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That doesn’t mean we need to help them with their propaganda.

Being targeted by the FBI as a way to show action being taken.

Or weird nerds doing the Smithers thing.

Yes. And also there’s no way to reasonably do that anytime soon; our infrastructure just can’t turn on that dime. Electric cars are the bridge, particularly when charged via renewables.

frankly I think that focusing on helping the bottom end of the economic ladder is more productive than just talking about how it should be illegal to have more than a given amount of wealth.

Agreed. Generally easier to sell to the public, too.

That said, there’s also a bunch of stuff that wealth hoarding and extreme capitalism will still cause problems with, which isn’t directly tied to people living in extreme poverty. Climate change is just one example. Infrastructure is another. There are collective challenges that we can’t meet because of wealth disparity.

Maybe we just need to assign billionaires goals to achieve. “Hey, Elno, reduce world hunger sustainably over the next four years by 15% or we take all your money. Jeffy boy, you’re on housing; get us to zero homelessness before 2030, or we’re nationalizing Amazon. Oil execs, you get to tackle greenhouse gas emissions (I mean, you made the problem, you get to solve it). We’re replacing half of the gas stations in the US with fast charging stations, and we’ll sell off 1,000 a year to private owners; get us to net zero emissions and you get to have whichever of them the Federal Government still owns by that point. Whichever one of you chuckleheads gets done first gets all the other guys’ beach houses. And go!”

True. But that doesn’t excuse someone’s decisions when they are presented with the consequences of their actions. Even if it doesn’t affect anyone you know, you can still make moral decisions about how to treat them.

No, I believe it. The problem with capitalists isn’t that they have no empathy; most of them do. They just define very narrowly who that empathy applies to, and mostly that narrow line is drawn right around their immediate vicinity. He was probably great to those in his orbit. He just didn’t see his customers as human.

Tough to do, and do right, but I’m down. Still, until that day…

Audacity

You may want to switch to Tenacity. Audacity was purchased by a company in 2021 that super promises not to try to sneak telemetry into the program. Again. For the third time.

Tenacity is a fork of Audacity without any of that nonsense.

This whole charade is pointless. We are not talking about a rational human.

This is not a man who wouldn’t use force to make it happen anyway.

Trump doesn’t even follow his own country’s laws, I doubt he’ll care much about another’s.

That’s kind of what I was thinking.

Mathematically speaking, almost no one is.

Or, more likely, just borrow the money. Then they get to keep everything they have. They have plenty of stuff as collateral to secure it with.

Back in the middle ages, the code of chivalry came to basically be a gentlemen’s agreement between nobles which was generally adhered to even in times of war: “hey, there aren’t very many of us, so kill all the peasants you want but try to just capture and ransom the nobles.”

I wonder if there’s a similar agreement among the 1% today.

At least you could use it to make pretty much everything else!

On smartphones you can tap and hold, and on physical keyboards there’s usually an alt key combo you can put in.

It is used that way here, yes. I’m not familiar with any other meaning.

This is fascinating to learn.