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Not just The Population Bomb, the Limits to Growth report and the whole degrowth movement it spawned has a distinctly anti-humanist undercurrent.

Oftentimes it's to keep their family in the lifestyle to which they are accustomed, not themselves.

Marisa Tomei, this is the part she won an Oscar for.

Great, now millenial Jeeves and Wooster is going to be in my head all day.

Remember when we thought that behaviour like this was weird and offputting when it was brown muslims doing it?

Nothing feels as good as taking that first big swig of electrolyte drink on a hot sweaty day and feeling a wave of HYDRATION wash over you.

Peter Thiel has outright said this. He thinks democracy is incompatable with "freedom" and that monopolies are a positive good because competition grinds down returns from innovation. Put it together and he's describing a prescription for manorialist oligarchy.

neomanorialism

The result of financialisation. Landlords, financiers, IP and data rentiers are the dominant economic actors rather than merchants and industrialists.

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More than 100%, somehow.

I knew it, AI couldn't do something that specific, or funny.

Visuals are cool, music is great, but if I'm being honest, as a movie I prefer 2010.

These people call theselves feminists, but their founder is a well known anti-abortion, anti-queer, and anti-trans activists with deep ties to the Australian christian right. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinda...

Even Machiavelli noted that the elite will give away honours and offices freely to save their own skins but threaten their money and they'll either cave completely or just kill you.

Ironically, I think a lot of people who found the quiet condescension of the corporate HR-style DEI approach insulting would actually respond better to a more direct and honest approach.

Caving means gambling on losing a large chunk of your business.

Not caving means definitely losing your entire business.

Direct your anger at Visa, Mastercard and the other payment processors. No matter how poorly they may have handled it, Itch really didn't have a choice.

That will be difficult given that, short of people being willing to post them cash or cheque, losing access to the major payment processors basically dooms an online store to oblivion.

Remember, if you're in the US you can just download Robinhood and buy a few S&P 500 ETFs for cheap. You only need to own one share of a company contact them as a shareholder.

Mind-reading *alien*, the program part was a fake-out within the fake-out.

More a Ron Swanson than a Zap Brannigan.

Both companies are on the S&P 500, S&P 100 and DJIA indexes, so if you own any index funds or ETFs for those indexes you own Visa and MasterCard shares.

Unfortunately the suit has been filed in the US where its hard to prove defamation and even if they do, the remedy probably won't be nearly enough to deter her from similar conduct in the future.

They've levelled similar complaints against the New Payments Platform in Australia and GNU Taler in Switzerland, but Pix has become the focus of their ire due to its exploding popularity.

Everyone with even an ounce of passion for their business has been systematically pushed out of large corporate c-suites in favour of generic finance/MBA ghouls.

Just because something is useful doesn't mean it should be used. This is not a force of nature, it's decisions made by people.

Wasn't the big bang theory developed by a Jesuit looking for a way to reconcile the biblical creation with modern science?

I fully believe that some species acheived civilisation on Earth before we did. If they never got to an Industrial Age level of sophistication then it is perfectly plausible that no material trace would remain after a few million years.

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Craeft In the modern world we are becoming bombarded by craft. Hand-made tools, artisan breads and craft beers are all part of a pantheon of goods designed to appeal to our earthier selves, our sense of trad...

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