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Can’t say personally, but for many it’s the first time they’re even looking at what other engines have to offer.

Well vegans do it, so it must be available enough

Same. Honestly it got me to stop putting butter on my toast. It’s so nasty.

I think this and the stuff happening at Twitter are a nice kickstart to get lemmy and other ferdiverse stuff going.

Long live the ferdervers!

But seriously, I’m with you in sentiment. I’m never going back to the centralised/for-profit soc med services.

All their value comes from the free interactions between people chatting, and they think they deserve to get rich for renting the hall. Fuck that, we can just rent the infrastructure ourselves if that’s what it takes to talk in peace.

If I’m at a birthday party and we’re only getting cake crumbs and someone comes by and offers me a slice, then yeah it’s nice for me, but how can they afford to just be giving away cake at a crumb party? It’s not just charity, it’s inequality and people with more money want credit parting with the surplus they’ve accumulated.

I’m not even talking about millionaires. They’re down here with the rest of us as far as I’m concerned. You can earn millions by directly working for it.

But anyway when I give money to the local animal rescue, it stings a bit, because that’s money out of my pocket that I would have otherwise spent. And I’m well off compared to most.

A billionaire is so far beyond that you may as well not even call it “money” for them, because it’s so different then what you or I associate with the term. Their lifestyle will never be at risk of having to change because they spent too much.

They have insane, unethical, embarrassing, pernicious, criminal amounts of available capital.

This is a commonly held belief and one that I had for most of my life. I don’t know what finally did it for me, but the book Trekonomics definitely gave me a push.

I can’t really think of a case where a post’s image isn’t relevant to the associated discussion. Even if it’s just a nonsense post with an unrelated image, knowing what the irrelevant image is about would help make sense of the discussion.

Not enough info is better than nothing. Because if it’s nothing, you can’t tell if the person who shared the image is lazy or decided the alt text wasn’t necessary for this particular picture

Canvas straps can be good quality, less sticky, and last way beyond the lifespan of any consumer grade electronic device.

Not to sound like I’m a textiles expert, so don’t come at me

Honestly I’m not sure they even get it, so maybe they should

So we should… praise them for their donation even though they know they are materially contributing to wealth inequality in their country?

Yes the rest of us are also part of a system of exploitation (and that’s bad and I hope you are all combating against it as best you can), but we’re much more beholden to it, seeing as how our actual survival requires full lifelong participation in that system.

If there’s anyone that could be considered “above capitalism” it’s the billionaires. They actually have some individual power to shift the rules of the game they know is crooked. Or at least not take take take take and still want praise for giving away a micron of a rounding error of their wealth.