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Cake day: August 29th, 2023

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  • huh, this is the first time I’ve ran across this idea on here. I mean, it would be fucking crazy and to pull it off would take a miracle of a life time… but I think this has merit.

    You could file this under Anti-trust/monopoly competition law.

    Competition law is the field of law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies. In economics, competition is a scenario where different economic firms[Note 1] are in contention to obtain goods that are limited by varying the elements of the marketing mix: price, product, promotion and place. In classical economic thought, competition causes commercial firms to develop new products, services and technologies, which would give consumers greater selection and better products.

    This is largely how both the DNC and RNC are defined

    According to Boris Heersink, “political scientists have traditionally described the parties’ national committees as inconsequential but impartial service providers.”

    So if you look at both the RNC and DNC as an organization or company that provides a service (which they’ve argued themselves in court, that they’re not a true democratic function), you could consider them a national monopoly on a service provided to political prospects (think ticketmaster-livenation). If you break up the national level to only have individual organizations in states that aren’t allowed to unlawfully co-operate with eachother, you would have better chances of people getting their state representatives to actuallly listen to their constituents.

    National elections would become like an All-Star Jam or the Olympics basketball team. It would be much the same players but having to form their own services eliminating the “political pipeline” that the DNC/RNC currently has a market on, on a national level. Which, the overwhelming power they have, trickles down into state elections with vast resources and political sway disrupting a democratic process.

    You could do all of this in a courtroom, no legislation required to be passed for enforcement. I have faith in each side having enough disgruntled members and judges tired of playing politics that you might get some headway.


  • jesus, I was hoping for some well thought-out brilliantly hidden metaphor that would help illuminate others understanding of something. This story is just pure bull-shit like an elon musk fanboy literature night.

    • The villagers don’t know or can’t see the smoke from the fire but must “trust the king” (not how wildfires work, you’ve made a boogeyman).

    • No one but the kings soldiers are “solving” the problem? Bullshit, it would take the entire kingdom of support to save it.

    • A few villagers will die from the fire the kingdom sets, but it’s necessary for the greater good. WTF kinda dystopian bullshit is this? There’s no way to inform your citizens of the impending doom?!?

    • “he’d be damned if he was gonna sit on his throne and watch the fire swallow up his whole kingdom”. Maybe that’s the problem with your entire story. Person is ruling from the throne and not trusted or respected by his community enough to care about a problem they’re being presented. The people wouldn’t trust his actions because there will be no compensation or reflection for his decisions that effect their life, “well it was for the greater good, so be happy peasant”.



  • This is my first “recovered” day from having Covid for the first time as well. We luckily had tests left over from when the government gave out free ones so I could confirm what I had. My partner had it first and we thought it was just a mild cold, they work in another county and everyone there is sick as well. Then our family member who works in a different county also got sick from a co-worker. No one is wearing masks, isolating, taking any type of precaution (I did since I was the last one to get sick and didn’t want to spread it further) so it’s just sweeping through everywhere.

    My head and body still feel fucked up but the congestion and fever have gone away. Was nice for the Lemmy-time the past week or so but glad to be able to leave the house again and will be more cautious about it all now (it’s summer and it’s only going to get worse come winter).










  • Thought about the car music problem today as well. I’ve tried a lot of the streaming services for music but they all suck and tie you into their shitty playlist/UI system. I imagined a better world where the cd’s-mp3 compatibility continued to the point where you just have a thumb drive you can install new music with on your car stereo with it’s dedicated storage built in. Now it’s all about just slapping your phone cord in but even the phone seems to be less favorable as a media storage & player in favor of the cloud method.

    I just want to have the songs and playlists from the past. If I still had all of my data and could still currently use old playlists I would be thrilled, just think of having decades worth of custom built musical experiences you could relive and expand on.