you are an economist. eliminating zoning laws and HOAs would make construction of houses cheaper, saving lots of people lots of money, but the construction companies would be less profitable. do you argue in favor of unnecessarily complex building codes sothat the company stays profitable at the expense of the population?

eh, money is supposed to represent resources, and saying that money = hours, is to say that there is no other resource besides human labor. there is land usage, plant growth, mineralic reservoirs, etc.

ah shit i have the perfect meme for this but i can’t find it.

it’s a boot (microsoft, apple, etc.) and the snake exclaims “at least it isn’t the goberment”

how do you know that the books aren’t mind-washing by the CIA?

you can stop in many models by letting the hot air out (partially)

yeah but what if it isn’t called “hours”?

this is a lot like US politics but instead of the mayor, it’s the people.

nah i disagree. an immigrant did take your job, but it was his/her right to do so. everybody gets a fair chance in the US. or at least those are the proposed rules.

you’re jobless because there’s just not a strong demand for human labor anymore. that, however, has nothing to do with the immigrant and everything to do with the broader economy.

that’s why we need a universal basic income, which can only be financed by taxing the rich.

i got a tan for the first time in my life (at least that i can remember). it was the first spring not mostly spent in front of computer screens. :)

somehow i feel i should say something about how plastics is a very good material after all, even though people keep calling it “cheap”.

I’m on discuss.tchncs.de right now and its web UI lags badly probably due to a lot of bot scaping.

yeah the UK is going downhill very quickly and it’s evident in how nervously they respond to that saying.

i indeed only found out about that rn

But you seem like a refreshingly normal person rather than one of the ideologically motivated internet cold warriors

hehe thanks, i try to be.

i mean yeah, literally, look at how the Iranian regime is allowed to post its anti-US propaganda lego movies on Twitter.

edit: nvm that was a bad take.

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The only way to do this is if meaningful alternatives exist first.

you can’t ban corporate-owned social media because the population would revolt. It’s already revolting when social media is about to be banned for teenagers. just ask anyone on lemmy about this.

the fediverse needs to become an acceptable alternative first, only after that can people move away from big corpo-owned networks.

i think feddit.org and lemmy.dbzer0.com both use it

in feddit.org’s case, the anubis loading screen displays for waaay too long. i’ve told the feddit.org admins repeatedly but got no response.

i’m not sure whether lemmy.dbzer0.com still uses it, but i think i remember seeing the loading screen there too. maybe they just reduced the loading time so much that i can’t see it anymore.