All a competitor needs to do for me to prefer them is not be part of the Ministry of Truth, i.e., to not set itself up as the arbiter of whether information is correct. It should know its role: to store and play videos and such. Odysee, Rumble, Bitchute, Gab TV, NewTube, all of these fit the bill. All of these are very valuable in an era when censorship has been normalized.
So you think it's possible this guy married three different women who all said he abused them, and at least one of them also tricked a judge into agreeing?
Which scenario do you think is more likely:
A) A man whose entire career and public persona was dedicated to being an asshole happened to be an actual asshole
B) At least three women loved this guy enough to marry him and then decided to make up stories about how he abused them, convincingly enough that a court of law agreed
Keep in mind that in both scenarios, we know that he did spend all of his most recent wife's money and had a substance abuse problem.
I've heard that around 130k people are delivered from poverty each day lately. That's due to markets and such, not the good intentions of people like Pol Pot.
There is some argument to be made along these lines, but it involves changing human beings themselves, e.g. through something like meditation. These kinds of articles never have and never will mention such things that might actually effect the changes they seem to want to make in the world but are unable or unwilling to make in themselves.
> I've heard that around 130k people are delivered from poverty each day lately. That's due to markets and such, not the good intentions of people like Pol Pot.
Wild claim? How is it wild? It is well established that China’s economy was stagnant for decades until free market reforms. Same with India. There is absolutely nothing wild about this claim as it is common knowledge to anyone who’s followed economic reforms in developing countries.
Is it due to markets or to due to people who had their formative years in the 1960 student revolts selling out hard won Western IP and production processes starting in the 1980s?
Thereby impoverishing the middle class in the West but driving the stock market up.
Capitalism (or free market, there is a difference between the two) is just a mechanism, and as such doesn't have any values. It is impartial to whether there is poverty or not. The values have to come either from individuals (provided they can participate in the system, and if they are poor, they can't by definition); or social institutions, such as government.
Please furnish a comprehensive list of your uses of electricity. We'd like to go through it and see which of them are wasteful. We'll let you know which ones you won't be allowed to do anymore.
Sometimes I pre-heat my electric car before removing the ice on the windshield because I'm a bit lazy and a prefer to wait until the ice has melted. I hope it's fine.
Otherwise I don't think I have a very wasteful usage of electricity.
> Otherwise I don't think I have a very wasteful usage of electricity.
Well, of course you don't think it's wasteful. But that's irrelevant. We're talking about putting the power to decide what's "wasteful" in somebody else's hands, maybe some appointed judges somewhere in the government. It doesn't seem like you want to put that power in my hands, though. Still waiting for that list. I'm ready to dictate which of your activities are worthy of electricity.
Obscure, and yet technically superior in all ways...
Bitwig == Ableton++, after Ableton management vetoed engineering's desire to do a major and much needed architectural rewrite. As I understand it, they didn't see how tearing down all the legacy code and building something more stable and modular would help them sell more licenses the next year. Hence, we have Bitwig.
I like it as one of the rare examples of engineers wanting to fix problems and create something great winning out over the desire for predictable annual returns.
Sorry, I don't understand your comment, I mean, I don't get the point? :)
I guess it was founded in 2009? (who am I to argue with wikipedia!), but wasn't "real" until 2013 or 2014. I know this because I was there, working our booth at NAMM, and chatting with the Bitwig devs about the architecture. :)
And yeah, it's worked out fine for Bitwig and Ableton. Though I'm still not that impressed with any Ableton release after 7.
Easy to predict, once you get the notion that the real purpose of all this flailing is to disempower people, i.e., to change things so that ordinary people cannot buy and use as much electricity as they like, for that to be something for rich powerful people only.
