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Ouch. 🫢🤣

It’s already monetised. Just click on the links under Donations in the main sidebar or straight to the OpenCollective page for a glimpse. We pay for it with our money. That’s how we know we’re not the product.

Interest rates. Money isn’t free anymore. It’s still not super expensive but it’s 5x more expensive than what it used to be since 2008.

Err, we already have activity tracking software required by many corporations and unlike governments, corporations aren’t subject to many of the regulations governments are. Corporate communications are also available for automatic review as well as manual when needed. The future is now. Maybe not universally but at least in NA it very much is.

Pretty significant numbers. This is the kind of data that needs to reach the eyes of decisionmakers.

Even if you believe all of this, it should be obvious that the invasion was an abject failure in contributing towards these goals. There’s more NATO equipment and support around that border now than ever before. There’s even more NATO border incoming that didn’t exist before. Staying, expending more of your people’s lives, public and private capital looks like a really counterproductive thing to do. It’s only making those goals harder to meet longer term.