But it can be removed as a possibility by circumstance, which is what this comic is getting at.

This is why, in my opinion, billionaires are incredibly stupid.

By hoarding wealth and forcing people to live paycheck-to-paycheck, with little-to-no time for self improvement or leisure. With few resources to devote towards education or career-building, you are strangling the pool of people who could make your life better. Who could find the cure for whatever illness finally gets you. Who could invent something you’d never have thought of that will improve your quality of life.

Before the pace of modern technology I can kind of get the impulse, but modern billionaires are operating on rules of ‘how to win’ from 100 years ago. They are – by any metric – not only socially backwards, but fundamentally stupid. They are too dumb to even get being greedy right.

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Is there a fediverse version of /r/OrphanCrushing Machine? Because this fits the theme

I love when this happens. As a kid we used to go to this restaurant a couple times a year where my dad would order a “drunken ribeye”, but I thought it was “drunken Rabbi” until I was 14.

My SO thought “evasive maneuvers” was “a vase of maneuvers” when she was a kid.

My favorite part of when this happens is hearing the person’s internal explanation they’ve been telling themselves for what it means.

Agreed, I grew up in a very conservative area and was pretty homophobic when I started college.

“They can do whatever they want, just don’t ask me to like it” was an important stepping stone towards “oh shit, love is love” and finally actually listening to the experience of gay people.

The thing is that the court only has so much power right now because Congress is so fucking broken. If Congress where in working order it could just legislate all the shit that the court is blocking the executive on.

I didn’t even consider the fact that the fediverse offers us the ability to start having publicly owned social media and government-run instances for direct communication.

That could be very interesting…

A big part of it is people are just angry and stressed in general because the system we live in is fundamentally broken (pretty much no matter where you are in the world, though I am speaking through an American lens since the majority of Reddit is American).

Everyone can feel the effects of an economy and government that just doesn’t work for them. We’re fundamentally divided on how to fix it. Minorites are directly under attack and that manages to leach into most conversations, either directly or sideways. It makes people incredibly defensive.

The fediverse has a higher barrier to entry and, statistically, tech-minded people skew liberal. We’re a self-selecting community that is just more likely to agree – for instance – that trans people are people.

Further, since these services are decentralizedv and self-hosted, we can literally make hate groups unwelcome/banned from our instances because there is no profit motivation for hand-wringing like there is with Reddit.

Voting out mods is a TERRIBLE idea. It means a very active minority can effectively control a large subreddit, and politically oriented / minority spaces are going to have constant campaigns trying to take them over.

Can you imagine what it’s going to be like moderating TwoX, lgbt, or egg_irl if this change goes through? What a nightmare.

I think you mean shudder. Unless the code you wrote is running on cameras.