I really don’t understand why they still use those heavy lead acid ones. Couldn’t you at least get a lighter lithium battery if it has to be a separate circuit?

I’m guessing banging your employees counts as work to this guy.

You pay like $5/Mo for the content of all streaming services and more instead of the $500/Mo it would cost to subscribe to each of them individually. Plus you’re not taking any legal risk as a customer.

All of those things already exist. Typically it’s just a Plex server running on a cloud service.

Not to mention they’re installing more solar than the rest of the world combined. They’re definitely putting effort into transitioning.

Now everyone will get to run Wordle!

Not if you push out the people living there, which has been how Israel has historically done it.

Yeah, but a presidential candidate will have security. A small town mayor would not.

Yep, next do the people that listen to music on the train without headphones.

It is a colony. The King of England can just fire the Prime Minister any time he likes.

Or just read the myriad of books by black authors that detail their experience? He really thought we needed a white perspective on that.

Dunno, I don’t think I want to see her try and be sexy at her current age.

There’s multiple reasons:

• Zionists have made it a priority to make sure they have their people / sympathisers in high places in politics and media. Anyone who even hints at considering calling Palestinians people gets pushed out.
• Israel is a laboratory for ‘policing’, anti-terrorism and surveillance tactics. This technology and know-how is indispensable for both the ‘democracies’ in the West and dictatorships, including Arab dictatorships that pay lip service to the Palestinian cause, but don’t actually do anything. If crowd control tactics work on Palestinians, they work on leftie protestors and civil rights movements in the West and popular democratic movements in authoritarian regimes.
• people don’t want to be called anti-semites (especially in Europe, where every country has a horrific history with that), which is why they’ve been trying very hard to conflate Zionism with Jewishness.
• there’s also a global right-wing nationalism on the rise, where people like Modi, Orban, Trump, Netanyahu, … sort of espouse the same rhetoric that used to be limited to white supremacy, but it’s just applied to their ethnicity/race/religious group. The neo-nazis are still anti-semites, but they see Israel as the place they can ship all the Jews to when the time comes. Israel’s actions making Jews outside of Israel a target for retaliation plays into that as well.

Yeah, I guess the P2P component sort of solves part of the issue I was imagining by distributing indexes and crawling. I was thinking that people were trying to run all of Google on a raspberry pi at home.

You mean hosting your own crawler/indexer? That doesn’t really sound like a thing you could do cost-effectively.

Could you do your startup in a different country?

The Atlantic is anything but left in general.

Exactly this. When a family could buy a house and raise a whole bunch of kids on one minimum wage income, you had a baby boom. Now wages have stagnated where you can barely make it as a childless couple on two wages, why the hell would you have kids in that environment? They spent 50 years chipping away at any kind of social program that helps people, and now they’re complaining that the capitalist eternal growth Ponzi scheme could collapse.

Yep, the recommendations at the end of the article are definitely worth following regardless.

What did they lose?