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It is theorized by anthropologists that for most of humanity’s existence (almost 200,000 years), humans operated on gift economies, without keeping any ledgers or IOUs, and also not bartering.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy

Humanity mostly beat out (kind of, not really, humans mated/bred with neanderthals) neanderthals as a species in evolution because humans cooperated with each other, whereas neanderthals were more individualistic (also not a universal truth).

Greed and profit seeking are a direct result of forming massive civilizations with defined leaders and the possibility to gain power over other people. There are ideas for new economic systems that will eliminate this hierarchal structure, namely anarchism and some other socialist idiologies like forcing all corporations to be worker-owned coops (not all of them).

Here’s a playlist that’s a good introduction to anarchism: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8V0LbSKRwxqBt2Odrl_Yp_SlEVrv-w9G

And here is an intro to a worker coop focused economic system and modern Marxism (the non-authoritarian type): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Whccunka4

At least two governments in the world are at least attempting to hold their leaders somewhat accountable (the other being Korea).

I wish Israel would also be trying him for war crimes and join the ICC, but that’s a tall dream.

She’s missing out by not joining in.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LW6RWSiR88s

I’d like it better if they got a more permenant raise.

IIRC Revanced uses its own microG fork.

The original YouTube app that it’s pafching is obviously still proprietary, but all patches and the patcher are open source.

I started using PipePipe, which is a fork of NewPipe that allows for signing into a Google account to authenticate.

I create dummy Google accounts using an old Android phone, as that doesn’t require a phone number.

The vast majority of people stick with defaults, no matter how shitty they are.

Hopefully Valve will decide to release their Ibex soon. I do like that this is a split controller, but the ergonomics don’t look great compared to the leaked Ibex image.

November, you say? I wonder what happened in November that caused Netanyahu to be emboldened to the point of planning Iranian assassinations…

Popcorn is just a method of eating butter or other oil-based flavours.

Or use Flavacol instead of salt if you want movie theatre popcorn.

No, it’s only possible to talk to Ba-Kok, praise be His name, when the planets align.

You can also use an immutable Linux distro (SteamOS being the most popular) and install software with flatpak, which is sandboxed using bubblewrap.

I’m going to have to try this next time I make tea.

Linux on mobile, like pmOS, is great for tinkering, but I wouldn’t use it as a daily driver. The OG Pinephone also has quite weak hardware for the modern age. Pinephone Pro is a bit better, but still slow compared to even something like a OnePlus 6, which also supports Linux on mobile quite well, albeit, still with issues.

But not coffee or tea

As long as you only ever take one at a time. Caffeine is pretty easy to OD on with pills.

I just boof pure caffeine to wake me up.

Sometimes I’ll brew a cup of tea instead, though.