fascinating, thanks.

no doubt ushered in under some notion of “protecting” us from well funded groups, yet mysteriously didn’t include a minimum threshold so poor folks with $4.25 in their account are still included in these broad sweeping laws.

pretty much, but its really crossing some thresholds lately which i find impressive

+1 for huygen optics, this dude is legit

out of interest, whats the deal with banks needing to know where you sleep at night?

is it a serfdom thing?

or is it only in the case of eg. that being the place you hold a mortgage with them on?

freecad is actually getting fucking good for the price

my guess is its just another flavour of cope.

imo likely because recent history has began to undermine the delusions which were propping up the former flavour.

so what they’re really saying is they won’t give it away for free

may i ask why you believed that and why you stopped believing?

what piece of knowledge changed things for you?

surely you already knew all the reasons why that sounds pretty fantastical, even back then?

seems like i’m mostly telling people in this thread not to feel bad about their prior cringe…

i really didn’t follow this closely AT ALL. but i feel like back in the day libertarian ideas were much more left of center than they are now. to my inexpert perception, it feels like libertarianism (and alot of other things) have been co-opted by conservatism over the years.

which version of the hollow earth are we talking? if you mean a giant hollow shell, then yeh i’m not sure how well supported that is.

if you mean the honeycomb earth idea, where there could be myriad of huge deep caverns. then i’m kinda open to that possibility.

(not that my geoscience knowledge extends beyond highschool geography and the odd wikipedia article - so would welcome an opportunity to discuss with someone adept.)

noscript is like a screwdriver. umatrix is the whole toolbox.

both have their place

not sure if you’re being sarcastic, but if anything this news paints linux deployment in an even better light.

Going cashless is a bad idea. But not because of this.

It’s pretty clear this incident has highlighted a myriad of very important issues.

It’s likely more productive to discuss the other issues in their own threads - this thread is clearly focused on the cashless problem.

not if they’re only covering the cost of parts

and probably have some of the most depraved porn habits imaginable

true kindness would be to not demonise and ban entheogentic medicines with thousands of years of contemporary peer review in the sickening pursuit of corporate greed

cos nothing proves “microsoft <3 opensource” like releasing a project over ⅓ of a century old

i agree with everything you’ve said including your links between causation etc

except the final link you make that its the consumer, i note you said ‘partly’ a consumer issue, so its not a full attribution - perhaps i’m misinterpreting what % you’re attributing.

tbh my take is alot of people would like an option between paying $2 for a garment they know involved exploitation/slavery vs an accessible¹ independent option that doesn’t cost $500/garment.

i don’t think people are still choosing the $2 option because they’re ok with slavery. but (tragically?) they’re more ok with someone else being the slave vs them being the slave - which is what they’d basically be if every piece of clothing cost them $500.

and i think we know the reason there’s very little accessible options in between is because the game is rigged, you (HelixDab2) can’t realistically enter the game without serious capital behind you (ie. wealth/connections) to reach the volume prices which might give us an option in between - the market isn’t fair, its been stitched up long ago, by the same people who don’t produce anything and greedily skim off the top.

the venn diagram of independent designers fairly charging $500 for their labor and the greedy skimmers getting fat without producing anything themselves is two separate circles - they’re worlds apart

¹ Quick note on accessibility, there are ofc some scant options between $2-500, but what isn’t clear (ie. readily accessible) to the consumer is which of those options isn’t just some greedy bastard buying a $2 option and selling it on for $15.

I love the way you think.

In other words its not because of the consumers, but because of the greedy skimming off the top.