infinitesunrise

Yeah, it's already deployed on slrpnk.net. I see it momentarily every time I load the site.

From the beginning of civilization all the way up to the end of medieval times, leaders understood the importance of jubilees: Every generation or so the concentration of wealth under a hierarchy gets so bad, so unbearable, that debt must be relieved across society by decree to prevent open revolt.

Nation states were the end of all that. The merchants (Today we call them capitalists) are not the figureheads of society the same way that kings were, they don't fear for their lives when they order politicians to double down on debt, issue new currency endlessly if they must, force through any economic hardships in order to prevent the relief of worsening inequality, to prevent the endless accrual of their wealth and lifestyles.

Instead of relief every 50-odd years, we've been hurting more and more for the past several hundred because nation states provide a faceless, unassailable aegis for the top heirarchs that never existed for them before in history.

I stopped trying to get work done. I chill on sites like Lemmy between meetings. My micromanagers don't notice because they're all in meetings. I'm not worried about not looking busy. Everyone else is too busy trying to look busy to notice that I don't look busy.

I feel so tiny next to some of the big numbers in here. My top ratio is 11.64x with 1.3TB up. But the current setup has only been up for two months.

Some parts of the US are like this, usually affluent cities where strangers are willing to yell at other strangers on your behalf / out of a sense of collective justice. But they were probably paying attention to your stuff already because they thought it was suspicious that someone got up and left behind a whole-ass bag.

Lost World had some fun stuff (Despite diverging from it's book even worse than the first movie) but you're really not missing much, none of the sequels come within a mile the original.

Eh, if Michael Chrichton were still alive today he'd probably condone it all so long as he got his royalty check.

Does your dad do talk therapy for mob bosses in this room?

Yeah if it hit armor it'd be like just saying hello lol

I really don't think Americans will be taking up arms against this, certainly not en masse.

Why can't it just be a website? Why does everything have to be a fucking "app"?

It was 14 for me. But I wouldn't wish it on anyone else, kids shouldn't be laborers and it was mostly a very bad experience.