NostraDavid

I would argue that you’d need Publically Traded Companies, and thus Stocks, and thus a Stock Market, and also Stock Exchanges to be able to form a Capitalism.

Of course, “private ownership of the means of production” is an important aspect as well.

Downvoted for being unnecessarily antagonistic.

That attitude existed before Tate came onto the scene. Try again.

Remember when the $2.50 Oblivion horse armor DLC was considered to be ridiculous?

Blizzard now sells mounts at the price of 90 EUR, ~1.5x the base price of the game itself…

TBF, it’s a useful mount, but 90 fucking Euros…

Dialectical Materialism

How about “a tug-of-war between owners and workers for jobs, resources, and technology”

Three examples:

Factory Work and Labour Unions

Early 20th-century factory jobs involved long hours, low pay, and unsafe working conditions. When workers tried to unionize, factory owners often resisted, viewing unionized labour as a threat to profits. This created a direct conflict: owners wanting to keep costs low vs. workers demanding better wages and safer workplaces.

Automation in Warehouses

Warehouses (e.g., Amazon fulfilment centres) are increasingly adopting robotic systems to speed up sorting and packing. Employees might feel pressure to meet higher performance metrics set by a partly automated workflow, while also fearing that further automation will reduce human jobs. Here, the “tug-of-war” is between technological efficiency (and profit) vs. workers’ job security and well-being.

Tech Industry Outsourcing

Companies sometimes outsource tech-related jobs to countries with cheaper labour costs. This lowers expenses for the company but can lead to local layoffs and economic hardship for employees in higher-wage regions. The conflict revolves around the benefit of increased profit margins for the company vs. the material needs of domestic workers who lose their livelihoods.

The USA actually spends several billions, if not trillions on Medicare (meant for the old) and Medicaid (meant for the poor, and single mothers, and young children) combined.

In 2023, the federal government spent about $848.2 billion on Medicare, accounting for 14% of total federal spending.

source - and that’s just Medicare.

I agree with you that it’s weird that corporations get a bailout, instead of selling the company to competitors, but no need to act like the USA doesn’t spend a TON of money on its citizens, keeping their head above water :)

Reason is always “unmoderated” despite some of the banned subreddits being fully moderated.

Well, that’s a lie, because /r/programming still has mods. Pretty sure they did nothing in the last 10 years. I guess it’s because the sub wasn’t NSFW, I guess.

I’m late to the party, but I’ve categorized them by year. If I feel nostalgic, I just browse the top of the list.

BlueSky actually is federated, AFAIK: https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/federation-architecture

It does use its own protocol (AT instead of ActivityPub)

I currently have it sorted by year (I used some year date from Steam, but that isn’t super accurate as I think it’s the date it was added to Steam). I think I used Depressurizer?

I used to have it sorted by the Steam score, IIRC.

Bitwarden has an export functionality. Export to JSON, import in Keepass, done.

There’s KeePassXC if you want Linux support (keepass2 file is compat with XC variant).

Oh man, I remember this from years ago when the only 1-up on Minecraft it had, was that I could run it at 60 FPS, infinite chunks in all directions, no extreme lag spikes while generating the map, and further view distance.

Zero mods back then, so I’m happy to see the mod support!

The amount of boomer bait on Facebook is staggering. The amount of Boomers falling for obviously AI-generated shite even moreso.

DROL: Dicht Rechts, Open Links.

I think I just prefer Links Los, which implies that the other way tightens.

Dutch, BTW.

Oh, I also really like Mammonism: “the greedy pursuit of riches”, from the Biblical “Mammon”.

I’ve got six of them:

• Tittynope: “A small amount left over; a modicum.”
• Cacography: “bad handwriting or spelling.”
• Epeolatry: “the worship of words.”
• Kakistocracy: “a state or society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens.”
• Oikophilia: “love of home”
• Tenebrous: “dark; shadowy or obscure”

I was more thinking of Melanie’s Milk of the Siren (Warning: depiction of rape, revenge, and gore, not necessarily in that order. I don’t normally give off warnings, but this video goes 0-100 REAL fucking fast).

screen is like tmux, right? So you can split your CLI, open a new window/tab to open more Bash/Vim instances?

currency = capitalism

u wot mate? If that was the case then we would always have had Capitalism, which we’ve obviously did not. You need a system that supports inserting capital into random companies to get to Capitalism, not (just) currency.

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