theneverfox

Oh, no no no... It's so much worse than even that

See, farming massive fields is pretty easy with technology, and with petrochemical fertilizer you can grow in depleted soil. So is keeping livestock, more so if you keep them in cruel conditions

So there's a problem there... And I don't mean the environmental issues. It's too cheap. Farmers would have to sell at a loss

We produce so much food that the farms would all go out of business without intervention.

But the government can't set quotas or control access to the market... That's socialism or something

Instead, the government pays farmers to burn portion of their crop, we put ethanol in gasoline (even though it's a bad idea), the government siezes some of the crop to stockpile and maybe sell (and give you whatever cut they like), we used to ship tons of food overseas through USAID, and so much more

Industrial farming does not play nice with capitalism.

Because it's not a pixel, so I can't run graphene out of the box, and having my phone working is a key component of my job

Pixel is running something close... But as for what their adding? All kinds of stuff, from camera features to launchers to subtle tweaks

But the reason no one is running stock android is the reason the Linux phone project is so difficult... The drivers

Your phone is basically running two sets of firmware. One controls the radio, coordinates with cell towers, handles data both as an Internet connection and a set of old cell protocols we still use sometimes (like phone calls and public alerts), plus hardware backdoors.

And then there's Android, which has some degree of control over that mess, but it has to be custom fit to each black box or you get bugs, because they're all different

The only way to run stock android is through an emulator, and even then most developers just use the pixel builds

Meow?

Basically no one runs stock android. It doesn't exist

But if you're asking if I run OEM android, yes I am

This isn't a hysteria, it's a meme... But why?

This isn't the only horse related meme either, I've seen shit like people using feed bags and suddenly betting on old horse races

It's like the zombie/vampire economic thing... But I have no idea what horses mean

It was always for farmers... Capitalism is really bad at sustaining farm output

There's one saving grace... The sheer fucking incompetence

How long do you think this will remain stable? We're in a free fall by every metric. The dollar is down, the stocks are down (except for the ai bubble... That's going to be a big pop), the housing market is crashing, insurance is falling apart, federal workers are getting mass fired by email, job numbers are shrinking...

How long until something important breaks? If we're lucky, we can keep the shutdown going long enough for ICE to drain whatever funds they can misappropriate and see what happens to brown shirts when they aren't getting paid

Bad shit is going to happen. China is going to get Taiwan, hopefully after chip factories are set up elsewhere. The people in Gaza are fucked. Immigrants and minorities are getting terrorized. Ukraine can go either way, Russia is in a bad way and Ukraine is feeling war fatigue.

The Internet is dying, cyber attacks are ramping up, deep fakes are getting very good, palantir is setting up surveillance everywhere, AI is going to do some future crime bullshit

But despite all that, life will go on.

Maybe the military steps in to force elections - at least they so far refuse to even menace the people, if they decide they have to act to save the Constitution as per their oaths nothing could stop them

Trump is actively dying, and Vance doesn't have the juice to keep everyone in line - there will be a power struggle

Trump's end goal is to live out his remaining days in an imaginary kingdom where his legacy will live on forever.

Vance's goal is to go on never ending extravagant vacations

Peter Tiel thinks if society collapses billionaires will be able to step in and make technocratic kingdoms... But again, the military has plans to feed the entire country for extended periods and restore order in every imaginable collapse scenario

This just is not a stable state of affairs, it has to end, but no one is properly preparing for what comes next.

Maybe the country is fucked, but what about your state? Your city? Maybe things only get better locally for a while, and the federal government becomes less relevant

Maybe the military does step in but decides they don't want to organize new elections...a military junta isn't ideal, but it would be more restrained and orderly than this

Maybe lots of people die from starvation and sickness and those that survive have to rebuild

As for how to keep going? I look for the cracks. Watch Trump's speeches - he probably just had another stroke, and he's noticably more incoherent than even this summer. The leaks never stop. They're rehiring a lot of cut workers. Abrego Garcia is still in the country. Candidates like Mumdani are coming out of the woodwork. Learn about economic indicators and watch them plummet. Learn about what happens historically in similar situations.

It'll be painfully slow, but eventually we'll hit rock bottom. And then we can build something new

I've seen no less than 3 people drink it on stream... Why is this a thing now?

Isn't that like his entire arc? He slowly realizes his leash is only as strong as he believes it to be

Because that's not how any of this works.

For one, modern warfare is always asymmetrical. There's no fair fights - the weapons are too strong. There's no way to do this without turning it into a sport, at which point why make it lethal? Either way, the loser could decide to go back to violence

For two, this isn't a war, this is denying aid to starving people, then shooting at the bread lines for reasons such as... Showing up too early

For three, Hamas are hardliners. They want all of Israel, which is obviously impossible. So their method is to make Israel martyr the civilians in the hopes the rest of the world will attack Israel

For three part 2, Israel is propping up Hamas because they're hardliners. When Hamas gets to open to a real piece deal, Israel assassinates the moderate (and often the negotiator)

And beyond all of that... This is violence. This is what happens when you flip the table. We could settle conflict with Yu-Gi-Oh games, but only so long as everyone abides the results.

We have rules of warfare... But even those are broken all the time. In fact, if everyone followed the rules, both sides would only be allowed to hit military targets. Hamas wouldn't be able to hide among civilians, so they'd just occasionally attack Israeli troops before running off to a deep hole somewhere. Israel would only be able to attack that hole, so they'd probably occasionally find one and cut the numbers

So don't ask why the combatants don't duke it out... Ask why the rules aren't working

45 seconds maybe? Depends on what it is

I like my videos to be at least 20 minutes long and in the background