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its still probably a mistake to be merciful to those who want to hurt you, on the off chance that the way they hurt you might end up bypassing the defenses of some cosmic horror

i comfort myself with the knowledge that most worlds are totally dead

zero wildlife is the normal state of things

extinction is only sad to the survivors, and soon enough there will be none left to mourn

Just like Lemmy more.

Reddit gave me a temp ban, but I declined their generous offer to return after a week.

I had reported a post by some far-right religious fundamentalist for promoting political violence. Reddit told me that reporting ToS-breaking content is a bannable offense, perhaps because the far-right owners of reddit feel like kindred spirits to the uber-conservative terrorist sympathizer that got reported.

the yuge depression

If the stock market crashes, then institutional investors will jump ship and look to put their capital elsewhere. Real estate for example.

With demand for real estate going up, so too will prices. The current owners will be able to sell & make a nice profit.

That profit from the sale of real estate can then be used to buy cheap stocks that will eventually rebound.

A shady real estate developer could get paid twice by ruining the world economy.

He's obviously fibbing, if he read it he would know that Gollum destroys The Ring.

should have been posted to /c/upliftingnews

The Republican voter base has been conditioned to listen for the dog whistles used by the Southern Aristocrats - the owners of the Republican party - for so long now that some are genuinely surprised that "small government" means something other than thinly veiled racism. Now they're getting exactly what they asked for, but what they've asked for isn't what they actually want. Cutting government programs hurts rural communities more than cities. The Republican base has become the dog that's caught the car.

According to the 53rd Chair of the Republican National Committee, Lee Atwater:

Y'all don't quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying, "N*****, n*****, n*****." By 1968 you can't say "n*****"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "N*****, n*****."

small government is when white people get food stamps

big government is when black people get food stamps

IP law itself is a band-aid over capitalism's disincentivizing of humanity's innate tendency toward ingenuity, innovation, and iteration

public domain is the default - its IP law and the artificial scarcity it creates which is useful to the capitalists

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Who would buy them in a different political climate when China makes cars that are half the price and almost as good?