SuperApples @ SuperApples @lemmy.world

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Digital nomad in Indonesia here. People are friendly, food is great, scenery is beautiful, and weather is cool but not cold this time of year. I wouldn't live here full time, but I wouldn't live anywhere full time (because I am a nomad!).

I don't agree with many of the laws here but that is true of pretty much everywhere.

I'm in Indonesia. When the rebrand announcement happened I checked x.com and it was indeed blocked. But twitter.com worked fine (I mean, worked just like you'd expect a garbage dump to).

I checked a couple days later and it was the same. Now both work correctly.

If twitter.com got blocked it must have been for a very short period and at a weird time. I can't imagine a redirect from a previously unrelated website triggering a block.

Well, x.com itself is already blocked in Indonesia, and probably in other countries, too ¯(シ)/¯

Way after my time.

Just Mr. Bean for us.

Yeahh, morning shake is the best.

Took me about a week to get used to this kind of breakfast, from then on it's been my preferred choice, on the rare occasion I actually eat breakfast these days (AKA when it's free).

Yep, you can get mod. Just press the shortcut keys alt+f4 and you will be given mod status.

Moss's alt has left the chat.

EA have their games on Steam and Origin and have for years, Blizzard could (and will) have their games on Steam and Battle.NET. I've seen nothing to suggested they were unable to put their games on Steam, but rather decided it wasn't in their interest, given Steam's TOS and/or what they could gain from having their own marketplace.

Steam is being sued by Wolfire for antitrust, but there is no outcome in this suit yet. Unless you're referring to a different suit I don't know about.

Even if Valve loses this lawsuit, it doesn't meant they have to allow any specific products from other companies on Steam. It just might mean a reduction in fees, or an inability to sign exclusivity deals (which are common across the industry, weather you like them or not, and I know I don't). The Wolfire antitrust lawsuit is because they sell other companies games on Steam, to the point that they dominate the marketplace, not because they were stopping other companies from selling games on Steam.

I know a lot of young people these days that have to live in crowded share houses because there's nothing else they can afford in the area where they work, and still 70%+ of their income goes towards rent and board.

Where I'm from, the cost of living has skyrocketed compared to when I was starting out, but the wages haven't changed. I've benefited greatly from that due to capital gains, but it makes it a lot harder for Gen Z to achieve the same thing, even if they do scrimp and save. I can understand people being demoralised and living for today instead, as it seems impossible to improve your position by much.

Some great answers here so I'll do something different and I'll give myself as a real-world example.

As a young adult, through a twist of luck, I found a cheap place to rent, so was able save a good amount of my income. I used that saving to get a loan, buy property, and used that property to get a loan and buy a property, and then do it once again. A short while later I now have no debt, can sit on my arse browsing lemmy in Bali (exploiting geo-arbitrage), and live off the market-rate rents my tenants pay back home.

If my tenants didn't have to pay market-rate rents, they too might be able save some cash and become capitalists themselves. I could lower the rent, but then I would have to get a job and actually earn my living again. People born into wealth can even skip that step of having to earn their initial capital.

But whats the point of owning income producing assets (like property, or business) if you're not improving your situation with it? The ONLY benefit of the capitalist system is that it allows the capitalist to reap the benefits of other's work, thus reducing the burden of the capitalist to work themself.

It's a ridiculous situation, I should not be able to live as I do, simply because I got a lucky break at the start of my working life, an opportunity that is given to the very few. The system should change.

This is my thinking, let me know if you see any issues with my interpretation:

First line of Wikipedia Left-wing politics: Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy as a whole.

First list of Wikiepdia Authoritarianism: Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in the rule of law, separation of powers, and democratic voting.

By these definitions, Left-wing politics should want to evenly distribute power democratically, whereas authoritarianism wants to centralise power in a single entity such as a the military or a dictator.

The perpetual dictatorship of the proletariat in Marxist-Leninism is functionally indifferent from the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. The authoritarian leadership just becomes the new bourgeoisie.

If left-wing authoritarianism isn't an oxymoron, then what the heck does left-wing mean?

I agree that authoritarianism does not equal fascism, but the only meaningful definition of left-right politics (in my opinion) is a measure of belief in and adherence to social hierarchies. And the USSR was definitely heavily into hierarchy.

Valve has like five games, and the hundreds of thousands of other games on Steam are from other companies, and they've had 3rd-party games since 2005.

Activision/Blizzard didn't put their games on Steam so they can push their own store, it was to not make payments to a third party, and have high visibility of their own products (e.g. advertise CoD to Diablo players and vice versa). Of course, they miss out on the visibility of being on the largest game marketplace.

Indeed! Monopolies are great. Why have five stores when you can have a one-stop-shop?

It is the capitalism that is wrong.

There ain't no party like a Liz Lemon party, 'cause a Liz Lemon party is mandatory.

You win!

Motoo Fujiwara, lead singer/composer of Bump of Chicken.

He was good friends with a friend of mine so we went out to dinner and hung out in his apartment. He'd just turned down the offer to write an opening song for One Piece, because he'd never heard of it, and was regretting it immensely (as a consolation they did the ending of the 2003 movie).

Working in games I've worked with more famous people, like Tim Curry and Billy West, but never met any of them. Still cool to see your name in the same credits roll :D.

Maybe if they go through with that change to kneecap extensions

They got rid of extensions on mobile years ago. From a features point of view that's enough for me to never use Chrome on mobile or desktop. Having Firefox sync between my three devices, and having adblock on mobile, is such a QOL improvement.

Otaru is a beautiful town! Passed through regularly this year on our way to/from Sapporo. Would love to an extended time there.

How can it be sarong when it feels saright?

Growing up in Fiji my school uniform was a formal sulu (Fijian sarong). Comfy and versatile. Even the police wear them on the job.