Yes to this when juxtaposed against consumerism.

Also don’t feel bad that you need more than sun and air to fulfill your basic needs. It’s not a sin to enjoy a falafel.

Well I’ve heard all I need to. I knew Chomsky was kind of a prodigious jerk. He’s put out some good material in his time, but it sure doesn’t seem like he’s personally on the right side of of the child abuse “side” of the debate.

more questions

Though she might try to couple with your head–fruitlessly, of course.

Ahh but you see they also revile fat people.

That would be tragic, but indications point to him being actually ideological

Sometimes women, you can connect with them better on an emotional level as opposed to men.

Not just women ofc, but generally people who have been socialized to be more empathetic.

I feel like a part of the issue is the quality of the friends out there (including pov). Sure if you get “adopted” by a cool friend or group it’s easy to follow their lead, but so many of us don’t actually know how to be good friends.

We don’t let individuals own nuclear weapons. We shouldn’t allow individuals to wield financial weapons.

See I say I’m a Virgo as an excuse for my behaviour, but maybe it’s just that I grew up with 5.

When capital which values profit over all realizes it can make more money by being evil: 🫡

For once I would like to see the powerful people feel devastated

What part of this is hot

Eh if the behaviour is changing then I think it’s normal and good that the associated unit tests should also change.

Obviously you can get annoying with unit tests, but if they’re tiny and fast, and trivial to update then I like them as a truth check that the behaviour is changing as I expect.

Should the second be punished in some way because of that?

It’s not a punishment. It’s a correction, required to maintain a healthy market.

Your lemonade stand would be more like if there was a stand on every block: By virtue of the scale of their business they could afford to undercut any competition that tried to start up. If they did that they could be slapped on the wrist for being anti-competitive.

Is Valve/Steam anti-competitive? IDK. It’s a monopoly, though, so you have to watch it extra carefully to ensure it doesn’t abuse its position as a market leader.

lol I’m imagining a line item on all transactions like

    Subtotal 13.21
        Taxe 6.02
Platform fee 6.33
   Yacht fee 10.00
---
Total      $35.56 CAD 

You’re right that going public would virtually guarantee they enshittify, but staying private does not guarantee they remain customer focused. It’s still a business, and right now the only thing making it so good for customers, IMHO, is an ideological vision that favours long term stability, and steady profits. That is not the norm in the business world (of tech platforms).

Yeah they were ahead of Steam there for a while.

Ugh yes, I don’t even know how I got this spoon. It’s wide and flat, and has these sheer edges like it was just stamped from a sheet of metal and then fucked into a vaguely spoon adjacent shape by aliens who had heard of the concept of spoon and hated people. Somehow the metal is always kind of grimy looking, even when freshly cleaned.

This spoon will outlive me. It will outlive all of us.

I’ve been taking mine on runs and long walks, trying to wear them out. 🧦 🔫 It’s the only way

What do you mean by jail? Are you imagining like some voluntary jail where you check in and out as you please?

Sorry, I’m not trying to be glib, but maybe we just have different understandings on the word “force”. You can’t send someone to jail without force.