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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

why do you think the Mozilla corporation losing 86% of their revenue wouldn’t hurt the Firefox browser?

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

Retrocomputing hobbyists and collectors.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They don’t have to set foot on American soil for a boat to take them away though. by the way, I can totally accept the possibility that it’s some kind of ridiculous immigrations or customs issue. But if it is, you can’t really infer it just from this article and I’m a little annoyed by that. it seems like the obvious question to ask.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Why is bringing in a relief crew not an option?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Fun fact the sdf lemmy has an openmw community: https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/openmw

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Honestly the whole point of capitalism is that the owners of the business get to decide what their moral responsibility is and if you don’t like that then maybe we should try something else

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

See you on December 14th, in 380 years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I didn’t do a good job in my messaging, I was agitated. but really I was just trying to say these things

  1. The global banking system represents a far bigger fish to fry, maybe like 100 to 1000 times bigger (it’s quite difficult to assess, but the total wealth held by private banks is frequently estimated to be in the hundreds of trillions of dollars. Compare this to the total value of literally all cryptocurrency)

  2. I probably see a dozen posts that are just writing the same criticisms of “cryptocurrency” over and over again without ever actually addressing why people are drawn to it in the first place, for every one post that’s complaining about banks. despite the fact that banks have screwed over orders of magnitude more people than any crypto bro could ever dream of

  3. When you don’t actually clearly spell out the problems that drew those people in in the first place, and at the very least empathize with them explicitly, all you do is alienate those people and you don’t actually get them to stop using cryptocurrency

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don’t understand why I wrote that either looking back at your comment. I apologize for it.

as for a common ground: I feel like you’re saying these things because you think that I believe that this person doesn’t feel that way. The truth is I would be surprised if they didn’t feel that way, for all of the reasons you’re saying. I’m literally just saying that nothing they write establishes with 100% certainty how they feel about the global financial system. Like you literally can only conclude that if you’re willing to make assumptions about what it must mean to post this in solarpunk, what it must mean to be critical of billionaires etc.

And you also need to consider that not everyone even understands all of those things. people come here from all sorts of corners of this little fediverse, you need to consider how they’ll perceive this too if you actually want to steer people away from it. Would they be wrong for failing to connect all those dots if they were never exposed to them before?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Thank you for sharing this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

it’s a shame that you can’t share how something makes you feel alienated without people inferring that it must mean you disagree with the essence of what the person is saying. It’s even more of a shame because all of us sharing this feeling of alienation should only service making the messaging better in the future.

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