I use Firefox with ad blockers to watch YouTube. Chrome seems to be allowing them to block my ad blocker

Can the legislature be forced to follow the people’s mandate by law enforcement? We seriously need to pass laws that jail legislators who fail to act in a timely manner on the peoples will

spoken like someone who has never had religious nutjobs take over their government.

Seriously, the news prints the headline as if the rest of the article doesn’t make it really clear this is a claim from nowhere.

Oh fuck off I missed owning a home because I was too afraid of debt. It’s impossible for most to save enough cash for a house outright especially with how insanely the prices inflate

really good points. Thanks for the thoughtful response. I find the forum format the most comfy, but I’m the techy one so I think you’re right that others would probably prefer chats

zulip could work I think. Hadn’t heard of it / considered it before now.

What I’m envisioning is smaller communities that aren’t open to everyone like school / family / friends based communities.

After making the above comment I started reading about self hosting a lemmy instance with the idea that I might run one for my relatives and I to share photos, plan vacations, help w homework etc

as if rich people care about how much they pollute

May the next iteration of the internet include more people journeying to smaller communities that fit them, and less scooping everyone up and exposing them to as much outrage as possible to addict them.

Ideally all social media use goes to near zero

Can we not abandon facebook to be reclaimed by nature? I haven’t been on that site in years

Dear lovers of capitalism,

This is what they do with all the extra money they save by not being taxed. They lobby to make your life worse and undo the work your ancestors did to make the world a better place.

Start considering that there may be better uses for those profits.

I feel like this story is essentially propaganda at this point- at least in the USA where the ‘risk’ for the rich never plays out.

The rich don’t actually risk their money. They risk the government’s money and other’s lives and livelihoods. When they fail, they get bailed. Bailed out by the banks. Or they simply don’t pay their bills and lay off all their employees and let everyone else take a bath.

Rather than inflating everything, why don’t we tax the shit out of their held wealth? Seems more direct without all the side effects of making FOOD, HOUSING, AND HEALTHCARE UNAFFORDABLE

all these takes kinda suck.

The people most affected by inflation aren’t the rich at all. Theirs a whole generation inflated out of housing. Some might understand that as modern serfdom.

Because capitalism = cancer. It survives on endless growth. it hates retraction, even if the host survives longer.

So they print money and target inflation. They take actions that MAKE it so things never deflate.

Tell me you don’t understand soft power without etc…

!contagiouslaughter@sh.itjust.works

I just toss a couple videos of people laughing there everyday. It’s a bit niche but I love it because these videos usually give me a good belly laugh. If you like that type of content feel free to post

I am moderating a whole damn community. I never reached this level on reddit. I still touch grass I swear. Also its a tiny community that no one really interacts with but me

nice, out from the shadows! welcome

IMO the best way to solve it is to ‘lower the stakes’ - spread out between instances, avoid behaviors like buying any highly upvoted recommendation without due diligence etc. Basically, become ‘un-advertiseable’, or at least less so