• rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It’s a justification, they know full well it’s not some future revolution.

    But it’s a very good device to hijack discourse and funds.

    It seems obvious that people who get to the top are smart, just not in the good way. They know the potential of various technologies. If they don’t understand the subjects themselves, they have hundreds of experts willing to lecture them. Even if they pretend to not have understood a word, in fact they do gain knowledge.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah, after what happened to Greece it’s hard to forget how the EU is heavily infiltrated by the vultures of private finance.

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        3 months ago

        Just vultures. It’s pure corruption. People of the kind that already rule Russia.

        Any kind of progress, justice, right etc they don’t respect.

        Big fish eating smaller fish is one thing they respect, and they also want more privacy while stealing, and the ability to spy after everyone else and coerce courts and institutions.

        It’s that simple.

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          3 months ago

          Agreed. We have allowed our democratic system to be quietly stolen from us without even really noticing. I think we either need to properly reclaim it or to start new systems away from it. The Fediverse is a really good example of the latter.

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            3 months ago

            The fediverse exists in the web, while they exist in the reality and command police, people in airports and train stations, military, internet service providers, etc.

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              3 months ago

              That’s why we should follow the example of the French and do a Revolution every now and then!

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                3 months ago

                Revolutions are destructive and have bad potential. But a certain degree of unchecked chaos is useful.

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              2 months ago

              I would argue that the web is part of reality - it’s our main method of communication. It might be small but I think it’s a good example of successful self-organisation away from government/business/finance.

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                2 months ago

                It might be small but I think it’s a good example of successful self-organisation away from government/business/finance.

                It’s definitely not small, and backbones and intercontinental cables and such are not self-organization.

                Late 90-s and early 00-s web, however were such an example. But they still relied on benevolence of ICQ and AIM owners, OS vendors, organizations making standards.

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                  2 months ago

                  Sorry, I was referring the Fediverse while you were referring to the internet as a whole. Limitations of written communication and all that!

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            2 months ago

            It’s informal way of transferring the money. You give your money to Hawalardar which contacts the Hawalardar in the destination country. That person gives back the money minus fee which you pointed out or any person who knows the code. It works like money transfer but outside the formal payment system. That’s why it’s hated by most governments in the world. In many countries it has names like in China “flying money”