Like all western societies, australians have their own flavor of red hats

That has nothing to do with being a western society. I’m pretty sure that China, India and Somalia have it too. Maybe named differently, and with Chinese Supremacist instead of White Supremacist groups, but pretty similar. It’s just something that exists in each human society. It’s called Chauvinism btw.

how so? isn’t it the smoke that’s bad?

Now just sell it as lemonade and profit :)

translatio imperii - The empire just moves westward throughout human history.

bald eagle screaming intensifies

The US economy is generally down, but there are exceptions. Some companies make more profit than they did before, especially US oil companies.

Why? Simple. Prices for oil are up, the US oil companies continue to extract the same amount out of the ground, which they can now sell at higher prices -> higher profit.

Yeah that would be nice.

I mean nobody in their right fucking mind would expect the Iron Dome to be impenetrable. Maybe the Israelis are so high on their own supply (media propaganda) that they actually believe Iron Dome to be 100% safe but it’s not.

Fundamentally, the question is what does it cost to launch a missile and what does it cost to intercept one? If it costs $10k to launch a missile but $30k to intercept one, then the economics is on the side of the attacker; Meanwhile if it costs $100k to launch a missile but only $30k to intercept, then the economics are on the side of the defender. That’s what you have to look at.

And the issue is that even if Iron Dome would catch most missiles, some still make it through, and what is the cost of that? The damage they do.

The US government fundamentally doesn’t give a crap about your wellbeing. In fact if you die at 56 instead of 76 the government can cheap out of approximately 16 years of paying you a retirement.

i’d rather have him chicken out than continue a pointless war though

It’s difficult to describe how much Trump is doing for the climate here.

yeah well it’s all about who carries the risks i’d say. i think that if you’re willing to take the risk yourself, you should be allowed to install a banking app on any device. just beware the risk, and you need to be warned about those.

interesting.

yeah that makes sense actually

And who guarantees that your PC doesn’t have malware?

Microsoft is legally responsible if the software they provide is found to actually contain malware.

hmm do you have a link to the product?

It’s in the article:

The researchers said it was “maddening” that such easy action to fight the climate crisis was not being taken, and said people should be angry. Stopping the leaks can even be free, given that captured gas can be sold – methane is the “natural gas” that fires power stations.

Gas that does not leak is gas that can be sold.

sure we can, the only question is who’s legally liable if things go wrong

The problem will solve itself once fewer fossil fuels are consumed overall, there’s less fuels to transport around and therefore fewer leaks … also the companies are losing money on the leaks so they already have an incentive to fix shit today.

I should be able to tell my bank to only trust devices running an OS signed by the grapheneos key, and more importantly I should be able to tell them to trust an OS signed by my key.

How do you know that your OS installation doesn’t include malware? Like there have been many cases in the last few years where npm modules were found to contain malware. Who says that’s not also the case in some modules that are a part of your OS?

And more importantly, who is legally liable if malware actually does cause harm? E.g. malware acts on your behalf and sends your money to some criminal organization. Not only did you lose money, but now you’re a suspect of supporting a criminal organization!

Of course that issue might be alleviated if you simply don’t have any money to send anywhere in the first place. That might be a viable alternative, but it only works for some people, i’d say. Or you could also set a daily transaction limit of say $100 that you can use to buy groceries; to limit your losses that way. The limit ofc cannot be changed from your phone alone, you need to go to a bank physically to change it or sth. Otherwise malware could again change it on your behalf.