sinistersnare

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by sinistersnare 3y ago
I always appreciate Armin's posts. I think the key point is that the FSL is necessary when profit is required. The GPL is a philosophy of social distribution more than a way to build a capitalist enterprise. Using GPL software ensures
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
Oh I definitely do not believe that, thanks for pointing that out. A positive peace definitely includes no missles flying, but it also includes justice.
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
MLK Jr. has a lot to say to disagree with you. https://letterfromjail.com/ > over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Neg
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
- Everyday Utopia by Kristen Ghodsee - The Persuaders by Anand Giridharadas - No Bosses by Michael Albert Everyday Utopia was certainly a beautiful read, it is ultimately a book about hope and how we should be experimenting more in our worl
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
I had a couple strategies 1) Do not give too much wealth to PCs. Keeping the heroes poor is a kind of dramatic tension that not many campaigns explore! 2) Give them ways to spend their money! If the PCs need to go to an island, make the wat
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
I'm using reparations as a general term of making people whole. The landlords, whether or not they did anything morally wrong, have taken what they should not have (collusion). Therefore, reparations are called for. This is the argumen
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
My argument is that if harm can be proved, those harmed must be made whole. I don't understand how that is frivolous. I am not the one saying that a collusion suit should move forward here.
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
Funny enough, Olufemi also writes a book on this!
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
Yes, if it causes harm to people. Being a landlord is a job (so I'm told), do some math, figure out how much is fair (cost:labor calculation) then ask on the open market if people want to pay that. The problem is that the underlying sy
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
Well if you believe that the problem is that there are not enough houses, these people did not collude, and nothing needs to change. That make sense.
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
To define exceedingly. Well I guess I just see this as a natural partner in the housing crisis. To combat things like this is to help solve the housing problem today. The prices are not going up like this because there are too many people,
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
Well the problem is that with these software systems, we have already answered your question. If we do not change something (after seeing this!) then we have allowed 'dumb' collusion. Where these landlords can profit exceedingly a
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
I am not saying the solution here is by giving people dollars. But creating a system where landlords (by disallowing this kind of price centralization) can't screw over their tenants. And saying that people who argue for reparations ar
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
Today, we punish people by taking away their money. Taking away someones money should not doom people to poverty over this kind of stuff! I am not saying kill all landlords here. I am saying that the landlords profited too much and it must
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
I agree that contemporary rhetoric on reparations is quite poor. But, scholars today agree that reparations are a way of understanding our government's position on change and not on giving money to people (Reconsidering Reparations by
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
I believe that the matter of their defense is irrelevant. The truth is that real people were harmed by this, and they deserve reparations today. As to who pays, it must be the landlords. This is the supposed 'risk' they take on by
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
I have been listening to Yanis a lot lately. His ideas are quite provocative. His economic ideas are quite refreshing, to hear an economist talking about what a post-subjective-money world may look like. Today, we have a new class of people
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
Yeah let's let the oligarchs have their money! They are best-case as bad as worst-case research funding! Therefore they should have all that power!
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
Let this be a reminder that our avenues for change in the world are artificially limited. Due to that, we must not wait for some allowed moment to ask for change, but demand it every day.
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
This article asks a good question. What is the point of capitalism? If these acquisitions exist simply to make the line go up, why? Bandcamp will NOT be better off under this new rule, we will all be worse off as listeners of music. Why all
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
> Towards sustainable systems The same words as 'Not sustainable systems'. This does nowhere near enough to create true sustainability. As long as we allow drivel corpo-blogspam like this, we will never be sustainable. You don&
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
Wow, powerful stutff. It really shows that capitalism commodotizes all. Even being spied on is given appropriate value. What an insane system we have.
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
I agree with you. The Democrats and Republicans in our government mostly agree on the topic we are discussing in this thread. There is no radical movement discussed within our government to actually solve these problems. No politician is ma
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
Your rights to swing your arms in the air freely end where my face begins.
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
No, we no longer have that right. We don't live under capitalism but 'necrocapitalism' that only gives rights to those in the in-group. We must fight for our rights now, they have been alienated from us.
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
I am using https://bookwyrm.social (my username is 'davis' on it) to be honest, I have not tried hard to use any of the social features. But hopefully soon I will try them and have more to say. But for now, all I need
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
I have been using Bookwyrm for my personal reading list. Would recommend! Easy to set up. I hear there are some issues with its licensing. They seem to use some sort of 'anti-capitalist' license which is non-OSI. But I think that
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
I'd rather students can feed themselves with dignity than subsidize the education industry.
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
What a negative take on a book about hope for the future. The book looks at the 1% of the people who live life away from our global system of capital worship. I have not read it yet, but listened to a long interview of Ghodsee about it and
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by sinistersnare 3y ago
I think that there needs to be a level of accountability here for the programmers who did this. Tech workers need to stand up against this kind of anti-user hostility. Firefox is an openly-developed project, who wrote the code to allow this

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