Shhhh, the USA only implements MMT for military spending

This concept of negative peace is very interesting, thanks!

The “benevolent king” is a persistent myth isn’t it? They feature in so, so many works of fiction

Actual management strategy is “you don’t know what your boundaries are until you push against them”

I doubt that the masks had anything to do with it. If someone reacts so violently to being asked to adjust their mask, they will react violently to practically anything.

Cool

So a mod could be written with an anti-colonial, anti-imperial atmosphere

I get what you’re saying, but I would still like unemployment benefits to still exist in such countries. As an extra layer of security.

Considering they can hire skilled authors to write their biographies (and skilled lawyers to sue critics) they certainly will write their own entry in the history books

Historically, didn’t fascism begun in Italy?

Lol. So you mean the history of the game? Or the history the game generates? Or both?

Being open source, we can write our own mods, correct? (not that I have the skills…)

This is a threat, not capitulation

Europe is a sacrifice the USA is prepared to make

Somewhere out there is some very nice animated graphs showing just how big a billionaires wealth is. It’s still too big to be properly comprehended…

My workplace is transitioning a bunch of their data and processing to the cloud. When I look at what software makes the cloud work, there is soooo much open source software there. Big business is quite comfortable with FOSS

Apparently Firefox can synchronise your bookmarks between your desktop and your mobile app? Does anyone have experience with this?

Is MineTest an option? https://www.minetest.net/ open source, not owned by Microsoft