It is terrifying that this is happening in our country, and that our likely next prime minister supports it.
"More than the entire world's GDP" is just a massive understatement here.
Let's put this number in context. The highest estimate for the number of planets in our galaxy is 8 trillion. If we terraformed, settled and developed every single one of those planets, to the point where every last one had the same total GDP as Earth today, it would still not be enough to pay this fine.
How far short would we be? Would we need to settle and develop two entire galaxies worth of planets? Ten? A hundred? A thousand?!
Nope. Twenty million. We would need to settle TWENTY. FUCKING. MILLION. GALAXIES. Each containing 8 trillion planets. Each planet containing about 8 billion humans.
That's how comically, ludicrously, impossibly large this fine is.
Well, can't say fairer than that.
Yeah, I did try to stress that just because I can't envision a use for it, doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. I'm totally OK with that. My question was more "Am I the idiot here for not being able to see what the use is?"
Both of the recent Japanese Godzilla movies (Shin Godzilla and Godzilla Minus One) actually do an excellent job of neutralizing the military factor.
Conventional infantry tactics from 1945 certainly don't work. We haven't fought like that in forever.
Modern infantry tactics would be "Sit inside my nice warm armoured vehicle while the gunner shreds everything with a 25mm autocannon." And I think that would work just fine against zombies.
Also any competent military shouldn't have the slightest difficulty getting headshots on a slow moving target that isn't trying to evade or use cover.
I mean it with 1000% seriousness when I say that it took an actor of Tim Curry's calibre to let that pause drag out that long.
They could start by upping wages. It takes a year or more of the most brutal training for can imagine just to get into some of the trades in the military, and they get paid peanuts for it. Some of that training can literally kill if you fuck up. Yet there are service members living in tents or out of their cars because they can't afford rent.
Obscurity is not the same thing as security.
You know those can be self hosted, right?
And yes, by all means just set up your own Wireguard or OpenVPN access if that's what you prefer. You do you bud.
Also, all these people are climate wreckers.
The average billionaire emits more CO2 in 90 minutes than you will in your entire life.
That's precisely my point. This is price fixing, very obviously so, but it's almost impossible to actually prevent because at some point as long as people in an industry can share information and have an incentive not to undercut each other, behaviour that is indistinguishable from price fixing - even if it could not legally be defined as such - will inevitably emerge. When I say this is price fixing, that's not a legal judgement, just an observation of what the behaviour clearly is, regardless of how it would be legally defined. If it looks like a duck, etc. I'm going to call it price fixing because that is the ultimate effect that it has.
Hence my point that ultimately the only solution to this is aggressive rent controls.
But that implies you do have your SSH open to the world, right?
The way I access my private web interfaces remotely is through something like Netmaker, Tailscale or Zerotier. Same thing for SSH. No way in hell am I opening 22 on my router.
I'll admit, as neat as this is, I'm a little unclear on the use case? Are there really situations where it's easier to get a command prompt than it is to open a webpage?
The CLI side I can see more use for since that does expose a lot of actions to bash scripting, which could be neat. But on the whole I can't say I've ever really found myself thinking "Man, I really wish I had a UI for managing Radarr, a program that already includes a really good UI."
I know it's shitty to hate on something just because you're not the target for it. That's not my intent, it's more that I'm just fascinated by the question of how anyone has a burning need for this? It feels like there must be something I'm missing here.
YieldStar is basically an outsourced price fixing scheme. The app assembles data on average rents in an area from across all the different landlords who use the app, and then recommends the "optimum" price for rentals in the area. "Optimum" of course means "The highest rent this market will bear."
The users will, of course, claim that this isn't collusion because they're not directly communicating with each other, and it's not price fixing because "they're just following the recommendations of the app." The whole thing is just criminal conspiracy outsourced to a third party, and the reality is that it's pretty much impossible to stop stuff like this from happening somehow. This is exactly why aggressive rent controls are essential to protecting renters.
I'm a random civilian and I've actually gone through more vetting than Pollievre. And this fucking asshole thinks he deserves to be Prime Minister. Absolutely insane that anyone takes him seriously.
Also don't fight at night. Or in the Arctic circle. Or really anywhere during winter. Or sandstorms. Dust storms. Overcast days. Rainy days. Snowy says.
Y'know what, just conduct all your warfare during beautiful clear sunny weather at daytime. Why would you want to fight in crappy weather anyway?
"Get rid of Trudeau! Wait, no, not like that, my entire electability is based on hating him!"
In the case of military vehicles, hydrogen is about the greenest option that we're gonna get. No one is going to make a battery powered AFV, because where the fuck would you charge it?