I read a similar article a few weeks ago, and I think your concise summary is better than the article linked in this post.

I think Yanis goes a bit overboard with stating that capitalism kinda no longer exists, since it really is about a new group of rich people simply inserting their companies as evil middlemen who leach money off the whole system.

I’m not sure the solution has to be revolutionary or super complex. I’d think that large countries and groups of countries (e.g. USA, the EU) could implement their own mega marketplaces, leaching off much less money and avoiding the sort of corrupt BS that Amazon etc do to keep prices artificially high, and these governments could also stop allowing the mega platforms to do business in their region. Big countries want to facilitate an economy, and if private industry is proving to be too broken with their current approach, governments could step in to create more functional marketplaces that still work nicely in the internet age and don’t have horrible middlemen crap dragging everything down.

‘Make sure you wear the hard hats, boys. The shirts can go, though, and underwear…yeah, lets skip that as well. You should all be, uh, comfortable’

That sounds super tasty and fancy. Nice for a special Christmas cocktail!

Great song. Powerful strategic use of dropping the f-bomb, and just an emotionally powerful song overall. It didn’t dramatically change the world, but it got plenty of airplay and it made it’s point.

Everquest II was released in 2004. It is pretty crazy that they are still releasing expansions for it. And it’s kinda crazy that I played it for at least a hundred hours earlier this year during a nostalgia binge.

Everquest was released in 1999

Laws need to be enforced, not just created. The article seems to imply that it’s up to individual exploited workers to file official complaints, but many of the exploited workers are illegal aliens or feel way to vulnerable to ‘rock the boat’. Essentially, government should enforce these laws, and be functional. Expecting super poor people living in fear to suddenly fight back one at a time, or expecting them to even find out about new laws that get passed, is very unrealistic.

Yikes. Don’t fukin mess with Verna. Verna is not playing around.

Indeed. This article is nonsense. Germany should declare the climate crises an emergency. And if they don’t like the debt limit rule they passed a few years ago, they can change it. Calling it a ‘budget crisis’ is overblown. It seems that the main problem is that their political parties are currently not working together well. That is not exactly some existential problem at this point. The German economy is way too large to consider a 60 billion euro problem a ‘crisis’.

You mean like…ALL life on Earth? From a single teaspoon full? I doubt it. Would it kill the drunk camper who picks it up and decides to use it to keep his sleeping bag warm? Maybe.

And Apple customers were doing this a decade or more ago. They bought into an entire ecosystem, and became APPLE_PEOPLE, for better or worse. And the companies that sell stuff on e.g. itunes are the rent-paying serfs, paying Apple to be vassals and do business. The people with Apple products are maybe a bit more like farm animals…they just get fleeced over and over. They don’t have much input into anything, unless they make a serious break and quit using Apple stuff.

Shouldn’t I be out there hunting and killing right now?!

That bird is mine!

bird

This has kinda been a thing since the invention of money and real estate

neither. They probably just haven’t implemented default facial expressions yet (but probably have support for them).

Pretty nice example of one of the many Ernst ‘collage’ art pieces. To me, he seemed to have a really cool view on what surrealism was all about.

Good for you. Luckily for random stranger lady, you didn’t take advantage of her situation.

Super mommy happy cat is doing hecka job

Wow, really awesome work you and the admins have done.

Good for you!

I do the same, in my tiny little of area in the country side. I go for a walk in the mornings along the road, and pick up any trash I find. Most country roads around here are very trashed (Texas), but my little area is quite nice.

At least one of my neighbors litters like crazy as they drive, obviously just throwing out beer cans, food containers etc along the road, as often as they can. They are a broken human being, but I still keep things clean despite their behavior.

Good for them! I wish them luck, now that they managed to escape their evil empire and set out on a more positive path.