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6·6 days agoThe truth is paywalled, but the lies are free!
Why wait to give Disney your money when you can give it to an enterprising sailor on eBay?
2·13 days agoFound the economist
Kamala would have defended DMCA and Big Tech to the death. The only difference might have been a little less crypto grifting, but it’s nonsense to suggest there would have been a major difference on the issues this article is actually discussing.
4·1 month agoBest insult I heard in a while
2·1 month agoThere’s the Shkreli Awards for healthcare profiteering
15·1 month agoEvery pirate wants to be an admiral
A manifestation (or “manif” for short) is the word for a (political) protest in some languages
Ireland has entered the chat.
It was an excuse to practice/show off your portraiture skills
164·1 month agoBecause desperate voice actors famously have so much leverage in contract negotiations, right? Why do you think Hollywood actors and writers unions went on strike in 2023?
You can’t shop your way out of enshittification.
1·1 month agoYou literally just explained how it is a function of supply (through an artificial shortage), not income. It’s lack of competition between landlords (whether through corporate landlords buying up millions of units or lots of little landlords using RealPage to engage in collusion via algorithm), and not discretionary.
On average, people don’t pay more than a third of their income for groceries because there’s still competition in the grocery space (which is also why it was so important that Lina Khan blocked the Kroger-Albertson’s merger).
We can hate landlords and capitalism without saying nonsense about UBI.
It’s a non-reformist reform that gives people the time and freedom to organize for more radical change
My brother in christ, do you think landlords make rent proportional to people’s income right now?
9·2 months agoThat looks tasty
That looks plenty
This is hungry work
Mandatory licensing of video content to anyone who can pay for it (similar to what the music industry does) is the only thing that the might disrupt the streaming industry, like a sort of Paramount Decrees for the streaming age, since monopolies on originals is what keeps people locked in
Informed for sure, but pithy they are not, with a recent post clocking in at 19,000 words!