South/east, but there is a building right next to it that gives it some shade during the end of the day.

No trees (unfortunately). I even have a commercial laundry right next to that side that is constantly expelling very hot air around.

Not sure how true that is, although I don’t understand how, one side of my house is noticeably cooler than the rest and it has stayed like that throughout the heatwave even without turning on the ac

I don’t know much about it. All I know is GNU software is somehow important to how Linux works on the low-level layers.

“While sales are not our main concern at the moment, we have seen a very significant drop,” said the official.

I always find it funny when representatives of a big corporation say this.

The profit is all that matters to companies, even their reputation with the wider public only matters because it affects their ability to achieve a higher profit margin.

It feels disingenuous and manipulative to hear this.

That seems like a misrepresentation of the “left” (pretty much a useless term, but oh well).

Most of the “right” indeed believes “rich people” are essential to the economy and their abandonment of a country leads to economic collapse.

I’d argue the “left” agrees that the owners of capital play an essential role in most economies nowadays, but also believe that it doesn’t have to be that way. In a capitalist economy (like most in the world), the need to appease capital owners, constantly growing, desire to accumulate capital leads to unwanted outcomes like democratic backsliding and without resistance economic power subverts democratic institutions.

I’ll admit I don’t know the work you mention in your comment, so I might have missed some context.

In the end, what most people seem to care about is their own material conditions

What definition would you use?

Not socialist, social-democracies.

Absolutely, I could have worded it better.

Socialism is defined by “the ownership of the means of production by the working class, in a transition to communism”.

There’s some debate about whether cooperatives satisfy this criteria.

What you seem to be describing is a social-democracy, where there’s still the common capitalist dynamics and class interest contradictions, but with the conflict reduced somewhat by appeasing the majority with a social safety net.

They were never socialist, they’ve always been social-democracies, that’s quite a difference even though there’s some shared ideological roots.

That’s hilarious, gotta love kagi.

Is the “revolutionary flu shot” even feasible at the moment?

From the little I understand about the topic, our hopes of getting rid of the flu are pretty much none until vaccines for the constantly adapting flu virus are very cheap and very quick to develop/deploy. Until then, the virus will simply adapt to the old vaccines quicker than we can counter it.

Can’t say, never tried it, just know that it’s creator owned and doesn’t have any AI voiced content.

Or means.tv, a creator owned platform.

Not contesting that, but at some point in time announcing that the sun is in the center of our solar system would have you barbecued.

Aren’t you thinking of US law?

Not sure if most countries do the same.

I’m actually surrounded by cool people, but I’m aware of my bubble.

Maybe, but it’s more likely they are resentful for not doing the same and worried about who will pay for their retirement.