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Zuckerberg is garbage and shouldn't be allowed to keep living with his tremendous, ill-gotten, wealth.

It can be accurate or biting satire, but I didn't enjoy it. It's a long game to spend so much time annoyed at a main character.

I didn't finish gta5 because there's a lot of just driving around doing nothing. And then the missions are very restrictive - you pretty much do exactly what it says or you go back to the checkpoint.

I'd rather they were more like Deus Ex or Dishonored (I think those are called immersive Sims now?).

Also Trevor is just unpleasant

I'm not sure!

I'd guess maybe the code would be open source, or at least freely shared among everyone who works on it. Then anyone can use their personal computer for the code, like anyone could use their personal guitar to play a song you wrote.

The computer can then remain personal, and the code itself is treated like the means of production that is collectively owned

Yeah, can't disagree with that.

When I give people dating app advice, I tell them if they don't have the emotional resources to full-ass it, delete the app. Half-assing it is likely going to make things worse.

But humans aren't rational creatures.

You should realize that companies need to compete with each other, and because of that they cant visibly increase the price of a good too much or lower its quality because they will lose sales. Anywhere where this doesn’t happen laws can be written to force them

Meanwhile, we have "shrinkflation" and consolidation into fewer and fewer companies.

For vital services, what are you going to do? Not get health care? Not buy fruit anymore?

The natural end state of private ownership is monopoly/cartel. We've done all of this before and it sucked. Being "beholden to customers" doesn't matter much if they're a captive market, or there's really only one seller with no vote

Maybe if we actually enforced laws about competition it would be better, but good luck getting people to learn from history.

after a few times putting in effort and getting ghosted, you start to be a bit more frugal.

I see why that would happen but it seems like a self destructive strategy. The other person wasn't there for all your other attempts. This is your first interaction with them. If you half-ass it, all they see is you're doing a bad job at conversation. You only get one first impression with someone.

I dont want to drink water from govt owned companies because at that point it truly is authoritarian simply because the govt has way too much power over your life

I'm pretty sure private for-profit water is absolutely worse than government run water. Everyone can at least nominally vote to change the government. A private org is beholden to no one except shareholders (if they have any), and maybe laws (if they exist, are relevant, and are enforced).

We already had a gilded age where we learned how low for-profit entities will go. We had saw dust in bread, chalk in milk, and worse.

For profit food production is giving us price gouging and a water crisis. Would government do better? Well, given the current administration maybe not.

One of my friends described it as there's difference between private property and personal property. Your toothbrush is personal property. No one cares about that. Your factory where you assemble widgets is private property, where you're paying people to convert labor into stuff you can sell.

I should read more left-wing theory. It made sense when he explained it.

Right-wingers remind me of that meme template where the dog has the ball and it's going "Throw! No Take! Only throw!"

They want a thriving economy, but they don't want to pay people wages. No pay. Only spend.

We will see who’s society is better

Did you ever read "A libertarian walks into a bear"? It's a non-fiction book about a bunch of libertarians that moved to a small town, and used their new voting bloc to try to bring about their libertarian paradise. It went badly. There were bears.

The author points out how a nearby town that was otherwise very similar. It had prospered during the time libertarians were driving their town into the ground

That's kind of fascinating. and sad. It sounds kind of self-defeating- If the other person is reasonably well adjusted, they're going to take feigned disinterest as just regular disinterest, and move on. (Or think that the other person can't hold a conversation, and move on.)

Maybe this creates a self-selection effect where the people who are afraid of being enthusiastic eventually meet each other? That would probably be best for everyone.

Republicans aren't fit to govern.

banning opinions just drives them underground

which means fewer people will find them and engage with them.

You're going to get more people turning to Nazis if it's just out and about in the open. If YouTube was running ads for nazisim, they'd get converts. If the only nazi stuff you see is scribbled on the bathroom walls, it has less legitimacy and thus fewer converts.

I think a lot about something i read somewhere - "you hate every piece of capitalism but won't connect the dots to see that's the picture".

I didn't recognize the source and thought to myself this is either archaic or amateur. It feels purple by modern standards.

I'm reminded of that Sartre quote again

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

The only case I can think of is like you had to call 911 for an emergency and you want the people around you to also hear the dispatcher.

For day to day stuff, not really.

Online dating is fascinating in how bad it is. It's like 80% the fault of capitalism, and 20% users just doing a bad job and making it worse. People write messages no deeper than "lol" and "nm hbu" and then wonder why they don't have any interesting conversations like on the tv

True, but that was kind of black market and gauche , not advertised every time you log into the game