I realize this is maybe an excuse but it’s hard to be friends with my neighbors after learning that they wouldn’t wear a mask to save a life.

If you upskill just a little more to engineer, it’s less manual labor. Just don’t go too far into a niche or employment gets harder.

Sounds like you were! School is exactly when a person ought to learn this stuff.

Why, the topic of our intellectual superiority of course!

Why not both? Latveria awaits!

Why can’t we do that, anyways?

Found the conspiracy theorist

That’s a quality of the paper it’s printed on, regardless of denomination.

Did you not know?

That’s the goal of all censors - undisputed authority. You can’t argue with what you can’t see.

So it is worth something then.

Sorry if I implied the world in general has only gotten worse since then. I was referring to the money supply and its consequences.

Why do you say “most”?

The Nixon Shock was the end of the Bretton Woods system (kinda sorta a gold standard) and the beginning of unlimited inflation we see today. Everything absolutely went to shit after Nixon, especially inequality.

Did you want another corona? Because this is how we get more corona.

Since Nixon, yes.

Is PeerTube’s purpose to replace YouTube?

We can answer with certainty: no!

The ambition remains to be a free and decentralized alternative: the goal of an alternative is not to replace, but to propose something else, with different values, in parallel to what already exists.

They’re saying they’re not a replacement because it’s a decentralized alternative to something centralized. Not because it can’t serve the same needs for technical or economic reasons.

Which description? That Wikipedia article says “The aim is to provide an alternative to centralized platforms such as YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube

Well it’s dead to me, OK‽

It’s the Onion, a joke news site.

Did they just give an equal payout to each artist, or did they pay out proportional to existing revenue? That is to say, did Disney get more of this money than some novelist in a cabin?

Nothing good is going to happen until the working class is represented in government.

But the scope of this discussion is how OP should feel about IP, which assumes they have a say first.

Donations and crowdfunds are the most common suggestions.

Or to come at it from another angle - 38% of the USA’s GDP comes from IP, and its primary beneficiaries are wealthy. If we paid towards a UBI instead of copyright holders, then many people would just make these things for free, with total creative freedom. The messages in our art and direction of our technology would radically change.

I thought IP existed to encourage the creation of more inventions and books by reducing free riders (like us). Why does it prevent the deepest pockets from stealing the market for everything? What would that look like?

I thought you were speaking more generally.

But… probably. I did an initial Google search and that was a bad idea.

Or if the goverment stops intervening with unions.

There’s plenty of cryptocurrencies that either

• Are valued at much more than the labor they took to produce, or

• Took hundreds of hours of skilled programming and are now worth nothing.

6. When you die, you remain unconscious indefinitely. The outside universe remains paused as your protons decay. Unfathomable amounts of time pass only for your body. Eventually, a Boltzmann brain that matches you arises. Time unpauses and the energy this microcosm contained is released into your neighborhood.

If you think this is mentally crippling, you should have experienced the world before the internet! We would believe everything the mainstream news told us and had few realistic alternatives. It was hard to find out if the book you needed was in the library. All information was out of date. Your parents would tell you some misconception and you’d just go ahead thinking that for 20 years.

Being able to instantly find the answer to most questions is very useful.

Why?

A good community leaving a bad server can maybe work if the server doesn’t just turn that off.

A bad community that was hosted on a bad server can continue to be blocked on a server level.

A good server tolerating a somewhat bad community will let users continue to block communities.

Two good communities on one server might grow large and want to split servers.

Controversial opinion: spend all of your time on activism and none on unilateral sacrifices that won’t lead to systemic change. You’ve only got so much time, money, willpower, etc.

The “carbon footprint” paradigm is designed to exhaust or discredit those who actually care, so that their political impact will be reduced. The moment one suggests that we fix this global prisoner’s dilemma, they’re labeled a hypocrite by people who don’t understand economics.

Based on zero data and just my impression, it seems like only a minority of us were actually willing to leave over it. They might make more money money from addicts using the ad app or buying gold than they lose from reduced content creation.

It’s a reference to the recent OceanGate implosion.

Have you tried Jerboa? I’m using it right now and it’s excellent.

Of course you’re right. It’s best to continue being friendly until they’d literally die outside and wouldn’t need persuading.

“Further right than leftists” economics

In my area there are public cooling stations you can go to instead, but most people prefer the luxury and privacy of their car.

Ask them how they feel about climate change first!

They were already killing themselves by running at a loss. Now they’re enshittifying to try and make any profit.

But switching costs were lower than they had hoped, so there’s no profit to be made. Their business model was flawed.

The Boomers were right about (federated) email all along and now the rest of the internet is figuring it out.