Because as long as they have us convinced that’s it’s “left vs right” than we won’t be unified enough to fight the real war, which is “Corporations vs the rest of us”.

A terrible way to die. My grandpa saw a lot of kerning in 'nam. Was never the same after.

Are the vertical lines angled? Or is that just an optical illusion?

I know, I’m just really lazy!

I like Noto Sans. But as a Linux user it often irks me too, since every…single…language…is included in most distributions; so half of my time finding a nice font that I just installed consists of scrolling past a bajillion Noto variants.

Gawd, bad Keming is the worst!!!

I have a weird obsession with fonts. I love a good, well designed font. How it looks on the screen, how it looks in print. Nothing too gaudy or showy, but a really good League Spartan or Lato Light. (Not a fan of serifs)

Other than that, normal stuff; 3D modelling, writing, etc…

My other interest that might fall “outside the norm” is that in University, if I had continued beyond my bachelors my primary focus would have been studying the Bronze Age Collapse, and that topic still fascinates me to this day.

Edit: Oh…and spreadsheets. There’s no problem in the world that can’t be fixed with a well designed spreadsheet. All problems come down to data sorting.

Most modern social media (TikTok, Snapchat, etc…) are only barely tolerable with the sound muted. WITH sound enabled they are a war crime.

Someone already mentioned my top favorite (Community - “Pillows and Blankets”). So I’ll have to go to my backup which is its equal.

Community - S3E04 - Remedial Chaos Theory.

Why? Because it’s the quintesential Community episode; goofiness, intelligence, absurdity, slapstick. and it all exists in one package)

Winger’s critics suggest he merely improvised hot-button patriotic dogma in a Ferris Bueller-ian attempt to delay schoolwork. Winger decries the accusation as “A slanderous betrayal akin to 9/11.” Later after the war, he would refer to the theory as “essentially accurate.”

First --> Check if I have boobs.

If yes --> Play with them for a bit.

If no --> Proceed to find out who I am.

“Baby”

as in: “Baby girl, get your ass off my head, I’ll get up and feed you dammit.”

Baby Girl is Ripley, a 110 pound mastiff with clinging issues.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought I read that their factory is actually built in occupied territory.

It’s the reason I’ve always refused to but one.

Glad I could help.

Based on the average age of Lemmy, I’ll go out on a limb and say I’m probably older than you.

What you call “informed positions” is simply giving up on seeing the reality over the propaganda. Your cynicism doesn’t allow you to separate the theory of capitalism from the reality of capitalism. You’re essentially no different than those people who say that anything except the current situation is essentially “socialism”, which by definition must be bad. But just because corporations have taken over capitalism, doesn’t mean there isn’t a fight to be had to try to change that.

I’m very close to 50 years old. I’ve got plenty of my own life experience that I don’t need any of yours thanks. If you want to give up, go right ahead. Some of us believe is a system where capitalism is contained by strong government regulations and social safety nets. Why do we believe this, because there’s plenty of European countries that already do this. Just because North America is completely bought out by corporations doesn’t mean that’s just what capitalism is.

Go be a sad sack defeatist on your own time.

Capitalism is inherently parasitic

I fundamentally disagree with that.

Venture Capitalism is parasitic. But Capitalism itself is not at all. At it’s heart, if we continue with the landlord analogy, let’s say that you are renting a house from the OP’s Aunt. She’s paying the building insurance. She’s paying the maintenance, (or in some good old fashioned cases doing it themselves). She’s dealing with the paperwork involved in owning a home. Hell, in some cases you don’t even have to mow your own lawn. So of course she’s charging you rent. It’s not a charity.

But if she’s a private owner, than your rent stays with her. She uses what she needs to maintain the building and…yes…makes a profit that then gets spent in the local economy.

The only time there’s an issue is when your rent is being sent to a corporation that may not even be in the same country as you, and that money leaves your local economy for good.

To use an anecdotal example, I’ve worked in my time for two different furniture stores in my town. One was a chain, and one was/is a family run operation from the beginning. And yes…that family is wildly successful; I’m not guessing millionaires, but close to it. And I don’t begrudge them at all for that. Because it’s family owned, they aren’t forced to only care about a stock price or about profit. My boss would randomly come up to me, sometimes multiple times a year, clap me on the back and say “You’re doing a good job, I’m going to add a buck an hour to your wage.”

Because they can. Because for all intents and purposes, you’ve got a better chance to be treated like a human being when a corporation isn’t in the way.

The chain furniture store would only give out raises when forced to by government mandated cost of living increases, because anything more would cause the stock price to go down.

The heart of capitalism is my first example. The reality of capitalism is my second unfortunately. But that’s not the fault of capitalism itself, it’s the lack of government oversight protecting us from predatory corporations.

No.

I of course can’t speak for anyone except myself, but for me, what your aunt is doing is what essentially capitalism is all about.

Its when those landlords get replaced by venture capital corporations and reits that it becomes a problem.

In your aunts case, the rent money stays local, contributes back to the local economy, etc…

In the case of venture capital and corporate ownership, the only goal is to increase a stock price for a corporation. None of that money gets returned to the local economy except for possibly hiring a local property management firm to handle things on the ground for them.

When capitalism remains about people, all of good. When corporations take the reins of ownership so their profit becomes the sole motive is when things go bad.

As challenging as it would be, the Fallout universe.

Don’t know why. I just feel like in the Fallout universe, you can be anything you want to be as long as you can convince enough people to back you up. Those same people might eventually stab you in the back, but still…vigilance is a small price to have the freedom to climb from a nobody stumble-bum to a czar of your own city-state.

The weirdest thing about most of my dreams is that neither myself nor anyone I know is ever really in them. My brain just quite literally writes completely fictional movies for me to watch, with made up actors, made up places, etc…

One of the ones I remember the most was about two androids (a married couple???) are on holiday at a remote resort surrounded by forests on all sides. It’s not explained, but my brain just knows that this is a world where humanoid androids have entirely replaced biological humans and have essentially just “adopted” their lifestyles, but we don’t know what happened to the humans yet.

In the middle of their stay, two things happen simultaneously; first, the nuclear reactor that powers the resort begins to go critical and they need to escape. But outside, a horde of savage humans, essentially devolved cavemen, attack the resort, trapping them inside. With no way out, they find out that they can delay the meltdown by putting pencils on top of each heat vent on the floor (because sure, brain…why not?).

And then I woke up. Never did learn how it ended.

Economic chaos for a little while, and then everyone would just go on with their lives. Economically it would matter of course; America became the richest power after the first world war when all of Europe needed loans to fight their “great war”, causing the greatest transfer of wealth the world had ever seen.

But culturally, I’m betting the number of people who would give a shit if the United States stopped bossing everybody around is far less than they think it is.

The american sense of importance is strongest mostly in their own heads.