@inthehands Right, they are not talking to *you* specifically, but any public post to social media is inherently a conversation starter, or a public request-for-comment. If you're not DMing an individual, you're starting an open conversation. That's the entire point of social media.
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Louis Ingenthron (louis@ingenthron.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 03:02:43 JST Louis Ingenthron -
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Louis Ingenthron (louis@ingenthron.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 11:55:48 JST Louis Ingenthron @freemo @argv_minus_one @stevebenen I'd think the bigger problem is that smaller co-ops wouldn't have negotiating power while bigger co-ops would need a management structure that would be very prone to corruption and operate not too dissimilarly from the current providers.
Then there would be the thorny questions of "can co-ops buy out or merge with other co-ops?" and "what happens when consolidation runs amok and anti-competitive practices proliferate?"
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Louis Ingenthron (louis@ingenthron.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 02:11:24 JST Louis Ingenthron @freemo Well, yeah, but if we're using kooky New Jersey definitions, then a gas station is a place you never get out of your car.
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Louis Ingenthron (louis@ingenthron.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 02:09:39 JST Louis Ingenthron @freemo Well, they don't strip. But otherwise, yeah, that's literally its entire appeal.
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Louis Ingenthron (louis@ingenthron.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 12:30:12 JST Louis Ingenthron Can't wait to see what effect this has on Trump's stock price when the markets open in the morning, especially since we're only a week or two out before he can dump his shares.
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Louis Ingenthron (louis@ingenthron.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 10:39:01 JST Louis Ingenthron Harris needs to laugh at him more. It puts him off-balance, but is very relatable to literally everyone else.
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Louis Ingenthron (louis@ingenthron.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 03:57:47 JST Louis Ingenthron @freemo They're almost entirely for Trump and other laissez faire types whose tax plans are blatantly designed to widen wealth inequality (specifically by lowering corporate taxes while increasing tariffs).
There's also a strong overlap between the "deregulation is freedom" crypto folks, and the "use the lack of regulations to exploit poor people" scammer folks.
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Louis Ingenthron (louis@ingenthron.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 03:51:11 JST Louis Ingenthron @freemo I mean, just look at how much crypto PACs are putting into this election, lol
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Louis Ingenthron (louis@ingenthron.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 03:47:27 JST Louis Ingenthron @freemo ...which pales in comparison to the money spent keeping the current systems in place.
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Louis Ingenthron (louis@ingenthron.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 03:41:24 JST Louis Ingenthron @freemo Sounds like a great idea! Sadly, though, my movement's underfunded and none of the billionaires want to donate to it 🤔
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Louis Ingenthron (louis@ingenthron.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 03:39:10 JST Louis Ingenthron @freemo No, but you did use the free market as a defense against why obscene wealth isn't indicative of exploitation.
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Louis Ingenthron (louis@ingenthron.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 03:33:28 JST Louis Ingenthron @freemo Then we do not, and will never have, a free market in this country. Therefore, we need to rein in the wealth inequality that does demonstrable harms to the people on the bottom of the scale.
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Louis Ingenthron (louis@ingenthron.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 03:30:42 JST Louis Ingenthron @freemo Why not? Does a free market not allow for inheritance?
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Louis Ingenthron (louis@ingenthron.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 03:29:14 JST Louis Ingenthron @freemo Then explain nepotism.
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Louis Ingenthron (louis@ingenthron.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 03:27:18 JST Louis Ingenthron @freemo The wealth itself is not exploitative, but rather how it was made.
People can get to "own a couple of car dealerships" rich on the basis of their own work, but as income increases past that point, the chances of exploitation being involved in its production approach 1 on an asymptote. No human being is actually worth a million dollars a year, and those who think they are are usually selling some other bullshit too.
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Louis Ingenthron (louis@ingenthron.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 03:16:39 JST Louis Ingenthron @freemo To an extent, I'd agree with you. But above a certain point, it's impossible to amass that much money without exploiting people. Obscene wealth itself is smoke that points to a fire that may or may not be hidden from view.
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Louis Ingenthron (louis@ingenthron.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 03:05:28 JST Louis Ingenthron @freemo The ever-widening wealth inequality gap would challenge that notion.
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Louis Ingenthron (louis@ingenthron.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 03:01:44 JST Louis Ingenthron If you took a ten dollar bill for each year the *entire universe has existed since the big bang* and put them all into a single pile... Elon Musk's pile would still be almost twice as big.
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Louis Ingenthron (louis@ingenthron.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2024 03:56:42 JST Louis Ingenthron Preparing for a private #pilot oral exam is... overwhelming. The ACS, which is like a rubric (not the actual content itself) of what you need to know is 87 pages long. I don't understand how anybody could be expected to memorize all this...
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Louis Ingenthron (louis@ingenthron.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 11:19:52 JST Louis Ingenthron @freemo Ah, yeah, someone trying to impose their values on you, especially in group social situations where they're not the host, is a huge red flag.