GarbageShoot [he/him]

Turns out most people despise rentiers

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If that was adequate to explain Youtube’s decision-making, the platform would be unrecognizably different for all of the terrible things Youtube didn’t do because it would be – and indeed was – terrible

In America there are “do not call” lists and I think it’s illegal to cold-call numbers on those. Otherwise, you’re free game if there’s not a state or municipal law protecting you (and there rarely is). Maybe Australia has something similar.

Either way, you’ll get far fewer inquiries from landsharks if you stop hoarding properties and parasitizing the wages of people who work.

I see you invoking the Maoist uprising in another comment, but I’ll be honest - the years following that uprising were hard for a huge swathe of the population (not to mention fatal for Millions more). I would not want to live through a Chairman Mao.

If you think it was hard to live under Mao, you should see what it was like before him.

“Post-Open Source”

Overly-teleological modernist framing has hopelessly fucked up tech discourse. Too much declaring things the future and hoping people will just believe you.

Start Again is a really cool mini-JRPG and I’m surprised it’s one of the last ones left

This is a reading comprehension issue. Look at what I said more carefully, I am implicitly supporting the idea you are trying to help your kid and telling you to argue from a standpoint of human benefit rather than sovereignty. With the rise of Christian nationalism, we’re only going to see an uptick in “children are the property of the parent” style reasoning, and we should all be fighting it.

The marketplace of ideas tends to be a much weaker force than “what are my friends playing?” I’m all for treating kids as people, but that also means understanding that people mostly choose what lets them get on with their peers the most easily.

You made the correct choice getting rid of Roblox and you don’t deserve to get flak for it, but

I am allowed to parent my children how I see fit

This is a shitty way to view the question. As someone with unique authority over the child, you are obliged to do your best at doing right be them.

“But I am!” you say

Then say that instead of this children-as-property shit

Minecraft seems like the obvious choice for kids who liked Roblox. Terraria is another. If they can only play on a server that one of them hosts, then no need to worry about outside users.

Good on you and the other parents for getting that shit out of there, kids don’t need addiction machines trying to pressure them into spending money.

Even so, they could have made it rhyme properly ),:<

What’s a rhyme scheme?

Don’t forget NewPipe

Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall goes brrr

Mate, you’re the one that opened with a brigading accusation.

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If you defacto assume all protests for Palestine to not be peaceful, that is an excellent way of encouraging them not to be.

You don’t seem very interested in the responses that do elaborate. I wonder why that is . . .

Doesn’t the ring sort of connect the subject to Sauron or something? On a Plot level, I thought that was the whole point (thematically, the sheer power is the real reason, of course).