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Did you vote for any single one of them?

If you did, then what you're supposed to do is stop voting for Tory-lite governments (such as the current one).

If you didn't vote for any of these governments (including this one), everything else that you could do would be dangerous nowadays.

This is what won't happen. People are far, far too comfortable for that, you'd need to see 30%+ unemployment rates for that to change.

It's definitely not technical hurdles preventing them from making one.

JavaScript itself barely changes - it's the flavor-of-the-month frontend frameworks that do. What language feature is commonly used now that wasn't 5 years ago? Some nicer builtin Array methods I guess?

There's a lot of dislike on here for Typescript as a backend language. But the difference with the frontend world with its dozen everchanging frameworks is striking. On the backend side, most projects don't even use a framework, and for those that do basically all of them use the same one (NestJS). And the rate of breaking changes on that has been much lower than something like React.

Of course, many will say that this lack of industry-wide adopted framework in itself is what they dislike about it. But it's hard to settle on that golden mean inbetween both extremes when it's the most popular language in the world (in terms of "Yearly new LOC going into production"). Python makes for a good contrast, with a dozen popularish backend frameworks. Not sure if that's really a better situation to be in, there's pros and cons.

This gets regulatory captured/lobbied away over by monied interests.

>Profit caps?

This is simply a subset of "capitalism with strict regulation". Implementing profit caps in a manner without loopholes takes detailed regulations and a judicial branch that strictly enforces them. This too will get regulatory captured/lobbied away over time.

Another issue with this is that ironically a proper implementation of this would receive even more pushback than nationalization. Why? Because you have to cap e.g. shareholder returns, otherwise it introduces awful incentives, as we're seeing with this exact case where there's a "profit margin % cap". You'd also need exec compensation caps.

I do have a relatively straightforward idea for this, though I'm sure there are holes in it that I haven't thought of - market cap growth caps. To give an example, let's say we set the cap at 5% YoY. Then if the market cap instead grows 10% in a given year, the company is forced to issue an additional ~5% of shares (of the total number of outstanding shares), which all directly go to the government. The government will then sell these evenly distributed over the next year, on the market.

Feels like this has far less loopholes than any kind of profit or revenue tax.

> “Common carrier” type of deal to allow any player to compete in an energy market, trying to stop behemoth entities from monopolistic?

See above, another subset of the category.

> Non-profit

Ah, like OpenAI? Or the one U2 has in The Netherlands?

>Capitalism with minimal regulation?

This option isn't even worth discussing.

> Government run?

This too can get lobbied away over time, as we've seen, but it takes the longest to do so, and is therefore the correct answer to the question.

Edit: Added Airport and chill music station dropdowns.

I thought it wasn't really cool to embed these streams from volunteer-run (both), donation-supported (SomaFM) and grift it with BuyMeACoffee/Product Hunt. And when SomaFM doesn't like it and reasonably blocks it through CORS, to proxy around it. And not respond to anyone bringing it up here.

Soma rightfully seem to have just enabled CORS though after seeing this traffic spike.

Edit: And now OP just started proxying around it, hilariously adversarial when embedding a donation-based service.

>The original GOP...

Is not the current party in power. Hence why you're making that distinction - the party of 10 years ago doesn't matter anymore, it's irrelevant. If you believe that Trump getting a deadly heart attack tomorrow would bring the coup to a sudden end, I've got bad news for you.

Yes.

> or just the 'r/fuckcars mentality'?

No.

"Recent studies have found tire particles made up 94% of microplastics in Switzerland, 61 to 79% in Sweden, 54% in China and 30% in Germany".

"If everyone just drove EVs we could merrily go on driving cars all day" is the 'r/HeadInTheSand mentality'.

Even for reasoning-beneficial tasks you can just CoT Sonnet and it works well, just yesterday I had a task's performance strongly improved by it.

This tells you a lot in terms of real-world usage. Claude is relatively expensive + openrouter users are generally price-conscious, yet it still crushes everything else. If investors are demanding new models that'd be absurdly short-sighted, on the level of if Apple investors would suddenly want bi-annual iPhone releases instead of annual ones.

Imo Anthropic's continued stability issues are also just due to extreme demand. Very telling too that everyone continues to build their products on top of them despite far more downtime than OpenAI, clearly it's worth it.

Again, the exact same can be said for Russia. All of your arguments can be applied to claim Russia is not a one-party dictatorship. Following your exact line of reasoning, either both are, or neither are.

Besides, the exact event this article is discussing has the ruling party completely ignoring decisions by congress, meaning there isn't even the veneer of it mattering in the first place.

Russia having an opposition party doesn't make it less of a single-party dictatorship. Same goes for the US.

Laws have been shown to now be entirely meaningless, yet you continue to suggest energy should be put into going through the courts.

That's the whole point, this entire action entirely ignores both Congress and SCOTUS, the law doesn't matter.

Absurd thing to say, are you really this unfamiliar with other countries, such as Russia? Never heard of Navalny? Don't know that he was an opposition leader? Or that Russia is indeed a single-party dictatorship?

In December 1917, Russia had just had such an election.

In May 1924, Italy had just had such an election.

In June 1946, Czechoslovakia had just had such an election.

And almost immediately afterwards, each became a single-party dictatorship.

The sooner people stop talking about it as if the US is still only "sliding down the path", and start publicly admitting the reality that they now live in a single-party dictatorship á la Russia and China where the rules are whatever the leader says they are, the better.

I know this isn't easy as it takes time to change decades of reinforcement of the tribal ingroup/outgroup neural pathways where "Russia and China" were seen as contrasts to the US. But y'all can do it. Start by uttering the words out loud to yourself. Break through that first "denial" stage of grief.