creamynebula

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by creamynebula 2mo ago
If you have to search several times you see more ads. (I know you probably have adblocker tho)
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by creamynebula 2mo ago
Capitalism replaced businesses that had a social value, in that they helped to form communities, foster dialogue, and promote concrete experiences that you had with your body, mediated by your senses and your will, for usage of tools that o
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by creamynebula 5mo ago
More like a consequence of capitalism, as big tech companies used their massive capital to instrumentalize and develop knowledge to keep mostly everyone dependent and addicted to their systems. Due to the way capitalism work, when a push ba
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by creamynebula 3y ago
They did it all over Latin America and Africa during the entire cold war as well. And, I assume, they still back coups all around, if it is deemed that the dictatorship to be instated will better foster the interests of the government of th
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by creamynebula 3y ago
Rather than it being greediness by a class of individuals, in my view, it is that capitalism rewards greediness, and sometimes it obligates you to be greedy when you are just an employee or selling a service. People are inserted in a system
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by creamynebula 3y ago
I rather think the naming is so that as little people as possible trust the site, so less people claim the money they are entitled to.
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by creamynebula 3y ago
"and this being russia...", is there a place where most people are not, for the most part, looking out for themselves? You seem to be implying that Russia is special in that regard.
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by creamynebula 4y ago
To correct your mistakes won't you read again, or be equivalently aware, of what you previously wrote?
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by creamynebula 4y ago
The clever aliens always make the evidence they leave ambiguous enough, and then they enjoy themselves reading the threads.
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by creamynebula 4y ago
Thank you! I got interested in using scuttlebutt, I would like to get involved in a social network not used by many; was sad to see that it isn't maintained anymore, so probably not safe.
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by creamynebula 4y ago
If not wanting to harm others, AND wanting to help others were core beliefs held by everyone, I think quite soon we would have nothing to worry about.
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by creamynebula 4y ago
The fact that they willingly took those jobs does not mean they are being treated fairly, it means they had no better option and need to survive.
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by creamynebula 4y ago
Education is one of the most important things for human and economic development, yet teachers are severely underpaid. Quality and availability of education would improve dramatically if salaries were higher.
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by creamynebula 4y ago
My search results were a lot better in 2006 when, I assume, they didn't have all these ML pipelines...
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by creamynebula 4y ago
I thought it was very weird how the parent comment just glossed over it all as if it wasn't an issue.
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by creamynebula 4y ago
You realised it just in time!
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by creamynebula 5y ago
Or perhaps poverty and inequality are to blame? If people had a place in society and could afford basic things, why would they steal?
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by creamynebula 5y ago
I don't know what needs to start happening for society to reach a consensus that we need to address the problems of poverty and inequaliy in income and access to good education
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by creamynebula 5y ago
We have quite a few varieties regularly available in every corner store here in Brazil, they all taste quite good if you wait for them to ripe
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by creamynebula 5y ago
There is the belief in karma and reincarnation that addresses this.
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by creamynebula 5y ago
Maybe scamming weighs a lot on your spine?
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by creamynebula 5y ago
Pirating music remains lively on the private tracker scene
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by creamynebula 5y ago
The most powerful magic number.
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by creamynebula 5y ago
Or we could mandate everyone to not consume meat, dairy and eggs...
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by creamynebula 5y ago
Probably fediverse, but I have never used any of the sites myself.
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by creamynebula 5y ago
Or try having a proper diet for your species! The only salt primates are consuming in nature are the minute amounts inside things like tomato and cucumber.
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by creamynebula 5y ago
I would put gain-of-function research on the umbrella of animal experimenting.
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by creamynebula 5y ago
Specially given that after a year and a half we still don't seem to ponder that livestock, hunting, deforestation, and all sorts of animal experimenting mean another deadly disease could slip up anytime as it just did.
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by creamynebula 5y ago
Pretty much all cars here run on gasoline.
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by creamynebula 5y ago
To be thinking about such things makes me smile remember how much as a child I wanted to be a spy or a police investigator!

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