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If you’re federated with dotWorld, most of what you see in your All feed ends up being dotWorld.

Having the ability to not be under unaccountable admins, who can directly threaten your account based on activity or “patterns”, is a huge plus. Fewer bots, and fewer conformists; the conversation always feels a lot more personal and human. Also on the Fediverse, people tend to value privacy and security and self-determination. That steers a lot of the culture in a different way from Reddit, but most of the social environment is how the cookie crumbles on each instance.

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I think it dates back to the 2020 primary campaign where she ran as a spoiler for the left. She rushed to be the first to declare candidacy, she tried to accuse Bernie Sanders* of defaming her and to cause a rift between her campaign and his, she stayed in the race when everyone else was dropping out, which was clearly a collusion to peel off voter share from Bernie while everyone else was endorsing Biden.

*Who then proceeded to not run in 2024, take a whole bunch of compromised positions especially on the first year of the Gaza extermination campaign, and do a few nothingburger “fighting oligarchy” rallies and tours that don’t even attempt to leverage any power.

There are plenty more examples of Warren being disingenuous and flimsy on progressive positions. On consumer protections and anti-monopoly stances she’s pretty good, but doesn’t amount to more than a machine politician outside of that.

If someone is going to be a successful progressive politician, they’d better take principled socialist stances, stick to them, and fight for them. Otherwise we just get an endless string of Obamas who defise radical movements, triangulate with the Republicans, and eventually their entire legacy is overturned by the next Republican administration.

This is how “ratchet politics” works.

Both those possibilities (20h work week and 6h work week) sound great. The prospect is either working less, or working the same amount and keeping the monetary value of your labor, as opposed to working full-time just to pay 3/4 of your income just sustaining your existence, which goes straight to landlords or bigger companies.

And if you can arrange a living that avoids the most common money traps, you can easily get by with 20 hours of work per week or less. I’ve certainly done enough juggling of part-time jobs to know this.

85% is a bit of an overestimate, but not by all that much. For the United States, total wages paid by companies to employees are about 11 trillion, out of a GDP of 29 trillion (stats from a year or two ago). This doesn’t count sole proprietorships and partnerships, but the high-end estimate is 62%.

@[email protected]’s implication that wealth follows linearly from income isn’t super rigorous, but it does match up closely enough in this case.

If you have a Materially Productive Job and you have the ability + information required to calculate how much revenue a worker contributes to the company, you’ll know that this checks out. I wouldn’t expect everyone to be adequately positioned and also care enough in order to have that insight though.

Nitpicking whether the executive and shareholders appropriate 85% or 50% of value is pointless. It’s a huge amount, it’s far more than income taxes, and it is the most important dynamic of the capitalist economy. And it is further corroborated with reports (from mainstream/orthodox sources) over the past year of how the majority of consumer spending is done by the rich.

This was exactly 1 day before “Pokemon GO-To-The-Polls”.

“So, what didn’t he hate?”, I hear you ask.

Worms. He loved worms. The man could watch them for hours.

Why are you typing in that prompt-restating, blanket-affirmative, stanceless tone?

I sometimes wonder if a different outcome of the confrontation at Tours would have set back Western Europe to the point where the scope of the Crusades and the colonization of the New World would be curtailed.

This would do really well as a 2-variable projection: length of control (hue) and length of statehood (saturation).

You’d get a lot of colors and shades along and across state lines.

That headline reads like a dril tweet.

Also, there’s a good chance the Greek man was a jingoist.

For audio recordings, there is usually a trace of electric hum in the background that has enough randomness to yield info on when (and sometimes where) the recording took place.

It’s not as much of a privacy violation as a privacy vulnerability, but it’s still relevant.

I’ve worked with phosphine in an industrial setting; anyone who asked about telling me about it out of the blue would be extremely sus.

I’d probably go outside and put lots of distance between me and them.

“Believe in the heart of the cards spinners”

I’m not sure that fitting Earthlike habitats in giant spaceships would make sense without limitless exponential growth. Wouldn’t it be more feasible to put something on the surface of a planet?

No matter how advanced our technology gets, we are not going to get around the basic constraints on energy.

That sounds bland, I like the idea of council communism better.

How do you say “council communism” in Russian?

I have an idea of what a state is, but what’s a “soviet”? That’s not an English word.

What does “soviet” mean in Russian?