I made this exact same argument using XMPP as an example and got downvoted because “XMPP is still alive”

Thanks! I just learned something new!

Sfc and DISM have each worked exactly once for me.

Capitalism will find a way to fuck it up

No, it’s like criticising a murder enthusiasts group because murder is a crime.

I had a metal door and an iron gate inside with shitty locks. Burglers broke the locks and got in.

I replaced the door and got great locks. The locks held up fine but they broke the gate right out of the wall and got in.

If someone wants to get in, they will.

I thought they were pushing a “right to repair” bill /s

I thought we were talking about the Transatlantic slave trade in the Americas?

Thanks, it’s something I’ve been thinking about for a long time since it was a big discussion topic in my circle for a while.

I haven’t given the same level of thought to universal basic income, but I guess it would be a start. What people really need is a way to not only survive but to build wealth and pass that wealth on to their descendants. Like I said in my previous comment, education, investment opportunities, infrastructure upgrades, etc. will go a long way towards that goal. In my mind, a universal income could be a part of that but not the whole solution. And yes capitalism will find a way to ruin it but we can always hope.

I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and let you know that white people were indentured servants. While the conditions were just as bad as the slaves, indentured servitude was for a finite amount of time, while slavery was for life. This allowed the white people a chance to rebuild wealth and their children did not have to experience their parents’ conditions. Slaves never had that chance.

Imagine you’re running a very long relay race. Just after the race starts, members of the other team jump out of the bushes, beat up your runner and tie them up. This happens for several laps until someone decides that this is probably bad so they stop beating and restraining you. But the race doesn’t stop and the positions aren’t reset, but the other team is like 20 laps ahead and allowed to finish. Is that fair?

Reparations would theoretically allow your team to catch up but former slaves and their descendants have never been allowed that. What’s more, in the UK, former slave owners were paid for the inconvenience of no longer owning slaves (edit: up until 2015!!!) while the former slaves got to continue living as second-class citizens for a while.

Also, saying slavery ended hundreds of years ago and no one benefits from it today doesn’t work because all slave-owner countries still benefit from slave labour in the form of generational wealth, advanced infrastructure and old laws that specifically aim to disadvantage black people (whether they were abolished or still on the books the effects are still felt). Imagine your great-granddad was able to build up a fortune, how likely would it be that your family would still be rich? Imagine your great-granddad lost every cent, how likely would it be that your family would be still poor? Sure, it’s possible that situations drastically over time but that’s the exception and not the rule. There are reasons why things are the way they are.

I believe that reparations should not be any lump sum of money but in the form of education, investment opportunities, resources and infrastructure. That way all persons living in former slave countries can benefit and pass those benefits down to their descendants.

Edit: I believe that up to last year Barbados went after Richard Drax for reparations due to his family’s direct involvement in slavery in that country. I don’t know how successful that was, but I support it.

Why would you oppose this? Don’t you want children to be safe online? Won’t anybody please think of the children? /s

I like swords
Odachi - Server
Katana - Desktop
Wakizashi - Laptop
Tanto - Phone

Maybe you should have named your desktop Theseus because of his ship.

People don’t care what’s superior, they care about if their friends are already on the app. And whatsapp built up that critical mass first, so it’s the default.

I respect air compressors after watching No country for old men

There are some newer cars that don’t. They sometimes don’t even have a spare!

Why not subscribe to the stuff you want to see and then only filter by subscribed? I honestly find it strange that people don’t do this by default.

How long before Reddit staff start editing pixels to remove anything “inappropriate”?

Yeah it’s been a while since I watched that series.