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Form a fibre coop with neighbours

Edit, red states may have laws that force you to "choose" which oligarch to pay and prevent personal, coop and/or municipal coops. Because oligarchs need freedom, and Americans need frightened obedience.

https://jasondeegan.com/unhappy-with-his-internet-provider-a-man-sets-up-his-own-network-and-competes-with-his-former-provider/

#coup #oligarchs #freedumb #fibre #monopsony #monopoly #coerce

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@Paul_Harts @techlore granted the only reason the #UAE and espechally #Dubai banned #Monero is to "protect" it's #TradFin #MoneyLaundry that is #Hawala:

#NotFinancialAdvice #NotLegalAdvice #Crime #WhiteCollarCrime #TraditionalFinance #MoneyLaundering

How the world can stand up to Trump’s #trade #blackmail

#Trump’s #tariff chaos offers valuable lessons about US & Trump himself

Applying these, countries can undercut Trump’s ability to #bully & #coerce

Lesson 1 is US economy is more fragile than expected

It’s potential for panic makes US economy more vulnerable than others

A second lesson is that Trump’s bombast belies weakness

When tariffs threatened his billionaire friends’ interests, he yielded

https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/news/2025/05/2/7210755/

#TradeWars

How the world can stand up to Trump’s trade blackmail

Donald Trump’s tariff chaos has already offered some valuable lessons about both the US economy and Trump himself.

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@davetron5000 @caleb @joeldrapper there’s also the #coerce protocol, which feels inscrutable to me and likely doesn’t really fit this. But still seems relevant?
@postmodern I think it can introduce potential breakage when you change the code in ways that seem correct, and thus the added convenience is not worth it. But that's just my opinion. OTOH I don't know if <=> does/should support the #coerce protocol 🤔
@nithinbekal I really enjoyed reading this! I've done stuff with Tiny Types but was totally ignorant about #coerce.

A new bill wants to criminalize ‘coercive’ conduct in Canada. What is it?

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1365-4f93-6235-1fe997187430

A new bill wants to criminalize ‘coercive’ conduct in Canada. What is it?

A new bill wants to criminalize ‘coercive’ conduct in Canada. What is it? Controlling or coercive behaviour between partners is being explored as a crim...

Doughty’s decision had affected a wide range of govt departments & agencies, & imposed 10 specific #prohibitions on govt ofcls. The appeals court threw out 9 of those & modified the 10th to limit it to efforts to “#coerce or significantly encourage social-media companies to remove, delete, suppress, or reduce, including through altering their #algorithms, posted social-media #content containing #protected free #speech.”
Coerce/Exercise #etymology

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@postmodern TIL #coerce and it's implemented on most of the default #ruby classes [0]:

class One
def coerce(other)
[other, 1]
end
def +(other)
other + 1
end
end

p (2 + One.new)
# => 3

p (One.new + 4)
# => 5

Thanks, @mudge

[0] ie. Integer#coerce https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.2/Integer.html#method-i-2B

class Integer - Documentation for Ruby 3.2