Hey, what gives, no more trampoline.

Let’s jump on the car instead!

I would argue that fascism is the capitalism’s second final form.

Final form is feudalism, as always

Sounds like a publicity stunt.

I’ll see myself out

The main good thing about blue sky is that it kind of taught people that jumping ship is always an option.

Which is a good lesson overall.

It’s not the technology, it’s the businesses interests behind such technology.

We live in a time of robber barons and these are just their tools

You didn’t overcome it, you spend some energy that the earth will eventually get back.

Unless you leave earth, gravity will eventually win.

So I actually read the article, even though there are huge outstanding questions on the nature of ownership, that’s actually not what the court argument is about:

Replying to Ubisoft’s argument that the statute of limitations is up, the plaintiffs responded with their own photos of The Crew’s packaging, which states that the activation code for the game doesn’t expire until 2099; that’s an example of how Ubisoft “implied that [The Crew] would remain playable during this time and long thereafter,”

Well yeah… software as a service is a thing but Ubisoft is straight up lying…

My two cents: no one is expecting online services to be up forever, so imo the correct solution is open source the game after the company meets their 10 (or 20) year obligation which should be clearly pointed out during the initial rental agreement (shouldn’t call it purchase)

Which goes to show you the economic divide.

PCs are a fraction of the cost, little wear and tear, no maintenance cost, no insurance nor storage costs, and no need to be licensed.

I honestly think it’s just that we are more poor than the boomers.

Gen Z are into social media most, it’s cause it’s cheaper than buying electronics and building PCs, all you need is 1 smart phone.

I bet gen alpha would be into minimalism given the trend.

Romans have entered the chat

The episode that has one of my favourite quotes:

They’re like sex except I’m having them

Which is a great analogy cause Hari fully lived and died in the collapsing empire. His life never improved due to faster collapse.

It’s not all or nothing, another way to think of it is:

How bad do things have to get for there to be an actual shift to making things better?

I would love to make things better one step at a time, I think our system is a great starting point.

But I ask myself the above question everytime things seem to be headed downward.

Events like Luigi is what I mean by things getting bad enough for something to push back.

While I agree in theory, it assumes the existing system has rational or somewhat rational actors.

If your system is full of counter productive individuals, it might be easier to start fresh.

This works better with groups and companies, entire countries, not so much.

Nah, it won’t be the same.

100 years ago we didn’t have ecological collapse.

Tell em I hate them.

Cause no one is stopping you from going to said instance and just having the discussion there.

If there was this super important leak that needed to be out there, if it’s posted on a right wing instance that is a defederated ghost town, it’s still out there. People can link to it and leverage the instance to have the needed discussions.

Censorship means removing access, defederation does not wipe it off of the Internet.

What if you short the market?

Putting a lot of money into shorts (money you can barrow mind you), is essentially massively selling stocks you don’t have with the promise of buying them back later.

If a lot of rich people do this, it will trigger a panic sell, get the price low, they buy back the “barrows stocks” at cheaper rate and now they have profit and some people have sold, so the stock is lower.

They can now buy more stocks and we’re back to the first step but with the rich having a higher share than before cause of the panic sellers.

So they shutdown because they couldn’t federate with any other instances and considered that censorship

Damn, I actually didn’t see that coming, I guess they will move the goal post from any starting point.

Do they still exist? I’m honestly curious if they are active or if it’s abandoned

Not only that, I’ve tried pitching the fediverse to right wing people, but they didn’t bite.

Even the crypto bros that were all about decentralization couldn’t see why a decentralized social media platform was superior.

This also didn’t matter for people who care about “free speech”.

You think the allure of being fully independent and having your own instance would be right up their alley given how they value independence, but nope.

Seriously? Why isn’t there a right wing instance? My guess is that a right wing person can’t fathom owning something that benefits others which doesn’t give them back profit.