We never needed to grow it all here because of our trade partnership with the States.
Since that’s never coming back, we should be able to scale our hothouse (indoor production) tomatoes for the extra demand.
Since tomatoes can be made into non perishable goods, there’s far less risk to farmers, even if you overproduce.
That’s the problem, really. They all have pros and cons.
Kagi is American, so they are out for me. So is DuckDuckGo.
I don’t care if startpage uses the Google index, since Google isn’t profiting from my data or from ads.
Their servers are in the EU, and the balance between privacy and usable results is good enough.
I see it like using a third-party front end for YouTube. All of the benefits with none of the risks or private data theft.
However, who bought the Teslas?
Likely nobody. These are probably sold only on paper, so “someone” can cash in on millions in rebates.
I hope the investigation is swift and expands to other Tesla dealers, because this is probably not an isolated scam.
Alternative?
But you likely haven’t claimed to be the top expert of all knowledge in the universe, have you? 🤫
Better than qwant in my opinion.
🫢 Like I said, room for improvement.
But context matters:
However, this doesn’t necessarily mean that airport security misses 95 percent of threats that pass through: The TSA red team is specially trained to detect weaknesses in security at airports throughout the nation.
So your run of the mill bad guy isn’t going to sneak by so easily. And one can only imagine that most bad guys aren’t some elite team of security experts… Unless they are in a Hollywood movie.
Except the TSA has never shown to be remotely effective at doing any of that.
So, we’d all be OK if these 6,000+ loaded firearms PER YEAR were allowed to pass through unchecked?
There’s always room for improvement, but the idea that everything needs to be abolished, rather than improved, seems crazy.
My adventure into self-hosting started with a Synology NAS maybe 5 years (?) ago.
With just the built-in software, I was able to replace Google Photos, Evernote, Dropbox, Google Calendar, Google contacts, and Google Play Music and Movies.
Then as I learned how to use docker, I was able to replace more services.
There may be “better” options out there beyond what Synology offers, but it’s been such a “set and forget” experience, that it’s easy for me to recommend them as an option.
The biggest barrier, IMO, isn’t the learning curve, but the initial investment for the NAS + HDDs and the upgrade path as your storage needs grow.
YouTube Premium is $13/month and I get access to a huge variety of channels.
Here’s the thing… if you divided up that $13 among all the channels you watch, and gave the creator that amount, they’d be making more than the money that comes to them from YouTube.
As an extreme example, let’s say you benefit from 50 unique channels per month. That’s around $0.26 each channel ($13 / 50), which is MORE than what YouTube would pay them for your views.
If you only watch 10 channels on a regular basis, that’s $1.30 per channel, per month - way, wayyy more than what youtube pays out for a single user per month.
With enough paying simply paying creators pennies per month, they’d make more than enough money to cut out ads, sponsors, and other unsavoury forms of monetization.
Louis Rossman has talked about this a few times, but as someone who has a YouTube channel, I can confirm this to be true.
There are lots of “for fun” YouTube channels but what enables so many people to publish so many videos is the fact that they can profit off of them.
That’s such a double-edge sword.
I have a channel with tens of thousands of followers and nearly 200, long-form content in the educational/healthcare space.
I was creating videos way before I was “allowed” to monetize, and even after, I was not making them so I could profit. No sponsored content. No begging for likes. No paid products. Not even affiliate links.
If my motivation was driven by profit, then the quality of the videos would suffer. And when I see channels that really push hard to monetize, it’s off-putting as a viewer, and I’m less interested in what they have to say - even if it might benefit me.
On the flip-side, I know some content creators have to spend a lot of money to create certain content, so they should be able to recoup that somehow.
I personally prefer a donation model, since it keeps things unbiased, with the creator having far more freedom, and it doesn’t disrespect users. Even having a shop selling channel merch is a more ethical way to monetize, provided that the channel doesn’t become one big ads for the merch store.
Good channels could absolutely make enough through donations to turn their channel into a full-time, paying job. And a donation model would also help to cull channels that create garbage content, AI generated content, and clickbait crap.
You want to piss off employees who keep terrorists, drugs, and weapons out of the country?
On second thought… yes, he does, because he isn’t working for Americans.
Yup, I cancelled two conference trips because of that jackass.
I am glad to have visited when I could, but I don’t see myself ever travelling to the US again.
When you consider that foreign relationships take many decades to forge, it’s unlikely that things will go back to the way they were for at least 20+ years.
If it ever happens.
And by then, the rest of the world would have already adapted to a life without the States, and many will be better off for it.
Will they jail Nazi sympathizers, though? Should be pretty easy to find them, even without AI, since they are so public about it.
Trumps wall seems to only have one-way doors on them, eh?
Keep your guns and drugs out of our country!
The fact that a Canadian who is visiting Florida is likely spending hundreds to thousands for each trip, Florida will lose a lot of money as this continues.
And he assumes it’s only Canadians who will boycott the US. Europeans and the British are doing the same. 🤜🤛
The fact that he’s been throwing allies under the bus left and right will for sure make it in the history books. An American President who is actively working for Russia is another gem.
This stuff wouldn’t be believable if they were in the movies, yet here we are!
Don’t breathe easy until the real counts are made. We cannot mess this up, or our next federal election will be for President.
PP doesn’t even want security clearance to know what foreign threats are currently influencing his party members… this guy isn’t going to help our country.