My point is that it’s not “hyper” capitalism - it’s just normal capitalism. Capitalism is a bad system that must be tempered by a lot of socialism and government controls to work for society. Hyper capitalism sort of implies it’s an extremist version of that system, but it’s not. In the past, humanity started out using more standard capitalism (what you are calling hyper capitalism) and workers rose up to create unions and pushed governments to create socialist systems to temper the inherent abuses the capitalism. Many people argue pure capitalism will regulate itself through the markets and we don’t need unions and government controls at all. So I think calling what the USA has as “hyper capitalism” implies its somehow an anomaly of that system. I think that misrepresents the inherent societally deductive nature of the capitalist system. Also, I would argue what the USA has leans more towards crony capitalism.

“Hyper” capitalism is just capitalism at its root without strong government controls. Capitalism leaves larger and larger groups out - that’s how it works. Capitalism is designed to have winners and losers and without socialism to pick up those left out, they are ground under the system to death. The capitalism we’ve all known has always been heavily regulated (even if it’s becoming less regulated). Past capitalism always relied on exploiting the lower classes, immigrants, or slavery. Capitalism working as a self contained system has always been a pipe dream.

In the end, the problem stems from billionaires. They created the right wing propaganda machine that caused this far right authoritarian rise. They did it recklessly only to increase their own power. Billionaires can no longer exist. Capitalism is failing. We need a new path forward.

Apps give way too much access to phone data, whether the developer collects it or not. As you said, Apple has access and has capitulated to the Trump fascist regime already. The app leaves enough fingerprint for them to use. A Web app is just a safer and more available option.

This shouldn’t be on the app store. It gives the US government too much access to pull data from it, or order it pulled down. This should be a web app hosted outside the US that can be accessed by any device and can be obscured by VPN access so the regime can’t persecute participants. Apps pull way too much data from phones that ICE can subpoena.

Fuck Israel. Fuck the whole evil country. Religion is fucking stupid anyway, so a theocratic country is extra stupid.

Loops and other fediverse platforms are more important than ever. We need independent social media - not billionaire owned platforms.

You know they wrote the order so broadly that Trump can wield it at anyone that hurts his feelings at the moment.

Just what we need - more power inefficient products pulling on the grid.

They’ll likely just start pushing blended meat / soy burgers like a lot of mass producers do already.

Expect a modern, app based version of sharecropping to make a resurgence.

Bitcoin mostly supports the right wing billionaires who we’re essential in creating Trump 2.0 these days. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are now mostly tools for the investor class to circumvent financial regulation. Whatever crypto currencies started out to solve, they’ve been completely co-opted by the nerd reich.

Never underestimate the arrogance of billionaires. They get surrounded by sycophants that inflate their egos to near godly proportions.

The billionaire backed right wing takeover playbook is international - not just the US. Billionaires are a plague on democracies everywhere.