In 1944, Duncan was one of the last people convicted under the Witchcraft Act 1735 (9 Geo. 2 c. 5), which made falsely claiming to procure spirits a crime.
Match that with the fact you can try to avoid Amazon and shop in sites directly, only to and the product come in an Amazon box from your local Amazon warehouse, and all shopping is now Amazon.
Fun fact, taco bell was mostly popular in the US, so in the rest of the world, another Pepsi-owned fast food chain was subbed in: Now all restaurants are Pizza Hut
And most of these "left" shows are basically DNC mouthpieces who hate anyone to the left of them (looking at you Cenk)...shows how hard it is to grow an audience without being backed by --and thus narrative driven by --corporate interests.
I've flirted with Linux off and on for 20 years, but MS forcing everyone to Win 11, stuffed with spyware, is the end of the road for me. Now on Linux full time. Linux isn't about to take over the desktop, but I can see Windows shedding a couple million users a year as enshittification continues.
Every Texan I know has a generator to deal with the unreliability of the grid, and there's never been an article about someone in Iowa getting a surprise $100k electric bill...and the average wage in Texas is substantially lower than in "left wing" states like California or Washington...so not sure you're making an apples-to-apples comparison, but time will be the judge, we can all check-in in a year and see how this plays out. Does Lemmy have a remind me! bot?
With software it was moving everything to subscriptions that made me switch to Linux and LibreOffice
With hardware it was when Apple started soldering RAM in their computers so you couldn't replace it
With healthcare it was having to negotiate with 11 different companies my 11 bills for a single ER visit
With the Democrats it was the head of the DNC saying out loud that the reason for super delegates was to prevent popular grassroots candidates from winning
Capitalism doesn't just crush you once, it finds a new way to crush you every day.
The one state that refuses to connect to the interstate power grid and has Uber-like surge pricing on electricity? Yeah, I'm sure this won't result in regular people footing the bill for more billionaire profits.
Finally, a command line shell for the 90s