WealthVsSurvive

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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Loss aversion among the oligarch & owner classes will always result in fascism eventually, as enemies are created within or without to satisfy the will to power, which is itself the will to live: I am that I am. All of this has happened
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Look at what happened to the large majority of bank-owned homes from the previous crash (~17 million of them): they let them rot. Rather than affect the price of real estate, they let these homes rot, so the trade unions of finance and insu
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
The problem is not that the data is centralized; the problem is that centralization engenders a position of advantage, which incentivizes perversion. This is why the problem becomes political. The amount of privacy one should have is relati
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Well, of course. The line is the body. The human body is a line of ergodic behavior stemming back to the origin of not merely the species, but of life itself: a chemical that said "I am that I am" and became life by continuing for
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Software isn't going to fix the planet. That was all bullshit to make rich people feel better about taking most of the USD funny-money. Strong centralized planning in the form of a functioning government, structured around resilience,
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
No, the entire transaction relies on coercion and/or deceit. If companies aren't going to listen, maybe it's easier to just ban any sort of unnecessary tracking across the board in order to cut down on enforcement costs, so i
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
The issue here simply seems like enforcement needs to be formalized to be as cost-effective and simple as possible. It starts with fines, ramps up to full investigations if bad faith is shown. Turns out when you write laws they also need to
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
I think anything real Web 2.0 (I'm takin' it back, it's not their word anymore) would allow for both models. Whatever is next needs to be both simpler, more generically useful, and fill the requirements of this project as wel
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Oh, I meant 4 times that I've personally witnessed unpunished and unmotivated police brutality and violence against others, mostly people of color. If I were to include social media, the reports would be in the millions. You say you pr
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Okay, so there's no Web API or native abstraction for what? Immutability? There is, but it's somewhat semantically obtuse to express natively with Object freezing, not even to mention some other variably-efficient jiggery-pokery w
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Almost like the DOM Web API isn't useful for its intended purpose anymore and should be replaced or built upon to avoid all this abstraction churn. Why is simplicity the enemy of the Web APIs? Why is everything useful left to user-defi
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Your argument is the essence of "sea-lioning" itself. There is indisputably a tremendously large dataset of unassailable evidence (video, cross-referenced personal accounts, audio), things we consider meeting our "beyond a re
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
It's just called "spoliation of evidence." The evidence is contrary to police claims, so they are destroying it. It's fine. We the people have backups for them now. No hiding it now.
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
We can quote stats about police violence all day long, but in nearly every personal story, it usually ends with "and then the cops just did nothing and there wasn't a paper trail." I have 4 stories,4 witness accounts, and not
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
They are explicitly collecting both the metadata and the content of all communications they are able to. They have burned their own when someone raises a complaint about their methods or dares to introduce crypto that respects constitutiona
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Looks like they'll have to sell, if they want to keep the name.
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Both are good. But, even better is an enforced US GDPR.
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Meh, it was just some lawless mafia thug's car; I say we let it slide as she provided a net good to society.
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
You might want to cross-reference those deaths with the rate of wrongful arrest (don't have it in front of me, but high ~48% black), and a clearer picture will form: it is clear that black people are simply policed more and often for e
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Yes, under certain conditions, setting a police car on fire seems like an ethical action. Welcome to the US. If the police are unaccountable, they're thugs and not police. It's fine to burn the cars of thugs and those that prey up
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Then time will prove me wrong. I would greet it with pleasure.
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
The people that have some savings are currently treating this like a mini-vacation, and they are about to wake up to a cruel, cruel reality soon. Ironically, these are the same people that are criticizing the rioting of starving or fearful-
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
I'm starting to see local businesses in my major cities close shop permanently, and I am seeing even some large businesses host going-out-of-business sales. This is merely the pre-stage. Its about to get much, much worse. The corporate
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Finance, Insurance, Real-Estate: FIRE. It's called FIRE because if you let them freely trade in a market system, they will eventually end up with everyone beholden to them and the price of everything inaccessible save through them. Thi
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
A whole lot of wild claims in that first paragraph without so much as a mote to back it up; some of it boils down to "because we can't magic things, thus scarcity."
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
> ICE was created by people who were voted on by the populace. This is a highly debatable opinion. > A corporation refusing to work with a legal entity really shows just how much power corporations now have. Not really, everyone has a
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Counterargument: stopping lynchings. Perhaps the problem is bigger than "what the public thinks at a given time" and that public opinion can be correct or incorrect given external circumstances?
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Unfortunately, throw a fit is the tip of the iceberg. You see, instead of watching the news, I've been speaking with people, and not online. Some people are starving. Some people are afraid of starving shortly. Some people are being ev
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
I'm not entirely convinced that these highly-debatable "micro-aggression" corporate PR articles coming out are written in good faith. There is obvious, systemic aggression occurring. Articles like these seem to be planted to
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by WealthVsSurvive 6y ago
Does anyone else feel like maybe corporations should just do this if they want and not make a big corporate statement about it; I feel like it's detracting from the issues at hand, which are frankly much large than luke-warm conceits o

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