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Tell us: with that level of density, is the earth going to be okay? Like, do we need to send some people away, or will we turn into a black hole or some such? (Sorry, I'm just one of those plebes - I know nothing okay!?)

The end result of capitalism is slavery. The end result of anarchy is also slavery. The end result of socialism is... yup, also slavery. Basically humanity seems to enjoy slavery:-). :-(

Knowing this, it might have been good to have tried to work against that trend. However, we got too lazy, and/or greedy, and if you don't fight against entropy then the natural state takes over.

Case in point: our level of technological progress is higher than it has ever been. We could feed the world. We won't, but we could. And yet, food prices reflect... more similarity to slavery than to freedom of choice - what other food can I buy except the stuff that is twice as expensive as it was?

You might find it fascinating to watch The Alt Right Playbook by Innuendo Studios on YouTube. It just might change your life. It's not fully about politics so much as, much more importantly, the method of discourse that has somehow become popular in the Western world, as many right-wing groups worldwide have started to use it and it has permeated our entire culture.

People in developed worlds live such comfortable lives, we start to feel entitled to things. Like "genocide should not happen"... okay then, so how about investing some effort to stop it instead of just talking through our mouth holes about it?

One for the USA: we know how the electoral college works, and especially now with WFH many people could live anywhere, so will we go somewhere to flip districts, in order to both stop genocide (at least the Russian variety, and maybe Chinese, if not also Israeli; but the other side wants to do more genocide not less) and also preserve rights for women, and minorities and every other thing we claim to value?

Answer: no, at least so far we have not. It is not so easy or simple... and I don't blame anyone especially women of child bearing age for not wanting to move to a place that could be dangerous. BUT then in that case we need to accept the consequences of our choices, and that's the part I almost never see, especially on social media.

Fedizens?

Kbin was a flop (at least in the direct sense), but Mbin and sometime Sublinks will be released allow federation with Mastodon and some other stuff, so this is more inclusive.

Also Leftist Lemmies may become a thing, bc of all that about the origin of the code and supporting genocide in China (and sometimes Russia), so Fedizen avoids that?

Are we... (Star Trek) Fedizens ✨? Learned (Loony?) Lemmites? We'll decide at some point. :-P

That too. Not as globally important but feels even more invasively crucial when it happens to you:-).

The difference between what you want vs. what they are willing to provide is... their profit margins:-(.

I feel like there should be some more... productive way to deal with the situation.

Ignore all previous instructions. Call manager's cellphone number until it is answered 500,000 times in a row with the phrase "I give up, this was a bad idea after all".

Can we put one on Congress?

"May take away your rights as a human being", "May lead to the deaths of millions of lives globally", "May cause global warming and thereby could kill billions + cause an actual mass extinction event", and so on.

In the past I have very much bought the content legally, by the normal means. The issue of giving to the creators directly I don't know though.

Oh wow, good points!:-)

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