I go by “test” on live.hexbear.net, or “tset” or “tst” or some other variant when I’m not logged in.
We watch movies on the weekends and sometimes also hang out during the week, you should drop by.
leftists should have guns and gun emojis while chuds should have water pistols and water pistol emojis
I can hear it in my head
time to steer mass AI automation toward the most evil possible result
If you only want a calendar, there are lighter choices to host CalDAV services than Nextcloud - which may be a bit overkill
Interesting! Are there any you’ve used or heard good things about?
What do you want exactly? A way to announce the plan or a way to make the plan?
We want a way to make the plan. I think any group-editable calendar would work. Voting is a plus but not a requirement.
You need to make an account
Would anyone editing the calendar need an account, or just the person in charge?
$30.50 seems inaccurate. If you’re tipping 20% then you ordered at least $150 worth of food lol.
I think competition — actual competition, not “5 megacorps own everything” competition — can be useful in some cases, but keep in mind that competition does not necessarily incentivize good products. With food, for example, competition incentivizes addictive, unhealthy shit. With social media, same thing. With labor, it incentivizes exploitation, because whichever company squeezes the most work out of people for the lowest pay outcompetes everyone else. You can ameliorate these shitty incentive structures by putting workers and communities in charge of production, rather than owners and shareholders who want to maximize profit at the expense of any other metric.
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and then folks ask why people don’t like you
I know why you specifically don’t like us lol. I recognize your username from the constant long arguments with hexbear users I see you get into.
…but whatever fits your narrative, I guess
obviously a mistake?
i mean it’s basically a trolley problem. whether or not we blame someone who was born into naziism, at some point we have to stop them before they hurt others. and if the nazis are armed and organized, we start running out of peaceful ways to stop them.
one of the features rich capitalist countries share is extracting trillions of dollars out of poorer countries every year lol
the best time to treat cancer is early, before it metastasizes and becomes inoperable
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and yet these and other popular policies remain politically impossible
Study: Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens:
From the abstract:
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.
further down:
In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule — at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.
What is it, like, 70% of Americans want single payer healthcare?
“the Ukrainians” are not a monolith. You may be aware that a civil war raged for 8 years before Russia invaded?
Study: Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens:
From the abstract:
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.
further down:
In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule — at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.
What is it, like, 70% of Americans want single payer healthcare?
I mean Reddit’s director of policy, Jessica Ashooh, is former Deputy Director of the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Strategy Task Force — she’s literally a state department plant.
LLMs are useful when you don’t know what terms to put in a search engine