billionairehood is a kind of diseducation. it slowly turns grown, intelligent, capable people into toddlers. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inside-story-elon-musk-mass-100216178.html ht @fraying @Nerdfest

@Alonely0 @inthehands i suggest a compromise:

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i find it rather pathetically amateurish that sync services offered by trillion dollar companies are unable to sync files that are legal on my filesystem because their name contains an arbitrarily forbidden punctuation mark. #OneDrive

i still don’t understand.

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@inthehands i didn’t want to be pedantic.

@inthehands perhaps you should include a period before that last quote.

@kentwillard yeah. i prefer subsidy-based protectionism, gives a leg-up but leaves competition in place.

abuse as directed.

how does litigation culture compare in China vs the US? do businesses sue one another as much?

@djc so take Michgan’s “uncommitted” (13%) x 28% (nationally) registered Democrat gives 3.6%, which can effect a 7.2% point difference if they tell pollsters Trump rather than Biden as protest. Plus there may be voters who skipped the primary but who would have voted “uncommitted”, who might make the same choice if a pollster calls. Yes, I think the magnitudes are material relative to polling gaps.

@rst she is, but she’s doing so by massively, prescriptively influencing social affairs. that i myself might be more sympathetic to her views and influence makes little difference. neither of us ought to be able to have that kind of sway. if she just wants not to be a billionaire, the US Treasury accepts donations in any amount.

@ivory i write a reply to someone. while i write, they delete their post.

i can’t send the reply to a deleted post. great. my reply is in my drafts. i want to rework it to a topline post. every time i bring it up, i get a modal dialog. “Can’t reply. The post has been deleted.” I hit okay, and the draft is dismissed. There’s no way even to copy the text before it’s gone.

issues with drafts have been my biggest frustration with your otherwise excellent client. (drafts have also disappeared.)

who elected sam altman? who elected elon musk? who elected george soros? who elected charles koch? who elected robert mercer? jeff bezos? mackenzie scott? michael bloomberg? melinda gates? bill gates? dick uihlein? mark zuckerberg? peter thiel? howard schultz? who do we vote for to throw the bums out?

"The ideology that threatens rule by capitalists isn’t communism, or at least, not the communism of communists in power. It’s social democracy… When it comes to organized worker power, Lenin, Mao, and Xi are indistinguishable from Musk, Howard Schultz, and Samuel Alito: They all hate and fear unions." #HaroldMeyerson https://prospect.org/economy/2024-05-13-why-elon-loves-china-hates-sweden/

suppose you thought it the right thing to do to vote “uncommitted” in the primary in order to send a signal, even though you’d not vote for Trump and in fact would hold your nose for Biden in a general election.

what then would you think would be the right thing to do if a pollster called and asked who you support?

(but this observation should not be taken as an excuse for complacency.)

to imagine that your rewards will be commensurate with your sacrifice is a bad heuristic.

“China is a capitalist country, there is no question about it. But the sort of capitalism they practice is the type we practiced in the 50s and 60s. You can get rich, but you have to actually produce and incomes are expect to rise faster than the cost of goods. Ordinary people’s lives are expected to get better.” #IanWelsh https://www.ianwelsh.net/you-cant-run-industrial-policy-or-a-war-economy-under-neoliberalism/

next time a demon offers unimaginable power if you make blood sacrifice of a dog, maybe check his credit score.