He’s talking about diesel prices in the US. Which is true in absolute, but not in magnitude. Impressive way to distract from the US-Israel war on Iran that created the bulk of the global shortage. :D

Don’t know abt Aus but Americans can’t just resettle in Canada. They need to immigrate like every other poor world sod if they want to stay here and work / get benefits permanently.

My bet is the EU is going to suffer further disintegration before the need for a real, democratic federation, not merely an economic union, becomes evident to most on the continent. There’s too many problems that can’t be solved within the current formation.

Has China started buying again? I wonder whether they’ll go back to pre-war levels. I think they’ll go to as low as they can in an attempt to save as much of the import economies their exports depend on.

There’s prolly gonna be European slapdown on Ukraine’s attacks on Russian refinery capacity. Societies gonna split open over the contradiction between supporting Ukraine against Russia and surviving oil-driven inflation…

Shit’s gonna be brilliant. 🥹

Supply managed?

I’m curious how the pre-existing big players in the MIC would react to this. Perhaps just buy it. Low cost is fine, low price is not.

People draw the line wherever they feel like they should draw it. Some don’t draw it all.

Really feels like it. Look at the paragraphs and the list here.

Omacom Foundation launches with $18.5 million

It’s time to dream big. Omarchy Quattro has given people a chance to experience what the malleable computer of the future looks like, and they like it (a lot!). It now feels like a moral obligation to make this future more broadly available and fundamentally change how people relate to their computers for the first time in what seems like forever.

To do just that, I’m incorporating the Omacom Foundation to ensure that this mission is fully funded, durable, and ready to accelerate.

This nonprofit foundation will hold the trademarks, fund the infrastructure, promote the work, and support the open-source projects and developers Omarchy depends on.

These twelve Founding Patrons are each contributing $1 million to this mission:

• Tobi Lütke, CEO of Shopify
• Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe
• Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies
• Jack Dorsey, Block Head and Chairman of Block
• Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare
• Brendan Iribe, Cofounder of Sesame and Oculus
• Jason Fried, CEO of 37signals
• Drew Houston, cofounder and co-CEO of Dropbox
• Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw
• Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase
• Yunjie Dai, cofounder of TapTap
• Yours truly

These Founding Corporate Patrons are each contributing $1 million a year for three years or $1.5 million in tokens, with renewal by mutual agreement:

• DigitalOcean
• Meta Superintelligence Labs

The bigger the size of the import, the larger the impact, the more diffcult to tarriff or block.

Yeah, this is quite the opposite to cynical. Progressives cannot deliver material good for people unless they gain and maintain power.

This guy is such a pro political operator… In one action of exposing this lie he increases the trust in his gov, his own trustworthiness and he puts a lot of fuel in the Medicare-for-All fight which his comrades are fighting in his state and around the country.

Oh boy, yeah that’s a nasty problem. I have nothing for you unfortunately. 😔

A China-linked islamoleftist trans terrorist based in California used his open source CCP-made AI agent to take down the all-American freedom AI. Time to ban open source AI as it’s communist terrorism.

That’ll be expensive so I don’t think it’ll be happening. They’ll be OK with collecting data from the 95% of their customers who don’t know how to block the TV from having internet access.

Yup, it’s great. It used to be PulseEffects for PulseAudio. It glues tofether a bunch of audio processing software and libs into a nice GUI that makes them trivial to use. I used to do this with PulseAudio config files.

Thanks for the explanation. That’s informative and unfortunate.

1. That’s my bet for the reasons I outlined. It’s not a bet in vacuum. I think it’s strong enough to consider it “certain,” colloquially speaking. Is it certain in mathematical terms? No, as you said - nothing is certain.
2. That’s not inconsitent with my bet. We can get into why but probablt don’t need to.
3. No idea what that’s about, not using PieFed. They limit what? Why do they do that? I read your explanation.

E: BTW I’m not unaware of the ability of for-profits to siphon people away from existing corporate platforms into new corporate or corporate-adjacent platforms, for example. E.g. Twitter -> Bluesky. I think that would be insufficient in the long run to halt the fediverse growth because every time this cycle occurs, some people fall off into the fediverse and that’s usually the more aware people. They tend to create more content.

That’s crazy. The Canadian ones are monstrous compared to what we used to grow in our European backyard thirty years ago.

and consistent quality

Kinda wild that most store-bought chicken doesn’t taste good at all. At least it’s not making us sick. 😄

I don’t diss supply mgmt. Just personal taste opinion. I think supply mgmt is very important for us and its benefits are obvious.