for what it's worth, it's a small active community. Those that stay participate, like a pre-Eternal September internet. I've seen memes here before they made it to reddit, that's a shift in "power" that can't be understated in the landscape of the internets.
“I’ve come to the conclusion that hope has to be a strategy”
How bleak is that...
Tacitly admitting that we're going to have to get really lucky because without a heretofore unseen ability to change there's nothing coming to save us.
as someone who was into computers and in high school in 2000, that that was not normal.
even if yo mean normal computer literate person, not even then... Most people did not run their own servers, was it more common, yeah, but it wasn't a given.
Things were only free if you were into piracy, everything cost money though without as much marketing, but then it wasn't a huge market...
like fungi recycle dead things into an absurd amount of nutrients, without them trees especially would barely break down and just stick around until very very eventually they turn into coal.
this is just such a cool thing to think about, there was a time when there were just dead trees everywhere in forests, like just laying there being logs or whatever, just piles and piles of dead trees and that's where coal comes from.
The people mining and dying and polluting the planet just digging out piles of dead trees.
Okay, let's do it explain how in a "pure" capitalist society a public body, without the ability to at least nominally use a legal system to guard against collusion and monopoly using the threat of breaking up or shutting down corporations, provide any protection?
Giving them the power to do that makes them just a government by another name.
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I mean you're wrong, with an IRS issued ITIN undocumented immigrants pay federal taxes amounting to $6 billion a year...