This is awesome news!
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Internally yes, but in english they say something nice to cover up their hatred so the US can smile and nod and keep handing them weapons.
No more unrealistic than the massive valuations on the stock market of social media corporations that can supposedly back it up somehow (with AI! or something... VR maybe?) despite the fact that fundamentally these social media places are becoming crowded rooms full of bots pretending to be humans all trying to manipulate humans who are long gone.
My point is, we will figure out how to sustainably scale before corporations do because the metabolism of massive tech companies precludes them from giving a shit about that.
At this point, inefficiency is a virtue for these corporations as it degrades the environment around them making future alternatives unlikely to be able to gain a hold in such a broken context.
No, this doesn't explain why Dems will frequently refuse to adjust the party platform to something not just the average Democrat wants but the average person in general in the US wants.
Democrats also REFUSE to get out ahead of the public opinion and advocate for lesser known issues or perspectives that are righteous but need a leader with a spine to stump for them. Democrat politicians largely refuse to treat their job like they have the agency and voice to move the american people and the consequences are heartbreaking and existential.
Voting for Cuomo is literally worse than doing nothing and not voting at all in terms of defending this democracy.
To rip people off, apply surveillance capitalism to kids and strangle associated competition from gaining a foothold?
Honestly it seems like Microsoft is making enough profits from aiding Israel in its Genocide of Palestinians with Microsoft Azure I am actually not sure why they bother with the comparatively less lucrative video game industry.
I also don't know why Asus would want to brand their gaming devices with a label deeply associated with genocide.
It all depends on the day lol.
The problem here is whatever value the US dollar has, it is decreased by the participation of Wyoming, so why would I want to trade US dollars for a currency hinged only on the negative liabilities the US dollar has?
I guess this coin is for those committed to the blooming collapse of the rural US, who cares if it goes belly up if the landscape you live in is so existentially screwed for water, healthcare and livable housing that money won't be of any use when shit hits the fan anyways.
How The Mooching Works
In that vein, understanding Wyoming’s finances is important for us to become educated voters.
Wyoming is a very unique state because it figured out a long time ago how to make people from out of state pay our essential taxes. In other words, we mooch off of other taxpayers to pay our bills.
Here’s how the mooching works. According to a 2022 analyis by the Wyoming Economic Analysis Division, a three-person family with an income of $68,000 and owning a home with a value of $320,000 pays about $4,340 in taxes, including sales tax, fuel tax, tobacco tax, alcohol taxes, vehicle registration and property taxes.
That same family recieves about $23,900 in local and state government services.
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Some politicians are running around and saying Wyoming should just stop taking federal funds. The obvious question, when faced with the above numbers, is how are you going to replace $3 billion per year when the state stops taking that money?
Before one answers that we don’t need those funds, it might be prudent to see where the state of Wyoming spends those federal dollars.
Remember, some of the funds are direct federal payments that are labeled “federal funds” in the graph above. The federal mineral royalties are included in the “general fund” as well as “other funds,” which are appropriated differently.
Combined, the “federal funds” and “other funds” contributions equal 31% of the state’s budget.
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/01/09/tom-lubnau-like-it-or-not-wyoming-depends-on-federal-money/
Does this sound like a better holder of value than the US dollar?
Well I hope Microsoft has next to no input on it then, for all our sakes not just the people at Asus.
Too crowded honestly for me.
Mars because there is still a decent chance there is microbial life there.
Also Mars is a fascinating juxtaposition to earth, was there at some point plate tectonic recycling on Mars like there is on Earth (which keeps the surface of the Earth chemically dynamic)?
This is the answer unless you consider setting up a DIY home server fun, which often the kinds of people who recommend options for this kind of thing do... so just keep that context in mind here with recommendations.
Syncthing is a great solution and it is wayyyyy less a headache than any other DIY method I have done for replacing cloud/filesharing purposes.