Because the world Bank and IMF fucked them when they resisted selling off their country through outside investments, leading to their currency being debased and ultimately giving them weak footing for international trade
They’ve never really recovered from that, and they’ve also flitted back and forth between wildly different economic interventions desperately trying to fix things
Yes?
A domain is a url, like oaksprout.com. A provider is a server/computer that the domain points at. Many services sell both together at an upcharge, but a domain itself usually costs like ~$15 a year
If an IP address is a mailing address, imagine a domain as a way to pay the post office so people can just address it to oaksprout. You could have them forward your mail to your house, or you could send it to a PO box or business address, and change it whenever you want
The provider is like the mailbox in this metaphor… It receives the mail and holds it for you
It really never did though. People have never stopped buying high end furniture
I said necessity, not luxury… If we enter a global depression, there won’t be cheap IKEA furniture anymore
The market for high quality furniture never went away. And if we enter a global depression, a local furniture maker will again be a necessity
I’m picking up furniture making. Handcrafted furniture will always be needed
A system is what it does and all that
Nvidia won’t recover from this…AMD is going to sweep the market, which will mean games are built to be AMD first
It takes decades to recover from a misplay like this. They just handed over the market on a silver platter, the fuck you to gamers barely even matters
Yes. Everything is monitored, and it sucks. We’ve internalized it even, you can’t so much as have a hobby without dumping money into it to signal you take it seriously
I want to believe you, can you break it down more?
That’s individualistic bullshit.
The collective is what matters! It’s the whole point of all of it!
You can’t do collective action independently. It doesn’t work that way. A million people marching separately is just a million people going for a walk
You have to have a group. It doesn’t need hierarchy or organization, but it does need an immune system. You need bad actors to fall in line or be expelled. You all have to point in the same direction, even if you’d rather be a little more to one side or another
There’s ongoing efforts to reduce renewables and increase fossil fuel use…I wish I shared your confidence
Personally, I refuse to reproduce because we’re not even pretending to avoid 3+C
I won’t have children just to suffer
And you don’t understand what being effective means.
You’re why we’re fucked.
It’s perception. Like I said, hide the praxis. It must not be perceivable
Hell, discard it even. It’s more important to focus on immediate material issues than loudly dream about a better world
Praxis is not useful in this day and age, it’s a liability. If it’s your driving force, learn to pretend it’s not
Yeah… I’m using the word very intentionally
Praxis is academic. It scares people. We must hide the fact our arguments are driven by ideology and focus on the material conditions and how they can be immediately improved
We need to stop with the praxis. It’s a playbook written in another era, further warped by decades of midwits and sabotage
And it just scares off the masses. No one is going to read your pamphlet unless they already mostly agree with you, in which case why are you talking to them?
Every successful political movement is evangelical
They taste great to most Americans, the sugar is mostly in there to cover up low quality ingredients
I think there’s two distinct concepts at play, thin skin and thick skin. I do not consider them interchangeable concepts, even if they sound like it