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 @user-1018 
 
 yep. monopolies are not competition, and yet that's what we optimize toward,
 through the nature of our planned economics.
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

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 our economy is not tuned to how much we can work, but rather to the minimum we
 need to recover.
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--- #2 fediverse/5038 ---
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 if you're gonna insist on capitalism, every country should have the same GDP
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 If supply and demand were real laws that guided the invisible hand of our
 economy, then housing would have gotten cheaper after COVID.
 
 And yet, time and again, that hand is shown to be nothing more than greed.
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--- #4 fediverse/1777 ---
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 what if we taxed land not by charging money to keep it but rather by taking
 some of it and giving it to the bureau of land management
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--- #5 messages/80 ---
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 "Capitalism doesn't hurt me, so it's fine!" - most of America
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 someday corporations will realize that the best way to maximize profit is to
 eliminate billionaires.
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--- #7 fediverse/1757 ---
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 economic calamities are just moments when the richest decide which of their
 peers they don't want to hang out with anymore. And the rest of us have to
 figure it out.
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--- #8 fediverse/2045 ---
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 what if we taxed every ounce of resource that companies wasted
 
 (maybe with a multiplier for the current relative value of the substance -
 diamonds are more valuable than apples per pound)
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--- #9 fediverse/487 ---
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 I don't really care about capitalism, sorry... why should the butcher be paid
 more than the baker? It's all a bit silly to me.
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--- #10 messages/404 ---
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 They don't build toll roads to abstract taxes. They build them to keep track
 of where you're going.
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--- #11 fediverse/5287 ---
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 we all need each other, no matter how much we don't want to need.
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--- #12 fediverse/6279 ---
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 people can't compel you to give gifts, that's why they're gifts. which is why
 a gift economy can't be all, because sometimes you need something now.
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--- #13 fediverse/833 ---
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 @user-591 
 
 yep
 
 they're very profitable for the banks
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--- #14 fediverse/4271 ---
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 if control of a company (or other component or factor of an economy) is not
 sufficiently distributed, political biases may slip in to decisionmaking.
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--- #15 messages/315 ---
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 The need to engage with capitalism has reduced my output dramatically.
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 Economies are capitalist things.
 
 I personally think if you have stuff right here, and it needs to get over
 there so that so-and-so can use it to make this-or-that which will then be
 taken to other places, then the answer is clear. The stuff has to move from
 over here, to over there. The rest is logistics, not economics.
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--- #17 fediverse/3123 ---
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 using linux requires constant maintenance and that's kind of unfair, actually.
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--- #18 fediverse/1790 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 The USPS is a model for how our economic system should be run, in my honest
 opinion. At least the logistical parts.
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--- #19 fediverse/3914 ---
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 that feeling when capitalists make technological advancements that benefit all
 of mankind but refuse to open source them because... they want more money?
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--- #20 fediverse/1286 ---
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 the fact that business types don't listen to the engineers and their "ethics"
 means they shouldn't be in charge of them.
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--- #21 fediverse/1416 ---
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 @user-979 @user-980 
 
 they do it for power.
 
 power corrupts, and these profane desires they possess are the definition of
 evil.
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--- #22 fediverse_boost/3198 ---
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  If #Musk is allowed to say "#CivilWar is inevitable", we're allowed to say revolution and the uncompensated nationalisation of the assets of billionaires is inevitable.  
  
                                                            
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--- #23 fediverse/5804 ---
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 it's discriminatory to force introverts to return to office.
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--- #24 fediverse/2213 ---
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 @user-1074 
 
 Perhaps something that utilizes institutions that people are familiar with
 like Walmart and Amazon to logistic goods and services around? But, like, in a
 socialist way, where everyone gets what they want.
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--- #25 fediverse/3643 ---
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 if you cannot rapidly reorganize, then you are not organized.
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--- #26 fediverse/2743 ---
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 capitalism is the most efficient known method of value extraction, not value
 generation.
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--- #27 fediverse/3237 ---
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 @user-192 
 
 it's like airlines overbooking flights because "hey some people will probably
 cancel, right?"
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--- #28 fediverse/5345 ---
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 you can't win every battle, but if you're losing then you've lost.
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--- #29 fediverse/132 ---
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 and though I am perfect, I'm better than none of you.
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--- #30 fediverse/4887 ---
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 I will consistently under-negotiate my needs because scarcity has taught me to
 do more with less.
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 @user-898 
 
 true, but building a house will never cost 100$. Maybe 100,000$, and at that
 point you could build but a few.
 
 Meanwhile, they're throwing around millions of dollars. we're not measured on
 the same scale as they are, and if we ever dip our toes into their end they
 will bite them off.
 
 If supply and demand were real laws that guided our economy, then wages would
 have gone up after COVID, because so many people died. Housing would have
 gotten cheaper, because fewer people were living in them. Food would have
 gotten less expensive, because people were growing their own vegetables and
 baking their own bread while they spent months isolating themselves. But alas.
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 @user-443 
 
 natural disaster vulnerability is freedom from liability if they ever did lose
 their charges.
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--- #33 fediverse/5176 ---
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 what if corporations gave better quality products to people who clicked
 through their advertisement
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 they had to mark it unfounded, because otherwise they would get in trouble if
 they were wrong
 
 they only stock the competitors products that taste worst than the product of
 the company they want to divert money to. c
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--- #35 messages/666 ---
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 It doesn't have to be more complicated than "give us money and we'll fight
 back the right wing death squads"
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--- #36 fediverse/1313 ---
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 if we had a universal basic income then we could pay each other to solve our
 problems and they just can't have that.
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--- #37 fediverse/771 ---
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 @user-192 
 
 yeeeesh that sounds like a hornets nest. impossible to untangle, like a rats
 nest! I prefer my homes like a robin's nest, neat, orderly, and made to design.
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--- #38 fediverse/1771 ---
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 if you can't find them when you need them, then you don't have them.
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--- #39 messages/364 ---
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 Capitalism isn't perfect but if it's capitalism or cyberpunk North Korean
 style dystopia, I'll pick capitalism. Can we at least make it so that the rich
 aren't safe financially though? Like, if you own a billion dollars it should
 be because you make a billion dollars per year. Anything you don't spend
 should be taxed away, to be used for public services and the defence of our
 nation.
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 buying guns is one thing
 
 but food is just as important.
 
 stores run out, but quartermasters know where to find things.
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--- #41 fediverse/3441 ---
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 capitalism is non-consentual, which is... pretty much the main reason why I am
 against it.
 
 like, I don't really care about whether it's more or less efficient. the fact
 that you cannot opt out means it is unethical.
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--- #42 fediverse/2112 ---
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 cops think we're gullible, just saying
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--- #43 fediverse/1112 ---
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 @user-78 
 
 elle - emm - ayyyy - ohhhh
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--- #44 fediverse/2369 ---
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 Most people won't care.
 
 Most people won't come.
 
 They don't need to.
 
 All we need is you.
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--- #45 fediverse/65 ---
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 if something makes sense physically, but not mathematically, then the
 mathematics are wrong.
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--- #46 fediverse/5018 ---
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 if you want to do communism in a city, you must first buy a parking lot.
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--- #47 fediverse/1046 ---
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 #CDCsays we should live on a salary and save for retirement because capitalism
 will definitely be around by then
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--- #48 fediverse/5124 ---
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 @user-1370 
 
 wawawawawawawawawa : )
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--- #49 fediverse/4074 ---
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 "buying something" under capitalism just means that you get less of everything
 else in exchange for this particular thing.
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--- #50 messages/377 ---
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 infinite dedication implies stagnation, don't be so quick to trust.
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--- #51 messages/189 ---
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 If one side aligns themselves toward truth and righteousness, then those who
 oppose them must necessarily utilize the opposite in their intentions.
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--- #52 fediverse/5235 ---
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 @user-1782 
 
 it's not that they lost value in their company due to the lack of sale of
 their products, but instead because they don't have to pay for marketing if
 their car looks "cool" enough and they can give them away for a lower blood
 price
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--- #53 messages/431 ---
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 Rent is expensive because they only want you living there if you're working.
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 what if instead of spending most of our paycheck on rent we spent most of it
 on food so that our food could be higher quality
 
 "but then people will starve because they can't afford food"
 
 okay how about we make food free and tax it
 
 "but then people will be fed by MY tax dollars and what if I don't want to use
 the services that the tax dollars are paying for"
 
 oh you don't want to eat, do you? or do you just not want THEM to eat? I hope
 leopards eat your face
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--- #55 fediverse/1579 ---
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 fellas is it gay if I think fascists should be killed if they don't
 permanently revoke their ways
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--- #56 fediverse/5177 ---
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 when they say "capitalism is a competitive game" what they mean is "capitalism
 is a game where everyone wins when someone else loses" and what we hear is
 "capitalism is a game of trying to screw you out of as much money as possible"
 and the truth is "capitalism is a game that you can't play" because 95% of the
 people who will read this toot are not stock-owners.
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--- #57 fediverse/3095 ---
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 if your business can't afford to have a back-up plan, then it is not a
 sufficiently prepared operation.
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--- #58 messages/218 ---
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 Capitalism pays developers massive salaries because it doesn't want them
 developing
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--- #59 fediverse/476 ---
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 @user-192 
 
 ... then let me give my money to the people who actually made the damned
 thing...
 
 Ah that's the tricky part, isn't it?
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--- #60 fediverse/6192 ---
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 capitalism is like daring your kid to run down the stairs with a sceiling
 knife (race to the finish or your competitors will make you die) (competitor
 companies) (
screenshot of a fediverse context  content warning (optional)  capitalism is like daring your kid to run down the stairs with a sceiling knife (race to the finish or your competitors will make you die) (competitor companies) (  861  This is current debug messages from the game above -- oh!  She's done, they got her, I just heard it happen.  I don't know if they blew up the tank.  But I wonder what "This shouldn't happen too often" is??  hide alt post public english
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 Crucially, which implied a constant, reliable profit of 20%.
 
 Farmers could live like kings, so long as they only tended to themselves.
 
 We don't have to conglomerate, but it helps when we do.
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--- #62 fediverse/4025 ---
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 the "village idiot" doesn't need to lack smarts, so long as everyone else is
 in on it.
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--- #63 fediverse_boost/3930 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  A homeless person picking up trash in a public park is doing more for society than the CEO of a billion dollar company mass producing toys for the rich.  
  
                                                            
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 the government doesn't want you using solar panels because then the coal and
 gas infrastructure won't be able to consume coal and gas, and everyone knows
 that using resources as fast as possible is surely the best and most
 productive use of our state's time
 
 like, subsidies exist. they could just... make it cheaper, but instead they're
 stuck doing... nothing of value
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--- #65 fediverse/1174 ---
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 ^^^^ this is why nobody will hire me T.T
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--- #66 fediverse/3911 ---
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 capitalists want you to use their products. they prey on your humanity to get
 you to do so. They don't care if you want their products, they just demand
 that you use them.
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--- #67 fediverse/1827 ---
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 point is, you should take good companies at their word and bad companies for
 their goals.
 
 Surely, you can't blame the organism for seeking food. So clearly you can't
 blame an organization built to pursue profit to pursue profit. Maybe we should
 cut-out the middle-man and use efficiency evaluation methods defined by our
 common understanding of ethics and virtues instead of currency to determine
 the relative importance of continual investment in particular structural
 capabilities that companies provide to a nation.
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--- #68 fediverse/6343 ---
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 you can revolute whenever you want to.
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 @user-1074 
 
 ah but you see when "maximizing profit" and "maximizing value" sound like the
 same thing to those directing the corporation (as is the case anytime they
 have greedy shareholders) then "maximizing profit" doesn't have to be very
 efficient at all, as long as it's extracting the most "value" for the
 stakeholders (which to greedy shareholders is the same thing as profit)
 
 and honestly, who would invest in a company that isn't eternally growing as
 fast as possible? that's just bad business acumen, gotta pump those numbers up!
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--- #70 fediverse/4979 ---
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 They said "compete or die" and I said no.
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--- #71 messages/323 ---
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 Some human cultures learned competition through hunting, and some through
 agriculture, and it really shows
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--- #72 fediverse/1178 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 copyright is a flawed system, I'm not surprised it would keep us from the best
 path forward. >: (
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--- #73 fediverse/1024 ---
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 @user-753 
 
 mutual aid is only something separate from your human responsibilities because
 capitalism insists that your loyalty is to the company, not to your neighbors,
 your friends on the opposite sides of the earth, this planet we owe all to,
 and all of posterity.
 
 @user-754
 
 mutual aid is good, actually, because we don't talk to each other and plan a
 way to fix it permanently.
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--- #74 fediverse/5362 ---
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 @user-1810 
 
 stability in an unjust system is cruelty.
 
 they want stability, no matter the cruel cost.
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--- #75 fediverse/5694 ---
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 if I can convince them not to fight will you give me what I demand?
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--- #76 fediverse/5831 ---
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 it's okay to be a little evil sometimes
 
 all things are defined in waves, and your highest peaks are nothing without
 low valleys to accompany them. Balance arises naturally from the contest of
 these two natures, and, well, you're gonna figure it out anyway no matter what
 I say so why bother teehee
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--- #77 fediverse/1959 ---
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 @user-883 @user-1115 @user-1053 
 
 dying won't help you escape. It'll leave you stuck in capitalism forever.
 
 The future is where capitalism dies, not in a grave of stone stuck forever in
 time.
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--- #78 fediverse/5179 ---
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 why don't corporations let you write code in whatever language you want? it's
 trivial to run a compiler or interpreter inside of another program.
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--- #79 fediverse/641 ---
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 something something "those who study history are doomed to watch others repeat
 it" or something like that
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--- #80 messages/463 ---
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 A democracy only works if the losing side consents to being governed by the
 victor.
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--- #81 fediverse/4485 ---
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 getting the phone numbers of cute he/thems at a bar is NOT the same as
 organizing.
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--- #82 fediverse/1822 ---
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 we should reward frugality as much as value-creation.
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--- #83 fediverse/3614 ---
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 socks are a lie drafted by big thread to get us to invest in knitting machines
 so we don't have to buy our own footwear at the store
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--- #84 messages/178 ---
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 A god is less of an object and more of a direction.
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--- #85 fediverse/1234 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 kinda makes me think we should make our own capitalism, with pickles and
 healthcare
 
 actually screw the capitalism let's just take care of each other
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--- #86 fediverse/6021 ---
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 you volunteer for things because you want a say in how they turn out.
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 But the past is boring, it already happened after all! Clearly there's nothing
 to be learned... Right? Seems like there's a big market out there for examining
 what we as a species did right, even if we had to sacrifice ethics to get
 there.
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--- #88 fediverse/714 ---
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 @user-538 
 
 I'd offer that meticulous, uncompromising ethics is the only efficient,
 sensible, and optimized method of operation (assuming maximum prosperity at
 maximum distribution is a goal).
 
 True, as long as the axioms that comprise the ethics are valid and the
 supporting arguments are sound
 
 EDIT: cut out the bits that I'm not an expert on
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--- #89 fediverse/372 ---
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 rich people should only exist when they care for the things they own and
 accumulate wealth through a lifetime of restrained consumption and temperance.
 
 like, if we actually rewarded the 7 virtues instead of optimizing for ruthless
 profit extraction.
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--- #90 messages/280 ---
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 Fighting each other is such a waste of ammo.
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--- #91 fediverse/6319 ---
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 programming makes you smarter which is why we should teach it to everyone we
 can
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--- #92 fediverse/2457 ---
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 if your job won't let you strike for a week, they don't want you.
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--- #93 notes/programming-style ---
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 my programming is not a product., it is a way of thinking.
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--- #94 messages/1132 ---
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 marketers know society very well.
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--- #95 fediverse/1244 ---
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 in a battle, your foe's greatest weapon is the screams of your falling.
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--- #96 fediverse/3506 ---
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 @user-95 
 
 like, trading cash for drugs in front of a police station? I couldn't agree
 more!
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--- #97 messages/551 ---
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 This gun is my sword 
 This blade is my weapon 
 And my foes will lay before me
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--- #98 messages/1177 ---
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 it's more than a community if only one person asks where you've been.
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--- #99 fediverse/1422 ---
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 competition is valuable because it empowers us through sport.
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--- #100 fediverse/6294 ---
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 if you play optimally, you'll never get any chance to make decisions.
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--- #101 fediverse/1354 ---
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 whose idea was it to optimize our candy toward the ones with the most sugar?
 
 [wait a minute I got like 4 toots written but not posted, what the heck where
 did they come from? I'm gonna post them without reading them]
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--- #102 messages/1176 ---
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 it's not a community if nobody would ask where you've been.
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--- #103 fediverse/3387 ---
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 z-targeting is cheating, and everyone cheats. it's a race to see how can cheat
 the least. like tax loopholes - wealth is always more impressive when you did
 in the hard way, but most CEOs just buy a bunch of stock and let the company
 run itself. BORING.
 
 can we like... vote on how much each billionaire's dollars are worth? kinda
 feel like that'd solve all our problems while still giving them what they want.
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--- #104 fediverse/5047 ---
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 food should be free.
 
 it grows on trees.
 
 who pays the trees?
 
 something-something-transportation-and-processing-and-packaging-infrastructure-
 mentioned
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--- #105 bluesky#1 ---
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 uh-oh, democracy's at stake, what are you gonna do about it
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--- #106 fediverse/6211 ---
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 I trade the justice of my heart for the world my mind knows it wants.
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--- #107 fediverse_boost/5566 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  We have to figure out how to take care of each other and fight alongside one another which means we have to actually, like, listen to each other.  
  
                                                            
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--- #108 fediverse/4293 ---
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 @user-1074 
 
 and it is forced to do so, by it's very nature. It is anathema to a green
 earth, and it is slowly poisoning us like lead pipes, cadmium jewelry,
 asbestos insulation, and all of the other bountiful missteps that capitalism
 brought us.
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--- #109 messages/998 ---
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 It's not a warcrime if you're not at war.
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--- #110 fediverse/688 ---
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 @user-514 @user-515 
 
 when humanity is fully grown, we won't need all the resources on earth.
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--- #111 fediverse_boost/4779 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  I genuinely wish all Nazis in this world either an epiphany of the truth or a bullet to the head.  
                                                                              
  Either one is fine.                                                         
  
                                                            
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--- #112 fediverse/4895 ---
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 don't think about how rare something is. think about how useful it is to you.
 
 we can make more stuff.
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--- #113 fediverse/3118 ---
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 they want your stuff breaking after 5 years so that you always need them.
 
 if you have everything you need, there's nothing stopping us from revolt
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--- #114 fediverse/5061 ---
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 cooperatives cooperate with capitalism
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--- #115 messages/1053 ---
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 Anyway here's what i came to say:
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--- #116 messages/1002 ---
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 In revolutionary Cascadia, you don't have to do anything different. Until you
 decide you want to.
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--- #117 fediverse/1352 ---
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 if evil were honest, we could use it to our advantage, knowing it's nature and
 it's curseboromir, council of elrond
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--- #118 messages/1056 ---
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 That which tends to guide your thoughts.
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--- #119 fediverse/3713 ---
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 @user-1268 
 
 Ah but then inflation wouldn't increase, and don't you know inflation is just
 a (loose) measurement of how much wealth the ruling class extracts from the
 populace each year?
 
 When the total amount of wealth increases more than inflation, it's okay. When
 it doesn't... They tighten our chains.
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--- #120 fediverse/5976 ---
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 this is why AI is evil, as explained to a witch.
picture of an ai conversation:  "let's move on to a different topic, this time I think we should describe the poem's contents self-referentially as a 3rd person narrative, with the perspective being the subject and her thoughts. I'd like to use the analyze.lua function for more than simply extracting keywords, I'd also like to use it for transformation as well. can we make a new directory inside of the /theme-analysis/ directory that will store the narratives? it should be combined into a book with milky white pages and brighter-than-blood red. Nearly pink, but a bit more orange. It should utilize generative art to make the pages feel as if they are *oozing* in sharp stalagmite and stalagtite pictures. Could probably generate with mathematical functions and a bit of fuzzing (statistically) to create straight lines. Very sharp, though, like lines being carved in butter or blood or stone. It should feel painful to read. It should be a cursed artifact. each of these narratives can be stored in the /theme-analysis/narratives/ directory, and the narrative.lua script can be called from /theme-analysis/analyze.lua. This narrative script will indeed call into analyze as well, essentially as a reciprocal dependency. Instead of analyzing for word-cloud purposes, as /theme-analysis/analyze.lua is currently doing, it would have it's own slightly tailored processes for extracting a narrative from a series of short, segmented and semipseudo disconnected series of poems.  [the ai says yes]
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--- #121 fediverse/5382 ---
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 they are the players, we are the pawns, and there are oh-so-many more of us.
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--- #122 bluesky#29 ---
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--- #123 fediverse/5350 ---
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 honestly we should be building cities in the most boring locations, not the
 most beautiful.
 
 like below the crust.
 
 or space.
 
 the surface is a pleasuredome, why waste it on scrubland and turf?
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--- #124 fediverse/2427 ---
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 it's hard to resist your heart's calling when you're flying through the air on
 a bike.
 
 but then, rent comes due, and your bike is your new home. at least until it
 needs repair.
 
 well, capitalism's always there, you could just try resisting your heart's
 calling!
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--- #125 fediverse/1672 ---
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 @user-1037 
 
 speaking from the perspective of a witch, the land does not care what lines we
 draw in the sand. Lines are a human thing.
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--- #126 fediverse/5590 ---
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 vibe coding is just writing comments in increasing detail until the generated
 code matches what you need.
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--- #127 fediverse/4036 ---
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 everyone's paying attention to you Ritz, why are you self destructing?
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--- #128 fediverse/6304 ---
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 Take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance
 
 Hmmmmm.... I'm gonna stay inside unless I decide to go outside. How's that?
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--- #129 fediverse/6342 ---
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 revolution
 doesn't
 have
 to be
 about
 them
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--- #130 fediverse/2666 ---
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 @user-570 
 
 I escalate that way against fascism, nothing less.
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--- #131 fediverse/2786 ---
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 the best way, I find, to be deserving of trust is to do the best that you can,
 and be honest when you cannot do more.
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--- #132 fediverse/5104 ---
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 there's no such thing as a free lunch
 
 excuse me sir but have you heard of economies of scale
 
 what if lunch were free
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--- #133 fediverse/1712 ---
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 @user-246 
 
 I think you're right, I tend to examine things at their most extreme as
 practice in identifying my own weaknesses. ^_^
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--- #134 fediverse/5063 ---
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 it should be free to get a hotel room
 
 all industries should have a littleleague, or else it'll be impossible to
 learn.
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--- #135 fediverse_boost/4747 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  i love capitalism bc everywhere is understaffed and none of my friends can find jobs  
  
                                                            
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--- #136 bluesky#19 ---
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 what if we treated landlordism the way we treat tipping
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--- #137 fediverse/3348 ---
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 @user-1074 
 
 economics only makes sense if economics are driven by rules. So, centrally
 planned economies make sense to study. "market economies" are about as
 scientific as predicting which memes will blow up on twitter or whatever.
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 Like, UBI that encourages education mixed with wage equality laws.
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--- #141 fediverse_boost/6095 ---
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--- #142 fediverse/829 ---
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 you're ridiculous, you know that? so selfish. so obscene.
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 if people want to be loved for more than their money, they should reject the
 lie that capitalism told them. they deserve their wealth because they are
 willing to serve. that willingness, whether through moral corruption or simply
 industrious drive, that willingness is rewarded, and when the system they
 serve is unkind... what does that tell you about their heart? that they'd
 sacrifice what is good and true for the material? materials are not bad.
 material is all we got, in a physical sense. but capitalism and it's servants
 are cruel and unwilling to concede to the idea that their games of unmatched
 exploitation are depriving the world bit-by-bit of life, liberty, and the
 pursuit of happiness.
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--- #144 fediverse/1986 ---
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 when cornered, is it your instinct to escape? or to take one of them down with
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 I respected nature, and I 
 
 ohhhhh I get it
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 Consumption is contribution to a capitalist system. Normalize taking whatever
 you are given and living as humbly as you can. Only when everyone does that
 may capitalism die. Talk to them, learn from their stories. Teach them your
 ways but don't force anything upon them. Any ounce of regret is defined as a
 mind not aligned to the angle of perception that designs the line that the
 collective mind co-re-assigns.
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 brick + cop car is how they getcha.
 
 useful violence happens out of sight.
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 maybe some whiteboards and notebooks as well...
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--- #149 fediverse/870 ---
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 @user-95 
 
 that makes sense to me!
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--- #150 fediverse/6398 ---
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 I wish we started new, big companies, without them having to start small and
 grow.
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 EDIT: the unspoken assumption is that power means exertion of energy, meaning
 something that costs money. Capitalism is not vegan because it's defined by
 labor and acts.
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 "why bother disadvantaged and vulnerable people when you could just grow your
 own?"
 
 - motivations of a capitalist-in-regard
 
 empowerment requires strength. do you force people to unbecome the victim? how
 are your traps mentally prepared?
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--- #153 fediverse_boost/95 ---
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--- #154 fediverse/2046 ---
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 liberals are capitalists.
 
 the compromise should be between socialists, and liberals. not capitalists and
 conservatives.
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 the means of production include AI
 
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 "what if we invested in cities instead of companies"
 
 ah yes, anarcho-fuedalism
 
 "what if we elevated people we respect"
 
 ah yes, anarcho-monarchism
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--- #157 fediverse/4291 ---
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 complex systems can be simple if you think about what they need, and what they
 do.
 
 it's not perfect, but you're always free to zoom in if needed.
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--- #158 fediverse/887 ---
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 somehow, it is simultaneously Thursday everywhere at once.
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 sometimes it's important to be innovative, and sometimes it's important to put
 your head down and work. Which is why we're always kept busy on things that
 benefit them, not us.
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 War doesn't care if you use guns or swords or words or waves. War is conflict,
 conflict is motion, and you are in the eye of the storm.
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 economies of scale come to mind
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 It's always better to take a knife to a fist fight than a gun to a riot night.
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 AI is worth less if it can't learn what a human can with the same amount of
 facts as a human.
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 if you have a job, your life is dictated by your corporation just as much as
 it is by your government.
 
 And yet corporate leaders are not elected, but rather selected. And that is
 unfair for all the reasons that primogeniture was. It is unjust for all the
 same reasons that monarchy was. It is a tool of oppression, just like
 autocracy is.
 
 The world will never be free until we can be as we choose to be. Our society
 is simply too enmeshed with capitalism to destroy it, but we could, with the
 minimal required effort, dismantle the corruption and authoritarian control
 that is wielded against us as we weld our own chains day after day.
 
 We can replace them. We can vote for them. We can select leaders who know more
 than us and are better suited for the role than those who seek only to
 maximize profit over all else.
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--- #165 fediverse/1746 ---
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 politics is easy, just show the opposite of what your constituents want to
 watch and put it next to your enemy's team-name.
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--- #166 messages/1229 ---
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 What if we just banished people who broke the rules? Then nobody would rarely
 get hurt. [do they take care of them elsewhere?]
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 @user-189 yah chillies are good as long as we can put shallots in it too!
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--- #168 fediverse/4061 ---
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 the biggest problem with capitalism is that you aren't allowed to invest in
 things that aren't designed to make money.
 
 The best part of capitalism is that they'll never figure out how to charge you
 for friendship or love.
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 I'm better at waterfall than agile, why is agile the only option T.T
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 omg what if the government shut down again wouldn't that be a surprise and an
 indicator to the complete inescapable incongruities between our two societies
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 that which you resist is what you'll find, but contextual resistance is better
 than going in blind.
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 did you know that almost everyone could technically become competitive with
 olympians? it's just a matter of single-minded focus and determination over
 lifetimes of time. they are the most admirable because of that, and we cherish
 their presence in our life-world-line.
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--- #173 fediverse/2620 ---
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 I am not asleep. But you cannot expect a strategist to act based on
 information she doesn't have.
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--- #174 messages/186 ---
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 It's obfuscated, such that you cannot know the totality of their purpose for
 you (via your data)
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--- #175 messages/967 ---
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 oppositional coding is getting jobs at their corporations and implementing
 bugs and vulnerabilities
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--- #176 messages/1160 ---
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 Give your money to purple and orange and green, not yellow and white.
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 Suburbs are how they keep the land from blowing away when their unsustainable
 agriculture processes stripped all the soil from the land and there's no
 profitable reason to keep it in place. So they build houses and outsource the
 land management to people who are forced by HOAs to have lawns.
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--- #178 fediverse/5195 ---
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 whenever you test one extreme, you must also test it's opposite, just for the
 extra information.
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--- #179 messages/81 ---
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 If humans don't have intrinsic worth, then neither do animals. Yet we humans
 respect animals to the best of our abilities.
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 neat
the website Ephemeren has 100,008 followers as of 5 days ago. There are 0 people who follow the website on Neocities, it's all external traffic.
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 I suck at everything I do T.T
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 capital C communism is easy. Just pay everyone the same amount, and they can
 swim in the market economy waters as easily as any capitalistic fish, and
 suddenly their incentives are aligned - when one of us selfishly improves our
 lives, we improve the collective as well. When one selflessly improves the
 collective, all of our personal lives are improved. Then, optimize for radical
 abundance, the ability to have whatever you want as soon as ideal, and
 suddenly everything starts working out. P.S. the route to abundance is through
 recycling perfectly. Design your goods to be functional in that way, and you
 have infinite resources that can be used for infinitely many things (until
 they literally wear away to dust)
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--- #183 fediverse/6125 ---
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 @user-1871 
 
 conquer your foes and they will never again harm you.
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 but we, being united in our shared common societal solidarity, as in the
 shared struggles and hopes that we have, perceive each and every things that
 passes through us. Our thoughts. These, we
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 ah, but my dear... your "wisdom" has side effects.
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 @user-326 
 
 almost as if the nature of power is misaligned to the most efficient and most
 desirable outcome of humanity (utopia) (EDIT: utopia of endless forms most
 beautiful)
 
 what would a more aligned framework look like? Perhaps we should spend some
 time thinking about such a design?
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 @user-646 
 
 oh, I see. guess I had the same problem hehe - let's see:
 
 basically I'm saying that the incentives for manufacturers are unaligned to
 the desires of the consumers (or rather, the best interests of the consumers)
 - reduced consumption of plastic == less plastic waste poisoning our
 environement, which is what you mentioned in the original post.
 
 then I said "well we still need to make SOME of the cheap plastic, the kinda
 that isn't recyclable, the kind that is technically cheaper because economics
 of demand" and then I was thinking of ways around that particular problem.
 Then I got onto another thing about the economy, and the word count cut my
 words short because I started saying something I shouldn't.
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 filters, not censorship.
 
 fishing algorithms, not subscriptions.
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 @user-1402 
 
 the truth is, they don't use it for revenue generation. It's not meant to turn
 a profit.
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 @user-1358 
 
 you don't go golfing to relax.
 
 well, maybe you do, but he doesn't.
 
 he goes golfing to talk about shady shit.
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--- #192 fediverse/4751 ---
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 apparently security through obscurity is out, and security through community
 is in, don't ask me how I know that teehee
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--- #193 fediverse/428 ---
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 no thing is ineffable.
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 "there's no such thing as a free lunch"
 
 okay but what if we economy-of-scale'd until it cost pennies
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 @user-192 
 
 saw this video a week or so ago, you might be interested
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 love nature no matter what
 love nurture if they earn it
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 paparazzi should work for their target.
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--- #198 messages/476 ---
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 Disasters and their consequences have been the circumstances for the entire
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 contrary to unpopular belief,
 
 it's good to be nice to people.
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 adding dashes to your text - like - this - is a punctuation choice, not
 formatting or grammar.
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