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I have a birth bath I don’t ever replace the water in. Its like a shrub to me.

China produces the bulk of rare earths the US uses for things like military production, which puts the US as dependent on China as Canada is dependent on the US. The reality is absurd no matter which way things go.

Europe is doing carbon border adjustments to attempt to do something similar if I’m not mistaken, though its still early stages.

Its boring. You open a web browser or Steam, you do a thing, you go to sleep.

The US has never had free trade, look at the patent system they force other countries to abide by, whose length and terms are dictated by the US.

This is just a continuation of the same. Apple even had a patent on rounded corners on rectangles.

Well its not for no reason. Its so they can sell DRM.

The further you get from the gold standard the worse life you’ll have. Though you might have more social media and gadgets you’ll have a smaller house and worse quality food/services, as everything is financialized through debt in a futile attempt to force the elderly who own all the assets to consume every greater amounts, as automation progressively decreases the costs and companies find more advanced ways to shrinkflate products.

You used be able to run Linux apps too, but they pulled it all back because they are only good at creating bloatware.

I do Ghostfolio for my stocks. Though I paid for it to support development, its quite cheap.

Umbrel, Cosmos Cloud, Caprover, Yacht, Dokku, there’s a billion of these things.

Its the business cycle. Smart companies are slowing production.

Their margins are being squeezed by AMD, so they already are.

It seems like a buggy mess to me.

I run my own anti-wef Bot. It alerts me of incoming digital currencies.

Well I mentioned France, who are using nuclear as a backup to the rewables they implemented.

You’re also burning lignite coal now, which you take from Africa who is now having blackouts. But it went pretty poorly overall phasing out nuclear for renewables.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany

Key to Germany’s energy policies and politics is the Energiewende, meaning “energy turnaround” or “energy transformation”. The policy includes nuclear phaseout (completed in 2023) and progressive replacement of fossil fuels by renewables. However, contrary to plan, the nuclear electricity production lost in Germany’s phase-out was primarily replaced with coal electricity production and electricity importing. One study found that the nuclear phase-out caused $12 billion in social costs per year, primarily due to increases in mortality due to exposure to pollution from fossil fuels.

This study disagrees after taking into account storage.

https://advisoranalyst.com/2023/05/11/bofa-the-nuclear-necessity.html/

Storage and production of renewables is also done by shipping in Chinese products created burning coal and ignoring environmental concerns. This all hinges on exporting emissions and labor to areas that don’t care about pollution.

I’d also argue that nuclear tech can likely proceed faster than storage, given the dangerous nature of energy storage. Even something as basic as storing water can cause deaths given what happens when dams break, stored energy is volatile by nature.

Well we have a negative productivity growth as well at the moment. Hence the BoC ringing the alarm bells. That makes it harder to pay our growing debt load even with spreading it out to more people.

Well wind farms won’t help, if you need 100% reliability. Storage I figured was more expensive than nuclear after adding all the costs together, creating enough hydro for backup is extremely expensive as well.

You’re essentially building a hydro power plant, water storage, pumps, and wind turbine at that point.

Why do you need to force industrial users off during the day, and how do you decommission your backup nuclear power with intermittent wind, when all you did was move from 100% uptime nuclear to variable uptime wind and solar?