I'd like a citation on the funding from Iran. Iran is mostly Shi'ite, and doesn't generally get involved in Arab or Sunni affairs. And this article from 2021 (prior to the current conflict) points out that the bulk of Hamas funding comes from Qatar and Turkey, respectively.
RickRussell_CA
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FPTP
Can you explain in more detail? I'm unclear on what First Past the Post voting has to do with the OP's concerns.
If I remember correctly, at the time Valve justified the 30% by pointing out that Apple was charging the same for music and video content. And Valve immediately started building value-added services like forums, updaters, multiplayer support, achievements, etc. to justify the price.
If you compare what Valve was doing to the physical media distribution methods of the period, it was a MASSIVE improvement. Back then, you could sell 10000 units to Ingram Micro or PC Mall, or whatever, and you only got paid if they sold. And any unsold inventory would be destroyed and the reseller would never pay for it. And if you actually wanted anything other than a single-line entry in their catalogs, you paid a promotional fee. Those video games featured with a standup display or a poster in the window at the computer store? None of that was free; the developer was nickeled and dimed for every moment their game was featured in any premium store space.
Huh. So, I actually own Lugaru, which I purchased through Humble Bundle in May 2010.
It... was not a good game. Basically anthropomorphic rabbits beating the crap out of each other, which SOUNDS good, but was not executed well.
Neither is the capacity high enough to prevent the outsized influence of advertising money, that's my point.
Presently I don’t pay for journalism
So the answer to, "Do you pay for journalism?" is, "no".
It's great that you have free, ad-supported news that you enjoy. But complaints about "the outsized influence of ad-money" seem pretty hypocritical when you choose not to pay.
(I realize you were not the original commenter complaining about the influence of ad money, but you picked up the ball so I'm responding to you.)
It’s no different than a NatGeo or newspaper sub
Well, that's the problem, isn't it? Nat Geo stopped publishing in June and fired all its regular staff. Newspapers have been in consolidation and contraction for decades, with no sign of recovery.
The advantage of subs is that not everyone needs to pay
The disadvantage is that not enough will pay.
Do you pay for journalism?
There’s one local news source that’s free
It probably costs something to produce, and it's probably beholden to whoever pays its wages.
How do you pay for journalism?
It's not "inexplicable".
DIMM mounting brackets introduce significant limitations to maximum bandwidth. SOC RAM offers huge benefits in bandwidth improvement and latency reduction. Memory bandwidth on the M2 Max is 400GB/second, compared to a max of 64GB/sec for DDR5 DIMMs.
It may not be optimizing for the compute problem that you have, and that's fine. But it's definitely optimizing for compute problems that Apple believes to be high priority for its customers.
It’s very simple to not have capitalism
I think that if it was simple, we could point to more practical examples.
To make myself 100% clear: I am progressive, I want workers to unionize, I want government to support worker rights to the Nth degree, etc. That's why I'm here. But I think a working solution is going to converge on something like the German model where corporate governance is a tripartite effort of company owners, unionized company workers, and government.
If there's a version of this in which the things used to make stuff (from land to machines to patents) are not owned by some entity, I have yet to see it work. And ownership of the means of production IS capitalism. The "capital" in capitalism consists of that land and those machines and patents. Sure, there is room for workers' cooperatives and such in this realm of owning entities, although I don't know that it's something we can force.
With respect to this:
and coops for buisnesses. This replaces CEOs and Bankers with democratic governance and isn’t authoritarian
I'm not really clear on how workers decide what to make, and how much to make, and where to get their inputs. That seems to me a classic case for corporate leadership. You can't decide what to sell by a worker vote, except in some edge cases. I feel like that's a classic path back to Soviet-era starvation: not enough people making food or toilet paper, way too many people making crazy military hardware, not enough middlemen/brokers/traders (who, it turns out, are kind of essential to market organization).
I could be convinced, but I want to see it actually work.
We are about to reach AI and Climate Change tipping points, and planned economies are about to become a must because of these things (inevitably)
You're not wrong. I've often said that capitalism cannot plan in any meaningful sense. Nobody in the system cares about stability tomorrow if they can get rewarded today.
Sure, I guess that's a... very long term?... solution to the OP's problem.