And from what I can tell, much of it comes down to all of these sites being VC funded back when loans were cheap, and those VCs wanting their money back now they're not. Suddenly Reddit has to actually make money with a product that's not really equipped to do so.
Yeah, it’s called Distraction Club, and as far as I’m aware it’s still a thing on the first Tuesday of the month at a pub in central London. The guys who run it are friends of mine, but I moved away from London a few years ago.
As good as wefwef/Voyager is (particularly in helping to transition from using Apollo to access Reddit), it kinda falls apart on a desktop browser because it's built around swipe gestures, and lives squarely in the middle of the screen. So Alexandrite for desktop, Voyager for mobile seems pretty sound.
To my dying day, I won’t understand why anyone (who doesn’t benefit from it) could think that privatised utilities are a good idea. The last forty years have seen a steady decline in, well, every aspect of formerly publicly owned industries in the UK, but stans for capital still wang on about how publicly owned utilities in the 70s were crap.
This is a very difficult thread for me, because you’ve immediately started it from what feels like an insincere position of insisting on the polite debate of a system that has actively harmed innumerable people. And continues to do so.
While I don’t deny that polite debate is preferable to flame wars and anger, you’ve come in here to try and debate a subject that raises passions.
And the reason I say this from the outset is because of comments like this;
Environmental devastation is an externality because the rules haven't been defined properly-- if the rules of capital ownership around environmental concerns were clarified (through some system of carbon emission limitations and carbon credits), then I'm sure capitalism could optimize for a good environmental outcome. A bad thing, to be sure, but not the fault of capitalism.
The ‘rules’ in this case have been defined. Most countries have rules in place to govern the environmental impact of industry. But companies led by capitalists ignore those rules as far as they can, which is how we are where we are.
Here in the UK, we have record breaking amounts of sewage and pollution in our rivers, because our water companies are run by capitalists to turn a profit. The fines from the government are ultimately paid by those of us who pay our water bills. The people in charge continue to pay themselves and their shareholders well.
And this is where capitalism fails miserably, in my opinion. As noted in another comment in here: capitalism is built for profits, not for human comfort. Businesses who pollute know full well that they should reduce their emissions, clean up their waste, and be better global citizens, but left unchecked, they won’t. You admit yourself in that quoted comment, that capitalism needs a set of rules around carbon credits and such to address the problem. They know there’s a problem, but are waiting for governments to force them to clean up their act.
That doesn’t make me feel that capitalism is the kind, loving economic system we all need. Quite the opposite.
I'm a mod on mendeddrum.org, for all the Pratchett aficionados out there. It's pretty chill, our admin doesn't tolerate any kind of dick behaviour, and it's nice.
As I type this, there's one scuttling about in his cage next to me. It pains me that he's alone, but his brothers have all passed away now, and we aren't planning on getting any more once Wilbur's shuffled along. He's getting old now, so it wouldn't be fair to rehome him. So he's a grumpy old bachelor boy who still loves his Cheerios and stealing my toast in the morning.
I have a Mac mini at work because I don't need versatility there. I sit at my desk, I do work.
At home though, I'm all about laptops. Currently on my 4th MacBook since 2007. I can use it on my lap, like I currently am, or I can hook it up to a monitor to do the same stuff, but big. Either way, it's the same OS (pretty much) so I get the same stuff done on both.
I walk the streets holding up memes from last week on TikTok, asking people to like them. I mutter vaguely racist epithets too, and all the pink coloured men with Union Jack tattoos all agree with me.
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