Hm, is it just me, or is the vote count for comments gone?

Never mind, it was moved (less visible imo)

Somebody takes out the lemmy.world server and your identity is gone. So decentralized, lol.

The future is decentralized, not federated. That’s why I’m on nostr, even if it doesn’t deliver yet.

It started out as a movement against banks, their power and their meddling with politics, had wide popular support, then it was then taken over by leftist groups and the popular support went away.

Around the same time a new technology was published that allows people to be their own bank.

I would love to see people and lawmakers really crack down on AI replacing jobs

Why stop there, let’s crack down on electricity replacing jobs!

The Orwellian conclusion you come to is cute: Allowing competition means eliminating competition (by state run entities).

Please enlighten me on how I can start a utilities company?

If you have to ask, just don’t.

I think it’s cute that people in a so-called solar"punk" community are against freedom. No freedom to start a business, no freedom to choose service providers. Did hexbear migrate to solarpunk?

Yes. Services like gas and water are natural monopolies

Pipes may lean towards being a monopoly, delivering goods through them only if the owners are allowed to block using them freely.

So you want to replace a monopoly with… a monopoly.

A US-based and financed research organization with researchers who work at the World Bank saying that the Chinese imperialistic financial system is worse than theirs, why am I not surprised?

So exactly the same as the World Bank/IMF. Yeah, that’s bad.

Hmmmmmm. I guess no AI company will host their stuff in India.

Huh? Being an apple customer is a choice…

Here at exploding heads we allow anyone to say and post pretty much anything.

Yeah, that’s just code for “nazis welcome”. They’ll tell you that anybody is welcome, but you just have to ask yourself who would not be welcome anywhere to see who such communities are built for.