I'm so happy they couldn't snatch Freedom. As Freedom user, I gotta say things have gone great since Quebecor took over. Shaw had them more or less on life support.

They should. If their socioeconomic system truly is more people-oriented than the western and given its size, then this would be a great showcase.

Looks like she might be replacing that other sociopath - Jamie Dimonhands.

They don't own Bell and Telus. 😅

This was fucking embarrassing.

And then prisons rent out these people's labor to corpos for slave wages. It's a win-win.

A tax services firm called Ryan, LLC sued the FTC in an attempt to block the rule. The lawsuit was joined by the US Chamber of Commerce, two Texas business groups, and a lobbyist association that represents chief executive officers at US businesses.

If you squint a little, you could see a fairly well delineated class in there.

While that's true, the climate crisis is underpinned by decades of centrist policy which has let corporations delay and evade climate action while reaping economic gains that didn't reach the vast majority of people. The same majority who already pay for these externalities and are due to pay way more. So I'm afraid that centrism cannot solve the problems it created. Instead whoever wants to solve the root cause has to shift left and lift workers over capital. Failing that, right wing populism in power becomes inevitable, because the status quo is untenable and only getting more so. We've played this game before but this time the stakes are significantly higher.

In the free market economic model it's generally assumed that prices of things, including wages, investment, accurately represent the value of what's being produced. An ideal free market has everything about a product expressed in its price. In reality markets often misprice things. That is the price determined by the market for a product is lower or higher than it should be. There are many reasons for that and they're considered market failure, because the market fails to price things correctly which then means it fails to allocate resources efficiently - one of its primary features. This means for example that something is too expensive and we produce too little of it as a result of the other way around. Externalities are a type of mispricing where there's negative or positive effects, or value, of a product which isn't reflected at all in its price. For example, until recently the CO2 emitted by manufacturing of most things wasn't factored in the prices of anything. As a result, say the price of shipping is lower than what it should be. As a result we ship more than what we would have otherwise. As a result there's more wildfires. As a result populations near wildfires lose their homes and their insurance skyrockets. They're paying costs that should have been part of the shipping prices which would have reduced the amount of shipping we do, or made shipping invest in low carbon technology, etc. The market however failed to allocate this cost into the price of shipping, thus producing an externality. Since this externality is an additional cost compared to the price, it's a negative externality. A positive externality is one where there's additional benefit that's not reflected into the price of a product. In the case of free open source software, a lot of it is priced at 0. At the same time there's vast numbers of businesses built upon FOSS. Since the market prices FOSS at 0, most of them pay 0 and we end up with unmaintained OpenSSL libraries. Perhaps more importantly, we end up having less FOSS produced than what would be optimal for the economy. For example we end up having most firms pay Microsoft significant profit margins for their products instead of paying significantly lower prices for FOSS which would have generated the investment needed to develop better alternatives to MS'es products. And that's the market failure that leads to underinvestment in FOSS.

Now I'm not in any way saying that the free market is a tool that is actually capable of allocating these resources efficiently and that "something is done to it" which causes it to fail. If anything, FOSS is a great example of the inherent inability for the free market to efficiently allocate resources in many cases. You know, in case the climate crisis wasn't a good enough example. 😅

On a related note, FOSS suffers from massive positive externality market failure. As a result we underinvest in it.

It might not be. If your fingerprints are physically changing, then an accurate scanner should not recognize a fingerprint that's changed after the fact. If anything you're looking for a less accurate scanner to help with this issue. But a less accurate scanner could let others in your phone too.

A family member is a massage therapist and no fingerprint reader has managed to recognize their fingers. Not even the old capacitive types in the rear. They don't even recognize there's a fingerprint present. It's like tapping with a wiener.

At least it'll put the GOPers on record rejecting it.