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- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 11 hours ago:
USAmericans have shown a complete inability to rise up against their government.
You realize, surely, that they chose the government.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 11 hours ago:
For you fucks to vote for the Democrat candidate.
- Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15 2 days ago:
Lemmy folks? Ok buddy.
- Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15 2 days ago:
I’m sure it’s possible, but it’s also a total dice throw with nobody responsible watching over the result. And the potential consequences of unsafety are pretty bad.
- Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15 3 days ago:
Banning alcohol and cigarettes from children seems to have worked, if not perfect, rather fine.
- Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15 3 days ago:
finding safe spaces online
What do you mean by this? How can an online space be safe for a child?
- Comment on How is Donald Trump able to get away with being part of a child trafficking ring but I get 20 years in jail for littering? 3 days ago:
You don’t get 20 years in jail for littering.
- Comment on Ska ftw 6 days ago:
Jazz: The world is broken and that’s why it’s beautiful
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- Comment on The ID_10_ts 1 week ago:
It’s possible that the right people in the administrator wanted to “redact” them like this.
- Comment on Hey Grok 2 weeks ago:
Release Epstein files
- Comment on Do we have No Man's Sky fans here? 2 weeks ago:
I played a lot of Elite, and tried No Man’s Sky recently. I get why somebody might like it, perhaps even more. It’s more fun.
But I cannot tell myself that yet another grind is what I need in my life.
- Comment on Any games I missed in the last 21 months? 3 weeks ago:
Megabonk!
- Comment on Always wear protection, folks 3 weeks ago:
WHAT?
- Comment on We're going backwards 3 weeks ago:
I went to Rome with my wife and stayed at an Airbnb thing. The guy who rented it to us looked like a mafia boss and wanted the payment in cash.
But the apartement was actually really nice, and right in the middle of old Rome!
- Comment on Accidental rapture 3 weeks ago:
I think he also said that everybody can be redeemed if they start believing. Frankly speaking, I’d start believing pretty fucking fast if I saw/experienced direct evidence of their existence.
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- Comment on Waiting for Capitalism to collapse, so we can get this over with so we can reverse climate change and have nice memes, technology and the good end 5 weeks ago:
Unfortunately it seems to me that the nazis are being way better at self-improving their punching. At least here in northern europe, they frequently hold training camps with pretty rough practices.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
To simplify things a bit: companies exist to make money, that’s their prime directive. Governments exist to make and enforce rules.
If Steam is allowed to operate freely in Russia, the government is not doing its job.
- Comment on I miss Levis 5 weeks ago:
I mean those normal jeans are still available.
- Comment on Forever young 5 weeks ago:
The real punchline is that that was 8 years ago
- Comment on Forever young 5 weeks ago:
The last time I tried to play CS, somebody politely (I thought) told me that perhaps I should play with bots.
- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 1 month ago:
I don’t think so. Protectionism was high, government-granted monopolies were typical. The British East India Company was the only company that was allowed trade with India and China from UK, for instance. The Dutch had something similary.
Perhaps later though in late 1800s it was more like you described.
- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 1 month ago:
Sorry, do you think a business failing is only possible with government coercion?
No, more like that actual monopolies are possible only by government coercion. Failure obviously doesn’t require that.
And what government coercion gave Google near monopolies on web search and video? Microsoft Windows accounts for 70% of desktop computers, did a government give them that? Whom did the government coerce for Amazon to have such domination of server hosting and online retail?
Yeah, that is true at least in the short term. Windows indeed had even larger percentages at some point, but eventually it has been chipped away by competition.
I’m not calling free markets a magic tool that always works well. Rather a tool that needs to be controlled carefully and as little as possible for the best results. For instance, making Microsoft stop bundling IE with their operating system in the 90s, I’m not sure if that decision had any effect. Then again, EU declaring that mobile operators must adhere to certain rulesets opened up the market a whole lot. So it’s not just about following the best ideology, the details of decisions have to be good as well.
- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 1 month ago:
I don’t remember that ever happening without government coercion. Can you refresh my memory?
- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 1 month ago:
If you want to fix it you need a new economic system.
We could try free markets.
- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 1 month ago:
Either not taxed enough or there’s almost no competition in the thing they do. And in a healthy free market, there should definitely be competition in a field that nets that much profits. The logical conclusion is that something is actively preventing the competition.
- Comment on Me when Valve releases a phone 1 month ago:
If it’s the size of an iphone 13 mini or smaller, I’ll buy it.
- Comment on Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console 1 month ago:
All is console, console is all.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 month ago:
If Valve makes ARM Linux work properly as a gaming/desktop OS, I will uhh hmm.
I will buy this thing.
