It’s not. Give them a few nukes back to deter Russia. Remember, they gave up their nuclear arms on the provision that Russia would never invade.

Note that this is an article from TASS, the Russian news agency, so maximally biased

For this case. If successful, other, international cases might follow.

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As soon as the range exceeds the mileage people can drive in a single day, there will be a gigantic uptick in EV sales.

If artists would actually get paid fairly by Spotify that would be a good model.

Until about 100 years ago music artists would get paid for playing live only. Then music reproduction became possible, and lo and behold, companies started making a profit off of popular musicians by reproducing their music and taking a share, just because they could afford the technology.

Then, reproduction came into the hands of regular people, and you could reproduce music at home, bypassing the companies that profit off of the musicians. So copyright laws were drafted to protect mostly the companies making a profit off of musicians.

Now we’re going back to the situation of 100 years ago: musicians need to play live to get paid. But reproduction does still make them famous without them having to travel. So that’s a plus.

And you can argue Spotify has to.pay for infrastructure and app development, but that technology is in the hands of individuals as well nowadays. So what do they actually offer, on top of the work of creative people making music? Not much. Yet they become more expensive every year. And the only people getting richer are their shareholders.

Käse

Nationalists. Just of another nation.

It poses a fascinating question whether unbridled growth of the economy is valid to support unbridled growth of population. Not saying that people facing malaria shouldn’t be helped, but if it depends on an ever growing economy we might have a problem.

Well that might actually not be the worst thing to happen

What if everyone would transfer their PayPal credit to a regular bank account on the same day? Would that bring Paypal value down?

Give them a couple of nuclear missiles. Tell Putin if he doesn’t respect the Budapest memorandum, neither should Ukraine.

Then start negotiations.

From a purely “vote with your wallet” standpoint it doesn’t make sense, because there’s no money paid. However, one might worry about data/information getting in the hands of a fascist/compromised government. So I think people should judge this themselves case by case.

Crazy idea here: would it be possible to have a model where everyone’s phone is a mini personal instance, syncing with others when the user opens the app? When a phone is offline that phones content would be unavailable too, but that is part of the truly decentralised model.

I agree it feels off, but it’s better than what we have now. Users could allow certain companies’ ads they feel comfortable viewing.

The additional benefit for companies would be that they would have a direct finger on the pulse of the market. If they make a decision and they see a lot of users abandon their ads, it was probably a bad decision.

The obvious downside is that people that can use the money will be under the influence of big corporations more.

Truly fair would be to have corporations pay.the users to allow them to show them advertisements.

Note that the client having this possibility means nothing until all rcs operators and aggregators also implement this feature.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humankind:_A_Hopeful_History

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Lots of people appearantly voted for him, so it can’t be that much of a shock, now can it?