a curious development; of course, i would personally bet this does not actually end the conflict

I’m both ideas and action, though action is collaborative.

i am explicitly asking you for the strategy you want to pursue in lieu of the article. you say they should “target capitalism as a whole”—but, how do you propose we actually, actionably do that? because personally, i am pretty uninterested in platitudes, and your post is comprised of nothing but them in the absence of an actual roadmap.

if you’re going to be an ideas guy instead of a doing the work guy: please lay out, in detail, the strategy for how this should be done

Except it’s likely on purpose so they won’t have enough people to look into this and other large cases against corporations that might impact the people buying out the government.

this is exactly what has happened; previously, the FTC was aggressively pursuing anti-trust against Amazon, Google, etc.

i doubt there is a strong religious justification for this—most likely, Bhutan is doing it because they are cripplingly poor and limited in how much they can diversify their revenue, and Bitcoin is a fairly good speculative asset

in terms of notes usually i just do unrefined, copypasted highlights into Obsidian to start and then synthesize my notes into prose later; for most books i also tend to export my highlights into their own markdown document so i always have the initial highlights even after the prose

on and off for about two years in varying forms, but i’m still in the process of putting my archive up

Edit : also, did you have a look at Piefed ? https://piefed.social/

yes, this is essentially our long-term backup plan if Sublinks doesn’t work out for some reason

Obsidian.md; for fun, although i do tend to write blog posts about the things i read

Isnt nigeria basically the only african country right now that isnt a shithole right now?

Nigeria probably has the most theoretical wealth available to it of any African country because it’s super rich in oil, but there are definitely other countries that have it better than Nigeria (South Africa, Cape Verde, maybe Namibia or Kenya if you want some deeper cuts). Nigeria also has a metric fuck ton of problems (religious tension and sectarianism, terrorism, an openly corrupt political system which likely stole the last presidential election, and constant economic turmoil) that severely rob its capability to exploit its riches. and yes colonialism is a big part of that, it has fairly bad deals with major corporations to exploit that oil

as a matter of fact: i came across a vandalized charger on Tumblr just now, so it does appear to be happening in at least isolated cases

it might be happening and just flying under the radar, honestly. someone was arrested earlier this month for trying to firebomb a Tesla dealership, and i’m going to assume this is not an isolated sentiment

incidentally: lots of actions happening on March 1. show up to one or start one yourself if you get the chance, they’ve been quite the hit and they make great opportunities to network and propagandize

you’re being very weird in this specific chain of comments, and it’s unpleasant to read and dragging down otherwise pretty decent conversation. dial it back, or you’ll catch a temporary ban.

hardly surprising. we talk about enshittification today but Skype was one of the most egregious offenders before the term was even coined, in late-stage Skype (circa 2016-2017) i couldn’t even run the fucking thing without lag because of in-line ads. the user experience was frankly awful, and once you’ve used something like Discord or Zoom there’s just never any reason to go back.

come on, this is not productive discussion

of particular note here is the size of this town-hall–over 2,000 in attendance, apparently, which Crow says is by far the largest he’s even had:

About 1,400 people packed into the main auditorium, with a few hundred more watching from a screen in an auxiliary room. Several audience members pushed Crow on the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, saying they were skeptical of the cuts and the vilification of government workers.

Crow told reporters that this was his biggest town hall in his four terms in congress—by two or three times.

the grassroots energy to oppose this stuff is clearly there, but it remains to be seen what Democrats do or if they get the memo as an entire party

I’m not sure a couple people with signs out front of his space centers and electric car showrooms are going to move the needle, but hey if that’ where you want to spend your time, have at it.

unfortunately the best course of action here is not one to telegraph or put into writing literally anywhere, so you will have to be content with this for the foreseeable future

the going theory is that this is effectively the western division of NetEase getting axed because they’re not important enough and “cost too much” to keep around

I’m starting to feel like having a particularly leftist environment where the most frequent message is “we’re fucked the there’s nothing we can do about it” mostly just works to prevent the people who might actually get together and do something from doing anything at all.

admittedly, i suspect most people on Lemmy who can do something already are, but yes it’s very annoying that the pervasive sentiment seems to be “everything is getting worse, nothing is getting better” as if this is serious politics