It’s because capital has seized the means of democracy across all western “democracies”.
When the majority of the political class at the state and federal level are pre-screened, pre-positioned, financed, and promoted (through MSM ownership) by the richest 1%, the result is functionally equivalent to capitalist dictatorship. As long as the corrupt hold a majority, the rich are ultimately in control.
How hard is it to post a sauce?
I figured out a way to cheaply reallocate my (Aussie) retirement funds to various indexes/ETF’s which exclude the USA entirely.
Would’ve done it 1.5 years ago if I knew the option were available. Investigate your options before Americas oligarchs loot your investments.
This article is actually disgusting, and feels like corporate propaganda to make the brand sound better than it is. It refers to % increases YoY after multiple years of high double-digit % losses, without any mention of how this compares to 2-5 years ago, or any possible reasons. Has Tesla reduced their prices significantly? Are tax benefits or discounts ending, creating a last minute surge?
The data viz starts in January ffs. Is Reuters owned by fascist-aligned billionaires?
It’s called fraud. Luckily the criminals are incorporated, therefore the state will protect them.
It isn’t just the anti-competitive walled gardens they all create. It’s also that our governments have completely abandoned their purpose and any semblance of opposition to corporate criminals.
They’re all free to plan obsolescence, bait and switch, enshittify, stop updating everything, or simply kill all software, firmware, and services at will for any reason. There are dozens of things that could have been done to prevent all their crimes… but again… we love in capitalist dictatorships that only exist to empower and protect capital.
The PC market has shrunk 80-90% in one year.
The cost of GPU’s and memory increased 5-10x in 1 year. What did you expect?
I wonder if the masses will ever realize they live under what is functionally equivalent to capitalist dictatorship*, with the illusion of democracy; no different to the USSR or PRC and the illusion of workers owning the means of production.
*You can vote for whomever you want… except the vast majority of the options at the state and federal level are groomed, pre-positioned, bribed, and bankrolled by the wealthiest 0.1%.
It’s an axis of fascism. You can tell because of all the fascism.
This is how it should be. The rate of immigration should be proportional to the investment in housing, infrastructure, and gov services. Importing people without increasing investment or efficiency just damages the quality of life and cost of living for the existing population… but it enriches our corporate dictators so is standard across the developed world.
This fascist fuck won’t do it though. He’s just a criminal trying to con idiots and racists, the same as every right wing politician on Earth.
The most important benefit is that a fascist dictatorship can’t brick all your governments computers because an incontinent pedophile got his feefees hurt.
If you think that’s far fetched, you have no idea how mentally-ill and psychopathic fascists are.
I have a background in analytics, and I know what is claimed about the independence and impartiality of these stats, but I don’t believe inflation figures at all anymore. The elite at the tippy top of capitalism are all criminally corrupt, and have enormous financial incentive to game everything.
It only takes a cursory glance at the cost of everything to see that the real inflation of most products is significantly greater than stated. Sure raw ingredients and staples that still have competition (milk, flour, bread, salt, sugar, potatoes, detergent etc) may have only risen at official figures, but what proportion of consumer spending are those compared to all other items?
If inflation were 7% per annum EVERY YEAR since 2019 — double most official inflation figures over that time — prices would only be 50% higher today (1.07^6 = 1.5x more expensive), yet when you look at cereal that isn’t oatmeal, vegetables that aren’t potatoes and carrots, biscuits that aren’t the most basic of basic shit (etc, etc) – the cost of pretty much every branded product that isn’t electronics – is literally anywhere 2-5x what it was in 2020. The rent and utilities of everyone I know has basically doubled in that time. This puts real inflation at more like 10-20%.
10% x 6 years = ~1.8x more expensive (1.10^6)
15% x 6 years = ~2.3x more expensive (1.15^6)
20% x 6 years = ~3x more expensive (1.20^6)
The psychopathic, fascist, parasite class are robbing us all blind, and it will only get worse as they ramp up the class warfare and destroy all gains made since western democracy began. We’re already back to the inequality that led to WW2.
Because they’re all performative cowards owned by the fascist Epstein class.
How do?
“We’re sorry” ((rubs nips))
Their goal is to bankrupt the government, and sell it off to the United Corporations of America.
They already own it. Might as well name it after themselves.
Yeah, I’ve definitely gotten a huge amount of value out of plex lifetime. The problem with plex is the same as all commercial software. The profit motive is guaranteed to enshittify all of them eventually. Even companies that strike a good balance (e.g. Valve) are only a few deaths or bad decisions away from vultures and parasites taking over and destroying it for short term profit. I’ve personally experienced this over a dozen times in the last ~20 years, across most classes of software. That’s why I refuse to pay for most closed software. All of plex’s decisions over the last 5-10 years indicate it’s only a matter of time before they completely destroy the value proposition. I also won’t pay them a cent more, because of this trend.
The major problem with FOSS is the funding mechanisms available. Most require subscriptions too high to justify monthly when you want to donate to 10 projects, let alone 100; most don’t even do yearly, or require some large minimum (like $50 or $100). I assume this is entirely because of the banking fees involved. Most are also built on top of other FOSS that nobody ever donates to. IMO the only long term solution is for legislation that forces all banking and payments for FOSS/charities to be zero fee – for all parties – plus the development of a FOSS payment platform where you can setup a single recurring sub that is split among as many projects as you choose, but also splits a sub-portion among all FOSS dependencies. The platform could even provide a script that users can run to periodically update their donation list. I don’t want to donate to every FOSS dependency used in Jellyfin. I want all those dependencies to receive their cut, and for that to be the FOSS industry standard.
FYI I believe Jellyfin is cashed up and recommends donating elsewhere. I personally dropped $100 on VLC last year because I realised I’d never done that in 25 years of being a mainstay.
That’s… exactly how they implement advertising in an LLM?
Welcome to the illusion of “freedom” and “democracy” under capitalism.
They’re probably more concerned with the MIC oligarchs profit margins.