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.

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.

Old Town Prague is one of the most beautiful city areas in the world. It must cost a fortune to keep that place constantly clean and free of graffiti, but it’s money well spent.

Laws need to be enforced, not just created. The article seems to imply that it’s up to individual exploited workers to file official complaints, but many of the exploited workers are illegal aliens or feel way to vulnerable to ‘rock the boat’. Essentially, government should enforce these laws, and be functional. Expecting super poor people living in fear to suddenly fight back one at a time, or expecting them to even find out about new laws that get passed, is very unrealistic.

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.

Indeed. This article is nonsense. Germany should declare the climate crises an emergency. And if they don’t like the debt limit rule they passed a few years ago, they can change it. Calling it a ‘budget crisis’ is overblown. It seems that the main problem is that their political parties are currently not working together well. That is not exactly some existential problem at this point. The German economy is way too large to consider a 60 billion euro problem a ‘crisis’.

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.

This seems like a really good idea, and I love that the article actually acknowledges that there are other countries in world which sometimes have good examples of how to do various things. Virtually every neighborhood should have reasonably quick/nearby access to a decent grocery store.

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.

This has kinda been a thing since the invention of money and real estate

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).

Yes, indeed.

Pretty nice example of one of the many Ernst ‘collage’ art pieces. To me, he seemed to have a really cool view on what surrealism was all about.

Good for you. Luckily for random stranger lady, you didn’t take advantage of her situation.

Solar Installer or Wind turbine installer. Manager or project manager at companies that do solar or wind power installations.

Artist who builds sculptures out of scrap metal and/or trash or recycled objects.

An updated version of ‘junk yard owner’, possibly refurbishing or otherwise breathing new life into objects that would normally be trashed, and selling them to new owners.

Good for them! I wish them luck, now that they managed to escape their evil empire and set out on a more positive path.

So knitting is kind of like cats. Thanks for the tip

Honestly, I’m fine with the normies staying on Reddit and Twitter, while all of us ‘new cool’ folks explore our rebel alliance.

Enough with the lawn ornaments. It was quite charming when I had 2. Bearable when I had 6. But now? 14?! Oh god…