property” which drove industrialization in the western nations.

The two big differences between socialism with Chinese characteristics and western neoliberalism are the fact that SWCC places at its core collective ownership of the means of production and state investment in developing said means of production. Whereas the west privatizes everything and only invests state funds in the further enrichment of the few who own said privatized means of production.

Capitalism cannot compete with socialism. But of course these Wall Street ghouls will never admit that this is yet another admission that their system only enriches them at the expense of everyone else and the planet.

On first thought I wanted to say private property, for private property ownership is in my view the core characteristic of capitalism. But fighting against private property feels as nebulous and undefined as fighting against capitalism itself, and in itself requires a complete paradigm change in order to happen at the necessary scale.

I think fighting against individualism and for community and cooperation is a much more pragmatic option. In working together to achieve the otherwise impossible, we can set the stage for a new socio-economic paradigm, while also improving people’s lives in the present and immediate future. This can be something as simple as community gardens or neighbourhood mutual aid groups. One of the biggest lies capitalism has forced into our brains is that it has to be everyone for themselves. Over the course of human history that’s never been true, and never will be.

Blue is fascist too.

Sakai is an author, their best known work is Settlers.

https://readsettlers.org/

Because universal surveillance is more profitable than consumer privacy, and surveilling consumers aligns really well with the interests of the billionaires that control telecommunications.

It’s a call for freedom from oppression and genocide, specifically in the Palestinian context. “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Germany has decreed it hate speech.

Companies like subscriptions because it’s a constant revenue stream, and they can market the subscription as a lower cost of entry.

You see the same thing in the switch from one-time purchase software licenses to SaaS. You used to be able to get, say, Microsoft Office for maybe $120 one time, or maybe it was even included when you bought your computer. Now it’s $100 a year. Adobe did the same over ten years ago.

Having predictable cash flows is great for a company’s longer term planning, and in many cases brings in more revenue than single purchases.

Not necessarily an MMT specific thing, but yes, the bourgeois focus on taxing labour (wage income) rather than property (capital or land). Interestingly enough, Adam Smith, one of the first liberal intellectuals, argued that land should be taxed rather than labour. The tax topic you illustrate is just one of many examples of how the class and socio-economic basis of things are completely obfuscated by liberal politicians and intellectuals.

To MMT specifically, it only holds as a lacking description of the US dollar. Look at any other currency, ie any currency which is not the hegemonic global reserve currency, and you’ll find that MMT doesn’t hold up.

So if Alice shoots Bob, and Bob survives the initial shooting only to die later from, say, blood loss or additional shock due to the very same bullet wound, Bob committed suicide and Alice didn’t do anything wrong?

Wait, what. I thought Biden was riding that “kill all Palestinians” train all the way to his grave. Or is the feud about Netanyahu not being aggressive and murderous enough to wrap this up before October?

Just… No.

And yet some of his ideas, primarily the Bancor, would have fundamentally changed the course of post-WWII history.

I’m no capitalist, I just mean to say that the difference between the international currency exchange model Keyenes proposed and what the US forced on everyone is immense. Interestingly enough, many countries are once again looking to Keynes’ Bancor as inspiration for a new international financial paradigm.