NothingButACommodity [it/its]
lol
Watching this and hearing the voice of a thousand libertarians in unison yearn for less regulation as their cries slowly fade downward, echoing off the canyon walls: “the marrkeeettt shouuulld deeeciiiideeee myyy hooommeeesss ffaaatttteee”
About 1:50:
The way they put it is “well it’s work, it puts food on the table for its members” But if you’re making money off the expense of others then you’re just kind of being really shitty. I mean you can excuse it however you want but you are being an asshole and profiteering off of being an asshole.
:100-com: I just wonder if he or most of his viewers watching and agreeing can follow this to its logical conclusion.
There is definitely a grey market and not just for precursors. A lot of research chems (specifically in the sense of novel drugs that aren’t illegal in the US or elsewhere because they’re new) come straight from China. There are other extremely potent opiods that SWIM (yeah I’m using that ironically) can only get from China, like metonitazene, etazene, or less potent like 2map237. Been told that the producers in China are given a green light as long as they only export. If they start selling these chems in China, they will be dealt with as harshly as someone selling H, but officials look the other way as long as it’s bringing money into China and only sending the dangerous chems out of it. I have no idea if that last part is true or just more anti-China nonsense. But I do know those chems are shipped directly from China and they are not just precursors but can be used right out of the box.
That’s awesome and thanks for the encouragement. Strangely, I think both the people I sent this to know that capitalistm is fendamentally broken, but are still of the mindset that “well, it’s the best there is.” They both despised Bush and the Iraq war, they both realized Obama wasn’t the great leader he was made out to be as he bombed kids at weddings with drones, but they still thought that Trump was a degradation of the American way, and that at it’s heart, America is “good.” I don’t know if I’ll ever shake them of that belief, but if I can make it more flimsy, I’ll consider that a win. Like you said, I want them to recognize that capitalism is the problem itself, inherently. And I’d like to think that might be possible.
:stalin-heart:
Yeah, it’s sounding like the battery issue is the most likely culprit. I’ll see what I can do, and maybe post the results when I go through with it.
And thanks for the suggestion of LineageOS. I think I am going to start looking into what my options are for a new phone even if I do try to keep this one going a bit longer with a battery replacement. I have no problem buying older or used tech to save money so that’s helpful info. Unfortunately, I know next to nothing about this kind of thing. I was skimming another thread talking about fdroid and GrapheneOS, distancing oneself from google as much as possible, and realizing I really should learn more about what all this shit means.
a broken update from the manufacture, possibly to try and get you to buy a new phone.
I was worried I was being too conspiracy brained, but honestly, that has been one of my main suspicions about all the problems I’ve been having with this pos phone. I have no experience with custom roms or jailbreaking a phone, etc. but maybe it’s time to try. Not like I have much to lose at this point.
I may end up just getting a new fucking phone, but if so, I need to do a ton of research on what my options are. Huawei phone? Mint carrier service? I don’t know. That would be a completely separate post though.