It’s Lemmy.ml, where the mods are tankies.

IoT could be great, but can’t be created by capitalism. If you hand e.g. Town Planning to the Ku Klux Klan and they just use it to screw over black people, that doesn’t mean town planning is bad, it means the KKK are bad and shouldn’t be trusted with jack shit.

The problem with the IoT is that the convenience/feature gains are marginal and commodifiable, whereas the gains from selling data are massive and direct to the manufacturer. Also there’s every incentive to lock down your ecosystem and avoid compatibility with competitors, and there’s no incentive to invest in security either.

It might not have been shitty copper. Ea Nasir might have just had a hobby collecting Karen clay tablets.

I was expecting a cat. Plz fix.

The old system did that just fine with actual royalty though.

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Shipping containers are a bad idea because 1) you need to cut holes for doors/windows and that destroys the stack ability, 2) any shipping container old enough to not be resellable (and therefore costly) is not in a good condition to make a house out of, 3) you still need a foundation and pipes/power so you’re not saving that much money compared to a wood frame, and 4) steel sucks at insulation like you said (not to mention shipping containers don’t have eaves).

You know, we could make them even cheaper by cramming them so close they share walls and then stacking them on top of each other. And because they’re all together, we can call them apartments.

Got a link?

Put this thing in a VM and then let a scammer remote into it, see what he does.

Trying new stuff is great - when you choose it. Random surprise tweaks that you’re forced to spend a while figuring out how to revert are pure fucking evil and everyone knows it.

What’s especially terrible is when people change stuff for the worse, then remove the old better option.

Literally no one in America wanted to be involved in Iran

I guarantee you the evangelicals did. They control the Republican party, they got exactly what they wanted.

always has been

Can I get a diagram? Or maybe a graph.

The founders … wanted Presidents to be appointed by Congress.

So, like a… prime congressman? All the ministers congressmen vote in a Prime Minister Congressman to form the executive?

I agree with them entirely. The US is currently paralysed by a system where you need both a president and congress to agree before you can do anything, so if you have one opposed to the other then the entire government is basically useless and unable to reform anything until the president/balance of congress changes.

A parliamentary system avoids that problem by design - if the PM can’t get enough votes from the parliament, then he doesn’t have enough to “form a government” (I.e. become PM) in the first place. And if he ever loses majority support in parliament and thus can’t pass any bills, then parliament can kick him out via a No Confidence vote with simple majority support, so that someone who does have majority support (or gains it via negotiating support from independents/minor parties) can become PM themselves and the government is able to function.

Switching to a parliamentary system would be the quickest and easiest method of preventing another situation like Obama’s uselessness for most of his presidency because of a Republican-controlled senate.