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To steel man the downvoters, maybe there are other solutions besides killing off every business that can't afford to comply with copyright. After all, isn't the whole point of copyright to enable the capitalist exploitation of information?

The problem is no one has really made an effort to take over in the news/politics space. Meta basically decided Threads wouldn't be for that. Mastodon exists, but given it's nerd-based nature it's way more tech focused. Then there's Substack's half-assed effort, but they seem happy to focus on newsletter subscriptions for now. So there's competitors in microblogging generally, but there's still zero competition in news/politics.

Ok so what do I short and when?

I mean I plead guilty to posting while intoxicated, but it seems to me the fossil fuel industry does spend a lot of money on elections and basically has a whole caucus representing it in Congress. What do modern protests like BLM, Occupy, etc. have to show? Is there a single meaningful legislative change they can point to? The article seems to suggest quite the opposite. To be fair though, they did inspire a bunch of dismissive lemmy users to feel smug.

Kinda goes to show the failure of modern protest movements. What did BLM accomplish exactly? They didn't convict Chauvin, it was the people filming him that did that. A lot of realistic ideas were floated to fix policing, but they were drowned out by edgelord calls to "defund the police" and "ACAB". 4 years later nothing has been fixed.

People need to find a better way to make change happen. Raising your fist and marching around doesn't change a thing. Maybe instead of that, people should pool their money together and spend it removing bad politicians/sheriffs/judges etc from office. That's how oil does it.

...or so the Germans would have us believe.

She's not anti-war if she's supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine. She's anti-fighting back.

We've had six straight administrations of almost total non-enforcement of antitrust. I'm happy with Biden bringing lots civil cases when no one else has done anything about the problem, especially because civil cases are much easier to win. The goal should be to fix the problem more than punish people for what past administrations effectively legalized.

I tried to create a blog on substack once, I got literally zero views across a few posts. I feel like the only blogs there that get recommended are by people who are already semi-famous, suggesting the usual problem of recommendation algorithms killing entry for new creators. It also strongly encourages a paid model, you also usually have to subscribe to comment on others' posts which makes it hard to get your blog out there. I'd say it's more a publishing platform for people who are already well known than for ordinary people.

It tends to be pretty random. I'd say just maximize opportunity by doing more things that involve other people. In my experience I'd say about 95% of my attempts to meet people, whether that be for friends or dating, go nowhere. Then of the remaining 5%, only 10% of that lasts longer than a year. So 99.5% of your efforts will be unrewarded or only slightly rewarded.

So what can you do that involves other people? Meetups, volunteer, find an activity like climbing or trivia or whatever. It depends on your area. Since you're in a rural area there won't be much but take what you can get. Of course there's a wide variety of rural areas, but there's usually some activity prevalent in the area. Golf? Hiking? Hunting? Find wherever those people hang out and go hang out there.

Great now some fancy restaurant is gonna start offering a basket of fries cooked in lavender oil for $200.

My go-to is to grab a used samsung galaxy from Ebay. Usually the best bang for the buck. The reasonably new ones have no headphone jack, but the solid dongles (not the flexible ones) work pretty well for that.