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What are the best steps to reduce the wealth of billionaires?

There are a myriad of news articles here on Lemmy that display the abhorrent influence billionaires have on our society (especially the US, where I reside). I consistently read comments where the posters appear hopeless and despondent of the situation, while others jokingly refer to the guillotine....

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While true, what’s your point? Being difficult doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it.

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I’m actually having a hard time finding a shot the ABU rain gear liner that I was issued… closest I’m seeing is the pic below, but that thing actually looks decent.

Ours was a material that looked similar to that, but shaped more like a vest - nothing went over our arms. It was completely nonfunctional outside of the actual raincoat shell though - you couldn’t just wear like a vest or put it under the ABU top for a little extra warmth. It was cut in a way that it’d just fall off without being buttoned into the shell.

…I wonder if there was some supply issue, and the ones we were issued were a shitty backup. /shrug.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/10ab6fb1-6002-46f2-9bd1-12b24e334b0b.png

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I was Air Force, so no idea if our rain gear was comparable to the Army poncho. Ours didn’t strike me as anything special, but then again the one I was issued was several sizes too large, so I kinda hated that thing by default.

The best military surplus stores are going to be the ones near military bases - they have constant stream of new inventory coming in from folks who separate and want to make a quick buck pawning off their issued shit.

And while there are definitely a few gems among military inventory, don’t make the mistake of thinking military = high quality or even high durability. To the contrary, most of it’s the result of bidding wars for a government contract, resulting in the absolute cheapest shit available.

Idr the brand, but sticking with the boots example, the ones I was issued in basic training barely made it to the end of basic training. Those things were absolute trash.

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Sigh… we got rid of the cool shit, but hung onto time-bombs like the appendix. WTF, ancestors?!

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Immediate concern is difference in scale - we’re a drop compared to Meta’s ocean, and I don’t see how we can have any shred of hope moderating the tsunami of content that’ll be heading our way.

Long term is EEE. I have zero expectation that Meta would handle a union with the fediverse ethically, and that’s their ticket to killing it off before it has the chance to grow into any kind of real competition.

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I’m curious how’s that’s going to scale.

The conversations about Threads has me nervous about that bit. If “because it’s fucking Meta!” isn’t reason enough to defederate with them by default, we’re looking at getting hit with a tsunami of content that will be impossible to moderate. Guess we’ll see.

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Oh, I’m sure the official recipe has a whole laboratory worth of goodies in it - but the one you can make in your own kitchen: shortening to volume, powdered sugar to taste/texture.

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Finally!

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I’ve never really paid any attention to Warframe, but just youtubed it. Kinda intrigued. How’s the co-op? One of the reasons I wanted an MMO is that a friend of mine is in the same boat looking for something new. We tried Elden Ring hearing that it was co-op, but ER’s co-op is little temporary instances of pulling another player into your world - you can’t actually progress together. The content I’ve seen so far on Warframe looks very single-player oriented, and ER has given me trust issues with things like that, lol.

RvR is realm vs realm. Sometimes it’s called WvW for World vs World. Basically it’s large scale siege style combat - you and like 50 other players from your server are attacking or defending objectives sought by another server, so you get 100+ players clashing in pure chaos. It’s a good time when it’s done right.

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Consider it on the list!

And yea RvR wouldn’t mesh well with a shooter. Guild Wars 2 had it, I think Elder Scrolls Online had it, but that game didn’t hold my attention very long, so might be thinking of something else. Anywho, it’s more a traditional-style MMO thing, and not super common even among them.

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Would there be a way to make a new community that acts as a kind of graveyard for content from deleted communities?

XYZ times out and gets auto deleted; all of its threads move to the graveyard. Disallow new threads in that community except by transfer from a deleted community; but allow new comments within those so that they still have potential to generate content from folks who landed there from a search.

Clean up derelict communities without actually losing anything - win win.

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Science and education have both become (have always been?) politicized. Certain groups are incentivized to hamstring education at every opportunity in order to keep the churches full and the voters red.

The solution… we need to get those fuckers out of power. Voting works when voting works, but that’s obstructed and gerrymandered to oblivion, so… idk, break out the ol’ guillotine and start providing some free cervical spinal decompressions to our oligarchs?

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It still -kind of- does, it’s just not super intuitive anymore. Open the menu, select the tab, then just start typing your search. The text you type will appear in the text field you were typing in before opening the win+. menu, but as you type it’ll filter the emojis and symbols down to the ones that match your input, and then replace your input when you click one.

Really should just have a search bar. -_-

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I did residential construction for a couple years, then 4 in the military, so no stranger to physical exhaustion… Insomnia hit even in those times.

The only way to predictably get a decent chunk of sleep is to kind of bank hours in the days leading up to it. Like if get 0 to maybe 3 hours per night through the work week, I’ll sleep like a baby come Saturday.

Never been on meds for it. Was afraid to report it when I was active duty (fucking stupid) and now my rating isn’t high enough to cover prescriptions and I don’t have regular health insurance so… can’t afford them. :-/

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I had over 300 days logged on my main, vanilla through cata.

For me, and I think most people with an obscene amount of time logged - we weren’t there for the game, we were there for the guild. It’s been years since I played, but I’m still in regular contact with some of those people - WAY more so than old friends from school and such.

Those folks were my digital family - I don’t regret those hours for a second.

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I think of it like a digital facial expression. Upvoting is akin to smiling or conveying some other positive emotion like affirmation or understanding (even if the subject matter is inherently negative). Downvote is the opposite- someone says something irl that makes you frown or grimmace, or you know they’re telling you a lie, your expression can convey that without a single word. Here, downvote.

There’s no real etiquette - if you feel like you want to give an up or down vote, just do it and don’t put too much thought into it.

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