I upvoted you for downvoting the guy who complained about being downvoted.

He has a knowing look.

I’m worried he can see what I am thinking about.

Seeing the horrors of centuries of capitalist exploitation, and being raised in and still swamped with propaganda that the USA is the model of freedom and liberty despite plain evidence to the contrary right in front of your face, makes a reasonable person wonder if the countries the US government demonizes might be “the good guys” and makes it hard to believe criticism of, for example China, unless the source of that criticism comes from China itself (which admittedly might we’ll be suppressed).

Wealth and capital pours endless resources to attack, belittle and co-opt anything that might threaten its dominance.

If a new machine gives an efficiency advantage over other makers of equivalent commodities - the owner of that machine reaps a financial advantage that is experienced as “generated value”. But as the new machine and any efficiency in production becomes generalized we would expect that ultimately the value of that commodity would actually decrease.

But human society is still somehow connected to human effort.

Nobody under 16 would ever go on Pinterest

Could someone point me to total beginner (like only used windows) self hosting primer? Don’t even know what kind of machine I would need.

I think you can play nethack on anything! I ascended on my android phone once.

The Fediverse Cincinnatus

Wow

Are we supposed to trust Oracle?

Why switching?