The algorithms killed the platforms. They’ve become vapid, empty holes that only attract people addicted to them like junkies.

The internet can be fun, but you’re not going to find it on the platforms. You’re only going to find fun in places where people talk to each other. And even then, if you’re thin skinned you’re going to wind up in an outrage filled circlejerk. If you loosen up and go where the algorithms don’t exist you can have a good time.

This is so wrong it’s absurd, it gives you absolutely no information on the history of this conflict. The current conflict dates back to the early 20th century, well before world war 2.

It’s called Pleroma.

No matter what you think of it, someone’s going to try to guilt and browbeat you. Support the Palestinians? You’re antisemitic and support terrorism. Support Israel? You’re supporting an oppressive apartheid state. So who cares whether you’re allowed, this is the world we live in, no matter what you think about anything there’s someone out there who’s going to call you a bad person for it. Just learn about things before you form an opinion, use your judgment and critical thinking and then figure out the truth of whatever it is.

Personally, I don’t support either side. I can see how they both kind of brought each other’s retaliation on themselves. I just lament innocent people dying and dislike how it affects me.

Can you see the tip of your nose?

Yes, and that’s OK.

He’s Indian. He means just talk to her. They talk like that.

I’m with you on most of that. But I think the problem is more fundamental: the money devalues at a rate of 2-5% a year.

Think about it. Why wouldn’t the wealthy just hoard money? Because you can’t just hoard money. It devalues. You have to monetize other assets. So they buy real estate, with money they made from you when prices go up but your wages haven’t gone up yet. They benefit from the cantillion effect and in the process siphon wealth from the bottom. and as they accumulate non-money assets, that effect compounds because the prices go up some more. The wealth gap, all of this, it stems directly from our inflationary monetary system. Their trick is that they get to fuck with the money.

I don’t just want to learn what the article says, I want to learn what people think. That’s why I’m using a network designed for discussion and not just, say, an RSS feed.

Well that doesn’t add up. Hoarding wealth would imply saving dollars in the bank. But that doesn’t actually store the wealth, they’d have to buy things that don’t devalue, or in other words, invest. Investing is paying people to do things that will be profitable to you, or in other words, use it. Obviously thats not what’s going on, or you wouldn’t have an unusually high a concentration of wealth. There’s got to be more to the story than this.

What’s the non simple answer?

God damn I’m just trying to learn dude. Do you come here for discussion or just to be an asshole?

How’d they do it?

Does it mean black against black?

The ability to drive on a road and know it will be in front of you is called irresponsibility?

So apparently the barriers were missing “due to vandalism” and it was raining heavily the night this happened.

I am a bit terrified of this. Sometimes when I’m driving at night I realize, to assume the road doesn’t end right over the next hill is to put full faith in the state. You have to trust your government to am extreme to go 70 mph over a hill you can’t see past. Some people in some places don’t have that luxury, and it won’t be like that forever anywhere.

Funny, when the climate change deniers called offsets a scam, everyone dogpiled them. Now that they’ve been definitively outed as a scam and it is an acceptable narrative among the left, offsets were of course always a scam by the oil industry and politicians.

You don’t say.

So the government takes your money and squanders it and doesn’t help the people it took your money to help and you don’t blame them?

This is all a game of incentive. “Unable to manage things well” and “profitable to not prioritize running things well” are the same thing. Governments benefit from things sucking because then they can ask you for more money to fix them.

What?

Because, and we try to tell y’all this often but you don’t listen, anything managed by government gets managed badly.