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The fact we HAVE to buy into stuff where we can't buy 3rd party replacements should be illegal. It should fall under the category of right to repair. The purifi

The fact we HAVE to buy into stuff where we can't buy 3rd party replacements should be illegal. It should fall under the category of right to repair. The purifier can't function without a filter from the manufacturer.

kragen 3y ago
well, repeal the dmca
- 93po 3y ago
  repeal capitalism
  - kragen 3y ago
    we tried that it killed a quarter of a billion people do not recommend https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM
    - headhasthoughts 3y ago
      billionaires constantly complain about overpopulation and some complain about underpopulation either a bunch of people die or a bunch get poor and either way one half of these complaints goes away if even the winners of the game want it repealed why not it could be fun and it worked for the ussr, with only a loss of a few million lives and the gain of millions this is also true for china net gain for communist china in citizens also please start a site with an rss feed collecting kragen notes releases semantic kragen-web 2.0
      - kragen 3y ago
        causing new people to be born doesn't cancel out mass murder from a moral perspective or from the perspective of what kind of future the people now alive are likely to find fun you can git clone http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/pavnotes2.git http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/pavnotes2.git and run git pull every half hour if you want. a git pull when there are no updates involves two http transactions sending a total of 486 bytes, it's a lot more lightweight than an rss fetch
    - 93po 3y ago
      how many people die because of capitalism every year? fossil fuel emissions alone are around 9 million a year, much of which wouldn't exist if not for capitalist pressures also your claim and source are ridiculous. you can't blame something like a famine on a non-capitalist governance because famines can happen in capitalism just the same
      - kragen 3y ago
        sometimes it's hard to distinguish 'because of capitalism' from 'because of industrialization' and 'because of humans', but fossil-fuel-emissions deaths under communist regimes seem to have been higher than under capitalism (because of worse pollution controls, which was in turn because of less accountable governments), which strongly suggests that they're not due to capitalism but due to industrialization but we know that industrialization generally results in a dramatic increase in life expectancy at birth, not a decrease. not much of a comfort if you're dying of mesothelioma from the combination of smoking (also historically higher in the non-capitalist parts of the industrialized world) and working with asbestos in a factory, which is pretty directly caused by industrialization, but i think it's reasonable to weigh diffuse, probabilistic risks against each other. for example, dying of an infected wound that wasn't treated properly because of inadequate resources, versus dying of an asthma attack aggravated by industrial nitrogen oxide emissions with respect to famines, my claim and source are extremely thoroughly documented, and it is obviously correct to blame famines on non-democratic governance. there may have been historical famines that were not caused by government oppression, but simply due to population reaching the carrying capacity of the existing arable land with the available farming practices. but that hasn't happened since the advent of capitalism, because agricultural productivity has grown more rapidly than population consequently there has never been a famine in a country whose economy was organized along capitalist lines (from wikipedia: an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit, whose central characteristics include capital accumulation, competitive markets, price systems, private property, property rights recognition, voluntary exchange, and wage labor) democratic non-capitalism is certainly possible — i live in a non-capitalist democratic country that is struggling to return to capitalism, and we have never had a famine, though during the dictatorships we came close — but in practice nobody has ever succeeded in 'repealing' capitalism democratically, which is to say, eliminating it through government fiat. here our historical loss of capitalism was accompanied by a historical loss of democracy if we want to steelman the 'deaths from capitalism' claim, we could focus on access to healthcare, which is generally better under socialist governments than in capitalist systems (though the usa for some reason runs its healthcare under a weird socialism/capitalism hybrid that gives the worst of both worlds). historically, for example, communist cuba had better health than the much richer and more industrialized usa. but other countries with actually capitalist healthcare systems such as switzerland, germany, sweden, and japan always exceeded both, because they were richer than cuba (due to capitalism) and did healthcare worse than cuba but better than the usa (again, due to capitalism). and of course the non-communist alternatives to capitalism, such as corporatism and medieval-style guild production (sadly still dominant in many countries) fare even worse by these measures still, capitalism does produce obvious shortfalls in healthcare access, and hypothetical alternatives to capitalism that haven't been tried yet could certainly do much better

kragen 3y ago

well, repeal the dmca

93po 3y ago
repeal capitalism
- kragen 3y ago
  we tried that it killed a quarter of a billion people do not recommend https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM
  - headhasthoughts 3y ago
    billionaires constantly complain about overpopulation and some complain about underpopulation either a bunch of people die or a bunch get poor and either way one half of these complaints goes away if even the winners of the game want it repealed why not it could be fun and it worked for the ussr, with only a loss of a few million lives and the gain of millions this is also true for china net gain for communist china in citizens also please start a site with an rss feed collecting kragen notes releases semantic kragen-web 2.0
    - kragen 3y ago
      causing new people to be born doesn't cancel out mass murder from a moral perspective or from the perspective of what kind of future the people now alive are likely to find fun you can git clone http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/pavnotes2.git http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/pavnotes2.git and run git pull every half hour if you want. a git pull when there are no updates involves two http transactions sending a total of 486 bytes, it's a lot more lightweight than an rss fetch
  - 93po 3y ago
    how many people die because of capitalism every year? fossil fuel emissions alone are around 9 million a year, much of which wouldn't exist if not for capitalist pressures also your claim and source are ridiculous. you can't blame something like a famine on a non-capitalist governance because famines can happen in capitalism just the same
    - kragen 3y ago
      sometimes it's hard to distinguish 'because of capitalism' from 'because of industrialization' and 'because of humans', but fossil-fuel-emissions deaths under communist regimes seem to have been higher than under capitalism (because of worse pollution controls, which was in turn because of less accountable governments), which strongly suggests that they're not due to capitalism but due to industrialization but we know that industrialization generally results in a dramatic increase in life expectancy at birth, not a decrease. not much of a comfort if you're dying of mesothelioma from the combination of smoking (also historically higher in the non-capitalist parts of the industrialized world) and working with asbestos in a factory, which is pretty directly caused by industrialization, but i think it's reasonable to weigh diffuse, probabilistic risks against each other. for example, dying of an infected wound that wasn't treated properly because of inadequate resources, versus dying of an asthma attack aggravated by industrial nitrogen oxide emissions with respect to famines, my claim and source are extremely thoroughly documented, and it is obviously correct to blame famines on non-democratic governance. there may have been historical famines that were not caused by government oppression, but simply due to population reaching the carrying capacity of the existing arable land with the available farming practices. but that hasn't happened since the advent of capitalism, because agricultural productivity has grown more rapidly than population consequently there has never been a famine in a country whose economy was organized along capitalist lines (from wikipedia: an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit, whose central characteristics include capital accumulation, competitive markets, price systems, private property, property rights recognition, voluntary exchange, and wage labor) democratic non-capitalism is certainly possible — i live in a non-capitalist democratic country that is struggling to return to capitalism, and we have never had a famine, though during the dictatorships we came close — but in practice nobody has ever succeeded in 'repealing' capitalism democratically, which is to say, eliminating it through government fiat. here our historical loss of capitalism was accompanied by a historical loss of democracy if we want to steelman the 'deaths from capitalism' claim, we could focus on access to healthcare, which is generally better under socialist governments than in capitalist systems (though the usa for some reason runs its healthcare under a weird socialism/capitalism hybrid that gives the worst of both worlds). historically, for example, communist cuba had better health than the much richer and more industrialized usa. but other countries with actually capitalist healthcare systems such as switzerland, germany, sweden, and japan always exceeded both, because they were richer than cuba (due to capitalism) and did healthcare worse than cuba but better than the usa (again, due to capitalism). and of course the non-communist alternatives to capitalism, such as corporatism and medieval-style guild production (sadly still dominant in many countries) fare even worse by these measures still, capitalism does produce obvious shortfalls in healthcare access, and hypothetical alternatives to capitalism that haven't been tried yet could certainly do much better