Oh yeah, she’ll happily sell you some wildlife refuge in Alaska to frack.
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In the spirit of Cory Doctorow, what we should really be asking is “why was that ever happening to begin with, fucking Netflix?!”
We should not give tech companies a cookie for eventually doing the right thing when they have no choice.
(not saying you were doing this @GagHalfrunt , just riffing off your post to make my point)
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im surprised they’re so in to dentistry. but don’t kink shame i guess.
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KleptoCapture has a nice ring to it.
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Netflix never streamed any Russian propaganda channels. It’s a brand new Russian law (passed recently, after the invasion forces started to muster along the border.).
It was intended to threaten the Western media streaming companies with the loss of the entire Russian market. Either way Netflix goes, they think they’ve won: “free streaming propaganda channels”, or “we booted out the Western propaganda”.
In reality, they just pissed off another million Russians who probably didn’t give a shit about the Ukraine at all until Putin took away their best movies.
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Maybe money can make you truly happy:
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Inevitable.
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I think her point was that Netflix didn’t say right away “Not gonna do this, bye bye Russian Market.”
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Russia is that gangster planet from Star Trek
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Germany has already impounded a superyacht. Italy and France are looking into it, now the US is joining in on the fun. At least there is one good thing coming out of this mess. Russian oligarchs have treated the world as their playground for too long.
One can only hope they find a reason to go after non-Russian superyacht owners next.
Scuttle them all in a place where divers and tourist submarines can visit the ensuing reef and admire them as a monument to the mind-blowing inequalities of a time long past. A Scapa Flow of hubris.
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Certain parts of the population would most likely start buying fuel and burning it in protest. Whaddabout Mah Freedumb!
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I have a colleague (this is Germany) who uses their car for 1 km. No disabilities or transport of heavy items whatsoever.
Walking: 15 minutes, 1 km. I timed that my courtesy of me feet.
Car: 7 minutes, 2,2 km.(Assuming he doesn’t break laws). Plus another 170 metres, from the parking lot behind the building to the office, where I started from when waslking. Which is in reality a least 3 minutes, often 4. But he consistently claims that it’s 30 second. (In reality this just gets you to the kitchen, something I timed for my 3:30 minutes-for-tea-claim of a while back. Adding to the 170 metres is a flight of stairs, 10 meters to the upper floor. Lift ist on the other side of the building, the main entry where all pedestrians and cyclists arrive.)
So rather 10 minutes driving/walking than 15 minutes of walking, freeing the car car for his wife’s and toddler’s use.
¯_(ツ)_/¯.
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That’s basically what cryptocurrency is, after all
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It is. So instead of doing that, we need to the diminished supply of fossils to where it is truly indispensable and build up renewable. Just making offering work-from-home mandatory where it is possible (i.e. every company that did this during the pandemic would free noticeably amounts of fuel.
I’ve got colleagues that drove their 12.5 km to the office by car. They’ve now been out of the office working from home 450 days - 5,000 km fewer in a year is a noticable reduction. It’s nearly half of what the action a German car sees in a year.
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Oh, I hope the buyers wait a good while for the price to drop and drop again…
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These guys should be careful – Posting contrary messages can lead to unsteady footing and falling from high windows.
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Indeed, it can lead to inflation and defenestration.
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Moscow likes to see itself as the Third Rome (after Rome and Constantinople). The Roman aristocracy lived in appeasement and fear of the Emperor, but sometimes the Emperor would mysteriously die after he got out of line. We can hope.
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