And you get so much more out of 14 trillion Chinese US dollars than from plain US dollars.

Thank you for keeping this place sane.

Have you seen people overrate “common sense”? That’s it.

Don’t think deeply, go for common sense, disregard the specialists, we can’t understand their areas of study, therefore they are lying.

Also, avoid studying humanities: history, philosophy, sociology, politics. That will make you poor! Stay technical and mathy, don’t worry about anything else other than making money! Have a life project! Get rich!

That’s the anti intellectual speech.

Who benefits from the smart peoples of the world not questioning the status quo, and the building blocks of capitalism?

I love it’s a nitter link.

You are correct. I though it was copyleft GPL something.

Thanks for bringing it into my attention. :)

That’s exactly the point.

How much of our lives can money buy?

What if I wanted to sell my whole remaining time for the benefit of the ones I love, in the form of organs?

Should we allow money to buy anything? Or should we actually make people less desperate so that they are not willing to sacrifice all they have for peanuts?

Who makes the laws?

Do the people making the laws respect the laws they create?

They create the laws for whom?

Citation needed for “most Linux users use adblockers”

How do you guarantee pizza ads if the jesus ministries are pushing that sweet money around, too?

Hell, no! The world is happier without the ad industry. The Internet was run basically on pure voluntary effort, and it was great. The ads didn’t make it viable, it always was.

The real question is: can consent be bought?

Exactly. An add instruction, or any instruction needs to be carried out in steps within the hardware. Sometimes there’s systematic bugs in these implementations that can be exploited.

Plus, it’s an open architecture where those bugs can be exposed and fixed. Where in Intel/arm based architectures, they can be rolled out to the world and be used by those in the know.

Eg: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/is-the-intel-management-engine-a-backdoor/

Next step is to criminalize FOSS more broadly for unfair competition against corporate software… Amazing.

Yes, please? I know “on contradiction” is in the queue. But those things take time. :D

Speech 100! Hahaha

Well, yeah. I know some of that stuff indirectly. Haven’t been here for long, but there’s a few of the concepts that appear over and over again, and are useful in actual conversation, even if sometimes not perfectly precise.

I’ll start using “the material conditions of this codebase won’t allow for the unfolding of such feature”. Or something.

It’s really hard to dig deeper into all/most of the concepts.

I have to finish playing it, don’t I?

I also just remembered of “contradiction”.

I was there in 2007. I’m happy to see some noise again, after those were demobilised back then.

It’s important because it’s visible, it teaches you all young peoples how to organise and talk politically. Definitely taught me a lot.

Love it!

Notice I didn’t specifically ask about how they look. My example was about something they/we say.

What’s something someone would do/say that would have you think “one of us”, about them?

I’ll put mine out in the game, to increase those 50:50 odds.

Gotta try. :D