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metaStatic

@ metaStatic @kbin.earth

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“To look at people in capitalist society and conclude that human nature is egoism is like looking at people in a factory where pollution is destroying their lungs and saying that it is human nature to cough”

  • Syrian Kurds say Ocalan’s message 'has nothing to do with us'

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  • They are an explicitly anarchist movement, phrasing it as a command IS the message.

  • POV: You're a billionaire who just sealed the doors to your bunker complex

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  • MFW

  • Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects.

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  • Yet another instance of Trump being too small to understand soft power.

  • Trump cuts funding to FOSS projects.

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  • is that their taxpayer funded salary? because you can buy one much much cheaper.

  • What is it about humans when society rewards individuals with the power of millions they want to use it to fuck up society?

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  • I did relate it back to money so you're not wrong but I wasn't really talking about our current incentive structure.

    I believe we would reward these people with a cushion against risk no matter the underlying system because that's what we value.

  • What is it about humans when society rewards individuals with the power of millions they want to use it to fuck up society?

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  • that's not the sort of risk being mitigated by money.

    it's more that people in general are heavily loss averse so it's beneficial to incentive people willing to risk loss.

  • What is it about humans when society rewards individuals with the power of millions they want to use it to fuck up society?

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  • progress is inherently risky. we incentive risk taking behaviour because most people don't actually want to take risks but we do want progress,

    the side effect is that any personal pleasure these people get from taking risks is severely dulled by monetary success so they need to keep going bigger until they get so big they're risking the very foundations of their success.

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  • I strongly believe the means are the ends. if your only presence is on corporate fascist socials that says everything.

  • Brainwashing

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  • Chop Wood, Carry Water

  • Puzzled CEOs struggle to navigate Trump’s new world

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  • How could he do the thing he said he was gonna do? who could have possibly seen this coming?

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  • Early Access

  • rule

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  • lonely mess epidemic

    I'm stealing this so hard

  • Training AI Using ‘Pirated’ Content Can Be Fair Use, Law Professors Argue

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  • AI = Actual Intelligence

  • How do you explain the principal of "you cannot prove a negative" to someone that is very weak at abstractions like this?

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  • Stop talking shit about me.

    I'm not.

    Oh yeah? prove it.

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  • Looks like fluorescent but I'd put money on LED

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  • Something every gold bug knows "if you can't hold it you don't own it"

    I hope they had insurance.

  • Piracy in almost any tv web browser

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  • for now

  • The number of clamps required to glue up a simple box

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  • how many thousands of boxes to break even?

  • How to download youtube clip that got geoblocked or privated?

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