BlameTheAntifa @ BlameTheAntifa @lemmy.world

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You appear to be conflating Capitalism with the concept of free markets. They are wholly different and distinct concepts, regardless of what Capitalism’s propagandists would like everyone to believe.

Capitalism, being an economic dogma that worships private ownership and relentless pursuit and hoarding of wealth, actively incentivizes behavior that destroys free markets: trusts, monopolies, oligopolies, regulatory capture, sabotage, patents, union busting, mergers and acquisitions, financialization, and more, gradually eroding any free market until it no longer meaningfully exists.

I am white and I support this message.

This is just my opinion, but if a game doesn’t work on Linux/SteamOS then it was never worth playing to begin with.

They know exactly what their limits are supposed to be and they do care. They care about dismantling those limits and seizing permanent, unbridled power.

Back spasms and kidney stones.

The problem is that ignorance is a decision more often than not. If someone is already at an inflection point and open to making changes - and to your input specifically - then it’s best to try to help them expand their experience. Information alone often isn’t enough, they need lived experience. If you are in such a position with your family member, you are in a better position than most. But if they are already compartmentalizing then you may have to accept that you have very little sway. A person always makes up their own mind, one way or another.

You can’t. A person must choose to value objective truth. Likewise, they must choose to change their minds.

The book The Authoritarians by Dr. Bob Altemeyer covers this topic well. Some people compartmentalize to support their preferred foregone conclusions, and will dismiss absolutely anything that conflicts with their desired conclusions. They cannot and will not compare the things they have compartmentalized if it threatens their outlook.

Dr. Altemeyer points out that you cannot get through to people like that, no matter what. The only way to reduce their compartmentalized and authoritarian tendencies is through direct and prolonged exposure to diversity. This does not change the compartmentalization or predisposition to force their will on others, violently if necessary, it simply curbs them slightly. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink, as they say.

One of the tenants of capitalism is that you, the consumer, should demand more-for-less

Oh dear, that was never a tenet of capitalism. Capitalism has only one tenet: amass as much capital as possible at all costs. Literally anything goes, including and especially capturing and controlling markets by stifling competition.

Self-hosting a search engine is unfortunately not feasible given the amount of data and power required for it. Not to mention access to the data (crawling yourself or using another index).

For privacy and customization there is Kagi, which is amazing and very customizable, but requires a paid subscription. You are a customer rather than the product, though.

Literally anything is sustainable by this argument

I think that is precisely the point they were making.

Unless you live near a major city. Then you double the price of housing.

The thing he openly campaigned on and that they knowingly voted for is a “red flag” for them, now?

Because we tolerate the existence of billionaires.

Not error. Terror. They missed the T.

If they had cut about 45 minutes of useless chase scenes, it would have been great. There was just so much untrimmed fat on that film.

My wife tells me I have “David Lynch taste in music,” and while that sounds like a compliment to me, she does not mean it to be one.

Tiga’s Bugatti

Mother Mother’s Hayloft

Kate Bush’s Suspended in Gaffa

CocoRosie’s Lemonade

CocoRosie’s Werewolf

Dresden Dolls’ Coin-Operated Boy

Austra’s The Beat and the Pulse

Peaches’ Lovertits

Poppy’s Concrete

Aphex Twin’s Windowlicker

Burn the witch! openSUSE is the messiah.

This was my feed when I saw this post.

a gaming system for the kind of person who needs help if their TV is set to the wrong input.

Definitely Bazzite. It’s almost impossible to break, it’s effortless to roll back if something does theoretically go wrong, and KDE Plasma is like the most user friendly version of Windows you’ve never seen.