GhostOnTheHalfShell

@ploot

It’s a matter of time before some variant mutate and enable fall on human human transmission. When was the Spanish flu pandemic… 1918

@yogthos

Yeah, I may need to stick my nose back in to that side of things because I view mastodon is sort of a stream of thought forum.

@yogthos

If you don’t mind my asking, how is Lenny doing these days? I sort of sampled I kbin, when Reddit was busy lady pissing off everybody under the sun, but if some sort of retreated back to mastodon here which is easy.

@yogthos

If you know the history of the game of Monopoly, it was designed to illustrate that point. It was created around the time of the great depression in the post stock market crash, maybe.

It would be a fabulous time right now in the midst of this insanity to start reviving then re-watching movies and new stories commentary from the 20s and the 30s.

History is rhyming up a storm

@yogthos

The competition itself is a factor in economic instability and crisis, and it is in crisis that the ultrarich and the larger companies gain the most advantage because often by no fault of their own, the smaller or the unlucky run into a Cash flow problem and must sell their business for pennies on the dollar.

Competition also means over capacity.

This is why the ultrarich just love, economic crisis; they will make a killing off of other people’s economic distress.

@yogthos

because they only become monopolies, because they’re “satisfying” the market best. If they start doing evil things, then magic market pixie dust will make a competitor.

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Seriously, Mr. Champion of capitalism argued that wasn’t necessary to actually have competitors competing in a marketplace. The man should’ve been bitch slapped out of University as soon as he said bullshit like this.

@yogthos

At best you can say if you have a system of profits and markets that that system is exquisitely fragile and soon becomes something entirely different.

These simple observations are why I relentlessly mock mainstream economics, particularly neoliberal ideas.

Uncle Milty Mr. free market fundamentalist himself, was paid to say things that like monopoly are just fine,

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@yogthos

The funny part is the capitalist are just as fond of centralized command and control economies as they said they never were.

And the capitalist well they’re giving the whole system very bad name at the moment much more than say in the last 10 years.

@j_feral @jeroen @ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology @fanf @brewsterkahle

I haven’t seen a GIS map in ages. Nice, and thank you!

I guess my question is if these outfits store some of the created works that reside on YT. I would argue that retaining everything on YT is a bit crazy. Organisms forget for a reason.

@j_feral @jeroen @ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology @fanf @brewsterkahle

The only problem is the lack of public investment. I’d much prefer to see municipalities provide internet and web hosting services to its residents, then build out parallels to BigPlatform through a fedi model. A fedi ecommerce element doesn’t exist.

For profit platforms end up being little different than the East India company, which was owned by the world’s richest man of his time. We had a party in Boston over it.

@jeroen @ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology @fanf @brewsterkahle

Archive has immense storage capacity, but Google’s data centers are much larger.

The world would be better served with archives scattered across the globe which federate. I’ve been drawn to the idea that every municipality should have one more or more archives (tied to libraries), which then federate.

the fundamental protocols of the internet are distributed and decentralized; they were designed to survive nuclear war.

my 2c

@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology

Note that Youtube enacted a policy of deleting very old footage.

The process is already underway.