I read a similar article a few weeks ago, and I think your concise summary is better than the article linked in this post.

I think Yanis goes a bit overboard with stating that capitalism kinda no longer exists, since it really is about a new group of rich people simply inserting their companies as evil middlemen who leach money off the whole system.

I’m not sure the solution has to be revolutionary or super complex. I’d think that large countries and groups of countries (e.g. USA, the EU) could implement their own mega marketplaces, leaching off much less money and avoiding the sort of corrupt BS that Amazon etc do to keep prices artificially high, and these governments could also stop allowing the mega platforms to do business in their region. Big countries want to facilitate an economy, and if private industry is proving to be too broken with their current approach, governments could step in to create more functional marketplaces that still work nicely in the internet age and don’t have horrible middlemen crap dragging everything down.

‘Make sure you wear the hard hats, boys. The shirts can go, though, and underwear…yeah, lets skip that as well. You should all be, uh, comfortable’

Great song. Powerful strategic use of dropping the f-bomb, and just an emotionally powerful song overall. It didn’t dramatically change the world, but it got plenty of airplay and it made it’s point.

Everquest II was released in 2004. It is pretty crazy that they are still releasing expansions for it. And it’s kinda crazy that I played it for at least a hundred hours earlier this year during a nostalgia binge.

Everquest was released in 1999

Yikes. Don’t fukin mess with Verna. Verna is not playing around.

Kbin and Lemmy etc should simply allow options for preferred languages, and people can select whatever they prefer. Giving them the option to not see posts or see translated posts should work out fine. I bet this problem get resolved eventually. In the meantime, I’m not too bothered by blocking magazines/communities that are non-english. No biggie.

It’s mostly a solo game. You explore, build bases, buy and upgrade ships and tools/weapons, and other assorted stuff. More than anything else, it’s a cool random planet generator, so you travel around checking out planets until eventually that gets boring, which might happen soon, of after a couple hundred hours.

And Apple customers were doing this a decade or more ago. They bought into an entire ecosystem, and became APPLE_PEOPLE, for better or worse. And the companies that sell stuff on e.g. itunes are the rent-paying serfs, paying Apple to be vassals and do business. The people with Apple products are maybe a bit more like farm animals…they just get fleeced over and over. They don’t have much input into anything, unless they make a serious break and quit using Apple stuff.

Shouldn’t I be out there hunting and killing right now?!

That bird is mine!

bird

Dinner or drinks first, or it’s likely to not work out. But I wouldn’t care about a TV tuner, so you can safely cut dinner (but leave in at least a drink or two…I mean come on)

neither. They probably just haven’t implemented default facial expressions yet (but probably have support for them).

Super mommy happy cat is doing hecka job

Move in w/family members, get on food stamps, run up credit card debt…a variety of ways, really. Usually several combined.

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Wow, really awesome work you and the admins have done.

Good for you!

I do the same, in my tiny little of area in the country side. I go for a walk in the mornings along the road, and pick up any trash I find. Most country roads around here are very trashed (Texas), but my little area is quite nice.

At least one of my neighbors litters like crazy as they drive, obviously just throwing out beer cans, food containers etc along the road, as often as they can. They are a broken human being, but I still keep things clean despite their behavior.

Would that make you consider me part of the problem?

Not at all. Your situation is completely different. I mostly think it’s problem when a mag duplicates the name of a popular subreddit, yet has no effort put into it, especially if the creator basically is not even a member of the Kbin community. Your mag ‘harmless pranks’ I think is more a case where it’s probably more suited to just being a single thread somewhere, rather than a whole magazine, given the small population of Kbin and the Fediverse overall. If I was you, I might consider deleting the mag at some point, if more people don’t post to it.

You were not trying to game the system or trying to leech off of something popular that existed earlier.

Your jewelry design magazine is what I would hope for and expect from people who create mags. You have a logo, and have personally seeded it with over half a dozen posts. It’s a bit niche, so I’m not surprised that you don’t have many subscribers yet, but you seem to have done your part to establish it. Thanks.

I subbed to your mag Urban Details. Seems right up my alley, and I notice that a couple of folks have also been posting there. That seems promising.

Well, I would be hesitant to post to a mag that had no effort put into it at all, but I wasn’t planning to post on the mag I came across this morning. To help out the Fediverse a bit, I’ve been commenting much more than usual since joining Kbin/the Fediverse, and recently I’ve been posting every couple of days to a community elsewhere (a smaller lemmy instance) to help it grow. I currently don’t have plans to set up or moderate any mags/communities. It seems like there are plenty in the Fediverse already, including tons where the person who set them up seeded them with a few posts to help get them started.