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The utopia of the early internet was driven by content that was created by (a very small number of) volunteers. It was surplus thrown off by other forms of productivity. The message boards, the passion projects, researchers doing other things.

I'm not saying that it's bad that the internet was a mutual aid organization. People who did it for the love, but it was always going to have a ceiling. The internet didn't pay for itself and that only has so much runway.

The utopia of the early internet was driven by content that was created by (a very small number of) volunteers. It was surplus thrown off by other forms of productivity. The message boards, the passion projects, researchers doing other things.

I'm working on a theory. I have more than one friend who is convinced of their own intelligence and rationality and convinced of the lack of both for anyone who believes in any religion or spirituality. "Religion is the opium of the masses" "clinging to their God and their guns"

I think this is an interesting thought. For exempt positions, I you might find there's not a ton of productivity lost by shortening the work day. My personal motto is "nothing new after 2" my ancient brain just can't.

Pro natalists (not the OP, I'm sure they're responding to pro natalism rather than espousing it) need to reckon with the fact that all over the world, once women gain control of their reproduction, they have fewer children. And it looks like the average decision is to have less than 2 on average.

I think this is an interesting thought. For exempt positions, I you might find there's not a ton of productivity lost by shortening the work day. My personal motto is "nothing new after 2" my ancient brain just can't.

A lot of the same value could be gotten by govt-provided health insurance (removing the "full time" benefit cliff) and raising the minimum wage. The big advantage of this is that the original post was directing private companies to all do something and min wage + Medicare for all are govt actions.

I think this is an interesting thought. For exempt positions, I you might find there's not a ton of productivity lost by shortening the work day. My personal motto is "nothing new after 2" my ancient brain just can't.

I'm not sure this is obvious to those making this argument but when you make the argument that an extrajudicial murder is the same as a state sanctioned execution, you open the door to equating murders by white cops/armed white civilians to gang violence, which people use to justify police violence.

There are parents who let their 5 year olds "go anywhere"?

The false equivalency is so infuriating. 36k people die in car crashes every year in the US. 310 deaths caused by e bikes/e scooters between 2017 and 2024 (per the consumer product safety commission), only 19 of them were not the rider themselves. "Almost been in several accidents" give me a break.

"Green said he shouldn’t be judged by his tweets, just like Portland officers “do not want to be judged by their misconduct on the streets in 2020.” But I *do* judge the PPB. So by Mitch's own logic, I should judge him, too.