Notices by hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com), page 6
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hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 19-Feb-2022 22:22:16 UTC 
hypolite
Listening to hip-hop with the window cracked open, it's impossible to guess whether the police siren sounds come from the music or outside. #OnlyInNYC -
hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 18-Feb-2022 14:29:47 UTC
hypolite
@deutrino I don't have an academic answer to this but pragmatically it seems to boil down to "No", although my perception is warped by the historical fact that capitalist countries have stymied any remote attempt using economic sanctions, military threats and covert ops actions including assassinations and plotting coups so we probably will never know.
At a smaller scale, communes seem to be held together around central figures who started it, and crumble when they move on/pass away. Tribal people living outside the capitalist world also have central authority figures, so I don't think that you can completely remove the central planning.
Profit motive or not, hierarchy still is the most effective way of governing any kind of society, from tribes to video game guilds and countries. -
hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 18-Feb-2022 14:28:50 UTC
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@deutrino Absolutely every single field. Finance, power and water, farming, education, manufacture, retirement homes, religion, entertainment, software, Internet, etc… -
hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 18-Feb-2022 14:28:48 UTC
hypolite
@deutrino Finance: Subprime crisis.
Power: Texas blackouts.
Water: Nestlé hoarding natural sources to sell plastic bottles.
Farming: Monsanto.
Education: Charter schools.
Manufacture: Anti-suicide nets, prison labor.
Retirement homes: Mistreatments.
Religion: Joel Osteen's megachurch.
Entertainment: Hollywood, Video game studio concentration.
Software: Bill Gates.
Internet: Privacy nightmare.
Healthcare: 1 in 3 GoFundMe campaigns are to cover medical bills. -
hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 17-Feb-2022 12:07:47 UTC
hypolite
@drq I beg to slightly differ, people pay online stuff with money, see Patreon and Twitch subscriptions. However they are discriminate in what they’re paying for. The reality is that we’re churning out more content than what people are ready to pay for. On the other side, marketing departments are showered with money because it’s hard to link campaigns with actual results, so there’s an arms race between companies. So there’s a natural fit between content creators starving for money and moneyed marketing dept. starving for content. -
hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jan-2022 04:22:40 UTC
hypolite
Yesterday my partner said I was a god among men for spending about 45 minutes assisting my kid with his homework.
Men, the bar for you is so low, and yet most of you still fail to clear it?! 🤷♂️ -
hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 22:13:04 UTC
hypolite
@sean I started playing Mainlining tonight and the answer is Yes, you 100% should, but also Holy shit don’t go down that rabbit hole! -
hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Oct-2021 19:05:11 UTC
hypolite
♲ @mbeisen@twitter.com: because of vaccine mandates we’re losing teachers who don’t believe in science, healthcare workers who don’t believe in medicine, and police who don’t believe in public safety…
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hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Sunday, 20-Jan-2019 14:45:07 UTC
hypolite
♲ @codepitbull@twitter.com: I work in IT, which is the reason our house has:
- mechanical locks
- mechanical windows
- routers using OpenWRT
- no smart home crap
- no Alexa/Google Assistant/...
- no internet connected thermostats -
hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 26-Feb-2018 05:47:42 UTC
hypolite
I feel like you're missing the source of the current wealth of the richest. At least some of it has to do with consumer goods. So any population reduction would hit the bottom line of most companies. In a weird way, corporations would actually be harmed from a population reduction, and then would have a financial interest to keep/make it growing.
The other thing is that it would be easier for people to rebel against robotic law enforcement than real people, even under heavy riot armor. So I don't think the economic inequality can grow that much without any human labor required one way or another.
And maybe it's misplaced hope on my part, but not even the current wealthiest people keep it all for themselves without investing part or most of it in charities or investments. and none of them managed to outlast the current human age limit, which makes me think there aren't that many expensive thing you can spend money on that would justify a truly egregious economic inequality. -
hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Sunday, 18-Feb-2018 02:57:31 UTC
hypolite
Two tickets for LEGO Live: $80
Wearing the perfect shirt: Priceless
#lego #tshirt #ouch -
hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 22-Jan-2018 23:07:06 UTC
hypolite
“cron commando” sounds like “time cop” 😛 -
hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2018 00:22:36 UTC
hypolite
Tonight, I experienced two significant cultural differences between France and the United States: - Vegetable soup contains pasta ⁉️ In France, vegetable soup contains only, well, vegetables.
- There's only one spoon size, and teaspoon and tablespoon just are units of measurement ⁉️⁉️ In France, there are small spoons for breakfast, coffee and desserts, and large spoons for soup.
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hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2017 19:15:07 UTC
hypolite
Very good idea, thanks for bringing it up!
♲ @Geraldo Rivera (GeraldoRivera@twitter.com): If #RobertELee is to be erased from history, why not erase #ChristopherColumbus whose arrival ignited genocide of Native Americans? -
hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 22-Jun-2017 16:34:36 UTC
hypolite
After a little bit of digging, Incognito Mode is interfering with the HTML 5 extension Encrypted Media Extension. Welp, I guess I'm leaving Netflix sooner than expected. -
hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2017 14:20:11 UTC
hypolite
@Cocoron I think the rise of mental illness is due to better acknowledgment rather than actual spreading, the same way that currently more people are declaring to be gay, however there's no reason to believe the proportion of gay people among the general population changed over any period of time.
However this doesn't mean there isn't a pressure to sell what you described as commodities, but it isn't new either, see "modern" advertisement dating back to the 50's. -
hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jun-2017 13:30:06 UTC
hypolite
"I ❤️Daddy because..." 😭
#fathersday #fathersdaygifts #dad https://www.instagram.com/p/BVcUC3qhyyD/ -
hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2017 17:32:50 UTC
hypolite
Friendica's special spot in the Fediverse
I love my sweet spot there in the middle, #Friendica is able to communicate with all the other platforms, while they don't always do with each other.fediverse -
hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2017 19:50:20 UTC
hypolite
♲ @Andrew Bollmer (abollmer@twitter.com): @MrPetovan Never. And I mean NEVER...bring facts to a Trump fight. -
hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2017 01:48:45 UTC
hypolite
@Gargron The previous model was "work for me or else" (serfdom), so it really constituted a progress, however small it feels.
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