Much more important than the enjoyable culture is the material aspect - how much work each developer has to do. Nice vibes help delay burnout but rarely eliminate it. Or they let it happen with a smile on the face.

Pay the developers instead, so they can reduce hours worked elsewhere, if you can. Or contribute code, if you can. This isn’t aimed at you personally, but anyone reading. I can’t contribute code but I can pay so I do that.

So no ceasefire.

“They shouldn’t be doing it,” Mr Rogers says. “A larger wealthier property owner does not have more property rights than a smaller, less wealthy property owner.”

But seriously, aren’t heat pumps usable for cooling data centers, apart from being more expensive?

Private companies typically also distribute ownership via shares to people who are therefore shareholders. They’re just not traded publicly. AFAIK only firms owned by a handful of people might use a different scheme, depending on the jurisdiction.

Lidl is better for Lidl’s shareholders and Aldi’s better for Aldi’s shareholders.

A significant decrease in the amount of surplus value society produces going towards tech companies producing proprietary software, whicj is most of them. Basically the costs of using software for a whole lotta things are gonna get lower. This would make that society’s products cheaper for itself and export. It would allow its labour to do more useful things, one of which could be new FOSS software. But also helping out with the green transition, taking care of the ageing population, education, etc.

Or join the US as the CHERISHED 51st STATE, and then the smoke would be AMERICAN smoke and ket me tell you - don’t we love american smoke!

A moderate Democrat worth tens of millions proposes to tinker around the edges without consulting anyone, fails.

I think I lost neurons reading this. Other commenters in this thread had the resilience to explain what the problems with it are.

This sounds plausible. Has anyone caught him in the act?

Yes. Of course what you said could happen. My point is that in the current status quo there’s still plenty of non-authoritarian countries and billionaires are still operating on easy-to-jump-ship basis when they destroy one democracy or another for increased profit. So I think that’s why this cost isn’t factored in. Competition for increased profits dominates. If we’re left with only a few democracies that tolerate billionaires, then that calculus could change. It’s similar to capitalism’s treatment of any finite resource - plunder that bitch till there’s nothing left, then deal with the consequences. If we don’t, the other guy would do it and we’d lose on the profit, and the other guy gains power over us given by the newly acquired capital.

Probably not unless you have lots or animals crossing it. Ticks require hosts to feed and transport over significant distance I think.

Yes, of course.

Right but how do you make most countries want to arrest them? We currently don’t have a setup allowing for this if no international criminal offenses are involved. It only happens if the billionaire resides mostly in an “authoritarian” country where they could get “arbitrarily” arrested. The rest of the world isn’t currently setup to do this. I’m not saying it can’t be setup or shouldn’t be setup like that.

Smaller scale millionaires perhaps. Once they go multinational, it becomes very difficult to significantly harm them even if one country decides to dispossess their business. This has already happened to large corporations that exist today through nationalization at various places and points in time. E.g. Shell after Venezuelan oil nationalization.

Not if you have a loyal, competent police apparatus to round up anyone who dares to step out of line.

I think you thought you offended some folks with an endearing phrase. My whole life I have heard it used and I’ve used it myself as a synonym of “friend” or otherwise respectable reference to someone. Quick online check agrees.

Yeah, bombing Iran has nothing to do whatsoever with human rights. It’s all about Israel’s interest and whoever else shares it. If we cared about human rights and couped governments for that, we’d be all up in the Gulf’s ass, Israel’s (because of Gaza, West Bank), among others. Even if that was the goal, history informs us that the chances of a government that’s better for human rights is less likely than a worse one. Some Zionist acquaintances took a week of glorifying Israel’s “victory” in Iran, before turning around to shit on Gulf countries and China for their human rights abuses. I’m so done with this shit…

the salute focus on the 1991-95 ethnic war in Croatia, in which he fought using the American firearm, after the country declared independence from the former Yugoslavia.

Ah the old reliable anti-communist gotta fascist rule.

That’s pretty horrific. The working population is important to maintaining Ukraine’s ability to fight. It probably factors in Russia’s intent to finish the war instead of agreeing to a ceasefire.