No, there’s just no point in painting a burning car or swapping the door hinges during a house fire or putting lipstick on a pig post slaughter.

You have to fix the core of the problem before you start worrying about the minor details that cannot meaningfully exist without the initial problem being solved. Creating this currency would not solve any problems whatsoever with the current state of the world. It would not improve anything.

You know how I know that? Bitcoin was the thing you are describing. How’d that work out? The same way literally any digital currency will work out while the concept of capital is allowed to exist. It will be bought, hoarded, and narrowly metered out in the absolute best case scenario. And all possible frameworks that could possibly avoid that fate are just the concept of socialism dressed up in increasingly silly and decreasingly useful abstractions.

If you want to have a nice sailboat you don’t start with the deck trimming. You don’t even start with the sails. You start building the framework of the hull and then possibly get to the finer parts later, when what you have won’t just be dunked in the ocean because you think you don’t need the entire rest of the boat to have a boat.

What state? Because it cannot be any european state. It can’t be any state in the Americas. It can’t be most asian countries. It absolutely cannot be Australia.

There is no state that is both already uncaptured by capital and palatable enough to avoid sanctions in the west. Since that’s the actual only reason sanctions exist, to punish those not currently fully captured by capital holders.

So it cannot be state backed.

Can it be insured without a state? Maybe, but then whoever insures it sets the rules for it. This is the problem with the Federal Reserve owning USD versus the US government. Can it be physically backed without a state? No.

If this magically came into existence in a state and was even slightly effective, that state would magically be developing nuclear weapons the next day and invaded. Just a reminder Gaddafi was doing what you’re proposing… and global capital was so mad he was allegedly anally penetrated by machetes while the entirety of the country was effectively destroyed.

Any solution that gains traction developed by a state would get that state eliminated.

And any solution not made by a state will either be a scam, be monopolized by capital as its an asset and someone will be willing to sell it, or will simply not catch on since businesses would find no incentive to use it in large enough numbers to function. You’d need half of a country’s economy, at minimum, to switch to that new currency for people to effectively circulate it. Which is why bitcoin never took off as a currency. Which is why no crypto will ever really be used as a currency outside spot transactions. Your employees need to be able to pay their taxes with it. Which in any country means the government approves of it, which means its not a threat to them, which for 150 countries means it is not in any way a threat to capital and can be fully controlled by it.

It’s a good solution for global socialism. And socialist countries wanting to make that transition away from the last vestiges of capitalism might find utility in a state-issued digital currency… as long as capitalism does not exist anywhere at any point at that time. Because it just takes one economy where you can buy this digital currency like any other commodity in exchange for USD or other currency that can buy goods; just one to ruin everything.

Unfortunately what you’re suggesting is crypto. Which as we’ve seen isn’t really compatible with any world where capitalism still exists; as capitalists will just monopolize it.

The alternative to corporatism isn’t fascism, in fact they’re the same thing at different stages. Accepting the fascists because they are an ‘alternative’ to corporations is like accepting castration because it is an alternative dentistry.

Because distros don’t do it differently. Different DEs sometimes deviate from the established standards and practices. It’s not a distro change, it’s whatever weird little DE you use that decided to do something stupid.

That being said .desktop is a unified standard with unified documentation implemented in a fairly unified way across various DEs, with the only difference is some DEs support finding desktop files in some extra folder locations.

Every distro could maintain a complete list of popular DEs and a link to the documentation, or people could just look it up for the DEs they use and target. I agree there should, at this point in time, be some standard service to just call and handle desktop files that all DEs use that way application level developers can just call that same service and everything gets put everywhere it needs to be, but given the controversy of systemd, there’s not going to be a universal solution for that since this is absolutely not a kernel-level service that needs to happen.

China, was the magic answer, at 62 current reactors and another 50 expected to come online by 2030. Without a single nuclear disaster.

To the rest of your nonsense, CANDUs still require enriched uranium. As in, if the ‘natural uranium’ (the “organic” label of the nuclear world) does not have enough 238, it can’t work.

You mean thorium reactors, invented in the US in the 1950s? Or recycle reactors, also invented by the US in the 1950s?

Also that second part also describes the actual world leader in nuclear power which has more than 100x the reactors of Canada and no nuclear disasters on record…

Being a world leader in nuclear power just means you have more than three power plants and you haven’t been bombed by israel or the US for it.

No it’s definite the US, which was the inspiration for the nazi party’s policies.

This just in, the ESA has no idea how games work.

Alt source: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/fcc-id-verification-phone-activation-1795960

And there’s a dozen other sites covering this, though unsurprisingly (since both parties support this in the US) little main stream news coverage yet.

Yes, unironically. It’d eliminate most security risks currently inherent to Windows while allowing for decent customization. It would also greatly accelerate WINE and ReactOS, giving legacy software a smooth offramp from insecure older versions of windows to Linux.

Done. I held up my GPS-enabled smart phone I paid $50 for 10 years ago to my eye line, better yet I was able to get a real-time preview of the angle of the picture to ensure everything’s in shot.

So now I have to stab every person wearing airpods if I don’t want to be spied on by the Five Eyes intelligence agencies?

Every day I’m thankful US tech is less and less popular outside the west.

Have you ever met an executive? Have you ever met any actual capitalist?

They aren’t particularly smart people. They just have no physical capability for empathy. That is how they can exist. AI is good enough to reduce workload. It is fantastic especially at correcting speech and translating.

You know what worker class needs corrected speech and translating but otherwise can be taught to do most office and entry level jobs? Outsourced workers.

Companies slowed outsourcing customer-facing positions due to backlash from obvious accents and poor cross-cultural training. AI has allowed them full steam ahead. While real time voice masking is a little expensive right now, AI chat agents are good enough to be used while having an outsourced worker listen in, feed ‘correct’ lines to the AI (or simply skip incorrect lines) and actually perform the actions.

GAN ML is also good enough, as it turns out, to figure out how to complete many office tasks with full desktop screen captures.

If you combine these two things, and add a little marketing spin, what you have is a very clear plan to eliminate 50-70% of labor cost in the US – that is the majority of customer service and office administration workers.

Right now it’s AI facing, (statistically) Indian outsourced agent backed solutions. Eventually those outsourced agents – which have the totality of their job recorded, every mouse click, every key press, every single word said to their coworkers and managers, every single blink, all to train AI – will be out of a job too.

Nevermind this ends capitalism, as without a consumer base there will be no companies, but oh wait, techbros and capitalists are pushing for UBI. . . Isn’t that weird they’d be pushing an objectively socialist idea… I wonder if that’s related.

They called me crazy for insisting on ensuring all of our companies files compress to 10,000 separate 64KiB xz compressed files. Well who’s laughing now?!

Tell me you live in a flat unpopulate ddesert without telling me you live in a flat unpopulated desert. If you’re the 85% of humanity that lives along a coast you are not getting away with replacing your rotors any less than once every couple of years.

Brake rotors are $500-$1500/set, pads are $50-$200/set, Friction and rust welds are common enough to damage other parts of the knuckle over the expected life time meaning that bill can easily turn into a $2k-$5k repair, totaling the car depending on the age.

Eliminating regular maintenance costs and production costs for a system that works essentially just as well (and can work better in an emergency if you don’t care about saving the associated motors) means cheaper cars, both upfront and over time, with the only downside being luddites afraid that two decades of EV data from a few dozen million cars isn’t enough to prove safety versus hydraulic.

Welcome to the world of mostly solid state systems. Turns out when friction is a solved problem there’s no need for cottage industries like brake pad and rotor production.

They absolutely are. When a building collapses due to the safety inspectors being bribed, it’s not the rich people that die – they live in the nice buildings. When an investigation into fair wages gets bribed away who suffers? The workers.

When a politician spends his career working against the workers who suffers? The Workers.

China at a local level is incredibly directly democratic, with workers voting on most things. Directly going against the will of the people is harming those people’s essential right to self determination, compromising their safety, and denying them all other rights afforded by China’s constitution.

While this isn’t actually how money works in any country, the workers pay the wages of the politicians, they demand honest service, and the whole system is based on the idea that can be done.