I see what you’re saying. But to me it’s very much a “You can’t swim in the sewer without getting covered in shit” morality-play.

The very act of providing a service that earns more than a billion dollars by necessity requires the cooperation of a number of different entities. As you described, Ticket Master, Publishers, Distributors, etc… So while they themselves might not be directly exploiting people, they have to interact and make use of partners that do if they want to play in that billionaire paddling pool.

To me, exploitation by association is still exploitation.

But that’s me. Everyone is welcome to their own opinion.

Cant we outlaw corporations and continue as we are? Sure would be nice.

I think the world would do better if all of us shrank a bit to be more mindful of a community economy.

If my neighbour down the street woodworks in his spare time and makes bespoke tables and chairs, I’ll do everything I can to go buy from him rather than a corporation (for example)

Growing up on an Acreage, it was more common for us to buy a half a side of beef or pork from the farmer next door than to go to the grocery store. Same for vegetables from farmer’s markets or similar community markets.

It’s less about criminalizing corporations and more about refusing to reward them for making their profits off the backs of poverty wages and government subsidies…

Let me put it this way.

It’s possible to become a millionaire through a combination of hardwork, brains, luck and timing.

It’s impossible to become a billionaire after that without exploiting others, whether that is workers, employees, investors…whoever.

In other words, it’s possible to be an honest millionaire, but not an honest billionaire.

So the amount of wealth a person is entitled to is the amount that they can earn with their own labour without exploiting others in order to do so.

So if you own a furniture store, and you pay your employees a living wage, give benefits, etc… and after that you’re successful enough to be a millionaire…great. You deserve it. If you’re an employer and you own a furniture store, and in order to become a millionaire you have to pay your workers minimum wage and rely on unfair labour practices to inflate your profits…you don’t deserve it.

I use the furniture store example because I worked for just such a guy. Family run business. Paid us all well enough. Gave us benefits. Made sure we were taken care of. Treated us like family. And he was financially very successful while managing to do so. Could he have made even MORE if he had taken it from wages and benefits…sure. But that wasn’t the type of person he was.

To me, THAT example is capitalism working as it should in it’s purest form. Corporatization is just a bastardization of the concept created by venture capitalists and shareholders.

It’s inexcusable that I had to scroll this far down to find the right answer.

Home and personal is 100 percent FOSS and always will be. Work still uses proprietary, but wherever possible I use my laptop instead.

Why are people here saying that “Blizzards” are “Milkshakes”?!

It’s breaking my brain.

Blizzards aren’t MILKSHAKES. They’re soft-serve icecream in a cup. ICE CREAM is not the same thing as a MILKSHAKE.

You don’t drink a blizzard. You eat it with a spoon. You don’t put two straws in and share it with your sweet-heart down at the old malt-shop. It’s not a drink!

Sorry. Don’t know why this discussion about Blizzard vs Milkshake has triggered me. It’s a new discovery about my personality that I’m not proud of…

I think it’s quite literally the idea that it’ll be removed the moment he kicks the bucket. Between this, the new battleship named after him, announcing a new jumbo jet design. It’s increasingly clear that they’re distracting him while they get actual shit done.

The entire trump regime is like putting on Dora the Explorer for your kid so that you can get some damn housekeeping done.

He looks like the comic relief character in a boner comedy.

Ouch. Sorry about that. I should mention I’m on a de-Googled device (e/os) which is a fork of LineageOS.

I’ll be honest, for a moment there, all of these idiot blondes got confused in my head and I was wondering about the optics of Charlie Kirk’s wife being pregnant so soon.

Took me a moment to realize it was the other idiot blonde.

I’ll be honest, I doubt any real money is being dumped into this.

More and more, things like this come across as people giving Trump nonsense toys to play with to feel bigly important and distract him as he gets more and more infirm. If any money actually moves towards this, it’ll be actually diverting into someone’s pocket along the way.

It struck me the most when he made the announcement of a new class of Jumbo Jet and he was literally sitting there at his desk like a kid playing with a lego airplane model.

He is increasingly a addled child that they keep distracted with stupid shit like this so that they can get work done without him fucking it up for them by opening his idiot mouth. (like admitting that Venuzuela was about oil…for example)

I’ve recently discovered completely by accident that if my screen is off and I hold down the power button instead of just tapping it, it turns my flashlight on and off without having to wake up and unlock my phone.

Yes…it seems like such a dumb thing to have not known all these years, but still…to me it was a game changer.

The OnlyOffice software itself is Open Source. So unless you’re using their online hosting options as well, it’s irrelevant. Murena, for example, uses OnlyOffice as their “Google Office” equivalent, but they have it self hosted on their own servers (German I believe). Does Murena pay them for a hosting license as per their business pricing document? Sure…probably. But that doesn’t mean that your data with Murena is going to Russia or anything like that.

I’m not saying you’re wrong. I’m just saying a distinction has to be made between the OnlyOffice hosting services and the OnlyOffice actual software

Murena Workspace makes use of Nextcloud and OnlyOffice for their e/os phones. But you don’t need to use e/is to sign up for workspace.

https://murena.com/workspace/

Minus the whole “memory erasing” thing, “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” is shockingly similar to how my marriage played out in terms of how my personality and hers shifted over time.

Ah yes, the old “I’m rubber you’re glue” defence. Classic…

The way that he has absolutely vanished from most media attention says that NOBODY misses Charlie Kirk. Least of all his wife.

The shooter certainly didn’t miss him.

Its entirely possible (in fact likely) that he actually believes that because that’s what he’s being told, while his enablers are getting completely different conversations from the doctors.

Respectfully I’m on the other side of that, but I see what you’re saying. I hate skeumorphism and (IMO) flat is a much more professional looking design motif. BUT…that flat has to come with just enough drop-shadow to be able to delineate the layers, otherwise yes, its too flat and indistinguishable.

Side bars on anything throw me off because they break the horizontal symmetry of whatever they’re a part of.

Old Ubuntu when the taskbar was vertical on the left, browsers that have the default bookmark bar on the left or the right. Apps where all of the dialogues are bunched to one side, offsetting the main workspace.

Maybe I’m just Slightly on the spectrum, I don’t know, never been diagnosed. But not having my workspace centred and symettrical kind of breaks my brain a bit.