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I like to think myself open-minded, but I’m also a meat eater. It really is just a matter of self control and convenience. I know humans eating meat in most developed countries is completely unnecessary. I know farming methods are cruel and environmentally damaging. It’s just tough to shake off the habit of craving a nice chicken breast or steak, especially since I lean towards a very high protein a diet.
I’d go far enough to say it used to not be murder, but now we only kill animals for luxury.
Super interesting read. Points out that the main strategy for gobbling up open source protocols is to adopt the standard, then expand on it, creating a “better” version for those using their ecosystem (and driving out those who aren’t)
I just wonder, hope, that this ecosystem stays innovative and big enough to always be better than corporate alternatives. We’ve sorta hit the point in my mind where the major players in social media have made all their products… Awful. Just terrible to be on. The tracking, the ridiculous amounts and types of ads, the constant censorship and rule > changes, all in pursuit of monetization. I just hope they continue to shoot themselves in the foot too much to draw people back in even if they’re federated. Reddit sucks now, Twitter is failing, everything of Meta has sucked for a long time. Hopefully people agree moving forward that open source replacements are good enough and being enough benefits to push these turds out. I’m sick of the internet being controlled by massive corporations.
It depends how you define reality working consistently. Dark matter was first theorized by observing how galaxies and star clusters etc don’t seem to have enough mass to produce the gravitational footprint that holds them together. So dark matter was theorized to account for it. Invisible, intangible matter that only interacts with “normal” matter through gravity. Kinda strange 🤔
The grabbing close coming in for the attack
I think it would take a major restructuring to society to work, one that… Can’t pass anytime soon. Think Star Trek’s “post scarcity” environment. Everything we’d ever need is so easily and cheaply available from the result of automated manufacturing, mining, farming. In my mind, we’d have to hit this critical mass where such a small portion of the population is necessary to run the maintenance and development of these automated systems that it’s impossible for most people to have a job that “contributes” to society. There’s no way, in that situation, we could just… Let the population starve because they have no money, even though the infrastructure exists to support all their needs and more for free.
UBI, in that case, would just be “spending money” to supplant the free food, power, housing, and clothing everybody already receives. Society would be more focused on socializing, exploring hobbies, art, etc. Only the people who really want more money or something else to fill their time with would get jobs, be STEM or government or something. I don’t see capitalism happily coexisting with UBI. Capitalism inherently depends on people needing to pay their bills to stay alive.
I wish I could share your optimism, I just see it getting worse before it gets better. Like, bloody revolution worse.
As of now, the majority of people still see billionaires as hard working geniuses who deserve the immeasurable wealth they have. There’s strong movements online that challenge these ways of thinking, but from all the people I know IRL, my wife is the only one who doesn’t call me crazy for thinking that level of wealth is only accessible through exploitation of “normal” people’s productivity.
