This video isn’t about aliens and has an interesting message.

Facing the end of the world is neither here or there

Said the judge. I wonder if he’ll remember his words in a few decades when it’s the end of the world?

Overthrowing capitalism is unlikely to happen in the near term and the discussion was about homelessness.

Because we are not a dictatorship and have no desire to be one.

I’m all for nationalising infrastructure, including houses, but you would still have to compensate shareholders unfortunately. If we didn’t (which is an option) the markets would react very badly and make Liz Truss seem like a genius.

I’m in favour of a Land Value Tax, this means hoarding land becomes expensive. It also means grouse moores and golf courses become expensive (good things in my mind)

The house building companies already have vast amounts of land they own with planning permission in place. They restrict the amount of housing they build to artificially keep the prices high, if they build too many, the prices they could sell their houses for would drop, reducing profit. These are private companies and the government has little control over them. This is why every government for the last few generations has promised more houses and delivered nothing.

there are too many people

This is the root cause of most of our problems.

Climate change is just a symptom of overshoot.

BrewDog is a marketing company that just happens to sell (bad) beer.

It’s astonishing they can be so bad at marketing

100,000 people marched through London at the weekend at the Restore Nature Now March, and there was virtually no news coverage of it. Yet 2 people spray corn starch on a monument and it’s front page news globally.

It’s a dilemma.

We’ve decided to go ahead with this, fire over a DM and we’ll get the community set up

I’ll have a chat with the other mods and come back to you

We are not against it, but it needs careful consideration due to limited server resources as well as limited user attention (we are a very small instance compared to others)

Real developers just hit tab on whatever copilot tells them to

I’m now blind (and vegan)

Degrowth is coming, whether we want it or not.

You misspelt Microsoft

So Ilya has signed a letter saying if he doesn’t resign he’ll quit?!?

This gets better: https://www.ft.com/content/54e36c93-08e5-4a9e-bda6-af673c3e9bb5

As always the Tories leak a few ideas (like scrapping inheritance tax) to see what people say (it’s a bloody awful idea) then implement something different when people say it’s a disaster.