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

Not the government provided identity verification service…I can see the use case for that , even if the government is an untrusted party

I mean the age gating laws going around. They’re suddenly popping up all at once because there’s a not so secret cabal of surveillance state freaks trying to make 1984 happen

And I do mean freaks. They’re death cultists trying to bring about the end of the world either because they think they’ll stand even higher on top of the rubble for some reason or from quasi religious psychosis. Look up Peter Tiel and palantir if you want to learn more, it’s pretty disturbing stuff when you realize how many governments are buying into it

But these laws are being pushed so private companies can collect data on the population and sell monitoring back to the government. If the government is part of the demasking process, they’ll get everything they want neatly packaged

The government is the primary untrusted party in the places where this is being implemented unfortunately… It’s not a bad system you’re suggesting, but it doesn’t address the problem either

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

Devs are the creators… What the public gets is down stream from their work

I like this concept. Make federation easy and practical for devs

The benefit is less distractions and pointless organization for a project in the early stages

Open sourcing things is a pain in the ass. It’s common to get the core project working before doing so

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 haven’t used Facebook in 10 years. When do I get my democracy back?

How cute. You think we have other options?

We don’t.

America hasn’t gone insane, our democracy has been hacked

We are not ok with any of this at an insane level of unity… More than we’ve had for anything in my lifetime. Congress members are resigning right now in the hopes of saving their careers

We’re up against the full weight of the global 1%. They’re trying to hollow out our county and leave it as a playground for billionaires

They own the media, the administration, the highest court, and to some extent our law making bodies

This is a disease. It’s coming for everyone if it isn’t stopped

Why I signed up to go through this hellscape

He really wasn’t. He had been out of the writing process for multiple seasons, they had him recording off site

The cracks have been showing for years now, I won’t deny he has an energy to his voice acting, but the replacements are fine. The problem is the writing

No, humans can’t, scholars can. Most humans could learn historical materialism to the level they could pass a course on it, but the vast majority can’t apply this type of analytical lens in practice.

It’s a matter of disposition, the ability to look at a situation from multiple angles and question your beliefs about it isn’t something that can be taught, only learned. You can walk someone through it step by step over and over, even train them to go through a process when prompted, but without a certain disposition they’ll never actually use this ability without promoting

Ironically, that would probably end up with a different season of slop

The writers haven’t been subtle, though the episodes they’ve been directly saying they don’t know what people want from them and they keep getting told to be more like season 1

Well, we got something like season 1. The characters undid their character development and the episodes are aimless riffs off of classic sci-fi and cosmic horror

I think I’d just get the writing staff off of social media and pay them to hang out in a comfy room until they have an idea they’re excited about again