It’s $300 less, not $300 more.

No matter how much you are paying, you can afford to pay $300 less.

A discount of $60000 is not “nothing at all”. At current rates, it’s about $300 off your monthly payment.

Just google “foreclosure auction” in your area. Those houses will generally sell below market.

Nothing in ActivityPub says you can’t move your content from one platform to another.

Your content in ActivityPub is linked to the home instance. So for example I can’t move this post from lemmy.world to another server. I could copy/paste the content into a new post on another server, but it would be a broken piece of our conversation with no context or replies.

Also, hosting a ATProto self-instance is not as expensive as you suggest. This person did it for $150/month.

Regarding the alleged missing features of ActivityPub

There are significant differences in account portability. ActivityPub allows you to transfer your followers to a new server, but not your content.

only rich folks or those who are willing to accept money from venture capitalists

Or non-profits that are willing to accept money from supporters.

ActivityPub already existed when they started BlueSky. They chose to not make their protocol compatible.

Because AT protocol has features that are incompatible with ActivityPub, and those features are important to some users.

“Tesla is going down the toilet” is not insider information.

“The market is having trouble digesting the multidimensional chess that Trump and his team are playing,” said Michael Block, market strategist at Third Seven Capital. “This multidimensional chess game is not going well for the grand master.

LOL, you aren’t playing 3D chess when you flip a chessboard.

The first line of your link:

Being part of the Kingdom of Denmark

Not the Netherlands.

The Netherlands does not in any way control Greenland…

Why is Greenland bound to a treaty signed by the Netherlands?

Technology is only one part of the equation. If a factory upgrades its machines but loses half its workforce, it could end up producing less than before.

In Japan, technology improvements are not enough to make up for an aging population. So either workers put in even longer hours or the country has to make do with less stuff than before. And workers are approaching their limits.

So we should be able to get by with less labor, right?…

Sure. Or everyone could get more stuff for the same amount of labor.

Suppose your boss told you, “You’ve been doing a great job at work. We could give you 10% raise, or we could keep your paycheck the same and cut your hours by 10%.” I don’t know which you would choose, but most people would take the raise.

Less productive means less things for you.

Suppose you ate 100 bananas this year. Suppose you were told that next year you are only allowed 90 bananas, and what’s more you will never have 100 bananas a year again. Even worse, after next year you will never have 90 bananas again. And the same is true of everything else you enjoy.

Most people hope, at a minimum, that next year will be no worse than this year. They do not like knowing, for certain, that every year will be worse than the one before. Forever. But that’s what happens when productivity inexorably declines.

In fact, in this situation the only way to make things better, for anyone, is at someone else’s expense. There is no such thing as a win-win outcome. That makes for a very unpleasant society and it’s easy to see why leaders want to avoid this.

If population is decreasing because of decreased birthrate, then the population is aging. And all else equal, an aging population is less productive because fewer people are working.

OK, so the DoJ filed a judicial misconduct complaint.

Anyone can file a judicial misconduct complaint.

Uh no, the AI didn’t crack any problem.

The AI produced the same hypothesis that a scientist produced, one that the scientist considered his own original awesome idea.

But the truth is that science is less about producing awesome ideas and more about proving them. And AI did nothing in this regard, except to remind scientists that their original awesome ideas are often not so original.

There’s even a term scientists use when another scientist has the same idea but actually managed to do the work of proving it: “scooped”. It’s a very common occurrence. It didn’t happen here.

The SCOTUS already held that schools cannot consider race in their admissions. But schools can still use geography, so they often give preference to applicants from disadvantaged neighborhoods. I don’t think Trump’s latest EO is going to change that.

Yes, but that does not mean they want to be publicly traded.

There are plenty of privately held for-profit companies, for example Valve. Their business model does not involve stock prices, in fact it is impossible to buy Valve stock.

I doubt that’s their plan, since they aren’t on the stock market.