Alloys are intrinsically liberal. Keep metals pure!

We need to be having conversations in dark parking lots, away from cameras, with people who present AI slop decks at meetings.

Yup. Netflix will advertise its shows to you on the ad-free* tier, but say they’re not ads.

Corpos figured out that onerous regulations can keep out competitors who haven’t achieved the economies of scale to pay for compliance.

They will just be kept out of the market in the US. Oligarchs gonna oligarchy.

Two things:

Sadly, my USB port completely borked, so that’s off the table. I use KDE-something-or-other to txfr files over my internetless wifi.

Second, I did look into it, and even on my Graphene OS phone, the USB tether is treated identically to the hot spot; that is to say, the carrier can detect you’re connecting a device and there is no workaround other than paying the cellular provider for the privilege of using your connection as they see fit.

The only hassle is the tranfer, and that’s set & forget.

And I don’t spend $50-100/mo (wifi + streaming)to waste time channel surfin.

I’m using Cricket wireless. $45/mo gets me unlimited internet on my phone with a 15gig hotspot.

I’m all physical media, but if I need to download something, I do it on my phone (sorry, seeders) and transfer it over to my PC to watch on my TV.

I’m saying they could corner the market on components they can manufacture by banning export of the raw resources they control. Threatening rare earth metal exports was how they got Trump to heel.

What if they decide to just keep their rare earth metals for themselves and control the entire market?