Notices by Bruce Elrick (virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca), page 4

@evan

Piketty showed that capitalism drives inequality because capital consistently has higher growth than the overall economy.

Corporations align employees' immediate interests with corporate interests and corporate interests are legally fiduciary to the shareholder (ie capital), even when this goes against peoples' long-term interests.

This results in the corruption of democracy, resulting in the inability of society to deal with climate change, even when the majority agrees.

@evan

I would amend my "somewhat agree" to "strongly agree" if the connection was specifically defined to be capitalism.

@evan

I think there is a strong difference between want to pay and have to pay, especially when I think about how the fediverse would have to be changed to introduce mechanisms to enable this.

The least objectionable I can think of is a private account (does this already exist) with some out-of-band management to whitelist payers who could then follow.

@evan @mick I'm still trying to understand the running part, lol.

Calgary was on its way to to a green/brown Christmas with highs of 5-10 this month but got a dusting of snow a couple of days ago.

High today is 3.

@evan I am fortunate not to have this problem. I am certain others had had the exact opposite experience.

@evan
Done!

@evan
How did you find out?

@evan

I don't understand why liars gonna lie.

Lying is hard to do because you have to be consistently lying, at least for the truly deceitful kind of lying (the bullshitty kind where you are flooding the field to confuse people is different, in kind).

I'm far too lazy to try to lie.

@evan Wut?!?

Analogies fail.

@evan
Guanine because guano.

@georgetakei It must be soul-crushing to be a conservative like Matt Walsh.

@georgetakei They are creating a self-fulfilling prophecy of government "persecution". Their delusions coming to life.

@evan
Your poll is missing "anxiously run through the interaction over and over again trying to figure out how you got into the emotional state where you crossed that other person's line"

@evan
hear hear!