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> . Our capitalist system is largely based on a competing theory, the “subjective theory of value”, which states that value is defined not by the labor required to provide a product or service, but by market forces, or more concretely by the subjective value negotiated between a buyer and seller. I admit this theory is compelling when applied to some examples, for example when explaining the value of a Pokemon card. When it comes to intellectual property, however, I find it very unsatisfying, given that a laissez-faire free market would presumably evolve a very different approach to intellectual property. As such I think that intellectual property as a concept depends at least a little bit on Marx for its legitimacy, which I find very funny.

i guess he's spot on with that, IP is socialism
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Truly free #GNU/Linux distributions like #Dragora, #Trisquel, or #Parabola tend to have fewer contributors but all the same hosting expenses as larger distros. Have you donated to support them yet? dragora.org/en/donate.html #FreeSoftware

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@bonifartius He calls himself a socialist yet he his also a CEO of a company (SourceHut).

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The Covid-19 pandemic should teach Americans to never defer to “experts” who promise that granting them boundless power will keep everyone else safe.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-corruption/five-years-later-we-remember-how-politicians-unleashed-covid-tyranny

#TheFreeThoughtProject
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For years and years, I've been searching for a rare Canadian computer game - and I finally found it. Really excited to get to share Crosscountry BC.

If you grew up here there's a good chance you played Crosscountry Canada at school. This is the local BC version, made just for local schools, and tracking it down was *really* hard.

cdrom.ca/games/cancon/2025/03/

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I got my hands on a Sharp Keitai 4 and for the next month I'll be using it as my daily driver, as an experiment.
No touchscreens, no Google services, no doomscrolling, just me rawdogging a (badly translated) Android 10.

Would you be interested in a blogpost summarizing my experiences afterwards?

Why do people complain about roguelike mechanics in everything, but not this?

@PurpCat @coolboymew Isn't Fitbit one of the tech companies that Trump tried to work with to implement red flag laws?

@PurpCat @coolboymew Are we sure Google didn't add anything to it since then?

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@coolboymew Yeah, but someone needs to check the source code, clean up all the telemetry and backdoors, and released a fork.

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@coolboymew Just because it's open source doesn't mean that it is completely degoogled.

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@adiz @lispi314 @pup though to a lesser extent its irrelvant because these extremists deny that they are even doing actions. an ethical framework requires acknowledging that you are doing it, and then defining if its good or bad to do that.

it cannot really be said they are actively being either of the two because they deny that they even doing what they are doing. which makes it the worst. shrug.
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@lispi314 @adiz @pup deontologists are okay but it really depends on what the set duty is. they can end up being terrible people since they are only concerned about maintaining the duty (the consequentialist could decide that disobeying the duty is optimal, assuming their moral calculus is reasonable)

virtue ethics is just dead, overall. nobody does that.
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@lispi314 @adiz @pup i don't like consequentialism. it is just the dominant ethics set of the times.
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