In Spain there are lots of empty apartments, from the bubble and IIRC are more than 2 million empty , but prices are still going up, most of the market is on the hands of foreign funds who are emptying the cities with their prices. There's a lot of speculation with housing in Spain.
Not to talk about the campaign in the media about squatting, sowing fear continuously. The supply is artificially being held by the owners.
Supported by western democracies, USA and UK have always supported dictatorships while they are useful to them, economically and politically, and using the fear of communism they both supported both fascist regimes till the last minute.
One of the thing I recall from Uplink, apart from the game, it was the modem ringing sound and as soon as i heard it extending my hand to unplug the modem, then realizing the sound was in game. That was an immersive experience.
Even if he wins, the harm is done, Police wants to spread fear to make people submissive and not criticize their actions. They are not going to pay. It will pay the city, the policemen will continue with their abuses of power.
"He's a son of a bitch but He's our son of a bitch" One of long time US politics guides.
Sometimes it goes wrong, Saddam Hussein, Al- Qaeda, etc ...but hey only a few peasant lives is good value for the business
There was a conspiracy group that defended that was Morocco Secret Services, they even said with help of ETA (Basque terrorist group), and more fantastic ideas. It's a loony conspiracy idea that it was sold by the extreme right media and by an informal group called "Peones negros", supported by some media, think Fox group but the Spanish counterpart, and it was dismissed because it was just that a conspiracy theory for people that believe in the Illuminati, the dark council that rules the world in the shadows, and all that stupid and loony conspiracy theories. And I'm no friend of Morocco dictatorship but that was just stupid.
You forget the middlemen and I don't mean the trucker, I mean the one that gets all the markup paying low to the producer and selling high to the shopkeeper.
You have to compare similar situations a small island with a heavily controlled and under surveillance society is not comparable to western countries with much less controls and bigger borders easily crossed.
We are poisoning ourselves in the name of economic growth would be more correct.
But in HN the debate is about if plastic is a correct word and what term should be used and labeling, a place where everybody knows that the majority of people don't read labels, instructions or manuals.
Probably not invented by him but it was when it became an almost religious precept of capitalism and he became one of the most vocal preachers of that idea.
The thing is that Mastodon/Fediverse is not competing, it does not have to won. It exists and shows there are options different from the walled gardens. It just works different. Some people prefer local markets and little shops other prefer malls. That's it. Winning is a metric that IMHO is not applicable in this case, much more when it's usually tied to profits or numbers for investors.
40 years ago in Spain 5 continents only, no Antarctica, my guess is as no one was living there why worry about it. Don't know if it has changed, I'll ask my son.
They even pressure some countries like Spain to change their laws to follow MPA and RIAA desires. I recall around 2010-2011 in Spain politicians made law called "Sinde", surname of the person behind it, at the time it was published in some newspapers that it came to fruition after a meeting/conversations with some USA government members, in some media they even called it "Sinde Biden", yep that one .