Thanks for explaining all that.

I don’t like being fed conclusions even if in the end I will agree with those conclusions. I need to know all the relevant thinking for the topics with elevated importance to me.

Maybe I can afford a mental shortcut on a topic of little consecuence, or if I have an overwhelmingly good personal relationship and have outsourced 60% of important thinking to this hugely trustworthy person (then I will be in deep shit should something happen to my relationship with that person, not good).

I won’t say I do all my own thinking for myself, but I try. So thank you again for explaining.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Didn’t know. Thanks for saying that.

So it makes even more sense for the small buinesses to organize online under a special coop charter to fight off the icky monopolies.

Like small mom and pop grocers could band together to order in volume to get a similar discount to walmart. It might be hard to organize this for grocers in meat space, but should be more plausible to set up a coop fediverse site with a highly small bis protective charter written by a lawyer.

Maybe the way to handle the members that got too big and too successful for the coop network is to celebrate those members for a month by promoting them in a farewell promotion, then move them to a harder to acess “alumni” section of the site, instead of instantly and totally cutting them off. Someone more business oriented than me should think about the details.

My main point is that small anybodies should organise, and not just the workers. Small businesses are routinely oppressed, and should organize and fight back. If we wait for our billionaire-captured government to bust the trusts, we might have to wait a minute.

You have to do way more marketing since you can’t rely on search result hits, right?

It would be cool if there were a business fediverse type deal where searching worked across all the small business federated web sites. Such a network should putposely exclude or kick out (politely and with a celebration) anyone that got too large, to maintain a small business focus to basically give the little guys a leg up.

It would be like a fediverse small bis cooperative kinda thing. That way there would be a search box for products and services that everyone could use to search the entire small bis network. And this would bypass monopolies like Google or Amazon.

Raise their tariffs to 1000%.

Has Cuba tried wearing a suit?

It’s infuriating, but if it’s your brother, unless he’s jeopardising an important priority in your life in a way that affects your life opportunities and/or wellbeing/health, ya should probably tolerate it somewhat. Like explain why what he did is a bad thing and let it be. Family discount. At least it’s not your parent that’s acting up.

Anyway, I am just talking out of my ass here, free advice, and all that. I don’t blame you at all, I’d be pissed too.

if they are pretending to get it wrong to ban you for other reasons

Oh, this has to be a very common behavior.

Or making overly strict rules because you plan on selective enforcement from the get go.

People will weaponize anything when they are fighting for an advantage.

/s

It’s corporate speak, imo.

I hate it too.

They also like to call everything “assets.” Not a “picture” or an “image” or a “decoration” or a million other descriptive words. It’s all “assets.” When the corporates talk like that they are emphasizing ownership and profitabiliy. “Put that money-making thing we own there.” “Lisa, which folder did you put that money-making thing we own in?”

🤢

Ban spears, knives, pipes, cars, fertilizer, aluminum, bows, blowguns, poison, fists.

Or, just run a decent society where nobody feels opressed, and has no desire to lash out.

Tax the billionaires out of their billions, or put a tight leash on everyone to allow the billionaires to become trillionaires. Which is it?

Let’s not forget how Gavin Newsom vetoed universal healthcare in California. Also, Gavin Newsom gave prepaid phones to a bunch of CEOs and told them to call him if the CEOs need anything. Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/18/newsom-ceos-burner-phones-00235044

They will need to ban breathing while poor soon the way they are going.

Can’t ban your way out of the greatest wealth inequality since the Great Depression. But they will try, won’t they?

Has anyone tried a Murena (/e/os) phone?

I am thinking about it.

Linux is way more similar and familiar than you likely imagine.

Of course, learning is inevitable going to Linux for the first time. But learning is not scary or bad. There are helpful docs and the community. Everyone here was once where you are now.

Also, try Linux risk-free on Windows in a virtual machine.

Next you can dual boot.

Next, you can resort to running Windows apps via Wine and other virtual evironments.

And only last but not least, can you go 100% pure Linux.

So there is a gentle and gradual migration path available. It’s not an all or nothing commitment right upfront.

You only have your chains to lose.

The irony is that Google uses FOSS software in a huge way since its founding.

Free and Open Source Software for me, but not for thee, Europe.

Fuck Google’s hypocrisy. And fuck Google/Alphabet.

Never forget for a second that it is because of the billionares, free market fundamentalism, private property fetishism, wealth consolidationism/royalism, that the ICE exists (and many other bad agencies).

They want us angry at ICE while the consolidationists are trying to convert the world to rent-only slavery, because they want to be trillionaires and make the line go up forever, no matter what.

Every time I see “ICE” I think fuck all the billionaires.

If only instead of each one micromanaging our purchases there could be a system set up to thwart the bad corporate behavior in a broad and systemic way, with the dedicated pros doing oversight professionally.

If the billionaires are hard to target, their help will be easier. Once people learn that associating with the billionaires can be bad for one’s health, two things will happen:

1. Less available help.
2. Much more expensive and much more short term help, to make the risk/reward sensible. If I can work for a month doing risky bodyguard duty for a fascist scumbag and get paid 20 mil, if nothing bad happens to me in that month, I am set for life. That kind of calculus can work up to a point. Just imagine managing this process tho, lol, looking for risk-hungry new fools every month. Not fun, not good for the morale.

We can make shit that wears out after a week of use. Then we need an endless amount of shit.

Powerless?

Or is it learned helplessness?

They tend to hire body guards.