4 million households in Australia have solar panels.

They are great value.

Enshittenification

Windows 3.1 was the first one my family had.

Have you always been an insufferable wanker?

I thought I was going to be rickrolled but this is better.

I pay $79 AUD for 250Mb download / 20Mb upload.

This makes so much sense.

I always thought, surely their higher ups must know this is utter garbage?

They do but it’s just to scam investors.

I didn’t miss that.

But I do miss the content, structure and vastness of the old internet.

Now it has been turned into a strip mall dominated by Facebook, Google, etc. and enshittenification.

I really miss the early internet.

Gaming “journalism” was always mostly crap.

Even in 1990s and 00s.

There may not be any need for that.

The United States, China, etc. all have trade policies that are fundamentally unsustainable and result in persistent trade imbalances.

This causes all sorts of poor economic outcomes for large sectors of those countries. For example, an anaemic household sector in China and over investments in housing, huge private and public sector deficits in the United States, etc.

In the free market world of Adam Smith and comparative advantage, persistent trade imbalances should not exist.

Over the medium to long term, imports are meant to pay for exports.

If there are persistent trade imbalances, it means there is persistent under consumption (China) or over consumption (United States).

Note: This is not just limited to these countries.

At some point, there is going to be an economic crisis because it can’t continue forever.

Most “AI” I have seen are basically fancy iterations of autocomplete.

If you are not paying then you are the product.

Totally out of the loop on this one.

Removed by mod

Never saw that but that is hilarious.

What is not discussed in the West is all the spyware that Israeli companies are selling to authoritarian countries.

Of course not.

Communistic = Things I don’t like.

For example, Flat tires = Communist

AI wank