The other day a colleague send me the pdf of some documentation standard he uses. In the media section it recommendee using HD Floppy discs with 1.44MB as all computers have a ready drive for it. CDs were described as being written with a special tool and then readable by a special laser drive, but suitable for long term data storage…
Today i had to ask a 15 year old, if he is familiar with CDs, because chance is most notebooks stopped having CD drives by the time he learned to read.
Well if i havent seen most of them being boycott targets for their involvement with Israels crimes.
As for how to organize boycotts i recommend to check out the website of BDS bdsmovement.net/ it has tips how to organize local boycotts and there is campaigns for many of these companies already.
The most important is to do targeted boycotts. Focus on a few brands/companies and apply maximum pressure, while talking about it to get more people to join. Make them know that their drop in sales is a result of their complicity.
Conventional armies fighting against each other cannot be compared to fighting against guerilla/insurgents.
Look at the US failing to create a stable occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. Look at the US failing in Vietnam. Look at Israel annihilating Gaza and committing mass slaughter, yet Hamas has the same number of fighters today, like it did in 2023.
Of course the US army has the means to genocide all of the US population. That is until they run out of food. Of course they can terrorize the civilian population by cutting power, starving people and denying fuel, healthcare etc. That worked great for Bashar al Assad in Syria…
Ones you have a popular uprising, the disproportionate use of force by the regime usually fuels more resistance against the regime. That is why they try to react disproportionately hard even to the earliest signs of it. Why did they make all the fuzz about Luigi? Because they are scared, that if it is not 1 Luigi but 100 Luigis, the system would be at serious danger and with 1,000 Luigis it could collapse already, because no Oligarch would feel safe anymore. And 1,000 Luigis in a country with 340 million people is not that much.
Yeah. i should clarify “easy to revolt” is only in relative terms. Any uprising against a regime that doesn’t crumble right away is a bloody and difficult endeavor. That is why usually people only get to that point, when their basic livelihood is in immediate danger.
Still i think that the US has the unique situation of having relatively well armed civilians. So where in other countries you have unarmed mass protests that get shot down by the regime, followed by improvised weapons until the people manage to arm themselves from seized government stocks… In the US you have a mayor head start. Finally when it comes to the regime cracking down on people, the risk-reward calculation of police and soldiers can quickly change from shooting at the crowd to joining the crowd, if the crowd is armed.
In the end after each regime falls, the lessons is “if we had banded together earlier and fought them right away, a lot of bloodshed and destruction could have been prevented.”
You dont need guns to murder people.
Also Russia has plenty of windows.
Thats why you ambush the forces of the government and then seize their weapons.
But i seriously disagree with this notion of the US government being a million times more militarized. The difference between gun and big gun is much smaller than between no gun and gun.
But even if it gets to the point of the US air force bombing its own citizens. Those bombs need to be build. The factory needs workers. The factory needs supplies from a different factory. These suppliers need the same…
Fighting and winning a civil war against a well armee population is much harder than fighting against a well armed conventional opponent.
If the government is this centralized that makes it easy to revolt. Just topple the state government and make your own rules. Then the “power” has to first get into their cars and drive all the way to you.
Revolutions moetly dont start in the populated areas where the government has many of it goons. They start in the thinly populated areas, where it is easy to seize local control.
Ooor like many politicians he just put on a progressive facade for people to vote him, until he got enough influence to sell himself to the highest bidder. And AIPAC pays their prostitutes well.
Rovers as opposed to humans. Humans need food, a pressurized, temperated air environment, a discharge for their excrements, a higher level of safety and return mechanisms, much stronger radiation protection…
So a big event without any practical relevance because there is more cheaper, reliable and safer alternatives available?
So Northern Canada is the Jungles?
They finally addressed the hacking/botting issue.
Usually valve releases boxes with skins for summer, halloween and winter. I dont know if some are made by valve or all are community created with a cut for the creators. But it seems a low effort way to keep making money out of an old game.
And TF2 is still extremely popular, both with high player numbers, active content creators, community tournaments and the like.
“Efficiency” under Musk is an 80% chance of components to work as expected.
North Koreans don’t think this. Everybody knows its bullshit. The point is not for people to believe in the bullshit, the point is normalizing the government to get away with obvious bullshit. And this pattern is not exclusive to North Korea at all.
The “limping on” has been the past 40 years already. Ever since Neoliberalism became the dominant economic ideology and fully embraced by both mayor parties.
Capitalism declines into Fascism. The current administration is not the root cause of the US problems. It is a symptom that is accelerating the decline into Fascism. But the ground work was laid many years ago and defended ever since. We see a similar trend in many other countries that adopted the US Neoliberalism to various extends.
Just make a a rocket for space tourism for all the US administration and billionaire friends. With all those workers still at NASA that project should be realized in like 6 months. 4 months, if Elons taking care of efficiency.
After the first few millions, being rich doesn’t give you any satisfaction from material gain. You simply cannot consume that much more.
So being rich does not become about what you have, but how much more you have compared to everyone else. By preventing other people from having their needs fulfilled and living a good life, you can make your own life better relatively speaking.
It is the attitude of a toddler that wants to have the toy of his brother, and kicks screams and fights for it, but once he has it he throws it away and wants the other toy his brother is playing with.
Most of these people are psychopathic toddlers and the only safeguards against them is to limit how rich people can become. Because at some point it will always be about making other people worse off, since they maxed out what they could possibly make use of for themselves.
I have read briefly into the Duty to Warn Letter. These are specific arguments with a specific call to investigation, and they actually cover what would be considered statistical anomaly.
These are very different from the “Election Truth” people. And i wouldn’t be surprised if the “Election Truth” is using this hot issue topic to scam donations out of people.
There is a lot more you can do. Stop being defeatist. This kind of attitude got us into the train wreck that is 21st. Century US in the first place. And not accepting the oligarchy presenting you two flavors of oligarchy to vote between is part of what needs to be changed.