Good luck finding us on a world map. We’re famous for two things: an adaptation of a British guy’s books, and constantly trying to convince people that we do not want to fuck sheep while one of our banks goes and makes an ad campaign with a sheep that the internet decides is sexy.

Close your eyes and don’t move until you start dissociating.

Although I gave adhd, so I don’t know how well this works for non adhd people.

smart CEOs

That’s a rare thing

in Thiel’s view the antichrist will also be a democratic socialist and the only way to avoid this awful outcome is to give billionaires more money and power

Hmm… sounds pretty antichrist like to me

Open source should ideally be the standard for technology in general

Yep. The scrooge mcduck diving into money image would have fit better

They’re not nearly as bad because you can check them again

Does that community exist?

Ah, the usual level of media literacy

If we had ranked choice voting for the electorates, we could remove overhangs. Basically if there’s an overhang, the seat with the thinnest majority gets the votes transferred

You’re not wrong, but it’s a sad state of affairs that Nintendo is one of the better AAA game companies

No, but understanding how a shitty childhood can often lead to a shitty adult can help prevent it.

Yeah, multi choice is not good, but it’s better than standard fptp. The advantages are that it’s simple and there’s no spoiler effect. Ranked choice or some proportional system (like the MMP that we have in nz) are much better.

If the only tool available is criminalization, that’s not enough. Financial violence preys on the lack of a guarantee of needs being met, so the best option would be to make some way to guarantee that. But some options are:

Make a “business license” system. If at any point a business commits any financial crime, like monopolization, price gouging, financial violence, etc, all the upper leadership is immediately sacked, and they are barred from running any other business, with serious prison time as punishment for dodging this ban.

Be brutal on monopolies and anticompetitive practice. If a company we’ve gets more than 70% of the revenue of their sector in a year, some of the company is sold off at auction. If it’s shown that the company was using anticompetitive practices, the leadership is immediately sacked, loses any business license, and gets prison time.

Any company that provides a needed good or service (eg. food, housing, energy, internet, transport) has a profit cap. All their accounting must be publicly available, and if the profit or any leader’s income is too high (number to be decided), this counts as a financial crime.

My guess is it has exactly zero crumple zones, so that monstrosity won’t fold, but the spines of everyone involved will

Can you tie them in a knot? Can you tie them in a bow?

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That first one looks like an outtake from the cats movie

If finding a job is a nightmare, people are less likely to go job hopping for better pay.

Could? Yes. Would? No. Most western governments are basically bought out by corporations to different extents, so convincing them to do stuff like this is difficult at best

A gambling service has a predatory policy to make breaking an addiction as hard as possible. Yep that sounds about right