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Their intent was to block third party app, not GOS specifically. GOS not working is a side effect.

Why blocking third party? As said below: to force the use of privacy invasive apps, and collect more data.

Now they will change course only if they suffer from a sufficient backlash. And that needs to be painful enough to deter other car makers from doing the same.

Sounds like the upcoming Slate. But it’s more of a pick-up platfom. I hope they keep going and extend their product line.

After 9/11, many Americans supported the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, and were making jokes about nuking them (a country that had nothing to do with the attack, by the way).
So were Americans fair targets?

Israelis are fed the with continuous far-right BS propaganda. I bet they believe Lebanese pray for their annihilation. This is yet another proof that controlling media work, and therefore democracies cannot function if media are not independent. No country, no people is safe for that.

The issue is not that we have deranged human beings. As societies, we can handle these cases.

The issue is we keep promoting them: Minister in Israel, President in the US, billionaires, trillionaire, …

You can consider it a disaster because iranian drones drilled them a new one. But keep in mind these guys are sociopath with no value for human life besides their own. They would totally send soldiers kill as many as possible while suffering high losses without a second thought.

It’s rationale: how would anyone need unemployment benefit with the best economy the USA, the world, sorry: the Universe have seen since the US exist the creation of Earth by God??

Another way to make history: if the combined behemoth goes down, he will also have checked the largest collapse of Nasdaq ever.

I don’t know what’s your news are, but I didn’t have the same perception (France and Canada):

There was some anger when Trump floated the idea of “taking” Canada, but he wasn’t taken seriously.

There was definitely an outrage when Trump repeated he would have Greenland by force if needed, and he was taken seriously.

There are mild reactions now when he says he will take an island from Iran because he’s lost all credibility. Fact is I’m not sure he could get his ships close enough to the island before they’re sunk by Iran’s drones…

Yeah, but then we also need to rally about C-30, that re-authorizes all kind of known dangerous chemicals for the environment but also for our health, and rally against new pipelines, privatization of ports and airports, etc.

Move fast and break (every)thing, so when people complain too loudly, it’s too late, there’s nothing left to salvage, and they’re already putting their hand on something else to divest attention from everything else they broke so far.

Look, I don’t know if you’re a troll or seriously delusional. But planting the solutions as “do nothing” or “give everything left to billionaires so that they follow a plan that addresses global warming but in a way that’s profitable for billionaires without putting any constrain on them” is not just a fallacy, it’s laughingly absurd.

Your plan does not exist, and will most likely never exist. And even if you could find some mad scientist proposing a plan (not backed by a scientific consensus), you have no way to convince billionaires to fund it. They don’t need you to get the 99% money funnelled in their pocket.

But I will store that idea somewhere close to the proposal to burn every fossil fuel left on Earth to supply AI so that AI finds a solution to global warming.

Geo-engineering is taboo. Climate experts are afraid that if we start talking about it seriously we will abandon other, less risky, sustainable solutions. Those solutions are gone now.

It’s really not. There were papers about particles in the sky, nuke near the Antarctic, giant mirrors in orbit, etc. Climate experts just won’t promote unproven solutions that may have even more disastrous unexpected consequences while we have proven solutions that we collectively just don’t want to adopt.

But in practical terms it is. While we were waiting for “radical measures” we blew past 0.5C goal, 1C goal and now we will blow past 2C goal. Turns out waiting for solutions simply does not lower CO2 emissions.

We didn’t “wait”. We collectively elected people who didn’t give a shit, over and over. We still do. So a proposal to “pay the oligarchs” with money we no longer have because they already hoarded most of it, so that they apply solutions scientists propose instead of keep hoarding more, while they’re obsessed with power and are allergic to constrain is ludicrous.

What I’m saying is that we have to come up with a plan they will get behind. They will only support a plan that’s profitable for them

No, they won’t. Because whatever plan you come up with will come with constrains for them. You should have realized that by now. EVs are profitable. Solar panels are profitable. Musk got in both. And he also decided to launch rockets and get in AI, not only nullifying the benefits of the 2 first, but managing a negative overall contribution, all while claiming we have ample time to fix the climate crisis and other stupid statements.

I’m not saying we should ask them to come up with the solution. Scientist will design the solution. It will be extremely expensive. The money will be extracted from lower classes. Private companies owned by the oligarchs will implement it and profit from it massively.

If such solution existed, they would have done it a long time ago. What you propose is what? Public money that we give to them in exchange of a promise they’ll do something useful? Ever heard of Hyperloop or hydrogen commercial planes?

The alternative is to continue demanding the ruling class sacrifice their wealth for the greater good while they ignore us and nothing gets done.

No, the alternative is to elect people who give a damn and know what they’re doing, go after the oligarchs, tax the hell out of them so that states actually have resources to get shit done. While you seem to believe “there is no way”, some countries around the world are doing their transition way faster than expected.

Bad news for you: we’ve been paying the oligarchs for decades. That’s why they’re so much richer now. They could already have done a lot to reduce global warming and they didn’t do shit.

It’s incredibly naive to think they’ll “fix it” by giving them even more money. First because they think they can escape the consequences, second because they have no idea how to fix it: they’ve made many claims over time that were pure stupidity on the topic, third because they would never ever ever do anything that don’t somewhat benefit themselves and their gigantic egos.

By the way: geo-engineering is not a “solution” backed by climate experts.

In theory it’s not too late to stay under +2"C, providing we take urgent and radical measures now. The best moment was decades ago, the next best moment is now, the third is tomorrow morning.

Oligarchs will get all of us killed, including themselves. Yes, they need to be reined in. The alternatives are just modulating how fast we die.

If you’re manly enough, spontaneous impregnation!! That will tell SO much about men who claim it can’t happen!

Let’s try “At last pregnancy for people strong enough to refuse abortions!”

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Yeah, they do that in advanced civilizations, like deep countryside of Pakistan, or Taliban’s Afghanistan.

So much uncertainties and hypotheses:

• Iran is indeed waiting for the midterms.
• Iran is waiting for their hackers team to get the rest of the Epstein files.
• Iran is waiting to replenish their missiles stockpile so that they can resume the fight and wipe the US in the area.

We can all see the pressure on both sides to reach an agreement. It’s good to have so many cards on hand…

That’s (really) a political issue, not a company issue. Each company does exactly what it’s supposed to do: maximize profit for their shareholders. Even if they know it will end in a total disaster, they’ll keep doing that. That’s how the system works. Making sure the system works is the job of the policy makers.

Unfortunately, the policy maker is now in the companies payroll and so helps maximize the shareholders profit, there is no one left to look at the bigger picture and/or long term effects.

I was actually wondering if Iran violated the agreement passed with Obama. As far as I know, they didn’t. They had checks from the IAEA to make sure they were not trying to get nukes. They respected their deal.

It was torn apart by Trump for no reason other than his hatred of Obama and put back sanctions for no reason. So the US is the part that violated the agreement, and Trump is the reason he can’t get any good deal with Iran because now, they don’t trust him.

Actually, Trump hardly respect any deal he signs…

Unfortunately he does. And he fucks it up alright for the rest of us.

These are secondary effects, the main one being their own wealth growth. Nothing else matters. Nothing else is important.