Doesn’t spoil as quickly…?

Ants even have soldiers

Capitalism is different from a regular market in that it is not just trying to make a profit in order to have enough money to exchange for useful goods and services.

Capitalism demands that your profit grows and grows and grows. It’s growth for it’s own sake. A capitalistic economy like our world economy needs to grow 3% or so every year or it gets into a recession. 3% doesn’t sound like much, but it’s exponential growth, doubling every 25 years or so. This growth doesn’t come out of thin air, but from extracting from value from other people, our world and so on.

And measuring an economy by GDP is incomplete, because it doesn’t take uncompensated labor, human happiness and wellbeing, and public goods (like a healthy nature) into account. When a factory owner pollutes and dries up the river while employees have no choice but to work 16 hour weeks, GDP goes up.

In nature, things grow until they are mature. That does not mean progress halts. Adults don’t grow anymore, but continue to learn.

My try to explain why money and markets are okay, but growth for it’s own sake (growthism you may call it) is destroying our societies, making us unhappy, and is also killing us with the climate and biodiversity crises.

Most food is edible, by definition

Isn’t a pure square grid inefficient, because trains get stuck? That happened to my square grid megabases, so I stopped doing them.

Wenn diese Deutschen einen Bahnhof stürmen wollen, kaufen die sich erst eine Bahnsteigkarte!

Saying of unknown origin, often accounted to Lenin.

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Nah fuck that. You’re cool french people. 🇫🇷🤝🇪🇺

Many people in cars dislike “other people’s cars” because they are in their way. Having fewer car traffic is good for motorists as well.

So sehe ich es auch. Ich halte den US Markt für sehr unsicher, und auch wenn ich damit möglicherweise Profite verliere weil ich einen signifikant der Marktkapitalisierung nicht mitnehmen… Wen juckts? Andere länder haben auch schöne aktienmärkte? Die laufen je nach Weltlage sogar deutlich besser als der US Markt.

Deshalb habe ich keinerlei US Aktien, auch mein Welt etf ist ex USA.

Of course everyone expects TACO, some measures that inevitably backfire, but honestly, this may be short sighted. If they strap a nuke onto ICBMs and shoot them anywhere that they thinks blocks the passage, that would “work”. It would be insane and with immesurable bad consequences, but Iran would face hell and probably stop holding the passage closed.

Not enough people seed or distribute music. The only good way I know is downloading from YouTube, but YouTube is working hard on blocking this too.

Das hat aber auch damit zu tun, dass ein schlagartiger Preisachockt gekommen ist. Das hat sich ja nicht über mehrere Monate langsam hichgeschaukelt, und war somit nicht planbar.

Hä? Check ich nicht

I’m on an FP6 with iodéOS, very smooth so far, and apparently security is better than with /e/OS.

I had to manually flash it though.

That legal question is not yet clearly answered. I think absolutely yes, but the Megacorps and pro-ai people don’t seem to care.

Haven’t done any japanese learning in weeks, probably keep forgetting kanji and grammar. Even though I plan to go to Japan for the first time later this year. Scheiße.

I’m in infosec. At some point you have to stop questioning things to remain a functioning member of society. All the computers, huge or tiny component are technically attack surface.

But the really scary shit is actually vehicles without a driver in them.

Schlimmer geht immer

Sometimes software serves an abuser. We call this malware

Todesgewitter war gemeldet, als es drei Tropfen gepisst hat hab ich meinen Regenschirm nicht mal aufgemacht. Aber windig und kalt wars.

Abseits davon ist Grade sehr schön draußen. Besonders blühende Bäume (die kein Biohazard sind)