Redox OS?

Well at least you didn’t hack a Gibson

I swear I’ve seen either Zero Cool or Acid Burn around here somewhere.

Hmm I’ll look into those. I managed to loan a tent off a friend for the festival I want to attend this month so my tent buying will likely happen next year or even later, meaning I now have more time to consider options. Bergfreunde.eu seems to sell them in Europe so at least I don’t have to find a kiwi to ship me one.

I found a bunch of obscure movies from the 1930s and 1940s when a friend asked for some. I’m still seeding them. And I do mean obscure, not like Citizen Kane or something that everyone knows.

As the other commenter said, likely from China. The US banned exports of the super high-end chips to China IIRC, but not low-end stuff. And India is known to sell anything to anyone as well.

It’s also slightly cheaper (per unit) to manufacture a million phones vs ten thousand.

It is not even close to being a main factor at the moment. Main factors are still transportation and manufacturing. Trump’s war in Iran is doing way more to reduce global emissions than the data center protests (though it’s great that those are also happening). Same for Putin’s war in Ukraine which started the fuel price raises.

All that work has paid off for China.

True, they’re minting new billionaires faster than any other country in the world.

Interesting, and I thought it was the workers who generated the wealth. Perhaps it should not belong to them after all then. Why tax the billionaires at all if they’re the ones generating the wealth?

They side with the weak to obtain power, but as CGP Grey said, the keys for keeping power aren’t the same as the keys for obtaining power. You usually turn your back on whoever helped you win once you’re in power, particularly if you’re a dictator (and let’s be honest, “dictatorship of the proletariat” is still dictatorship of the vanguard over the proletariat)

Yes, exactly like the working class in the US controls the government and holds the reins of the economy.

embracing some limited capitalism

They were embracing some limited capitalism last century. They’re fully capitalist now, minting more brand new billionaires every year than any other country. Per capita the US still has more, but not for long. China’s working with some pretty bad inequality.

I wonder if that dazzle camo used by manufacturers for testing prototype cars would work. I wouldn’t mind getting something like that on my car

Sorry, was mistaken, only 5% of farmland is corporations. The average farm size is still fucking massive though. Over 440 hectares/1100 acres. That’s a LOT of land and essentially it’s still capitalism, the capital being the land and machinery. Like around 4 million dollars worth of land on average per farm. That means the bigger family farms are likely sitting on tens of millions worth of land.

There are also around 400k documented seasonal immigrant workers helping those farmers every year, as well as who knows how many undocumented ones that nobody pays taxes on. So I have my suspicions that most of the family farms aren’t mostly worked by said families.

Either willingly, or by dying like the rest of humanity when summers reach 60°C.

I mean all of us will abandon everything that way, that’s not specific to AI in any way.

The capitalist and the farmer are the same person tbh. Most US food supply is corporate farms now, not small time farmers.

without seeing a single non-cgi frame

I know what you mean, but they’re all cgi frames in the game too lol

These “watchlist” ones do need reading before making up your mind, as the author puts them there for various reasons.

E.g I need a new tent so I’ve been looking at Decathlon and found it on the watchlist here.

#Decathlon

The world’s largest sports retailer. Twenty-plus house brands own the cheap-and-good quadrant, with 10-year warranties on some gear.

#Ownership

Founded by Michel Leclercq and majority-held by the Mulliez family alliance. No external investors, no debt structure. FY2025: EUR 20.7B in sales across 1,902 stores. A 2025 handover put Julien Leclercq in the chair and Javier Lopez in the CEO seat.

#Why Watchlist

Ownership is exemplary and the family reinvests rather than extracts. The problem is conduct: a February 2025 Disclose investigation tied Decathlon’s second-largest Chinese garment supplier to Uyghur labor-transfer programs and filmed a 12-year-old working on Decathlon polos. The company confirmed the supplier while denying the Xinjiang subsidiary link. Watchlist until credible remediation is published.

I’m not happy about this, but it’s nearly impossible to avoid both Chinese manufacturing (or even just Uyghur labor) AND American capital in this day and age. I can see why it’s on the watchlist and for anyone avoiding it, kudos to you for being stronger than I am, but what I’m reading is “no product quality issues mentioned, is not owned by a private equity firm, not American, not publicly traded”.

But I’m not pulling the trigger yet, so if anyone can suggest something that’s not US owned, is decent quality, and does NOT use uyghur labour or child labour, and is widely available in Europe, I’m all ears

It’s actually good for your drainage system to flush more often than strictly necessary. And the public sewer system actually.