IrateAnteater @ IrateAnteater @sh.itjust.works

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Yeah, I assumed it was some corporate shenanigans where Zuckerberg sues himself and somehow ends up with more money because of it.

Because at some point, the philosophical has to give way to the practical, unless you intend for your movement to be nothing more than an academic thought exercise. The unfortunate reality is branding matters. At a population level, no amount of explaining or reading suggestions is going to break through the preconceived notions people have about anarchism.

There absolutely is such a thing as a benevolent dictator. The problem is that it's impossible to tell ahead of time who they are.

If nothing else, anarchists need to rebrand and come up with a new name for the same philosophy. "Anarchism" as a term has long been thoroughly poisoned. People who aren't deep into political theory at best dismiss it as an edge lord philosophy.

Yeah, it seems as though this person learned the buzzwords, but not the concepts. You are going to be using your labour regardless, so why would it not be preferable to use it directly for yourself? Of all the things capitalism promised, free stuff was never included.

I think "Last Kiss" by Pearl Jam is next on this hyper-depressing playlist.

How does a law explicitly interfering with first amendment rights not get immediately struck down as unconstitutional? Limiting free speech is not even an unintended theoretical side effect of the bill; it's the expressed purpose.

I do kinda fear JD Vance being president. It's mostly a "devil you know" kinda fear. There's the off chance that he's just the same same as Trump, but younger and, in the worst case scenario, more competent.

Honestly, it's so frustrating dealing with the people who want to stick their heads in the sand. Even if you don't believe the climate is changing, have you not noticed how the air has gotten less brown over major cities since coal plants were shut and car/truck emissions were at least reduced? Even if global warming weren't a thing, I'd very much prefer to not breath brown air.

If that's the point, then stop pointing to the past as an example of it. All that's proving is that there are worse options we have tried.

There's not much else to choose from if you are looking at cities, etc, built before modern capitalism.

Ok, capitalism bad, but are we actually pretending that feudalism isn't worse?

That's why a Trump is Putin's favourite; he's got those tiny hands.

That "not profitable" label should be taken with a grain of salt. Startups will do all the creative accounting they can in order to maintain that label. After all, don't have to pay taxes on negative profits.

I mean, are you telling me you've never dreamt about it?

Usually, companies will make their product say 25% cheaper to produce, then sell it to the public at a 20% discount (while loudly proclaiming to the world about that 20% price drop) and pocket that 5% increase in profits. So if OpenAI is dropping the price by x, it's safe to assume that the efficiency gains work out to x+1.

Either way, they don't have the reserves to supply their own demand.

Yeah, it's crazy what you can do when you don't have to pay people, and you can instantly stomp out all dissent.

China decided to end their dependence on fossil fuels, and I decided to retire by age 45. Me and China are about equally close to achieving our goals.

If you look at the map of North America, the panhandle is actually Canada's taint.