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PeriodicallyPedantic

@ PeriodicallyPedantic @lemmy.ca

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  • Do you have strong opinions about universal basic income?

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  • I think that's ok

    I also think that it'll probably be a lower amount of moochers than you expect; they'll want to work, but it'll be doing things that our current society doesn't recognize as work, or work of value.It'll be things like philosophy, art, poetry, tinkering, etc, which actually make life better for people but are difficult to turn into a profitable business.

  • My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2025

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  • I'm gonna pick up a few of these I think.

    That NoteDicovery looks pretty slick. Its exactly what I was looking for a few months ago, and I'd absolutely pick it up if I didn't just fall in love with the silverbullet's ability to execute code embedded directly in the markdown; a feature that I expect to use almost never, but atotally smitten with.

    As a side note, all these email archiving projects almost do something I want, maybe folks here can help me:I've heard that self-hosting email is not worth the pain, but I also don't want to leave my email history in the hands of these megacorps I don't trust. These archive projects solve that problem, but they're not email clients. I don't want to archive and delete an email just to find out actually I need to reply to it like a month later.What do you recommend for this usecase?

  • The Trifecta

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    • Ain't nothing but a mistake
    • ain't nothing but a heartache
    • I never wanna hear you [say]

    Which intersection gets which of those?

  • It was completely lost on me, at first.

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  • He lost some teeth

  • Seems legit

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  • Pants were invented by Johannes Pant, when he put on his underwear and determined to answer the question "under where?"

  • I assume it's corn

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  • What kind of life is this?

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  • You're not wrong.

    I would also add to that list "things I didn't know I wanted", but that is hard to objectively differentiate from manipulation.

  • What kind of life is this?

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  • If the ads actually targeted me with things I'd actually like, instead of trying to manipulate me, I'd probably care less. But they don't, because shareholders want larger margins.

  • What kind of life is this?

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  • You'd rather be using arch 😜

  • Always wear protection, folks

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  • Here, this will help stop seeing loss

  • Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video]

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  • You're can't have one without the other.

    The Chicago school promoted unfettered access to power for companies, they're complicit in the companies using that power to influence the government to do unhealthy things like defang antitrust regulation.

    To use your stupid analogy; if you take your car to the mechanic, and the mechanic tells you that your car doesn't use oil, then it is the mechanic's fault when your car breaks down.Here the mechanic is the Chicago school, you are the govt, and the car is the market.

  • Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video]

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  • "that's not real capitalism" seems to be the new "that's not real communism".

    Capitalism gave unscrupulous people the power to do bad things. It is ignorant to try to absolve capitalism of this.Capitalism is a tool to concentrate wealth and power, it is absolutely shocked Pikachu when those people use that wealth and power to influence the government to do bad things.

    You're claiming both that the government is the problem for not stopping people from doing bad things, and also you're saying that the Chicago school was right for pressuring the government to remove their ability to stop people from doing bad things.

  • why, GitHub

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  • Eclipse che was, afaict, the first to really make major progress in this space.

    Vscode and codespaces basically stole the whole thing... But then they actually provided it in a way that was easy to use.

    So while I don't like the theft, I think that the result is great, and I don't like that OP lists it as something nobody wants.

  • Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video]

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  • Most cable companies have competition prohibited by law.

    And how do you think laws like these came into existence? Capitalists accumulated power and then used that power to influence the government to protect their business.

    You're so close but for some reason you refuse to accept that business can and does influence the government.

    But beyond that, the regulations we're talking about were anti-monoply regulations. Despite you saying that the Chicago school is anti-monoply, they pushed to defang regulations that combated monopolies. Your justification is that regulations create monopolies, but you provide no reasoning why defanging anti-monoply regulations would reduce monopolies.

  • Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video]

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  • That lack of intervention is what created the conditionsCapitalism naturally moves towards monopoly. Government regulation prevents monopolies. Capitalism accumulates power. Capitalists use that power to influence the government into letting them accumulate more power, until they have enough power to remove the regulations that prevent monopolies, then the capitalists form monopolies, then we get the very situation that we're describing.

  • Relevant username

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  • Ok, I think we're not really disagreeing, we're just fighting about language.

    Yes if you follow the directions and pay close attention then you won't end up with burnt popcorn.

    But a lot of the time the directions specifically say not to use the popcorn button, when you really should, so in that case following the directions will give you what you want but there is a much better way. When you said to actually follow the instructions, I thought you were more or less blanket agreeing with that part of the instructions too.

    So I think we were talking past eachother for a bit there.

  • Is this real life?

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  • Jokes on you, us pendants are actually immune to humour.

  • Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video]

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  • Sort of.

    I was trying to highlight the clear inevitable outcome, rather than highlight who to blame.

  • Relevant username

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  • Maybe I misunderstood.

    Whan you say "follow the instructions", which instructions are you saying to follow?Instructions on the internet, instructions on stovetop popcorn, or instructions on microwave popcorn?