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Ruth First - New General Megathread for the 17th of August 2023
  • I kinda feel like the well-off working class is just gonna be "along for the ride" unless they are through and through class traitors doing the work themselves (or grew up poor or something). One can expect, especially in the "first world" that they will align themselves with bourgeois interests as long as they are "winning".

  • “Living the Climate Emergency”: Native Hawaiian Kaniela Ing on Fires & Colonialism
  • I think this event occured on the drier side of the island didn't it?

    Nonetheless all weather events are caused by climate, and more heat energy in the climate system is going to lead to more intense weather overall. So yeah, in a way all severe weather is due to climate change if you zoom out slightly.

  • The era of cheap streaming is officially over
  • I think the model that you're referring to is generally more applicable to hardware, but since you can make free copies of an app, Uber for instance can keep things low cost till they eat the competition

  • The era of cheap streaming is officially over
  • I mean it was nonsense to think it would solve your costs, but streaming is superior to cable TV from a tech standpoint for sure.

    People should expect that yeah, new software is cheap when it's rolled out, but it's gonna get more expensive as time goes on, but I can understand why that wasn't quite as apparent to people 10 years ago as it will be 10 years from now

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