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@lxo I was told ownership (of land) came from Hobbs, with a feudal-Christian background of extracting value ftom nature.
Until ownership was brought into India under colonialism, which land was tilled by whom for a given period of time was decided by community; land was a commons (infrastructure like irrigation was too).
@lxo any alternative would also be maligned with the wrong term.
If you give control over business organization to society, it would be via government - and that would be called socialism/communism, even if it is very different and more like a board of directors in a corporate setup.
No brouhaha if Google splits into a few pieces under Alphabet, but "communism" if it had been a few pieces under government control (not even government shareholding).
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I never thought I'd ever write In Defense of Capitalism, but... here goes
https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2026-01-11-in-defense-of-capitalism.en.html
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https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2026-01-11-in-defense-of-capitalism.en.html
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followup with further considerations at
https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2026-01-10-feudal-business-value-extraction.en.html
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https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2026-01-10-feudal-business-value-extraction.en.html
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@lxo it is fantastic how much you evolve a piece further in a single day!
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@1a1nC You don’t argue with them. They’re trying to waste your time. Engaging at all is losing.
@lxo you raise a good point, but the have-lots likely have options to take care of it if government is in their pocket.
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@nblr I can forgive the newline being required, but the failure being silent is unforgiveable.
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several people reporting lately that #deltachat has become their main app: They are now spending more time in the chats, also with web apps, than in any other app. It may be a turn to more private communications when social media has become more toxic, obnoxious and dangerous in many places?
#deltachat and #chatmail.is indeed about being readily available when other forms of communications become unavailable or dangerous like in Iran or Russia but also in western and other countries.
@alg0w what would #Forth people or #Smalltalk people say to that 😅
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I’m not at all susceptible to ads and hardly spend any money on non-essentials, my biggest vices of the moment being secondhand books and ramen noodles.
Yet everyone online is falling over themselves to have my data to send me targeted ads for things I definitely will not buy.
The economics make no sense. My data should be worthless, as it does not convert into sales.
Either I’m extremely atypical or there’s advertising fraud going on at an enormous scale, both of which could well be true.
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principles of software distillation:
Old software is usually small and new software is usually large. A distilled program can be old or new, but is always small, and is powerful by its choice of ideas, not its implementation size.
A distilled program has the conciseness of an initial version and the refinement of a final version.
A distilled program is a finished work, but remains hackable due to its small size, allowing it to serve as the starting point for new works.
Many people write programs, but few stick with a program long enough to distill it.
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this election was stolen before it even took place. that's the effect of illegal sanctions imposed on a country to force a regime change. even if the (distorted) popular vote was actually in favor of González (that's a big if, considering that US forces supported him), it was just as stolen as the laughable previous attempt to make Juán Guaidó president without a mandate. whoever gets US support there is automatically tainted.
that said, to the best of my knowledge, the electoral commission presented all the election documentation to a national court, and the court found the election results to be the official ones. of course those willing to discredit the Venezuelan institutions and believe in US propaganda will believe whatever they wish to believe, while those who dare disbelieve US propaganda in Latin America out of personal experience may come to very different conclusions.
to me, the fact that Machado got the Nobel Peace Prize does a lot more to discredit the Nobel Peace Prize (not that it had a lot of credit left, after previously awarding warmongers) than it does to elevate Machado. it's imperial influence and propaganda rotting it all to the core. now, you believe whatever you're gullible enough to believe.
that said, to the best of my knowledge, the electoral commission presented all the election documentation to a national court, and the court found the election results to be the official ones. of course those willing to discredit the Venezuelan institutions and believe in US propaganda will believe whatever they wish to believe, while those who dare disbelieve US propaganda in Latin America out of personal experience may come to very different conclusions.
to me, the fact that Machado got the Nobel Peace Prize does a lot more to discredit the Nobel Peace Prize (not that it had a lot of credit left, after previously awarding warmongers) than it does to elevate Machado. it's imperial influence and propaganda rotting it all to the core. now, you believe whatever you're gullible enough to believe.
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Trump's popularity fell a lot after the election
I also know there have long been campaigns to discredit Venezuelan elections. AFAIK their courts found Maduro to be the winner, but US evidently hasn't given up its plan to replace him. TBH, I trust Venezuelan electoral courts a lot more than I do US regime change propaganda. now, if you have any evidence that isn't tainted, I'd be happy to review it.
I also know there have long been campaigns to discredit Venezuelan elections. AFAIK their courts found Maduro to be the winner, but US evidently hasn't given up its plan to replace him. TBH, I trust Venezuelan electoral courts a lot more than I do US regime change propaganda. now, if you have any evidence that isn't tainted, I'd be happy to review it.
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there are presumably a number of countries whose inhabitants would be immediately happier and relieved in case some aliens came about and abducted their chief of state
if I were to make a list today, I'd place the US way ahead of Venezuela
if I were to make a list today, I'd place the US way ahead of Venezuela
@adbenitez as the local says in "Blood Diamond" ... "I hope they don't discover oil here; then, we are really doomed"
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@lorry Or he believes his electoral base does not know the difference.
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I certainly hope the EU can put the same sanctions on the US for attacking Venezuela as they did on Russia for attacking Ukraine. This is indefensible.
@lxo really unfortunate, the threat that was always there escalated.
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pro-communalism, anti-consumerism
fan of #Plan9 and #HaikuOS
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I write software (C++) for a living.
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