There’s no putting the toothpaste back in the tube. Kinda just buckling up and wondering what the new normal will look like, but the feeling of hopelessness is increasingly pervasive.

Evidently not, given the rise of PLTR … They are just fine with the unaccountable murders and totalitarianism, so we all get to be, too.

Huawei was uniquely, specifically, forced out of the US market around the time they were completing for 5G Tower standards.

First of all, thank you. I don’t want to be telling developing nations to halt their progress. You underscore where my mindset could be prescriptive and harmful.

Second, my point is that we seem to only get infrastructure or ‘progress’ when it can be weaponized under capitalism to make someone money, the same way we can’t have meaningful recycling systems because it will never be profitable over virgin plastics and other single-use materials.

My attitude has been morphing into “nobody gets second until everybody gets first plates” but for housing, accessories, tools, etc – that plays directly into the kinds of capital equipment, network buildouts, and supply chains that deliver iPhones to us for $1,000 when the actual material, energy and human cost could be easily 30x that.

I’m saying the paths and lanes that deliver consumer goods and experiences are obscuring the waste therein, and that they drive copper crisis just like every other scarcity crisis.

We are all literally being tricked into bringing home more copper.

I bought a whole ass Samsung S25 In February, only to discover in March that a $6 part and $20 bucks of labor made my S22 perfectly serviceable (needed new USB charging port)

But like a dumbass I bought a phone after 3 years of waiting, and was giddy about it and I’m literally typing on the older phone now.

I have been trying to trick myself into letting devices grow into a more full obsolescence before replacing them, and have had very poor luck in doing so.

Plenty of this is my own impulse control, but plenty of this is by design and marketing, and if enough people are satisfied with their three years old cell phones bad things happen to your 401k and to my friends employed in South Korea.

I realize that this is an infinitesimally smaller amount of copper, Even all-in with accessories, and the institutional and industrial requirements for copper.

But if we don’t start to figure out some sort of degrowth, we’re going to hit that wall as others have mentioned, and it all seems to start with the marketing demand and design.

I don’t know about any of this. I pretty much only have looked into it for porn and bootlegs of academic papers. Feels like I’m missing out on all the ‘fun’ of ai chats and cult groups.

Lulwut? When did /r/TD start leaking into Lemmy. Did any of what you said have anything to do with what I said?

Are you feeling alright, man?

Edit: seriously leaning towards ‘bot’ at this point. Humans that find their way into Lemmy have generally been much more capable, and much less MGTOW

Genuinely curious, what was the point of you typing out all of this to put on the internet?

I don’t know how to say this without being rude.

I’m wondering if you’re a bot that just churns out a few semi-relevent sentences or if you thought this was going to contribute to the discussions at hand? Because it felt like it wanted to blame the victims and then pulled back at the end and I ant fathom why you stepped into the tightrope wire in the first place.

I love this, so much. Blue Links have been the most critical pass to my future, across my entire life.

Purple links often, too. I can’t imagine surrendering the ability to sift through information with my own eyes and hands and brain.

The internet was founded on the sponsorship model where content was free and ads were ubiquitous. while I completely agree with you that I would rather pay for the product instead of being the product, at this informs every single sign up I make on the internet, I think it’s self deluding to think there’s any great again to go back to. The philosophy was always there, the execution just wasn’t possible until they had finished building their walled gardens

Important thing is Musk can’t sing Billy Joel’s ‘We didn’t start the fire’

Is St Elmo’s Fire made of Li-Ion or Life-Po?

They got you searching for the thin line between entertainment and war.