[-] PositiveNoise@kbin.social 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.

[-] PositiveNoise@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] PositiveNoise@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago

Old Town Prague is one of the most beautiful city areas in the world. It must cost a fortune to keep that place constantly clean and free of graffiti, but it's money well spent.

[-] PositiveNoise@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] PositiveNoise@kbin.social 8 points 9 months ago

Everquest was released in 1999

[-] PositiveNoise@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

Kbin and Lemmy etc should simply allow options for preferred languages, and people can select whatever they prefer. Giving them the option to not see posts or see translated posts should work out fine. I bet this problem get resolved eventually. In the meantime, I'm not too bothered by blocking magazines/communities that are non-english. No biggie.

[-] PositiveNoise@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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'.

[-] PositiveNoise@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] PositiveNoise@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

That bird is mine!

bird

[-] PositiveNoise@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Dinner or drinks first, or it's likely to not work out. But I wouldn't care about a TV tuner, so you can safely cut dinner (but leave in at least a drink or two...I mean come on)

[-] PositiveNoise@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] PositiveNoise@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

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.

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Transverse Line by Wassily Kandinsky 1923

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