when did it happen last time?

yes; but it’s decades away until the mines are productive, but the success of semiconductor companies are measured in quarters and the united states has no such reserves to draw upon ti fill in the gap between the two.

i wonder what the ai related industries will look like once china’s mineral sanctions start to hit chip makers of all type.

i wonder if now i can justify buying a flagship phone to use as a replacement server. lol

also: floppy plus cd to install and it took FOREVER back then; but my rose tinted glass from my youth made it seem better until this article reminded me of the gritty details and how easy each step was to screw up.

All tech companies eventually enshitify and we would never be able to remember all of them if they all became slurs. Lol

The internet is better with multiple services, multiple of many things. That’s how there is cooperation, compatibility and development for the better.

bluesky doesn’t help with this; all social media platforms financed by investors are going to enshitify no matter how much they say they won’t at the beginning. (reddit also said that they wouldn’t the the beginning too).

the inventors behind stories like bluesky and reddit are the same ones that are reducing the your choice of multiple services on multiple things because they have an incentive to kill progress when it’s competition that can challenge their profits and enshitify to squeeze out every last dollar before abandoning it themselves.

indeed; this is at the exact heart of the matter.

we wouldn’t need ubi if we lived in a society where people worked because they simply wanted to.

and if only there was a certain group of people from the 19th century that had some astute observations and keen ideas about how we can revolutionize society. lol

i don’t think that it’ll be ubi as we understand it today and i don’t doubt that they’ll enshitify it as much as possible into the future since i’m also aware that both social security and unemployment were half measures intended to deter neuter revolutionary thought within the united states during the last time we had to deal with major socioeconomic changes that was pushing the country leftwards.

ubi (in whatever form it takes and at least at the beginning) will buy us time and i think that it’s a silver lining that helps alleviate the anxiety from knowing about the work that lays ahead of us when theory doesn’t provide needful encouragement; we’re human beings & americans so we need time to adjust to reality after we’ve been living in ignorance like this our entire lives and also to learn how to focus on the positives & victories no matter how small they seem to be right now.

the theory i’ve “read” so far (not much yet) doesn’t address the humanity of what the person has to go through in order to leave plato’s cave and we’re going to need silver linings and laughter to get through another trump administration; just like we did the last time things looked this bad for us.

i’ve recently discovered a youtube channel with content a LOT like this and i wish i could find it in my subscriptions list to share it with you here.

i subscribed because they got an ancient but serviceable packard bell and upgraded is as far as it could go into windows me or 98 (i forget which) and then test drove it as a daily driver using a light weight linux distribution with the internet now.

i’ve been a youtube user for over 20 years and my subscription list is in dire need of curation and i only have 15ish minutes before the build results are available so bump up this post if any of what i just described sounds appealing to you and i can look it up.

this sounds like a nightmare without something like ubi; this is a society altering change and every time we lurch forward as a society like this, it’s been met with needless violence that gets resolved by a viable social safety net of some kind.

we should skip directly to the cure than suffering through the symptoms and create something like ubi and $22 per hour waiting on tables is probably the most direct way of making that happen within the american system.

“extras” lol.

as in life? lol

last time i had to do this; i got around it by using another app that provided fake gps coordinates of your choice.

it was in their initial filing when they started the lawsuit to defend themselves.

i’ve been sealioned too much on the lemmyverse so you’re going to have to do your own googling.

you should let that strawman get out of your head; he’s living rent-free there.

bytedance offered the government unfettered access and moved their entire infrastructure to the united states; it was more transparent than anything else out there.

I was going to say something about giving it to gypsies and you could probably literally see European fervor to ban something. Lol

You should have seen Biden and the Dems unite w Republicans to make gay marriage and gay military service illegal the first time and they’ll keep doing it too

It’s not stupid if it works