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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • It’s usually in shares of their very highly valued company which they can’t give up because they wouldl give up control.

    To be that guy, they still can access the wealth provided by those shares without liquidating them. That’s exactly what they do too. They use shares as leverage to obtain loans, and then they spend the loan money. It’s called the “buy borrow die” strategy and they also use it to avoid taxes because loans aren’t considered income.


  • Just because people in power are getting worse, doesn’t mean we can’t strive to be better.

    Yep, let’s rake our forests and rinse our recycling to handle climate change!

    If your house burns to the ground, no worries, you can just collect floatsom from the beach and build a new one!

    Dude, some things cannot be solved via positive vibes and being a good neighbor, and if you want my honest opinion on it, I think pushing everyday people to be accountable for everything while the broligarchs are accountable for nothing is a big part of the problem.

    In other words, you should strive to be better than an apologist for the system.



  • For better or worse that’s how we get hivemind echo chambers and I’m not sure it’s even in human nature to seek anything else.

    There it is, in every shoddy analysis someone has to mix up the thing we have with “the only thing possible”.

    Echo chambers aren’t part of “human nature”, they’re designed into the algorithms by the broligarchs to rachet up engagement – giving them $$$ – while making it impossible to build consensus and community in a way that threatens them.

    Up until a couple of decades ago, there weren’t widespread echo chambers on the Internet. The first version of websites (even social ones) were simple chronological feeds. Nowadays, thanks to the assmasters in charge you don’t even know what you aren’t seeing online on most of these sites. Comments look completely different based upon even simple things like gender.









  • Why do i want a copy of something I am only going to watch once? And why should I keep a copy if I can just stream it again from the same or some different site for free in the future?

    1. you’re downloading a copy no matter which way you do it, you’re just tossing the copy as you download it with the streaming method

    2. aside from the wastefulness of downloading the exact same thing multiple times, the source might vanish leaving you with nowhere to stream it from again