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Hey all..

What's the best way to fund a service like #Bandwagon?

I strongly believe that the #Fediverse needs a sustainable funding model to be competitive with BlueSky, Xitter, and Facebook. More than just donations and mutual aid, people should be able to make careers on the Fediverse.

I'm reevaluating how I'll pay for bandwagon.fm in the long term. And I want to make something that's still "free forever"

Do you think there's a place for the #Freemium Fediverse?

@anemone @djsumdog @teratology For-profit health insurance is a symptom, not a problem. You used to be able to voluntarily form clubs and groups in which everyone pitched in and the money would be used to cover the cost if a member was hospitalized. This is no longer legal outside of religious groups.

So health insurance companies will continue to exist for as long as the clubs that I've mentioned are outlawed.

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How many evil companies do you support every fucking day. The t-shit you own is made in Mexico by someone who gets paid $5 a day. The CPU in your laptop is put together by someone in Indonesia that makes $20 a week. The food you eat is produced by farmers and ranchers who see their margins cut ever fucking season, whose neighbors are selling out to factory farm companies and Bill Gates back firmed because it's not worth it.

> Yes

FUCK YOU! You want me to die? For working a fucking job you stupid fucking ideological cunt?! I try to be nice to you with your horrific bad takes, but Jesus Fucking Christ. You don't fucking know me. You don't know all the things I've done and see and all the ways I try to just be a decent human being.

You want me to die? What the actual fuck is wrong with you? How are you such a god damn shitty person you want some random person on the Internet who worked two years as a fucking software grunt at an insurance company to fucking die?

Do you want all McDonalds employees to die? They work for a horrible company. Do you want all Samsung employees to die? Their company controls a fucking nation.

Just fuck you brain dead piece of vile garbage.

@teratology @djsumdog @anemone
>I do think that STEMlords and tech workers need to seriously grapple with the ethics of their personal choices.

It's tough to do so (especially with the current CS job market), but I generally agree. I like to think John Carmack left Oculus because he was disillusioned with the direction Meta was going with VR with the whole Metaverse thing. Though, I don't know if his current AI startup will be any better.

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@lucy IP is a spook and incompatible with physical property.
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OK,

I'm not advocating murder, but is this murder or does it fall within the category of 'self defense' (I don't know, I'll leave that up for debate). So this United Healthcare CEO apparently was shot by a disgruntled customer who probably got shafted or someone related. On the bullet casing he had laser inscribed "deny, defend, depose". I'm not sure if he's my hero or someone I should be shaking my head in disgust of. However I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt, and given the inscription my gut is he's someone we should all be looking up to for taking a stand against the wrongs of politicians, mafia created health insurance entitles, and the like.

For those unaware the government(s) of the world have regulated health coverage to a point where I can't gather like minded friends to share the cost in covering my and their health care costs without risk of being persecuted for my beliefs. This is to say it's not insurance, but like-insurance in that it socializes the costs among consenting participants without involvement of a for-profit entity or government. The only entities excluded are ~5-6 religious entities that pre-date some law that have something akin to health insurance, but instead of paying for insurance you pay the costs of the bills of those whom are part of a group. It's way cheaper, but as a person who does not believe in organized religion I'm explicitly excluded. These solutions to health coverage are about half the cost from what I'm told. Prior to the laws of today most people partook in voluntary clubs and groups that would cover these costs. They'd pay in and get health care coverage in return.

Sometimes the best solution is neither in government socialism nor capitalism, but for that we need volunteerism.

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I don’t know who needs to hear this but, Trump gave Fauci a medal and Biden is about to pardon Fauci.

If you needed proof that both sides are working together to fuck us all over.

It’s right in front of your fucking faces.

Don’t say you weren’t WARNED.

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Rights Are Not Gifts from Government: The Founders' View
Rights don’t come from a constitution, a bill of rights, or any document at all. Your natural rights - come from your creator - and you have them by the nature of your humanity. Even civil rights - are built on the foundation of natural rights. These were widely-held views from the founders and old revolutionaries.

Path to Liberty: December 6, 2024 https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1711889884051935249

@sun The Fediverse's "Eternal September" started in 2021, in my opinion.

@djsumdog @cjd
>he had kids and now they don't have a father.
That's assuming the guy didn't fake his death.

mileswmathis.com/brian.pdf

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Starlink satellites consist of more than 7,000 small satellites in low Earth orbit. SpaceX has plans for 12,000 satellites over the coming years. Should we be worried?

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-surveillance/elon-musk-spacex-are-helping-us-intelligence-build-the-worlds-largest-spy-satellite-network

#TheFreeThoughtProject
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@realcaseyrollins Castration is sometimes done to prevent prostate cancer from spreading.

@realcaseyrollins What if it's done to prevent something like cancer from spreading?

@adachi @Merc @genmaicha Shoplifting tends to be a last resort. People will check the dumpsters first (a lot of stores throw away anything that doesn't meet their quality standards) before outright stealing.

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>They dubbed it as "microblogging" so you could argue it was a replacement for Blogger and WordPress, if anything.

That's what I meant by "live blog posts". Liveblogging is basically asynchronous or real-time (micro)-blogging.

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