Respect is everything, the mob, eh party wants you to disparage about your own affairs and argue triballistic. The ideal is a civil war within borders of all oppossition.

Silo all the dictatorships from the internet, thats the only way to contain the poison. Liberalism has failed

How about companies ripped off by apple get together and offer the european union a "neutral" plattform, a app-store of its own without app-store tarifs? Make infrastructure infrastructure again and destroy the walled gardens while they are at it?

One wants to have perspectives of change even in sacrifice. Cant imagine actual change with any given party or political conestellation atm

And companys would never bring the full instruments to force on a single person. PIs etc, psycho-terror and so on and so forth..

The Ebay stalking case comes up to mind

Which only came to light because they were shockingly inept about it.

That case absolutely made me wonder about how many big corporations have successfully executed more subtle versions of the tactic.

There is a name for that kind of state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic

There should be a customer veto gremium in any company, with customer representives who can veto the latest hyped up bs before it gets forcefed into something vital and does real harm to the core product.

The lesson is to work on topics that are used by billions and make something small and useful, that is hard to replicate and thus worth a buyout.

There is nothing hard to replicate here.

Microsoft could have put 3 of their programmers to work on this for one month. But it's probably faster and more convenient to just buy it out.

Your value gets revealed in your absence. To leave and the company tanks- is a expression of the value shadow you throw.

You didn't watch the video, clearly. They're incredibly simple projects that help permanently convert land from desert to arable. They're not dependent upon the outside for anything except directions, as the only tools needed are what the people already have, a pickaxe and shovel. Once started it can continue on with nothing but locals who want to take more land back from the desert.

Nomads, landmines, buzzwords, you're just looking for edge cases where this fails, and that's not helpful. If it works for 80% of the land they look at, that's mre than good enough.

Don't look at the now, the moment, look at the long run. If they had missionaried for a religion that creates a reverance to natures creation and destruction for self-gain as a colonial, anti-god ideology, that would create longterm prospects for this to survive. If they had planted plants poisonous to goats and sheep, this could have endured longer. If they made this sort of work a yearly festival. That would have done more then a incentive driven strawfire.

Please don't pretend religion has any answers to any real world problems, it just causes problems.

> I abhor these projects, because they are seasonal- as in dependent on outside funds and thus hyper-fragile. Also usually propped up by colonizers, to detract from some ressource extraction destruction.

It depends on the institutional experience of each country. There's a reason this initiative is being done in Senegal instead of neighboring Mali.

WFP funding is fairly consistent and less whimsical ime. It's private donors like the Gates Foundation that tend to be flaky, as they only answer to the whims of the Gates family.

Programs like the WFP, WB, IMF, ADB, USAID, etc need to be auditable as significant amounts of public and private money are invested, leading to demands from multiple donors, compared to family foundations or smaller non-profits.

> How does it prevent building up resentment, when obviously a green landscape is more important to the foreigners, then the starving locals? > How does it solve the hard problem of exponential mankind vs civilizational allmende protection? > How do the plants survive in the climate change storms yet to come?

I plan on using this set of questions next time my girlfriend says we should do something I don't want to do.

> I abhor these projects...

Jeesh.

I dunno, maybe watch the video and get your answers from the people who literally answers them in the video? They're not "planting trees", they're basically just running the normal progression of how sand forests develop at a faster, but still slow enough to take years, rate. Nothing particularly "it'll never work" or "it won't survive" about that.

Its literally in the video, the scenery they drive by - goats and goat deforrested landscape.. but hey, ignore reality

And now it was used by putin to overshadow ukraine-maidan day. The message is clear. Ukraine is just sideshow, murdered oppossition in mainland, is main-show.

The inherently parasitic, extractive elite in every empire so far loved mercantilism though, it appeals to the centralization focused, extractive, landlording mindset. China is trying to be as mercantilistic as possible (buy raw goods everywhere, ship only final products) and has none of the free trade idealism of the us. Which is one of the reasons the belt and road initivative is already collapsing.

I'm starting to think the US has little free trade idealism left.

The empire, the external face-hugger to any country, eats it all after a while, turning it into giant estates ala rome, with slaves and no middle class - with hired mercenaries for troops.