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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I don’t mind him being on YT. He should just get involved with Nebula too because it’s a significant project with real momentum that’s designed to take the video format back from YT, a big algorithm driven tech company the likes of which he’s complaining about in the video. In essence, he could be practicing AND preaching, but he’s just preaching.







  • This kind of thing goes way back. I mean you’ll get a lot of content deleted on most web forums, but the one universally verboten thing, above all, priority zero, until the end of time, is: no. fucking. recruitment. to. competing. forums!

    If you ask a lot of web forum owners how their site got started, more than half of them will tell you “well there was this other forum but their server went down for 3 days and people needed a place to go.”

    Communities are portable. Reddit knows this. Every site manager knows this.





  • You mistake me completely. I’m not advertising the virtues of this system at all. I’m just pointing out that there is nothing Korean or American about declining birth rates. This is a universal phenomenon of a society’s transition from agrarianism where more hands = more wealth to an educated, skilled labor force where each child requires a significant investment.

    The US and, for example, Germany use immigration to offset this and keep their population growing. That’s simply a fact you can look up. Japan for example doesn’t want to do this and they’re dealing with the consequences of population decline. This is all over the news for years now.

    I’m not saying this is good or bad or anything. This is just the way things are.

    Your bit about Ancient Rome is a good laugh because it was hardly a developed society by today’s standards and it did indeed run on imported labor, except they called them slaves. So you are at once off base and also wrong.



  • Regulations were put in place to prevent manufacturers from opening their own stores right next to the dealers they worked with. Dealers assume some risk when they take on inventory. Apparently it’s not like a bookstore where any unsold copies just go back to the publisher. It’s still a flimsy justification though and enshrined these middlemen who then enshittified everything. Worse, in some cases manufacturers are entirely prevented from selling direct, even if they don’t work with dealerships. It’s too much.



  • I think of it like housework. No one should be compelled by the law to do housework. But if one person in the house is doing no housework, the others have a real and justified complaint. It’s not legal grounds for eviction, but it should be a material point against them in any dispute mediation that takes place.

    To translate that: if one party in a marriage is withholding sex, they don’t get to claim a full 50% right to all the assets in the marriage. I’m not saying zero, but…