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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Your analogy doesn’t work at all.

    The answer you’re being asked for needs to be a solution (what can replace capitalism?). The answer in your analogy is an observation (the plane crashed).

    It’s fine to not have answers, but then your position is pretty useless. A societal system is a mandatory component of our lives. You can’t get rid of it without it being replaced with something else. If we don’t replace it, then one will arise naturally.

    To follow your cancer example, it’s like a cancer patient saying they don’t want chemo or radiation because it’s not good enough. When they are asked what they want to do instead they just say “I don’t have answers, I just know these treatments aren’t very good”.

    Winston Churchill is quoted saying

    Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those others that have been tried.

    Pretty much the same applies to capitalism.


  • but being able to decide after the fact that you want a heated steering wheel isn’t one of them.

    No one is bitching about being able to decide that you want a heated steering wheel. You can decide to install it on literally any car brand or model.

    People are bitching about the hardware that they have paid for and they own being locked behind by a software paywall. This would cause a riot with practically any other consumer electronics. Imagine if the fingerprint scanner on your smartphone was an extra $50 to unlock? Or quick charge being an extra $75?

    That would be the most anti-consumer horseshit we’ve seen, and that’s exactly what Tesla is doing.





  • Mastodon is a piece of software. I don’t see anyone saying “phpBB” or “WordPress” has a massive child abuse material problem.

    Has anyone in the history ever said “Not a good look for phpBB”? No. Why? Because it would make no sense whatsoever.

    I feel kind of a loss for words because how obvious it should be. It’s like saying “paper is being used for illegal material. Not a good look for paper.”

    What is the solution to someone hosting illegal material on an nginx server? You report it to the authorities. You want to automate it? Go ahead and crawl the web for illegal material and generate automated reports. Though you’ll probably be the first to end up in prison.