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by OO000oo 3y ago
I’ve noticed that answers have more filler and useless politeness now, but I probably don’t use it enough to notice more than that.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
A big part of why big American banks appear financially stable is the ruling class will bail them out with taxpayer money.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
Could someone elaborate? What are the new airline miles schemes?
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by OO000oo 3y ago
The only choices were Communism or the New Deal. Which are you endorsing? The second New Deal was a different story.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
What was different before Citizens United?
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by OO000oo 3y ago
Everybody knows socialism is impossible though. Can't work, not worth trying, don't even think about it.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
This is correct. The US has 2 capitalist parties and no left party to speak of.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
> The latter one got so complicated that I had to add an integration diagram using the draw.io app. Amazing that this is offered up as a selling point. If I didn't know I was reading a thread full of emacs users, I'd think th
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by OO000oo 3y ago
Incredibly ignorant comment. It won't happen because corporations won't let it. Adobe alone could make Linux Desktop happen tomorrow, but there's nothing in it for them. That's all there is to it.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
The US makes almost nothing on its own and I expect you know that, and the US population would be shrinking at a suicidal rate if not for mass human labor trafficking from the 3rd world.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
If the US still made things and still made children, it could do a lot better than it is.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
Karl Marx insisted people need to relate to the product of their labor.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
Sadly, that difficulty is practically the only difference in the distinction. Each share the same crippling shortcomings: those of capitalism itself.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
Are you suggesting the corporate interests want that? I think in fact the corporate interests already get 99% of everything they want and they simply don't care for a cohesive desktop OS.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
> I also suspect that these strong characters are why the movement hasn't been completedo taken over by corporate interests They already serve 99% of corporate interests. A "takeover" would sacrifice the veil of what the
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by OO000oo 3y ago
The same can be said for virtually any societal change. Want people to proactively fight climate change? It turns out guilting people doesn't work, but give them a dignified existence and they will immediately care about the world they
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by OO000oo 3y ago
What is a "pov. point of view."?
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by OO000oo 3y ago
These solutions don't block video ads and they require crippling your speed with a VPN.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
Yeah everyone can just be a business owner. That'll work out just great.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
The 3 story "Privacy. That's iPhone." billboard down the street from me suggests otherwise.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
Then how would the phone company executives be able to afford the campaign donations?
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by OO000oo 3y ago
Yeah, I don't see how Apple can claim to prioritize privacy when they won't even allow real ad blocking.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
The parents have every reason for concern, not because there's something wrong with the principal but because there's something wrong with the society their children are entering. The parents realize that their children will be sc
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by OO000oo 3y ago
> Are you trying to push the window to make people feel like it is unacceptable to be critical of a company's actions? I'm trying to encourage thinking a bit more about the circumstances at hand. Hot air criticism is useless
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by OO000oo 3y ago
Wrong. For one, solidarity strikes are extremely illegal in the US, which neuters the ability of working people to affect their own political circumstances. Also, the US congress is always prepared to wage violence to end a strike. However,
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by OO000oo 3y ago
> One of the only levers we have to fight back is to call out these abuses and loudly call attention to them. This is a ridiculous non-solution that has never really worked in practice. At best, it might revise the legal/PR strate
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by OO000oo 3y ago
It's new territory, and if it plays out in Netflix's disfavor, Netflix can still use AI to generate characters not based on existing actors' likenesses. Additionally, AI could always be more improved for the script-writing us
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by OO000oo 3y ago
I don't see what the problem is. This is perfectly legal. Private companies can do whatever they want with their own money.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
You left out Prime Shipping. There is nothing comparable to Prime Shipping.
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by OO000oo 3y ago
Additionally, mathematics and scientific evidence are no match for the influence of power. The tendency of capital accumulation under capitalism is exceedingly straightforward, but the life of one trying to find peace with that reality is t

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