wildncrazyguy

Their implies ownership, or are you using it to be cheeky? It’s in your second comment too.

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

To name a few:

• moon landing
• banning CFCs
• German purity law

I agree with your sentiment that Israel has a right to defend itself. That said, I think the reason folks are saying you’re wrong is because Israel just bombed the hell out of Gaza, which killed fighters and civilians alike.

You don’t have to call it genocide, but killing indiscriminately is a pretty thin line.

But weirdly enough, the French transferred New Orleans ownership over to Spain so that it wasn’t lost as a spoil of war. The Spanish then governed it for 40 years before it was given back and then promptly sold to the US.

If Mussolini got the trains to run on time, why shouldn’t we?

From the top rope!

With paper manufactured from the tree!

I conjecture that the people who were in a position to know that Russia was a paper tiger were also the folks who benefited from Russia being the West’s bogeyman.

Notice how quickly the media has repositioned China as the foil. Now, I’m not saying it’s undue, but it seems we’ll always be at war with Eastasia.

WTH is going on at the Mexicali/Calexico border? And also middle of nowhere Nebraska!?

And what he’s saying is that you can do a lot of fuckery when you keep people misinformed.

Yeah great, but what about the snake?

Is this the real life?

So they’re raiding their welfare fund to sustain the war. Thing is, according to the newsletter, the fund will go from 6.8 to 2.5 trillion rubles in 1 year. And this is to be an eternal war? What do they do once everyone’s pensions are wiped out?

Corporations are great for one thing, and that’s becoming a funnel for money. They bring people people together to optimize for work on that goal. Innovation just happens to be a consequence of that constant pursuit. I think they do have a place in the societal fabric.

However, we need the other pillars of society to be strong as well in order to maintain balance and democracy - strong government, strong workers’ unions, cultural cohesion , advocacy for nature and resources.

You weaken those, you may get some tidy profits short term, but likely at the expense of our future.

Ugh, I came into this thread with the argument that we should be inclusive to other platforms, but you’re right and you’ve changed my view.

These companies do have a habit of open source capture and then killing them. I’m sure they would have made sending an email cost a stamp if they would have been mature enough at the time.

I don’t want capture to happen to this great little platform here, but I also don’t want the developers and admins to get jaded either. We’re going to need to find some way to incentivize the folks that are willing to sacrifice their time and resources to keep this going.

I was more of a lurker than a contributor on Reddit, but I’ll fight for the Fediverse because I believe in it and I don’t want to see it corrupted. I hope others like me will too.

Careful with that, my friend got a long distance bill from the caymans for calling back and arguing with them for over an hour.