🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@manlycoffee

I dont think anyone is disgusted by bugs per se, it has more to do with the fact that bugs have so little meat you gotta eat their bodies (including poop). Crustacians are big enough to eat just the meat.

If you look at countries which routinely eat boop (uncleaned shrimp, whole fish, and even literal mammal intestines and poop) most such cultures have no problem eating bugs whole, its even a staple. Some people just wont eat poop and instestines, and I get why its kinda disgusting both in taste and idea.

@David211 And lets not forget vetos... Biden did afterall sign it.

@louis I dont care about parties or what they want, I care about the individual politicians and what they supported.

Biden signed the law and supported it. Trump actively opposed it. Thats all I need to know to judge the two.

@David211 They do, and presidents make executive orders.

As much as I hate Trump seeing Biden censor the internet at the government level (basically doing what China does) and then having Trump say he will reverse it... thats a pretty good move to have me believe Trump might have been the lesser of te two evils afterall.

#Trump #Biden #TikTok #Censorship

@mike

Right, so preventing free access to information for americans is clearly the solution. There isnt much you can get do to get me to like Trump, but fighting against censorship of the internet by the government is certainly one way to win me over.

@avelinohm This just started for you today?

@sgryphon

My entire company must use mermaid or PlantUML for all diagrams.. In almost all cases we do not find mermaid suffecient (even though we try) and almost always fall back to either graphviz or plantUML for most things.

@enroweb Should be done, I tool them off the block list. May take up to 24 hour before it works correct since it may need to resync with the server.

@enroweb I should be able to reverse it.

@freeschool It happens in tons of ways with humans, the tail bone is a good example.

There is no reason to think social constructs arent indirectly effected by similar processes. Maybe people are just getting dumber.

@rastinza

Again your viewing capitalism as yes or no, I am viewing the nuance.

Its all capitalism just in different ways and to varying degrees, thats the point, there is no "this is capitalism and this isnt" Everything is a mix of ideologies applied in many different ways.

I would say that what you describe "is mostly capitalism", it has aspects to it that are strongly capitalist (the private person gets a significant portion of ownership rights) and has anti-capatilist components such as lacking certain ownership rights in dealing with how I wish to use my property (in this case to sell it).

@freeschool

@rastinza @freeschool

> Sure I agree, I would definitely call a nation with no tariffs and trade restrictions a free trade.

The existent of, or lack of tariffs, if applied equally to all members (usually not the case) is still free market. When you have tariffs the market is no longer internationally free (some countries are at a disadvantage others are) but locally/internally is a free market. In other words, all the players in the market in the country have equal footing.

So the mere existence of tariffs doesnt make a country a capitalism or not, it depends on how it is applied. In fact if tariffs are meant to offset an unfair advantage one party has at the table then it would be against the principles of capitalism to not have tariffs. For example if china had a monopoly on cell phones then putting a tariffs on cell phones would be a requirement to follow capitalist ideals.

> The government can place tariffs on brick import/export, but it is still up to me to decide what is profitable and what should be done.

Then to my original point you dont fully own those bricks. If someone is **forcing** me to sell those bricks at some price that isnt the market price then I dont **fully** own the bricks. Someone else is telling me what I can or cant do with my bricks, and therefore someone else has some level of joint ownership over those bricks. Now again im not saying this is a bad thing, or even that it should or can be avoided entirely, capitalisms (along with any other ideal) does not exist in a pure sense so that would be nonsense anyway. But absolutely if there is a tariff exclusive to a category of goods, and that tariff is **not** designed to make the markets free (that is, everyone having equal power), then it is contrary to capitalism since it makes markets less free (brick sellers are at a disadvantage due to price fixing).