WiseThat

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Galt's Gulch was much more Socialist Commune than libertarian.

Money had no use as Ragnar was running around distributing gold to everyone on a regular basis, John Galt had built a literal free energy machine and was giving the power away AND giving vanishingly cheap lectures on how to build one. Even the scarce resources (like the only car in the entire society) were being rented out for 50 cents a day.

Plus all these fiercely competitive supercapitalists would just step aside and just allow competitors to operate with no challenge. The iron mine, and coal mine were all running at industrial scales to serve a town of a few hundred (they had robot labour and free energy) and when the copper miner just showed up they just let him stake a an exclusive claim and start digging with no issue.

I highly recommend Adam Lee's critical readthrough on patheos.com https://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/series/atlas-shrugged/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Another emulator. Iirc some of the code running Nintendo's own retro gaming products was pirated FROM Ryiujinx

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

He's like the third guy to do this in a year, big money doesn't want you to know about it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

We've removed critical functionality from the operating system because our boss didn't want more than 6 buttons on screen at any time. Sorry the system is 100x more difficult to use!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

But then how will congress give taxpayer dollars to a private company to do a terrible job?

I mean, we COULD have a government run agency that retains skilled engineers and keeps a good talent and knowledge pool of people specialized at delivering services that hundreds of millions of people rely on OR we could give money to the lowest bidder and blame "government inefficiency" for the contractor's fuckups.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

This is a classic case of the Patriarchy / Toxic Masculinity hurting men too.

For the government officials to fund a Men's shelter would mean admitting that men can have moments of weakness, which the men in power do not like.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Shouldn't the black king be on a white square and the queen on her own colour?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Socialist and communist economies actually tend to grow faster and be more prosperous than Capitalist ones.... Until the US kills the government and blockades the ports.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. It's not "Leftist", it's just NOT fully of Nazis, and that's how far our standards have slipped.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The guys from I Did a Thing has a second channel that covers politics and they did a GREAT video on this wackjob, and the whole industry of these rich vampires paying the young homeless people in the USA to literally drain them of their blood: The Dark World of Young Blood Transfusions

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Pretty much every bit of him looking better is just his skin looking healthier because he's taking a fuckton of estrogen. Everything else is just nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

This strongly reminds me of the Rimworld community.

Like, Rimworld ALLOWS you to do slavery, organ harvesting, cannibalism, and all sorts of wild shit within its systems, and the young-male fans of the game talk that up a lot.

...but the reality is that most people set up a nice little farm and spend most of their time making art and decorating their base and playing matchmaker.

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