I’ve never heard of communism being an economic framework before, I thought it just meant a system without capitalism or a state. Do you have something short I could read about communism being an economic framework?

Do you know who these global elite are and how exactly they exert their control? My conspiracy theory alarm bells are goin off lol. Also how does lowering prescription drug prices not address some “real need” of some portion of the public? Not to mention the infrastructure bill which put a ton of money towards renewable energy, which is a step towards stopping global warming… You may argue these steps aren’t proportional to what actually needs to be done, but looking pragmatically its kinda hard to do really good stuff when half the country (and thus half the legislature) is whipped into a populist fervor, which you seem to also support given the main thing populists hate are the elite!)

Why are people downvoting the mediabias bot?

Idk what she’s done, or even can do as VP, but Joe’s helped get some good legislation passed, negotiated drug prices and I think he passed some gun control? Those seem like things some people want, although you might have a specific people in mind that I’m not aware of.

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I think as I slowly go more insane and become more cranky, I find myself increasingly wanting a horrible authoritarian state that just does exactly what I want, because everything I like is awesome, and everything everyone else thinks is bad and evil or whatever.

Mood 😅

I get your skepticism, but I do think there is some value in specific ideologies like Georgism, namely that you can actually try them out slowly and reverse course if needed. I’m mostly against a wide scale federal land value tax at a high percentage off the bat, but I do think its probably worth trying it out locally or at a low percentage to see what happens.

wdym?

There actually is a solution that doesn’t involve destroying capitalism: mixed-use zoning, tax on the unimproved value of land, and small UBI.

Honesty kinda conflicted on representative term limits. Longer term people can be out of touch, but they also have a lot of experience and know how to collaborate to get laws passed 🤔

Why Mozilla, Why??

The context of the post is someone trying to get someone else fat. The context of the comment you replied to is talking about how sugar would be a better than fat towards that goal. Sugar is relevant because while you are correct that if you ate an additional equal weight of fats vs sugars, assuming equality of nutrient absorption, the person who ate additional fats would in theory gain weight. The issue here is that this theory does not reflect reality well enough. In reality, we observe patterns like how eating sugar will make you hungrier, causing you to eat more overall, and potentially creating a self-reinforcing cycle of weight gain. This argument is why people are talking about sugar and why it is relevant to the conversation’s context.

JavaScript being JavaScript

Sweet!

Sebastian Langue and CodeParade Also fireship, primeagen, fasterthanlime among others…

Maybe they meant it integrates well with other windows 10 apps?

I use monerujo from fdroid. Probably not as nice to use as cake tho. (Does cake require waiting to scan the chain for new txs when you open the wallet?)

dtolnay’s a cool guy :)

The logical conclusion of this is to let the syntax and parser of the language itself be modified by users in a modular fashion :D

Around the latter half of the 19th century https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_privatization_in_the_United_States

Not technically “nationalized”, but we gave local and state governments control over sewers and water…