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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
Those are both American countries, but that isn't necessarily the point, which is a historical one. Tapping bits of seemingly infinite natural resources to expand land-owning constituencies has played an overwhelming role in the hist
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
I'll take that as "nothing." Marx's analysis on the accumulation of capital has nothing to do with Malthus. You haven't even answered my question. Why would I waste my time? That said, Marx was a 19th century econom
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
A housing situation like the modern US would have been ridiculous for any 19th century European to write about. Having most of a population living in homes occupied by their owners was unheard of and irrelevant at that time and/or plac
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
What? What does Malthus have to do with Marx? What are you smoking?
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
> And I've always wondered whether it isn't a bit of a scam, really. Karl Marx showed us exactly how the scam works over 150 years ago and his analysis on the accumulation of capital has never been disputed.
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
Well played! And, as someone who considers open source/free software movements politically infantile, kudos for advocating bans on restrictive code-signing practices. Profit is the problem, not the solution.
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
You weren't supposed to read the article; only the wacky headline. The article was obviously generated by AI.
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
"Ready to try Wireskip? Choose from any free or paid plan" Website has zero information about any of said plans or how to sign up for them or use them
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
In fact, left parties were savagely demolished by the CIA, under direction of American capitalists.
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
Then it's also possible to have those places exist before shutting down the pubs.
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
The NYC metro pass system has all of those exact same issues. I find it frankly absurd to be nitpicking such details in the face of such an accomplishment.
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
> New York should read and weep an understatement
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
Such ridiculous redefinitions of terms only happens in the US for propaganda purposes, and it works. Anywhere else, "unemployment rate" means what you'd think it means.
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
> without a dual income, a family can't survive. Many families in America can't survive even with a dual income.
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
> I would love to see more productive criticism, where people make suggestions on how they could do it better Not do it at all, because it's obviously bullshit. Even in the best of cases, it's a speculative con. The only purpo
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
My girlfriend's Apple TV setup makes me jealous every time I use it. I don't even like TV, but Apple TV has the best interface by far, and the touchpad on the remote is perfect for scrubbing through video.
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
Material security is the best predictor of environmentalist political priorities. Nothing else even comes close.
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
No carbon has been removed from anywhere. It's just made up. It's as simple as that.
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
It's obviously utter nonsense. No serious and/or somewhat intelligent person could interpret said figure to have any useful meaning or need this explained to them. It's just plain bullshit.
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
The 'carbon removed' figure is so extremely cringe
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
True. If you have no taste or clue how to dress yourself then any old clothes should do just fine.
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
It is a fact that the rules prioritize profit over being a decent human being. Why not change that?
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
Capitalism is the rules, not business ethics classes.
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
Capitalism is an economic system in which capital is accumulated and reinvested for profit, and that is exactly what I'm talking about. It's a perfectly good word.
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
Of course. Large companies already have business plans. They just need software to implement them, and GNU gives them exactly that for free! Who do you think uses that stuff? Your parents?
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
> Open source software certainly didn't cause the wealth inequality of our society And it certainly does nothing to change it either, but we all have to pretend otherwise because our jobs depend on us drinking the kool-aid.
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
The same goes for free software too. It may be "anti-capitalist" in sentiment, but it's just foolery as political practice. It's anarchist and cathartic at best. It is understandable that technologists could be inclined
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
In aggregate, open source software under capitalism will always be of and in service of capitalists. All exceptions are simply that; exceptions with no potential to be anything more without a new political economic system of relations.
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
>Graham did not respond to a request for comment.
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by xkekjrktllss 3y ago
> the more open, free LLM community open source software has always been ultimately of and in service of the capitalists

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