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the irony is that we wouldn’t need to sacrifice much (if at all) for those benefits – in other words, you could be completely selfish and still have a better life

  • US is sitting at 28 vacant homes per homeless person (city of Helsinki saved the country of Finland €15000 per person per year just by buying them a house)
  • healthcare for all (and better quality) would cost us about 2/3 what we’re paying now
  • we produce (and have) plenty of food for everyone but companies would rather throw it away if they can’t make a profit (John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath)
  • better public transit means more convenience for everyone with the added benefits of better air quality, nicer neighborhoods, less wear-and-tear on infrastructure, cheaper commuting – !fuck_cars

Activist Group Is Protesting Driverless Cars by Disabling Them With Traffic Cones (www.vice.com)

“The group got the idea for the conings by chance. The person claims a few of them walking together one night saw a cone on the hood of an AV, which appeared disabled. They weren’t sure at the time which came first; perhaps someone had placed the cone on the AV’s hood to signify it was disabled rather than the other way...

Texas power plants have no responsibility to provide electricity in emergencies, judges rule (www.kut.org)

Almost three years since the deadly Texas blackout of 2021, a panel of judges from the First Court of Appeals in Houston has ruled that big power companies cannot be held liable for failure to provide electricity during the crisis. The reason is Texas’ deregulated energy market....

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“We are altering the terms. Pray we do not alter them any further.”

Why Are Archaeologists Unable to Find Evidence for a Ruling Class of the Indus Civilization? (www.resilience.org)

“The most tantalizing feature of the ancient Indus Valley remains is what they appear to lack: any trace of a ruling class or managerial elite. This defies the longtime theoretical assumption that any complex society must have stratified social relations: that collective action, urbanization, and economic specialization only...

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“The bar you had to clear was on the ground and y’all brought shovels.”

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there’s the Florida man who’s been repeatedly arrested for feeding the homeless …

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“because that prevents the creator from being rewarded for viewership”

not like Youtube rewards creators for viewership either (and then lying to the advertisers as well)

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that none of these fuckwits can think far enough ahead to “how will my business survive if all my slaves employees are dead?” – it really is just hate all the way down for them …

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Please fill out this Cambridge Analytica form to express your doubt.

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“… it’s not secure, it’s not safe, it’s not reliable, it’s not trustworthy, it’s not even decentralized, it’s not anonymous, it’s helping destroy the planet. I haven’t found one positive use. For blockchain, it was nothing that couldn’t be done better without it.”

—Bruce Schneier, https://www.schneier.com/news/archives/2022/08/bruce-schneier-on-the-crypto-blockchain-disaster.html

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“The human quest for interdependent order and our niche within it represents a profound necessity. The quest can, however, be perverted into a conservative grip on sameness. This has always proved deadly for the entire system.”

—Frank Herbert, Children of Dune (1976)

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“Landlords’ right has its origin in robbery. The landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for the natural produce of the earth.”

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