Same. What do you mean your device was suddenly incapable of performing one of its most basic functions for an hour and it magically got better just before you handed it to me? I don’t have panacea NFC tags embedded in my skin.

This aligns with what I read in an article several months ago as well.

Chupa Bozo

Then maybe you should read the article because it does not make your straan claim at all.

Did you read anything but the title? The investment mentioned would guarantee thay nobodu starves from 2030 onwards. Food for everyone would become the new normal. We already produce more food than humanity needs, we just waste a huge amount of it. Moving production around and creating new transporrt routes are not ongoing costs.

Did you miss “by 2030”?

You missed the “by 2030” part, indicating that what’s being compared to the decade of military spending is the overall, not yearly, cost.

Best typo ITT by far.

There are a lot of great communities on Reddit still. Lemmy users are a self-selected bunch, and one of the things we self-select for is intolerance to the toxicity common on mainstream social media platforms, including Reddit. So we’re safe from a lot of the problems that larger subreddits have to deal with. But there are some excellent niche communities there that would fit in very nicely with the Fediverse.

I said something wrong about anarchism once here on Lemmy and an extremely friendly user took quite a lot of time to help me educate myself, clarifying my mistake, recommending reading material and engaging me in frank and friendly conversation about the topic.

On Reddit, I’d either have been upvoted to the sky by people as ignorant as me (or more) or get called a bunch of slurs and told to go fuck myself.

Rentals are expensive because boomers have been choking the housing market.

That depends entirely on the evidence.

They can easily solve the problem by selling their overpriced homes.

You’re right but it’s more than just fear of change. The people who abuse the status quo and therefore have the most to lose if such a chanhe is implemented also own all the major media outlets. They would unleash a storm of disinformation and propaganda that would blackball any measure even remotely reminiscent of this for three venerations the very moment it was seriously proposed by a politician. Not to mention a smear campaign against said politician, possibly including fabricating evidence of criminal activity.

That’s a grrat solution. Sadly, that means it won’t ever be implemented.

That would be a very fair assessment if the entire system weren’t rigged for the benefit of corporations and the very wealthy. Mitt Romney said thay “corporations are people too” so I’d like to see them get death sentences as well.

Speaking of, there’s VPNs or you could use PIHole to block Microsoft’s telemetry and AI ips.

That game of cat and mouse would get very tiresome very fast and Microsoft would win in the end. Better to hope for new vwrsions of Tiny11 or one of those debloater scripts to disable the AI features entirely, but they’d probably be reinstated with every update. Maybe use a hook to re-run the script after every update? I don’t even know if that’s possible in Windows.

Thankfully I’ve been Microsoft free for years now so I don’t have to know. Linux is a blessing.

I agree, but exactly zero large media organizations agree as well. Journalistic integrity is bad for business. That said, when a huge corporation is profiting by turning people into addicts and killing them, I have no sympathy. Let the FDA and DEA worry about which opioid deaths are whose fault while the courts lay each and every one at Purdue’s feet. The odds that they deserve it due to some other as-yet undiscovered shenanigans that they’re likely to get away with are as close to 100% as makes no difference.

No corroborating evidence whatsoever despite ten years of investigations should tell you something. Anybody can just claim things.

And how do you propose the people crunching the numbers separate these cases? Most addicts will lie about how they became addicted, choosing whatever story they feel paints them in a positive light. Most families of deceased addicts will stick to the same story, either because they believe it or because they too want to paint their dearly departed as a victim rather than irresponsible. Practically speaking, there is no way to get an accurate split between who was addicted to prescription drugs first and who wasn’t.